Google Releases App to Bring Live TV to Android TV. When you’ve got a set-top box for your TV, you might want to watch some live TV, right? Google hasn’t said much about Android TV’s live capabilities, but a new Google-built app appeared in the Play Store today that promises the ability to watch traditional TV channels using a traditional or IP-based tuner. First spotted by Android Police, the app doesn’t seem to do much right now and isn’t compatible with phones or tablets. In fact, it currently can’t be opened on Android TV.
There’s no mention of traditional TV watching on the Nexus TV website, nor are there any accessories that would allow you to get a TV signal into your device yet, however this is a good sign it’ll be landing soon. ➤ Live Channels for Android TV [Google Play] Amazon Now Offering 4K Streaming For Movies And TV Shows On Prime Instant Video. Amazon has upped its streaming game, offering up 4K or Ultra HD resolution for certain movies and TV titles to Prime subscribers via Amazon Instant Video. The content available in Ultra HD includes Amazon original content, with Alpha House and Transparent, and Orphan Black, the Canadian-made BBC America sci-fi thriller. Sony Pictures movies, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Funny Girl, Hitch and Philadelphia are also now available in 4k. The Ultra HD content will require an Ultra HD display, which Amazon says include TVs from LG, Samsung and Sony.
It’s all available without any additional fees or costs on the part of users, and will include Amazon Original content from upcoming series’, including the recently green lighted Red Oaks, Hand of God and more. Upcoming pilots vying for full slates are also going to be presented in Ultra HD. The American Justice System Is Not Broken. Duck Face and Lolcat Among Terms Now in Oxford Dictionaries. Language is always evolving, and as such the things we consider to be ‘real words’ change too. On that note, Oxford Dictionaries is announcing the addition of 1,000 new entries to its OxfordDictionaries.com website, the largest quarterly addition it’s ever made. Among the newcomers are choice internet slang for Instagram users like lolcat, duck face and man crush. Gamers get their spotlight with the additions of reswpan and permadeath. Then there are other highlights like Secret Santa, ‘the ant’s pants’ and Obamacare.
It’s important to note these additions aren’t actually being added to the Oxford English Dictionary tome you might be thinking of. That book is meant to be a historical record covering the ‘core’ words of the English language. For its website, the group instead collects examples from about 150 million words from various souces. For instance, duck face usage is up 35% this year versus the previous.
. ➤ Oxford Dictionaries. Netflix now accounts for 35 percent of overall US internet traffic. According to a new report from Sandvine, a company that builds equipment for consumer internet service providers, Netflix has topped 35% of overall US internet traffic. The streaming service now reportedly uses 34.89 percent of downstream and 9.4 percent of upstream bandwidth during peak periods on US fixed lines. Sandvine’s report suggests that Netflix is using a whopping 20% more bandwidth than the nearest downstream competitor, YouTube.
Netflix is second only to BitTorrent traffic for upstream bandwidth, with the torrenting protocol at a huge 25.49 percent. You might be wondering why Netflix uses upstream traffic when it’s not a peer-to-peer service; Ars Technica has a great report on why this is. The last time Sandvine released a report in 2013, Netflix traffic was only at 31.6% of overall bandwidth usage in th US. . ➤ The Global Internet Phenomena Report [Sandvine] Image credit: Shutterstock.