SEATTLE—IMDb TV, Amazon’s premium free streaming service, has expanded the platforms that it is available on, officially launching on TiVo Stream 4K, LG Smart TVs, PlayStation 4 consoles and Nvidia Shield.

IMDb TV is the home to original and library film and TV content. The service is ad-supported.

These new platforms supporting IMDb TV are in addition to other recent announcements of the streaming service becoming available on Chromecast with Google TV and Roku. It is also available on Amazon Fire TV, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S consoles and Sony’s Android TV-based smart TVs.

For more information, visit www.imdb.com/tv.  

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The TiVo Stream 4K, which TiVo describes as a “unifying streamer,” is now available to consumers. After debuting at CES 2020, TiVo Stream 4K is designed to bring content from popular platforms, live or streaming, together on a single screen.

“At a time when viewers are streaming more than ever across a sea of platforms, TiVo Stream 4K integrates that content with recommendation and search features to make it easier to find, watch and enjoy the best news, entertainment and sports from today’s most popular services,” said Dave Shull, president and CEO of TiVo.

Here are the main features of the TiVo Stream 4K:

• Integration with major streaming video services: The TiVo Stream 4K offers integration with streaming video services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Google Play. This removes the need to toggle between multiple apps for different shows, said TiVo. It also features new search options and intelligent recommendations to find streaming content.
• Live streaming TV partnership with Sling TV: Sling TV provides live TV content to the platform, with content listings available through universal search or by speaking into the Voice Remote. 
• TiVo+: TiVo+ is TiVo’s own video network that delivers live streaming channels with thousands of TV shows and movies in an app-free environment. There is also access to 49 free streaming channels across news, sports, kids, food, music and comedy. 
• Dolby Atmos sound and Dolby Vision HDR capabilities. 
• Ease of setup and use: The TiVo Stream 4K plugs in to existing HDMI ports on TVs and runs off a broadband internet connection. No monthly subscription fees are required. 

TiVo is offering the TiVo Stream 4K for $49.99, including a free seven-day free trial of Sling TV for new subscribers.

For more information, visit www.tivo.com/streamNOW. 

SAN JOSE, Calif.—TiVo’s chief revenue officer, Matt Milne, said the company’s new consumer-grade streaming device, the TiVo Stream 4K, should hit the market in “the next few weeks.” 

Speaking during a keynote session today at Future Media’s Virtual Spring TV Week online conference, Milne said TiVo product developers have been working at home amid the pandemic to get the Android TV-based OTT device ready to market. 

At CES in January, where TiVo introduced the $70 dongle and successfully created buzz for it, the company touted an April release date for the TiVo Stream 4K.

“It’s a testament to our whole team that we’ve been able conduct the necessary product test and will have high quality product we can launch to market,” Milne said. 

The TiVo 4K Stream will have access to all the apps available in the Google Play Store via Android TV. What will make it different from other OTT devices, Milne said, is its ability to tap TiVo’s sizable search and discover resources.

“We’re investing well over $100 million a year at a foundational level to help people with discovery,” he said. “This is a product built for the streaming wars. It’s built to bring all that content together.”

Users of streaming services, Milne said, spend an average of 11 minutes searching among—also on average—seven SVOD, AVOD and other OTT programming sources for a movie, TV show, news or sports event. 

The TiVo 4K Stream will allow users to navigate their apps through the traditional “Gemstar grid,” Milne said. But it will also offer a separate UI based on TiVo’s proprietary search and discovery interface. 

TiVo, he said, will become a “neutral third party,” with SVOD and AVOD platforms available to, in turn, anonymously monitor app usage through TiVo. 

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TiVo isn’t totally neutral—it recently launched its own AVOD platform, TiVo Plus. Milne didn’t say whether or not TiVo Plus has any kind of priority status in terms of what search and discovery results users might get on TiVo Stream 4K. 

“We see this as a merchandizer opportunity,” Milne said. “How do we connect the consumer to the content?”

This article was originally published on TVT's sister publication Next|TV.

LAS VEGAS—TiVo is getting into the streaming business, with the unveiling at CES 2020 of TiVo Stream 4K, a live TV and cloud DVR service through Sling TV.

TiVo Stream 4K will be a small device that plugs into the HDMI port on a TV. In addition to Sling TV, it will provide other video services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO, YouTube and TiVo’s own TiVo+ service. TiVo also says it can deliver Dolby Atmos sound and Dolby Vision HDR.

TiVo Stream 4K is set to be released in April 2020 for $69.99.

For more information, read TVT’s sister publication Multichannel News’ full report.