Fancy yourself an entertainment trivia nerd? Roku today has announced the launch of a Roku Weekly Trivia feature to add a little bit of fun and family competition to the popular streaming device’s platform.
It’s available starting today in the U.S. on all Roku devices, such as Roku streaming players, Streaming Sticks, and smart TVs running the Roku operating system. Each Tuesday will see the arrival of a pool of multiple-choice pop-culture questions, and every time a user plays they’ll be presented with 10 questions from that pool. The game can be played several times per week from that week’s pool of questions. Roku Weekly Trivia can be accessed through the Home Screen menu, as well as through Roku’s Search function.
“You’ll discover the latest questions tied to cultural moments, such as the upcoming summer games, movie and TV premieres, holidays, and more,” a press release says. Journalists were given a glimpse into some of the trivia questions as part of accepting the news embargo, and they included such brain-teasers as these: “Which movie franchise has the most films?” “What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?” and “What is the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time?” The questions are presented using some of Roku’s animated Roku City theme characters, including the robot and gorilla.
The Roku streaming device and platform enjoys a user base of more than 80 million monthly active users and it’s one of the most popular and widely used in the world. Not only does it provide users access to one of the largest libraries of apps, including streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Max, Amazon Prime Video, and its own Roku Channel, but you can also use it to play games and integrate it into your smart home devices like cameras with the use of utilities that you can download to the devices.
Roku Weekly Trivia is available for U.S. users today. There are currently no details on whether it will expand to other countries later.
Instagram is making its way to yet another screen, and this time, Apple TV is getting a taste of the Reels rabbit hole. The company has launched a dedicated Instagram app for Apple TV, bringing Reels, longer videos, and live shows to the big screen. So, if watching one quick clip on a phone somehow turns into an hour of scrolling, there's now a much larger screen for that.
Instagram brings Reels and more to Apple TV
Audio-Technica, a brand well known for making some of the best studio and professional headphones on the market, has just come out with the ATH-AWX7000, which the company itself claims to be its "finest headphones ever." The new flagship closed-back headphone has debuted at an eye-watering price of $3,799. It combines hand-finished Japanese woodwork with a newly developed 58mm driver.
The earcups are made from Kiso cypress, a prized wood historically used for Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Each housing is finished by hand with traditional Echizen lacquer, which brings out the grain and is expected to darken over time. The frame and sliders are finished in a deep navy kachi-iro shade traditionally associated with samurai.
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