Roku is also bringing rotating TV and movie-themed cars to its popular Roku City.
Whether you realize it or not, the dominant name in streaming for many Americans isn’t Netflix or even YouTube; it’s Roku. North America’s largest streaming platform note provides the hub to the most popular free and subscription streaming services, but it also offers its own content via The Roku Channel, and has its own line of streaming devices and smart TVs. Today, the company has announced substantial upgrades to both its streaming operating system as well as a new premium line of smart TVs.
Key Details: Roku is introducing a new premium line of TVs in sizes 55 inches, 65 inches, and 75 inches. A new feature will automatically adjust your TV picture settings based on what you are watching. Backdrops will now allow users to turn their TVs into works of art, from iconic classics to kids paintings.
Whether you realize it or not, the dominant name in streaming for many Americans isn’t Netflix or even YouTube; it’s Roku. North America’s largest streaming platform note provides the hub to the most popular free and subscription streaming services, but it also offers its own content via The Roku Channel, and has its own line of streaming devices and smart TVs. Today, the company has announced substantial upgrades to both its streaming operating system as well as a new premium line of smart TVs.
Key Details: Roku is introducing a new premium line of TVs in sizes 55 inches, 65 inches, and 75 inches. A new feature will automatically adjust your TV picture settings based on what you are watching. Backdrops will now allow users to turn their TVs into works of art, from iconic classics to kids paintings.
- 4/10/2024
- by Matt Tamanini
- The Streamable
Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak are among the more than 1,100 signatories of an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of advanced A.I. systems.
The letter calls on technology companies to cease training A.I. systems that would be more powerful than the latest large language processing system known as the Gpt-4. According to Fortune magazine, A.I. power tends to correlate with the model’s size and the number of specialized computer chips needed to train it.
Musk has been outspoken in concerns about unrestricted A.I.’s threat to humanity and was was an original cofounder of the OpenAI nonprofit research lab in 2015. He broke with that company in 2018 and has since been critical of the company’s acceptance of billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft.
Other signatories to the open letter include Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI,...
The letter calls on technology companies to cease training A.I. systems that would be more powerful than the latest large language processing system known as the Gpt-4. According to Fortune magazine, A.I. power tends to correlate with the model’s size and the number of specialized computer chips needed to train it.
Musk has been outspoken in concerns about unrestricted A.I.’s threat to humanity and was was an original cofounder of the OpenAI nonprofit research lab in 2015. He broke with that company in 2018 and has since been critical of the company’s acceptance of billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft.
Other signatories to the open letter include Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Roku is having a moment. It’s evolved from set-top boxes to partnering on TVs to acquiring and producing original content like the well-reviewed “Weird” Al Yankovic parody biopic “Weird,” which premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. And now, with the announcement that it will start making its own TVs, Roku’s starting to look a bit like… Amazon?
Years before Amazon created its rival Fire TV Sticks, Roku became a major player by manufacturing and selling streaming-gateway devices. Also like Amazon through its Prime Video, Freevee, and now MGM+, Roku is in the original-content game with The Roku Channel. (“Weird” in November was Roku’s most-watched launch ever.)
Amazon began selling its own televisions in fall 2021. Now Roku is doing the same thing with 11 models of Roku Select and Roku Plus Series TVs, available this spring, which will range from 24″ to 75″ (and cost from 119 to 999). However,...
Years before Amazon created its rival Fire TV Sticks, Roku became a major player by manufacturing and selling streaming-gateway devices. Also like Amazon through its Prime Video, Freevee, and now MGM+, Roku is in the original-content game with The Roku Channel. (“Weird” in November was Roku’s most-watched launch ever.)
Amazon began selling its own televisions in fall 2021. Now Roku is doing the same thing with 11 models of Roku Select and Roku Plus Series TVs, available this spring, which will range from 24″ to 75″ (and cost from 119 to 999). However,...
- 1/4/2023
- by Tony Maglio
- Indiewire
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