If all goes to plan, the HDHomeRun Quatro 4K will be the first external ATSC 3.0 tuner for consumers when it launches in September. Like other HDHomeRun tuners, the Quatro 4K will capture over-the-air broadcasts from any antenna and stream the video to phones, computers, and connected TV devices around the house. But in markets where ATSC 3.0 is available, the tuner will support broadcasts in up to 4K resolution with up to 7.1.4 surround sound, while also improving reception and allowing for new features such as on-demand video.

I must admit that this is happening sooner than I expected. When I last covered the state of ATSC 3.0 gear in January, the only discussion of external tuners came from vendors selling expensive hardware for commercial testing. While some TV manufacturers are integrating ATSC 3.0 with their high-end sets, no consumer-grade tuners seemed to be forthcoming. (ATSC 3.0 isn’t backwards compatible, so it will work with existing antennas but require either a new TV or an external tuner.)

Only six U.S. stations are broadcasting in ATSC 3.0 today, and while 60 markets are expected to deploy the standard this year, details are murky on specific channels or content support. I was curious to know why SiliconDust was jumping in early, so I interviewed CTO Nick Kelsey and customer liaison Nathan Betzen to find out. Read the full column on TechHive.

This is the natural outcome of last summer’s merger between Viacom and CBS (now just called ViacomCBS), and while YouTube TV hasn’t announced any price increases, you’d be delusional to think a hike won’t happen. A primary motivation for the merger was to give ViacomCBS more leverage against TV distributors, allowing it to get more money for the same channels. YouTube already carried CBS, so it likely had no choice but to bundle Viacom channels once its current contract was up. All of this was predictable from the start.

The big question now is how Hulu + Live TV and Sling TV will handle things when their contracts come up. The former carries CBS channels, but not Viacom ones, while the latter carries Viacom channels, but not CBS ones. I can’t imagine either arrangement will last.

TiVo’s new streaming dongle: It took a bit longer than expected, but the TiVo Stream 4K has gone on sale. The Android TV-based streaming dongle has an introductory price of $50, but that price will rise to $70 after May 27. I’ll be writing a full review in the near future.

The interesting thing about the TiVo Stream 4K is how it aggregates content from multiple streaming sources, giving you a single menu to keep track of shows you’re watching and get recommendations on what else to watch. At present, the TiVo menu ties into Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Now, Disney+, Sling TV, and Google Play Movies & TV, though many more apps are available through the standard Android TV menu system.

The whole thing feels like a Hail Mary from TiVo, whose CEO has taken to discussing DVR in the past tense as traditional TV tanks. While the Stream 4K looks adorably like a miniature TiVo Edge DVR, there’s no integration whatsoever between the two devices. That may change if TiVo ever gets around to releasing streaming TV apps for its DVRs, but doing so doesn’t seem to be a priority.

Android TV’s new name? Forgive me, but I can’t resist commenting on this rumor that Google will be renaming its Android TV streaming platform to Google TV. While the story, from 9to5Mac, is based on a single source, there’s some logic to it as Google seems to be distancing itself from the Android brand outside of smartphones.

Some of us, however, are old enough to remember the last time Google had a video platform called Google TV. That was back in 2010, and the results were disastrous on both TVs and set-top boxes. Android TV launched as a successor a few years later, but the platform languished as Google’s Chromecast dongles became a runaway success. Now that Chromecast’s popularity is waning, Google seems ready to care about Android TV again, so in a way we’re right back where we started. Maybe the name change makes more sense than I initially thought.