ROXI turns the family TV into the ultimate music entertainment hub

Electric Jukebox has launched an alternative to Spotify, Amazon, and Apple style music streaming with their new ROXI music entertainment hub which connects to your existing TV to offer streaming music, games, and more.

ROXI is a small device that connects to your TV via HDMI. You can connect it to speakers too.

The included Wii-style controller has a built-in microphone that lets you use voice search to find your favorite music and artists.

In addition to listening to music, you can also play games like Sing with the Stars, a karaoke sing-along game and a Name That Tune music trivia game.

The ROXI device also offers unlimited access to thousands of internet radio stations from across the world so you never get tired listening to the same old stuff. And for the times when you want to relax, there’s Sound Machine, which includes yoga,  meditation, therapeutic sounds like rain, and white noise.

ROXI from Electric Jukebox is priced at $199 and comes with 1 year of unlimited ad-free streaming access to the full library of 29 million songs and 3 million albums. You can purchase a second year Premium Music Pass for $52.

You can read more about the ROXI at https://www.electricjukebox.com.

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Disney dumps Netflix to start their own streaming service in 2019

If you like watching Disney movies via Netflix enjoy it while you can because starting in 2019 that will come to an end. The “Mouse House” announced that they’re ending their short relationship with Netflix to start their own direct-to consumer streaming service starting in 2019. 

It was only May of last year that the Entertainment Giant announced their exclusive partnership with Netflix. Giving them exclusive rights to movies from Marvel, Lucas Film, Pixar and of course Disney itself. Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that the partnership would end in 2019, referring to the decision as a “strategic shift in the way we distribute our content.”

There were not a lot of other details given by Iger. For now, all that we know for sure is that Disney is parting ways with Netflix in 2019. The new yet to be named Disney service will obviously carry movies from Disney and Pixar. What is not immediately known is whether or not movies from Marvel and Star Wars will also be available on the new service.

One unfortunate result of today’s announcement was that Netflix’s stock took an immediate dip a few points. I’m sure that the powers that be over at Netflix are probably thinking “well isn’t that just Supercalifragilisticexpiaslidocious.”

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