{"id":384196,"date":"2017-08-16T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/16\/new-espn-apple-tv-app-four-streams-multicast\/"},"modified":"2017-08-16T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:39:44","slug":"espns-new-apple-tv-app-lets-you-watch-up-to-four-live-sporting-events-simultaneously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/espns-new-apple-tv-app-lets-you-watch-up-to-four-live-sporting-events-simultaneously\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s New Apple TV App Lets You Watch Up to Four Live Sporting Events Simultaneously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN is releasing a new tvOS app for the fourth-generation Apple TV that allows viewers to watch up to four live sporting events simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/08\/espn-tvos-four-streams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"773\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-582135\"\/><br \/>The multicast feature means a sports fan could, for example, watch two NFL games, an MLB postseason game, and an NBA game on a Sunday in October all at once, with each stream taking up an equally-sized quadrant of the TV.<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple viewing modes to select from, including one with a large stream on the left alongside three smaller streams on the right.<\/p>\n<p>The idea isn&#8217;t new\u2014there&#8217;s a similar two-stream feature in the MLB.TV app for Apple TV\u2014but ESPN says its implementation offers up to four streams and has a streamlined user interface, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/8\/16\/16151190\/espn-apple-tv-app-screens-multicast-football-streaming\">Recode<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/229742361\" width=\"640\" height=\"306\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><br \/>The new ESPN app should be rolling out as a free update on the tvOS App Store today in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN is releasing a new tvOS app for the fourth-generation Apple TV that allows viewers to watch up to four live sporting events simultaneously. The multicast feature means a sports fan could, for example, watch two NFL games, an MLB postseason game, and an NBA game on a Sunday in October all at once, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":384197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-384196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}