New Streaming devices for Germany!

The industry is pretty focused on the Streaming Wars, we took a slightly different perspective: Hardware.

Although everything becomes more and more digital, every user still needs devices to access the video content. We took a closer look at 3 recent launches/announcement of streaming devices in Germany coming from 3 different companies with different backgrounds:

• Sky Glass: Sky – part of Comcast – the global telco and media juggernaut racing to build a global ecosystem, announced a Smart TV with no need for a dish
• Roku streaming sticks: Roku – Wall Street’s darling, Netflix spin-off and streaming device/OS leader in the US, yet trying to replicate the success across the pond just entered the German retail market with its sticks
• waipu.tv 4K Stick: waipu.tv – German vMVPD challenger and part of telco/mobile operator Freenet – now tapping into the streaming hardware business with a recently launched Android TV stick