Tis the season to save some money on media streaming services. Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock, and Discovery+ are all offering deep discounts on their ad-supported plans. Paramount+ is offering either a 30-day free trial or a 1-year subscription for half price (whether you opt for ad-free or ad-subsidized tiers). And Amazon and Roku are both […]
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Video streaming together, at a distance: Hulu introduces Watch Party, and Plex launches Watch Together
2 Comments on Video streaming together, at a distance: Hulu introduces Watch Party, and Plex launches Watch TogetherShortly after the COVID-19 pandemic started spreading across the globe and leading to stay-at-home and social-distancing orders affecting millions of people, folks started finding new ways to come together virtually. Video conferencing app Zoom saw an explosion in new users (although maybe not quite as many as it had initially claimed). And a little browser […]
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Plex launches ad-supported Movies & TV streaming services in 220 countries
Plex is now officially in the media streaming business. The company, which produces software that allows users to stream their own personal media collection to any device, has launched its own free, ad-supported streaming service. Users can now fire up Plex and stream movies and TV shows for free… as long as they’re willing to […]
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Plex to stream free, ad-supported videos from Warner Brothers (Update: And Lionsgate)
Plex provides tools to organize your media collection and set up your own streaming solution for playing your videos on a smart TV or streaming over the internet when you’re away from home. Among other things, the software provides a pretty interface for watching pirated content downloaded from the internet or DVD and Blu-ray videos […]
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YouTube comes to Fire TV, Amazon Video to Chromecast
For years if you wanted to watch YouTube on an Amazon Fire TV device, you needed to use an unofficial app, a web browser, or some other workaround. And if you wanted to watch Amazon Video on a Chromecast, your best bet was screen mirroring. Google and Amazon announced a truce ages ago, and promised […]
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Apple goes all-out on subscriptions (TV, News, and Games)
As widely anticipated, Apple plans to take on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon in the streaming video space with a new service called Apple TV+. The company has been developing its own set of exclusive TV shows with big-name Hollywood talent attached to draw in customers. But Apple TV+ is also acting as a hub that […]
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Open source AV1 video codec released, coming soon to streaming video
One of the things that makes it possible to stream 4K Ultra HD video over the internet is video compression: it takes a lot of bandwidth to stream a 4K video, but it takes a lot less to stream a H.265/HEVC file than it does to stream one encoded using MPEG-2. But now there’s a […]
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Spotify and Hulu offers $5 subscription bundle for students
Media streaming companies Hulu and Spotify are launching a new deal aimed at students: you can sign up for both services for just $4.99 per month. That’s actually the same price Spotify was already charging for student subscriptions… but now your $5 gets you access to streaming music and movies and TV shows for half the […]
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Coming soon: Better Chromecast video casting from browser tabs
Want to stream internet media to your TV using a Google Chromecast? Just plug the dongle into your TV, fire up the music or video app on your phone, and tap the Chromecast icon. But what if there is no Chromecast icon? Some apps don’t support the Google Cast protocol, but there is a workaround: Google […]
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New Roku 3 media streamer supports voice search
Roku has updated its line of media streaming devices. Blogger Dave Zatz discovered new versions of the Roku 2 and Roku 3 on sale at a Best Buy store, featuring a slightly updated design, the same prices as their predecessors, and a few significant changes… including an “enhanced remote control” with support for voice search functionality […]