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HBO Max update mostly fixes its broken Apple TV app
HBO Max has updated its Apple TV app to address technical glitches.
Netflix's live-action 'Cowboy Bebop' series starts streaming this fall
3, 2, 1, let's jam.
Roku streamers fall to all-time lows at Amazon
Roku's connected TV devices for video streaming are down to record low prices at Amazon.
Amazon is buying Hollywood studio MGM for $8.45 billion
Amazon is acquiring Hollywood studio MGM for $8.45 billion.
YouTube adds more video quality settings to its mobile apps
'Data saver' and 'higher picture quality' modes have arrived.
Quibi's short life is over
Less than eight months after it arrived, the streaming service is dead.
Conan O'Brien's next show is heading to HBO Max
After a ten year run on TBS, Conan O’Brien is leaving late-night television for a streaming platform.
Netflix is making multiple 'Assassin's Creed' shows
A better brain-wiping solution, perhaps, will be to watch Netflix’s newly-announced Assassin’s Creed series.
The Apple TV app comes to Sony's Android TVs
You can add Sony TVs to the growing list of places where you can download and use Apple's redesigned TV app.
'Console Wars' documentary arrives on CBS All Access on September 23rd
Console Wars details the battle between Nintendo and Sega in the 90s, focusing mostly on the Genesis and SNES era.
Funimation partners with VIZ Media to expand its streaming anime catalog
Thanks to the deal, Funimation subscribers can watch shows like 'Megalo Box' starting on September 22nd.
Twitch's Prime Video watch parties are now available to everyone
It’s unsurprising, therefore, that the company wants to make it easier for streamers to host ‘Watch Parties’ with their most passionate fans. Both the streamer and viewer need an active Prime Video subscription to participate, for instance. Finally, you can’t view Watch Parties on a mobile device, though Amazon has promised that it’ll be available “in the coming months.”
Netflix snaps up 'Chicken Run' sequel from Aardman Animations
It’s been exactly 20 years since Ginger, Rocky and the rest of Aardman’s stop-motion chickens graced theaters in the US. Today, the animation studio — best known for Wallace & Gromit — has announced that the long-awaited Chicken Run sequel is coming to Netflix.
Quibi offers a preview of its originals on YouTube
Now that some of Quibi's originals are on YouTube, you can watch them on your TV.
Flipboard TV is a video news service that costs $3 a month
Flipboard is launching a new subscription video service called Flipboard TV. When it becomes available on March 6th, it will allow you to watch short-form news videos directly within the company's mobile app for $3 per month.
Spotify is the star of Netflix's latest series
While we wait for Aaron Sorkin to pen a sequel to The Social Network, Netflix hopes to tide people over with a story about another tech startup gone global. On Wednesday, the company announced it's making a new original series based on Spotify and its co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
‘Reno 911!’ is coming back as a Quibi exclusive
It looks like Punk'd isn't the only mid-aughts TV series that's coming back thanks to Quibi. Comedy Central says it's making a seventh season of Reno 911!, 10 years after the series came to an abrupt end, for the mobile-first streaming platform.
Tidal’s My Video Mix creates video playlists based on your listening habits
Tidal is launching a new twist on the usual computer-generated playlists we've seen from the likes of Spotify and Google. And it's doing so with a video-focused feature called My Video Mix. Like Spotify with its collection of "Made For You playlists, Tidal says it will create video playlists with an algorithm that's "influenced" by its expert editorial team. To do so, Tidal's algorithm will also take into account your audio listening habits.
The Engadget staff on 'The Man in the High Castle' finale
It's been almost five years since The Man in the High Castle pilot premiered on Prime Video. The show, which explores an alternate timeline where the Nazis won World War II, was set up to be the next big Amazon original after Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle. And while the first episode performed well -- it was Amazon's most-watched pilot at the time -- the show never grew into the Game of Thrones-level behemoth that the company clearly wanted. Still, the e-commerce juggernaut backed the alt-history epic to its dramatic fourth-season conclusion earlier this month. So what did we think of the ending? And has it changed our overall opinion of the show? In this week's video IRL, Engadget editors Nick Summers and Matt Brian discuss the many highs and lows of High Castle and how they will remember the writing, acting and production design of the finale. (This article contains spoilers for 'The Man in the High Castle' season four)
Disney+ is boosting its library by running a Starz ad (update)
When you first launch Disney+ after it becomes available next early week, you might find something that wasn't supposed to be there. According to The Verge, the streaming service will show some subscribers an ad promoting premium TV channel Starz after they finish the initial sign-up process. Disney confirmed to Engadget that the one-time promo will be shown to some users once they finish signing up for the service and entering payment details.
