Now you can watch Reuters TV for free, personalized video news on your Roku.
Reuters TV is your video news service. Powered by more than 2,500 journalists in 200 locations around the world, it offers exclusive news programming that’s ready whenever you are. Watch news that’s curated for you, straight from the source and made to fit your day on your Roku player.
Choose your video news program length and watch news that’s ready when you are.
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Key features include:
• On-demand: Reuters TV is ready whenever and wherever you are
• Up to date: Insightful and unbiased coverage of national and world news that’s always current
• Relevant to you: Personalized to your interests and location
• Live feeds: Watch the world’s most important events as they happen
• Any duration: Choose the length of your personalized news program, from 5 to 30 minutes
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Access to Reuters TV is completely free with limited advertising.
Miss the Weather Channel after you left cable? Well the Weather Channel is now available on your Roku with their new Local Now Roku Channel.
If you have had Sling TV recently you are probably already familiar with Local Now. It brings local weather, news, sports, traffic, and other local content to your Roku. During sever weather like tornadoes and hurricanes they often flip over to a live feed of The Weather Channel in the effected markets.
If you have a login to a service that provides the Weather Channel you will be able to get a live feed of the full Weather Channel. Hopefully a streaming service will soon offer that option. Yet for now this is a great option for cord cutters looking for local weather.
From The Weather Channel:
Local Now offers real-time, hyper-local weather, news, sports and traffic reports. For the first time your local news is available instantly on demand and on any device. The localized content is featured within a short loop that is updated in real-time. So if you miss something, you can catch it again only a few minutes later.
Powered by The Weather Channel and other leading content providers, Local Now delivers a unique viewing experience that gives information that is relevant to you and your day. Additionally, Local Now offers localized severe weather clips within your personally customized locations, providing you with the real-time weather information you need to stay safe if your area is impacted by a particular weather event.
Local Now also offers a live video stream of The Weather Channel television network to the majority of users that have a current TV provider subscription. Additional partners will continue to be signed and announced, you will be prompted to select your provider at time of login.
Update: Something not listed in the description is that you only get a free 31 day trial of this channel. After the 31 day trial is up you will need a service provider to continue using the Roku Channel.
Starting today, you can stream 4K content from Hulu on
Xbox One S and the PlayStation 4 Pro. But the selection of shows and
movies available at launch is pretty underwhelming compared to rivals
Netflix and Amazon Video, who’ve both been offering 4K for some time
now.
Hulu’s first batch of 4K includes the company’s lineup
original shows and 20 James Bond films. So while that’s pretty good news
for 007 fanatics, well, it doesn’t do much for everyone else. Hulu
Originals (11.22.63, The Path, Chance, etc.) aren’t exactly the
same award-winning critical darlings we’ve seen from the service’s
competitors. Hopefully the company will waste no time in widening its
catalog of things to watch in 4K. It’s also lagging behind Amazon, Vudu,
and now Netflix in enabling offline downloads.
Anyway, here’s the list of Bond flicks that you can now see in UHD on those two devices:
The "mastered in 4K" name is sure to confuse many buyers this year, but Sony's special new Blu-rays are an impressive boost in quality over your average Blu-ray release.
You'd be excused for thinking this Blu-ray is in 4K. It isn't, but it is still very good.Photo by (Credit: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
Sony is pushing its status as the only company able to deliver a complete 4K experience "from the lens to the living room". As part of this business integration — from movie studios shooting and finishing films in 4K through to new 4K televisions hitting the market in coming weeks — Sony is eager to deliver something that gives viewers a reason for choosing Sony ahead of Samsung, LG or another company.
Enter Sony's "mastered in 4K" Blu-ray releases, which will hit the market around the same time as Sony 4K televisions (we will find out Australian availability later this month). These films are specially mastered to deliver enhanced quality over standard HD movies, particularly when viewed on a 4K TV.
That statement alone encourages consumers to make some bad assumptions. No, these discs are not 4K; they are still HD Blu-ray discs. Sony representatives have been using phrases like "near 4K", but we are still talking about movies delivered in 1920x1080 that will be upscaled to 3840x2160.
When discussing these new "mastered in 4K" discs with technical staff at Sony Pictures, there was a clear disdain for using 4K terminology on discs that are not 4K. Confusion may breed resentment, and ultimately cause a negative reaction to the value that real 4K content will deliver once the content is ready to be delivered in its truest form.
On the other hand, "mastered in 4K" Blu-rays also turn out to be the best picture quality ever produced on a Blu-ray disc, and will really look amazing when played on a Sony 4K TV.
There are three technical measures that elevate a "mastered in 4K" disc above the rest:
Enhanced bitrate: these discs exclude content extras in favour of using all available disc space to deliver the film in a greatly enhanced bitrate. Where most Blu-ray discs are typically delivered in rates in the 24Mbps to 30Mbps ballpark, these "mastered in 4K" discs deliver at 35Mbps to 38Mbps. A greater bitrate means a much clearer picture, and less moments where blocking or blurring will occur, particularly in action sequences.
XvYCC support: in the Blu-ray standard, xvYCC (also known as x.v.Color) is a colour space option that to date, has almost never been supported. XvYCC extends the available colour gamut to better represent the colour space that the original film was intended to be displayed at, while the standard sRGB space cuts off a lot of information in the red and blue-green sections of the spectrum. As long as your Blu-ray player and your TV support xvYCC, these discs will deliver a solid colour enhancement over other discs on the market.
Sony 4K algorithms: this final feature is a sweetener focused on giving Sony 4K TV owners a better experience with these discs than any other 4K TV owners. Being part of the same family, Sony Pictures and Sony Bravia have shared proprietary algorithm information to give the best possible upscaling performance on these films. Sony 4K televisions will be able to identify a "mastered in 4K" disc and use an upscaling algorithm based on the same formula used at Sony Pictures to downscale the film from 4K to HD. This secret sauce is likely to give a Sony TV the edge over other TVs that must use less-specific algorithms to upscale the content.
Viewing a "mastered in 4K" disc side by side with the same footage displayed in true 4K video, you have to be looking very carefully to pick up on the difference. But that leads to another dilemma: is Sony's stop gap "mastered in 4K" going to create another scenario where 4K TV owners don't see the benefit in buying true 4K content? Could HD Blu-ray be "good enough" in the same way that DVD has mostly been seen as good enough for HDTV owners?
These special edition discs are undoubtedly little more than a stop gap until a final 4K Blu-ray format hits the market, and spending money on a movie collection that will be outdated next year also seems to be a dud play. But they do give an enhanced experience, so it isn't just a marketing exercise.
The best-case scenario would see these movies offered up as a bundle deal with the purchase of a new Sony 4K TV. Then they move from the awkward (if gifted) step-child to a sweetener that gives great value today while you wait for perfection tomorrow.
Fifteen films are scheduled to be released in the format, ranging from recent releases like The Amazing Spider-Man, Total Recall, The Other Guys and Battle: Los Angeles all the way to classic films restored in 4K, such as Lawrence of Arabia, Taxi Driver and Ghostbusters.
Seamus Byrne attended a 4K television press event as a guest of Sony Australia.
From The Weather Channel:
