Roku’s Home Screen Redesign Shows Why Streaming Discovery Is Moving Upstream
Roku’s biggest home screen redesign in more than a decade is not just a user interface update. It is a reminder that one of the most important battlegrounds in streaming is no longer just inside the apps themselves. It is increasingly the screen viewers see before they choose what to open. For years, the streaming … Continue reading “Roku’s Home Screen Redesign Shows Why Streaming Discovery Is Moving Upstream”
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Stadium Media has begun to release Wanda Diamond League Track and Field meets for digital purchase (EST). Stadium released Wanda Diamond League 2011: Eugene on May 5; Wanda Diamond League 2012: Oslo on May 12; Wanda Diamond League 2013: Eugene on May 19; and Wanda Diamond League 2014: Brussels on May 26, in which stars … 
HDR10+ Technologies, an industrywide consortium with more than 180 adopter companies, has been selected to administer the program for Eclipsa Video, a new open source video standard. Eclipsa Video is based upon SMPTE 2094-50, the recently developed specification created by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, with experts from Google, Apple and NBCUniversal … 
New market data from Mediavision finds that 50% of Denmark’s household video platforms are foreign, led by market No. 1 Netflix with almost 1.8 million paid subscribers. The international tally of streamers in the Nordic country is up from 47% market share in 2025. The top domestic platform, TV2 Play, has about 1 million subscribers … 
John Reina, a longtime sales executive at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and its predecessor, Columbia TriStar Home Video, died May 23 in Phoenix. He was 78. Reina is best remembered in the home video industry for his long tenure at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, where according to his LinkedIn profile he served as SVP of … 
Disney/Lucasfilm’s first original Star Wars movie in almost seven years — The Mandalorian and Grogu — opened with $82 million in North American ticket sales through May 24, which included $12 million in May 21 preview screenings. The theatrical version of the Disney+ series is projected to tally $102 million through May 25, in addition … 
Netflix’s The Roast of Kevin Hart was No. 1 on Samba TV’s list of top streaming programs for the week of May 11 to 17. The May 10 special from the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif., put Hart in the hot seat, subjected to politically-incorrect barbs from Sheryl Underwood, Chelsea Handler, Jeff Ross, Pete Davidson, … 
BayView Entertainment will release the 2003 documentary Eyes of the World digitally on VOD, EST and subscription streaming May 26. Nominated as best feature documentary at the AFI/Discovery Channel Silver Docs Festival, this New York Times Critics Choice television documentary, directed by Michael Perlman, is a rarely seen behind-the-frame look into the world of young, … 
A24’s How to Make a Killing will make its streaming debut exclusively on HBO Max in the United States on June 19. The film will debut on HBO linear on June 20. How to Make a Killing stars Glen Powell, Margaret Qualley, Jessica Henwick, Bill Camp, Zach Woods, Topher Grace and Ed Harris. In the …