Fox is ready to give viewers a chance to watch its televisions shows live on devices other than their TV sets. The network is launching live-streaming on its digital platforms, Fox.com and the Fox Now app, on Monday, July 11, reports Deadline.
First up will be So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation, and beyond that, all of Fox’s primetime programming will be available for live-streaming. The option will be available seven nights a week and even stretch to include Saturday’s late-night entertainment. There is one important caveat, though: You must be a pay-TV subscriber in order to access the network’s content. This isn’t quite the cord-cutting dream.
While the new strategy does still require a cable subscription, it offers more freedom for viewing. Fox fans will be able to watch the network’s content on their computer, iPhone, iPad, Android, or Kindle Fire, or by using an Apple TV or Google Chromecast. Overall, more than 98 percent of pay-TV subscribers will potentially be able to take advantage of the live-streaming option, according to Fox.
“From the start of the on-demand and over-the-top viewing revolution, Fox has been at the forefront of providing greater access to our buzz-defining shows, like Empire, Lucifer, Scream Queens and Family Guy,” said Dana Walden and Gary Newman, co-chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group, in a statement.
“Adding nationwide primetime live-streams is just another great example of how the Fox Digital Consumer Group, under Brian Sullivan’s leadership, is innovating to give viewers the convenience and flexibility to watch our programming whenever and wherever they want.”
With Fox launching now, the network should have time to work out any kinks before the fall TV season begins. Check out Fox’s live TV starting at 8 p.m. ET/PT with SYTYCD.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?