Author: Jared Newman

With new streaming services like Disney+, HBO Max, and NBC’s Peacock joining mainstays like Netflix and Hulu, the race is now on to build a unified guide for navigating all your streaming services in a single menu.

Although a simple interface is one of YouTube TV’s best qualities, not all of its features and capabilities are obvious from the outset.

In the middle of a grueling end-of-year schedule, I decided to have some fun with this week’s column and rank the remotes of Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and so on.

Fair warning: This week’s column gets a bit nerdy.

If you’re looking for cord-cutting deals on Black Friday, I’ve got a couple of TechHive pieces to share with you.

One of the points I often try to make in my column and newsletter is that cutting the cord doesn’t have to involve spending upwards of $50 per month on a bundle of streaming cable channels. Instead, you can make choices and trade-offs.

With so many new shows turning up exclusively on streaming services, paying $100 per month for a bucket of cable channels no longer guarantees access to the best stuff on television.

After more than two years of rumor, speculation, and hype, Apple TV+ has finally arrived.

The cutthroat business of live TV streaming has claimed its first victim.

A few weeks ago, I created a new Netflix profile for our household. But instead of it being just for me or any other individual, it was a combo profile for my wife and I.