Throbbing Hive with John Moe: Two New Ways to Watch TV
November 03, 2015
Every Tuesday at 7:30 a.m., John Moe stops into the Morning Show to share the latest news in Technology.
This week, John Moe stopped by The Current's Morning Show to talk to Jill Riley and Sean McPherson about new ways to watch television with the new Apple TV and the new Roku box. "Here's how much I love TV: I've had Rokus and Apple TVs for a while now," John says. "I've had both in my home."
Here's what John had to say about the latest releases from Apple and Roku.
"What's really interesting about this is it involves a new operating system from Apple called tvOS," John explains. "It's basically the iOS that you have on your iPad or iPhone but reworked to function with Apple TV."
The new tvOS includes Siri, Apple's voice-commanded search tool. "It can track down where you can watch what you want to watch, which is a pretty cool feature," John says.
Inherent in Roku is its impartiality. "Roku is not tied to a company that's also making content," John says. "So for instance, on Apple TV, I can't get my Amazon Prime shows. Roku is not interested in making shows, and is not interested in putting any one company above another company. It's sort of the most agnostic player you can get."
The Roku 4 also includes an ingenious new feature. "I've been wishing for this for a long time," John explains. "The Roku 4 has a little button on the back of the box by your TV; you press it, and the remote that you've lost will chime and you can go find it buried under the sofa cushions."
John adds the Roku is so dependent on the user's remote that being able to locate it is vital.
John Moe co-hosts the podcast Conversation Parade (with Open Mike Eagle) on the Infinite Guest network, and is an author of a number of books, including The Deleted Emails of Hilary Clinton: A Parody and Dear Luke, We Need To Talk, Darth: And Other Pop Culture Correspondences.