Going live on both YouTube and Twitch is largely the same experience: you fire up
your streaming app of choice, send your broadcast to either platform, and take advantage of either site's handy dashboard that lets you track viewership and keep up with folks in your chat room.
Not exact matches
Thanks to the advent
of streaming apps like Netflix and Hulu, movie fans now have unending libraries
of choices at their disposal at all times.
Once you've got your Xbox dash displaying at 3840x2160p,
streaming or playing content at 4K is as simple as starting the relevant
app - such as Netflix or Amazon Prime - or loading your 4K Ultra HD Blu - ray
of choice (we watched some Stranger Things, Salt and Batman vs Superman Ultimate Edition).
First off, you'll need to head to the Settings
app and enable Allow Game
Streaming in the Xbox Preferences section, then launch a game
of your
choice on your console.
Current PS3 / 4 console owners can download the Popcornflix
app from the PlayStation Store to get this free, ad - supported Popcornflix
streaming movie service for thousands
of full - length feature films and TV services with more varied
choices for all ages being added every day.
There are a number
of apps that you can install on your Roku to play media files stored on a computer somewhere on your local network, but Plex is probably the best
choice - once you've got all your media set up on your main computer, the Plex
app for Roku can
stream it over your local network or even the web.
Just pick your
app of choice and let it
stream!
In its announcement
of the Rift
app, Microsoft says you'll have your
choice of three different environments for
streaming Xbox One games onto what the company describes as «a massive screen.»
Roku actually offers a
choice of four
streaming devices; one is a stick ($ 39.99) similar to Chromecast that works with a library
of apps such as YouTube and Netflix, controlled with your smartphone or tablet.