Roku's streaming devices will now be built into Chinese-made TCL and Hisense TVs, priced from $229

The voiceover for "SNL" and earlier, for "Jeopardy" kept working 'til almost the end, kept on at "Saturday Night Live" for years after he first tried to retire. 

With the fall season not far from starting, the latest research shows that audiences are tuning out live network television in favor of time shifting.

Chelsea Handler, Bill Burr, Chelsea Peretti, Jim Jeffries--and Bill Cosby--will get comedy specials on Netflix beginning with a Jeffries performance that will debut Aug. 29. Others debut through Dec. 5. 

Amazon plans to invest $100 million into original content in the third quarter of 2014 and is using big name talent, instead of relying on submissions to find new programs.

According to YouTube, the updated app will present channels its users subscribe to via a guide on the left hand side of the screen, much like the guide YouTube is using now for browsers, smartphones and tablets. YouTube is backing that up--for now on Roku, Xbox and smartTVs-- with a recommendations-based "What to Watch" section and the option for users to tack on playlists curated by others

Among YouTube's many subcultures, viewers can find the "unboxing" community. Lewis Hilsenteger has one million subscribers who watch him open boxes and describe what's inside. (It's not totally as silly as it sounds.)

Video sharing platform Vimeo, with over 30 million users, unveiled its rebuilt Roku app on Thursday, marking the first major overhaul of the channel since it debuted on the set-top box in 2011. The update , features a new user interface designed to make content more discoverable on the homepage and reduce the number of clicks it takes to play a video by half.

Flipboard is almost ready to roll out video advertising on its popular social reading platform. “Fashion brand Chanel is confirmed as an initial advertiser,” The Next Web reports. At an industry event, this week, Flipboard founder and CEO Mike McCue cited some Nielsen research, which found that advertising on Flipboard is more effective than TV ad spots. “That’s based on the company’s existing static, full-page advertising,” TNW notes. “It will be interesting to see how video changes that engagement rate.” 

The Onion's parody of clickbait sites, especially BuzzFeed, falls a little flat, in the estimation of this reviewer, who notes it is hard to parody a form that is a parody itself. A thoughtful take on a pretty thoughtless, time-wasting Internet confection of making stupid lists