The new Fire TV experience has been available on Amazon’s third-generation Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite since December, but more devices should start getting the update in March. Those include the Fire TV Stick 4K, first- and second-gen Fire TV Cube, and the pendant-shaped Fire TV.

With the update, Amazon is trying to simplify its formerly chaotic menu system with fewer redundant sections and easier ways to browse for content. The new interface also adds system-wide user profile support, so that each family member can have their own personalized home screen.

It’s certainly an improvement over the previous interface, but as I’ve found from using it myself, it also preserves a few of the Fire TV’s old frustrations. Read the full column on TechHive.

It’s unclear exactly when this add-on will launch or what it’ll cost, and I’m curious whether the DVR download feature will be limited to mobile devices. On services like Netflix and Amazon Prime, offline viewing only works on those services’ mobile apps, but I’m sure some cord-cutters would appreciate downloading videos on their TVs to avoid the vagaries of on-demand streaming. We’ll see.

In other YouTube news, YouTube Kids app will let parents choose specific channels or videos for their children to watch from the main version of YouTube. That could be a big deal for families, as YouTube Kids’ smaller selection doesn’t always cover everything a kid might want to watch. I know from personal experience that letting kids watch regular YouTube risks exposing them to all kinds of inappropriate stuff, so it’s no surprise that bringing specific content into YouTube Kids has been a “highly-requested option.”

As with YouTube TV’s premium features, YouTube isn’t saying when this feature will launch other than sometime this year.

Comcast delays some data caps again: Earlier this month, Comcast said it would delay its 1.2 TB data caps until July for states in the Northeast. Now, several news channels in Connecticut are reporting that Comcast has pushed off those caps until 2022. Connecticut’s attorney general and some members of its legislature are taking credit for the delay, saying they spent “many hours” imploring Comcast to back off on usage limits that are not at all technologically necessary.

Once again, I marvel at how just a teensy bit of government pressure causes Comcast to cave on a potentially lucrative policy change, perhaps to avoid a PR nightmare that leads to even tougher internet regulations or laws. Those in power ought to try doing it more often—and in other parts of the country where Comcast still enforces data caps today.

Roku’s original content ambitions: Roku’s push into original content may not stop with buying the entire Quibi catalog. As Protocol’s Janko Roettgers reports, Roku recently posted a job listing for a lead production attorney, who would look after “Roku’s original episodic and feature length productions.”

If Roku does plan to create its own content, the effort clearly isn’t too far along, but the posting is another sign that Roku wants to turn its Roku Channel app into a destination for exclusive programming. That signals a major shift in strategy for Roku, which has long touted itself as a “neutral party” among streaming platforms. (Incidentally, Roku seems to have stopped calling itself “neutral” in its quarterly shareholder letters over the past year.)

That’s fine, of course. Amazon, Google, and Apple also use their respective streaming platforms to promote their own content. But Roku’s the only one that’s used neutrality as a selling point in the press and to investors, implying that it wouldn’t compete with the content providers on its platform. We have increasingly seen Roku abandon that principle, for instance by withholding new apps as a way to extract better advertising deals or free content for the Roku Channel. I still appreciate the simplicity of Roku’s platform, but it’s no more neutral than its competitors at this point.

With Tablo, you plug in an antenna and an external USB hard drive, then set it up wherever you get the best over-the-air signal. The device will then stream local channels from your antenna to various streaming devices around the house, including Roku players, Fire TV devices, Apple TVs, and more. An optional subscription ($5 per month, $50 per year, or $150 for life) adds a 14-day TV guide and extra DVR features such as series-based recordings. It’s one of the best over-the-air DVRs for most antenna users, though videophiles should check out the new Tablo Dual HDMI instead.