

On a day where another company, Under Armour ( UA) ( UAA), which plunged 25% after also announcing results that missed expectations, the 1% decline in ExxonMobil's share price looks to be a non-issue. An around $2 billion impairment charge largely related to its dry gas operations in the Rocky Mountains region significantly dragged down the earnings. Netflix's 137M subscribers evaporate fears: Blowout quarter? It's the kind of formulaic plot Netflix loves.Q4 2016 Results Demonstrate Continued RecoveryĮxxonMobil ( NYSE: XOM) announced fourth-quarter 2016 results today which missed both the revenue and the earnings expectations. Search within the Roku Channel will be expanded, allowing people to search for keywords within the channel.Ĭulture: Your hub for everything from film and television to music, comics, toys and sports. With Premium subscriptions, Roku users will be able to browse their channel's entire catalogs.
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People can sign up for seven-day free trials (or longer) using their existing Roku account information. That leaves a portion of Roku users facing the hassle of tapping in new payment information in order to sign up for subscriptions they can get elsewhere.īut like Amazon Prime Video Channels, Roku's new Premium Subscriptions give you a one-stop hub for your subscriptions paid for with a single monthly bill. (Roku declined to further clarify the proportion of its monthly active accounts that have credit cards on file.) Roku has credit cards details for the majority of its accounts but not all, Rob Holmes, Roku's vice president of programming and engagement, said in an interview last month. Amazon Prime Video Channels is based on the premise that you're already a paying Amazon Prime member, so the company has your credit card details all set up. It's also unclear just how "one click" Roku signups will be. (Neither Amazon nor Roku offer Netflix, the most popular streaming network in the world.)

And Roku didn't list some high-profile options, like HBO or PBS Kids, among the options it will have at launch. At launch, Roku is offering more than 25 subscriptions, while Amazon has accumulated more than 100. The selection of channels is also slimmer. Until this year, Roku's mobile app mostly functioned as a second remote for its streaming devices. Amazon added the ability to authenticate into some of those dedicated apps last year. For one, you won't be able to unlock the dedicated apps of services that you subscribe to via Roku, a function known as authentication. There are significant differences between Roku's new offering and Amazon's video channels. (Editors' note: Showtime is owned by CBS, the parent company of CNET.) Roku versus Amazon Nearly half of Starz's direct-to-consumer subscribers may be coming from Amazon, according to BMO analyst Daniel Salmon, and HBO and Showtime may be sourcing about a third of their digital subscribers there. Amazon is quiet about how the program is faring because Amazon is quiet about everything, but one analyst estimates Amazon is one of the main ways that cordcutters are signing up for paid video subscriptions. The Amazon video channels model is a ripe target. It's booking more advertising revenue through services like the Roku Channel with its ad-supported movies, news and sports, for example. Though the company's bread-and-butter business is its popular streaming devices, Roku has been reaching into other businesses. It's Roku's latest expansion beyond set-top boxes.
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Roku's Premiere Plus is one of seven streaming devices in the company's lineup.
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Users will also be able to start a video on a Roku player or Roku TV and pick up from where they left off while on the go. But soon the Roku Channel, including any of your subscriptions, will be available on its mobile app in the US. Until now, the Roku app served mostly as a second remote when paired to a powered-on Roku streaming device.
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Roku's iOS and Android apps will be able to stream shows and movies for the first time. Still, this marks Roku's addition of mobile viewing for the first time, after its lifetime locked in the living room.
