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Roku blames RAM shortage after CEO called it "great" for business in May.

Roku has increased prices across its streaming hardware, with the cheapest HD Streaming Stick now priced at $39.99 instead of $29.99, as first reported by The Desk. The price hike affects all of Roku's other devices as well, with some increasing by as much as $50. Here's a rundown of the changes: Roku is currently […]

After teasing the series with some first-look images yesterday, Amazon is finally properly unveiling its Blade Runner streaming series. Called Blade Runner 2099, the show hits Prime Video on November 25th with all eight episodes dropping at once. We also got the first trailer for the series, which is full of Blade Runner staples: a […]

Live Project: tv.cadnative.com What Is FireViston TV? FireViston TV is a full-stack streaming solution designed for the modern living room. It consists of two parts that work in tight coordination: FireViston TV Android App — a native Android/Android TV application that delivers a polished, remote-friendly viewing experience. https://github.com/akshaynikhare/FireVisionIPTV/releases FireViston TV Server — the backend streaming infrastructure that powers content delivery, user management, and playback control hosted at tv.cadnative.com Together, they form a complete, self-contained streaming platform. The Android App Built for the 10-Foot Experience The FireViston Android app is designed for television screens — large fonts, d-pad navigation, and a layout that works from across the room. No pinching, no scrolling hunts, no mobile-style UI crammed onto a 55-inch display. Smooth Playback Video streaming requires more than just playing a file. FireViston handles adaptive bitrate streaming, buffer management, and codec compatibility to ensure smooth playback across the broadest range of Android TV devices — from budget sticks to high-end smart TVs. Content Discovery A clean, browsable content grid lets users find what they want quickly. Categories, search, and a "continue watching" row reduce friction from intent to playback. The Server Backend Reliable Infrastructure The FireViston server at tv.cadnative.com manages content ingestion, transcoding pipelines, and delivery. It's built to handle concurrent streams without degrading quality for any individual viewer. API-Driven Architecture The Android app communicates with the server through a REST API, making the backend flexible enough to support additional clients — web players, other mobile platforms — without rewriting core logic. User & Session Management Account creation, authentication, playback progress sync, and device management all happen server-side. Users can pick up on any device exactly where they left off. W

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The new strategy that Amazon gaming exec Jeff Gattis talked to The Verge about last month is getting clearer now that Prime Video has added a new Games tab on Fire TV devices. With Prime Gaming, Amazon Game Studios, and Luna now combined into one organization, it's aiming at the more casual audience of people […]

There’s no shortage of great shows and movies to watch, but discovering something new isn’t always easy. Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus and Fire TV Stick 4K Max come with redesigned software that aims to make it easier to finding something you’ll like, and both 4K-ready streaming sticks are back to their lowest prices […]

SoundCloud has acquired decentralized music platform Nina Protocol, months after the startup announced it would shut down. The deal brings Nina’s artists, editorial archive, and music discovery tools to SoundCloud as the company continues expanding its platform for independent musicians.

The recent film was a big hit, but the series wasn't available to watch anywhere.

'Strange New Worlds' is uneven in tone, erratic in quality and sometimes gratuitous. But when it works, it works so well.

Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June.

Netflix has teamed up with a company called SignUp Media to offer ASL interpretations on a bunch of kids shows and movies.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn't as smoky as mine, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been recording the next season of Version History […]

Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.

Amazon's upcoming God Of War show has hit a major snag - it's now on the hunt for a new Kratos, after an on-set injury put its current lead actor out of commission. Sons of Anarchy star Ryan Hurst was originally cast for the role in January, with Deadline reporting that four episodes of the […]

Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post-production. The streaming service revealed the news in its second-quarter earnings report released on Thursday, saying it's "increasingly leveraging these tools to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost." It also provided some examples of […]

"We're using Kafka with exactly-once semantics, so we don't have to worry about duplicates." I've heard this in architecture reviews, design docs, and postmortem explanations. It represents a misunderstanding of what Kafka's exactly-once guarantee actually covers, and the gap between the promise and the reality has caused real production incidents. What Kafka's Exactly-Once Actually Covers Kafka's exactly-once semantics (EOS), introduced in 0.11.0, operates at two levels: Producer idempotence ( enable.idempotence=true ): The producer assigns each message a sequence number. The broker deduplicates messages with the same producer ID and sequence number. This prevents duplicates caused by producer retries — the message lands in the Kafka partition exactly once, regardless of retry count. Transactions ( transactional.id ): Allows a producer to write to multiple partitions atomically. Either all writes commit or none do. Combined with isolation.level=read_committed on consumers, readers only see committed transactions. Together, these give you exactly-once message delivery within the Kafka cluster. What Exactly-Once Does Not Cover Here's the boundary that engineers miss: Kafka's exactly-once guarantee is scoped to the Kafka cluster. The moment your consumer does anything outside Kafka — writes to a database, calls a REST API, publishes to a cloud queue — you're outside the transaction boundary. Consider a typical consumer: consumer . poll ( records ); for ( record : records ) { database . save ( process ( record )); // External write — outside Kafka transaction } consumer . commitSync (); If the application crashes after database.save() but before commitSync() , Kafka re-delivers the message. The consumer reprocesses it. The database now has two writes for the same event. Enabling producer idempotence on the consumer's Kafka writes does not fix this. The Patterns That Actually Give You End-to-End Safety Idempotent Consumers Design consumer processing logic to be idempote

Netflix just can't let Stranger Things go. Since the final episode aired on New Year's Eve there's been a behind-the-scenes documentary, an animated series that expands the story, and now, on the 10th anniversary of the show's original release, Netflix has released a new version of the show's first season. The episodes have all been […]

Spotify is expanding free access to managed accounts for under-13s.

Your Roku can do more than stream online content. Let's get you prepared for the next internet outage.