“Two new channels have appeared on the Apple TV set-top box, with U.S. public television system PBS delivering some of its content through a new channel and Yahoo announcing the launch of Yahoo Screen, a channel for browsing videos such as Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as hosted by Yahoo,” Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors.
“Full access to the PBS app, which includes over 5,000 hours of content,” Slivka reports, “requires users to sign in with a Facebook, Google+, or PBS account, which subscribes them to email updates through their local PBS stations.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple TV just keeps getting more and more valuable.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jersey_Trader” for the heads up.]
cool.
PBS’s servers must be getting inundated…slower than Christmas.
I am not a Yahoo nor part of the Hee Haw demographic. I wish Marissa would change the name to something more classy.
Yahoo! is plenty classy.
So Yahoo! should just abandon the brand it has spent years cultivating for something completely different? Would you prefer if Yahoo! was renamed Poupon and had a grey motif?
What demographic are you?
The pompous twit demographic.
Could pass as a Yahoo… 😎
He’s part of the Liberal Hipster Bunghole Demographic.
Yeah, they should change their name to something like 3l3c7ro. It’s got that classy zing I think your after..
heh, touché, well done.
LMAO exactly what I was thinking! 😀
The ATV just keeps getting better and better. All it needs is 3 things to blow the set top box market out of the water and maybe even the game consoles. The new 64 bit A7, 802.11ac WiFi and a SDK to developers to add games and other content.
Also HDMI CEC would be a nice addition
4K is going to be nice.
So that makes even more stuff we don’t get in Canada. We need something to get away from the crack-smokin’ mayor.
Try meth. I’ve been told that crack houses and meth houses are in entirely different parts of town, so then you won’t see your mayor. /s
Ford is not the mayor of Canada any more than Michael R. Bloomberg is the mayor of America.
No, but you’d think so by all the coverage he’s getting. Three ring circus.
Loving my AppleTV more and more with the last few updates! Now, if I could get HBOGo al la carte I would be all set.
Love my Apple TV!
Where is Amazon Instant Video?
Competing with Apple on all the other set top boxes
PBS would be a lure for sure. That and TVO saved my sanity when I lived in N America (Ottawa) back in the 90s.
When I can use HBO Go without paying for the massive collection of shit CONcast forces me to buy by bundling the cord will get cut.
We quit watching HBO and the like years ago…too much trash.
Good to know.
I pay $140 a month for cable. I would live to be able to tell the greedy bastards to bugger off.
Nice modest step forward.
… but live sports are the holy grail. Most households have at least one sports nut under the roof. Until Apple forges contracts with the major pro and college leagues, cable networks will always retain oversize marketing power.
you mean football, MLB, NBA, NHL are there…yes, I agree, pro & college football live on AppleTV would be the death knell of cable.
Actually….no. the death knell for the Cable Cabal (of which I am a part) will be unlimited LTE, which is years away.
It won’t replace cable’s fiber speed, but it WILL put a huge revenue dent next to the one Dish/Direct TV left.
That is, until cable sheds the soon to be loss-leader that is video and goes to straight ISP, letting that arrangement handle each network/studio as a .com subscription.
BTW, to maintain the same size plant with less revenue, it is obvious that the internet will have to make up for it.
But, right over the horizon is the reality that internet providers will soon be considered an ‘entitlement’ like food, healthcare, electricity, gas, phone and housing. Look for the two parties to battle each other for the right to say ‘we brought internet to the masses…!’.
This will put cable right back on top, and ironically, lower the price for the paying customers (that is, until April 15…..)
“right over the horizon is the reality that internet providers will soon be considered an ‘entitlement…”
you mean “if you like your ISP, you can keep your ISP. Period.”?
hah!
(oh, shit, that’s too real to be funny…..)
Kind of like ‘of you like your bodily fluids….?’
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Drivers-Stopped-at-Roadblock-Asked-for-Saliva-Blood-232438621.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DFWBrand&utm_content=buffer87aa1&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
yeah, I read that..amazing.