Azure Synapse Analytics data lake features: up close
Microsoft has added a slew of new data lake features to Synapse Analytics, based on Apache Spark. It also integrates Azure Data Factory, Power BI and Azure Machine Learning. These ...
Cable? Satellite? Who needs 'em! The top Internet video services can give you more than enough entertainment.
TV over the Internet isn't perfect yet for even the most hardcore cordcutter. Sports, for example, except for Major League Baseball with MLB.TV and the National Basketball Association (NBA) with League Pass, are still often not available or only can be watched if you master a variety of different techniques. For example, you could watch most National Football League (NFL) games over the Internet this past season, but it wasn't easy.
Now, that is changing. The Dish Network will be bringing ESPN and ESPN2 to the net with its Sling TV service.
In the meantime, however, we have more than enough entertainment riches to keep ourselves happy couch potatoes. Here are my particular favorites that offer either free or subscription access to many movies and TV shows.
This list leaves out one major Internet TV provider: Apple with Apple TV and the iTunes Store. I like both well enough but at the end of the day, it's a video-on-demand (VOD) service and I wanted to look at the subscription and free options.
In addition, to watch video from iTunes you must use an Apple TV or iTunes on a Windows PC or Mac. It's the one service that locks you to a specific hardware device for watching on a TV. All the other Internet TV options support a variety of different TV options.
The most universal Internet TV device, and the one I recommend the most highly, is the Roku 3, but there are many other worthwhile Internet TV streaming gadgets.
Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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