Viacom’s BET Networks is now streaming programming on three connected-TV devices — Apple, Chromecast, Roku— although the  “TV Everywhere” service is available only to subscribers of participating pay-TV providers.

Instead, "We're focused on the rest of the world," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says at a conference.

Thanks to their respective deals with music rights management service Dubset, Spotify and Apple Music are now streaming their first unofficial single-track remixes. To date, ‘SoundCloud’s big differentiator [has been] its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don’t release and that [hasn’t been] on Spotify or Apple Music,” TechCrunch notes.

Sony’s PlayStation VR sets a new bar for the mass-market appeal of virtual reality, though it's not the coolest looking headset  and it isn't cheap. But it has advantages. 

Per a new deal with theater-chain iPic Entertainment, Netflix can now simultaneously screen its original movies in theaters the same day that they appear on the streaming service. “Netflix movies in the next year will play in iPic theaters in Los Angeles and New York City, with the option of showing at iPic’s 13 other locations or independent theaters,” The Wall Street Journal reports.

Fox News contributor Jesse Watters' feature piece Wednesday asking people in Chinatown to weigh in on China-U.S. relations and the presidential election is severely criticized by every thinking person who saw it. It was filled with bad China jokes and stereotypes. The segment is preserved on YouTube, possibly for all time. 

Turner will launch FilmStruck, a new SVOD servicemanaged by its Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel in collaboration with the Criterion Collection. A basic sub will cost $6.99 a month, but there are premium versions. FilmStruck will emphasize art house and indie titles. It starts Oct. 19.

The difference with Knowsy is that its how-to videos are super fast, over in seconds. That's in part how it has created 2,000 of them. Ad free, it envisions some kind of subscription model, eventually

Here in a nutshell is a snippet version of new stuff--the Pixel phone and Daydream VR headset and more--that Google unveiled yesterday. 

YouTube has launched a feature that lets creators disclosed paid promotions by way of a small notice that appears in the bottom-left corner of the video player. But YouTube warns its creators laws about disclosure vary depending on the country you're in.