2015 may well go down as the year streaming became mainstream. Netflix, Amazon and Hulu continued to expand, The WWE Network broke 1 million viewers, set top boxes and smart TV’s flew off the shelves and Nielsen began to give weight to streamed content in its total viewership equation. – Ryan Michael Downey, The Streaming Advisor
The event begins on ABC Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET, and viewers can also tune in at ABCNews.com. Additionally, the ABC News app and other mobile platforms will carry the New Hampshire debate as well. – Mediaite
The debate will air live exclusively on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español. CNN will also offer a live stream of the debate on CNN.com‘s homepage and across mobile platforms from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET. All users will be able to watch live CNN TV online and on their mobile devices without logging in. – Daniella Diaz, CNN
9. Streaming hits $1 billion at the halfway mark (September 22)
The RIAA’s report on music consumption during the first half of 2015 shows that revenue from music streaming in the U.S. cracked the $1 billion mark in the first half of 2015. This marks a 23% increase relative to the first half of 2014. The value of paid subscriptions also grew 25% to $478 million. – Elias Leight, The FADER
CES 2015 is the year of 4K. TV makers have finally ditched the gimmicks and are simply pumping out big, beautiful televisions that produce big, beautiful images. We’re back to TV 101: Make the picture better and make it affordable. This is good! But where LG, Samsung USA, Sharp, Sony, and others excel at all that quantum dot, pixel splitting, color gamut stuff, their “smart” TV software sucks. It’s so bad in fact, that we’re actually shocked when we see a new TV OS that isn’t terrible. […] The best 4K TV you can buy is still just a dumb one—with lots and lots of HDMI ports. Because of the way streaming entertainment has evolved, any television can become a “smart” television if you want it to. It’s called Chromecast, or Amazon Fire TV, or Fire Stick, or Nexus Player, or Apple TV, or PS4, or Xbox one, and on and on. – Darren Orf, Gizmodo
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