Television Stories for 2018

Samsung Wants To Bring Web Browsing, Office Work To the TV 54
Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2018? 185
Android TV Now Claiming Over 100 Pay TV Operator Partners Worldwide 34
Ask Slashdot: Is There An Open Source Tool Measuring The Sharpness of Streaming Video? 101
Doctor Who Won't Return Until 2020 159
Number of Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast For First Time 42
Russian State TV Shows Off 'Robot' That's Actually a Man In a Robot Suit 120
Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? 143
Netflix's Biggest Competition Isn't Sleep -- It's YouTube 115
The Future of Television? Binge-Watching is Only the Beginning 46
Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation 347
Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago 131
Hulu, AT&T To Test 'Pause Ads' In 2019, Automatically Playing Commercials When You Hit Pause 188
AT&T Will Keep Your Money If You Cancel TV Or Internet In Middle of Billing Cycle 99
It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US 254
The World's First 8K TV Channel Launches With '2001: A Space Odyssey' 146
Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract 128
NBCUniversal Taps Machine Learning To Tie Ads To Relevant Moments on TV 60
Court Again Rules That Cable Giants Can't Weaponize the First Amendment 152
Netflix is Testing a Mobile-Only, $3 Subscription To Make Its Service More Affordable 55
Netflix Says It Will Test Lower-Price Subscription Plans 77
There Are Way Too Many Streaming Services 218
Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+, Launch Late 2019 182
David Attenborough To Present Netflix Nature Series 'Our Planet' 34
Cord Cutting Accelerates as Pay TV Loses 1 Million Customers in Largest-Ever Quarterly Loss 133
AT&T Blacks Out HBO, Cinemax For Dish, Sling TV Users Over Carriage Dispute 107
The Average Cable Bill Has Increased More Than 50 Percent Since 2010 193
Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works 138
Apple's Upcoming TV Service To Launch In Over 100 Countries In 2019, Starting With the US 42
Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content 122
Facebook Plans Camera-Equipped TV Device, Report Says 114
Years After ProPublica Exposed Vizio For Spying On Users, Lawyers Will Make Millions From Lawsuit 64
Netflix is Developing a Slate of Specials That Will Let Viewers Choose the Next Storyline in a TV Episode or Movie, Report Says 125
Emmys: Broadcast TV Airs Its Own Funeral As Netflix, HBO, Amazon and FX Dominate 93
China's OnePlus is Going To Start Making TVs 48
Plex To Shut Down Its Cloud Service 42
Popular Illegal Streaming App Terrarium TV Is Shutting Down This Month 24
Vizio May Soon Inform Customers When Its Smart TVs Are Spying On Them 77
EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services 350
Samsung and LG Unveil 8K TVs 218
Why Don't We Care About The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of TV Shows? 181
'The Big Bang Theory' Is Finally Ending 441
Antenna Sales Are Rising, In Another Sign of Churn In TV Watching 186
Netflix Will Now Interrupt Series Binges With Video Ads For Its Other Series 184
Amazon Is Reportedly Working On a TiVo-Like DVR For Live TV 26
Verizon Nears 5G Launch Deals With Apple and Google: Bloomberg 32
Tribune Terminates $3.9 Billion Merger With Rival Sinclair 54
People Still Don't Like Their Cable Companies, ConsumerReports' Telecom Survey Finds 116
Original Star Wars Movies May Not Launch With Disney's Streaming Service Until 2024 65
For Better or Worse, YouTube Now Adapts to Multiple Aspect Ratios 74
Bugs In Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open To Attack 44
Cord-Cutting Keeps Churning: US Pay-TV Cancelers To Hit 33 Million in 2018 (Study) 200
New Trailers Debuted at Comic-Con Include Aquaman, Shazam, and The Simpsons 42
Star Trek: Discovery's Season 2 Trailer Teases Spock, Christopher Pike, and Tig Notaro 164
Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You -- And It Could Raise Your Rates 299
Roku's New Wireless Speakers Automatically Turn Loud Commercials Down, Turn Show Audio Up 84
Only 39 Percent of Viewers Choose Live TV As Their Default Option, Says Study 96
Smart TVs Are Invading Privacy and Should Be Investigated, Senators Say 126
Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality 579
Netflix is Testing a New 'Ultra' Tier of Service 126
The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker 158
TV Coverage of Cycling Races Can Help Document the Effects of Climate Change 171
AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead 192
Bethesda Sues Warner Bros, Calls Its Westworld Game 'Blatant Rip-Off' of Fallout Shelter 109
Days After Buying Time Warner, AT&T Launches New TV Service 52
5 Star Trek Shows in Development, 1 Could Star Patrick Stewart, Reports Say 300
Cord-cutting Report: Streaming Services Will Be 25% of the Pay-TV market by 2023 65
Time Warner Deal Aftermath: AT&T Is About To Give Free TV To Its Wireless Customers 51
The Internet Is Finally Going To Be Bigger Than TV Worldwide 60
Next Year, People Will Spend More Time Online Than They Will Watching TV. That's a First. 74
tvOS 12 Brings Dolby Atmos Support, Zero Sign-In, and TV App Improvements 47
When Did TV Watching Peak? 178
Twitter Is Killing Several of Its TV Apps, Too 29
Comcast Charges $90 Install Fee At Homes That Already Have Comcast Installed 141
The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Network 63
Comcast Won't Give New Speed Boost To Internet Users Who Don't Buy TV Service 264
While More People Switch To Streaming TV, Cable Stocks are Plummetting 120
Cord Cutting Caused By 74 Percent TV Price Hikes Since 2000, Says Report 173
8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype 299
Netflix, Amazon, and Major Studios Try To Shut Down $20-Per-Month TV Service 212
Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of US Viewing, Study Finds 109
Comcast Is Bundling Netflix Into Cable Packages 45
Apple Is Developing a TV Show Based On Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series 142
Amazon Plans Blockbuster TV Series Based On Chinese Sci-Fi Trilogy 'The Three-Body Problem' 158
YouTube To Follow Amazon By Screening Its Movies Inside Theaters 36
LG Releases Open-Sourced Version of webOS in Hopes To Push It Beyond TVs and Smart Refrigerators 96
Cable Industry Finally Fights Cord Cutting With Fewer Ads 106
The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy Returns With the Original Cast 84
Samsung's New TVs Are Almost Invisible 158
HBO's Fahrenheit 451 Trailer Teases Dystopian World Filled With Burning 'Chaos' 171
Soderbergh's Thriller Shot on iPhone Premieres in Berlin 62
New Data Shows Netflix's Number of Movies Has Gone Down By Thousands of Titles Since 2010 117
Tickbox Must Remove Pirate Streaming Add-ons From Sold Devices 70
YouTube TV Is Adding More Channels, But It's Also Getting More Expensive 79
Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Information About Popcorn Time Service 120
Viacom To Launch Its Own Streaming Service this Year 64
AIs Have Replaced Aliens As Our Greatest World Destroying Fear 227
Samsung and Roku Smart TVs Vulnerable To Hacking, Consumer Reports Finds 102
Hulu, NBC Experience Glitches During Super Bowl Telecast 98
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? 364
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Build a Private TV Channel For My Kids? 163
Netflix Executives Say 'Bright' Success Proves Film Critics Are 'Disconnected From Mass Appeal' 330
Netflix Is Now Worth More Than $100 Billion 49
Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV 264
Is There a Warning in 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'? 51
TiVo Sues Comcast Again, Alleging Operator's X1 Infringes Eight Patents 58
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Media Streaming Device? 206
The World's First 88-inch 8K OLED Display 136