Sling TV getting big redesign in new app — and it’s coming here first

Sling Telly getting big redesign in new app — and it's coming here first

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Sling Boob tube has just told users that it'due south getting a large overhaul — and soon. This new look will give users a more customized feel that too looks meliorate, and Amazon Fire Tv set is going to be where it comes offset.

The news will hit individual users directly via a message that shows upwards when they boot up the Sling Idiot box app on their Fire TV devices. Yous'll meet a small sliver of a navigation screen with a message that starts with "We've been listening!" as if to say "yous've been complaining, and nosotros're finally sprucing things upwards." And this is just the kind of thing Sling needs to keep its rank as one of the best streaming services.

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This need for a modify matches what we said in our Sling Television receiver review: "Perchance because it's been in the live Boob tube streaming market for some fourth dimension, Sling doesn't seem to have fabricated updates to its interface to keep upwardly with competitors. Young man low-toll live Telly service Philo is much slicker. The big guns, YouTube Tv set and Hulu With Live TV, both boast deep, rich experiences."

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Sling's bulletin continues "A simple, beautiful, more personalized Television receiver experience is on the mode. The all-new Sling app will be bachelor on your device soon."

Just how long will other devices (say, Roku devices or the Apple Tv) accept to await? At the bottom of the message, it states "The new Sling app ... volition be available on all devices after this year." When companies say "later this yr," they oft really mean "past the end of the year," as we saw when the new Fire TV interface took months to come to half of those streaming devices.

This is an interesting style to coil the new Sling app out, giving Burn TV users preferential treatment. The streaming platform wars take heated up as of belatedly, and this gives the 50 million monthly active users on the platform something they don't get that oft: something that Roku users don't take. Correct now, Fire Tv is still missing the Peacock streaming service, which nosotros assume will be corrected past July'southward 2021 Olympics.

And while Roku has practically every app, Roku and Google's current spat took the YouTube TV app out of the Roku directory. Google responded past putting YouTube Tv in the Roku YouTube app, and we haven't heard the final of this mini-war nonetheless.

Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the by half-dozen-plus years. Prior to joining Tom'southward Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Mag. He'due south also covered the wild world of professional person wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other industry veterans.