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Spectrum Is Charging TWC Customers $11.75 Per Month For Every Additional TV
How many TVs do you have in your house? If you are like most of our readers, it is probably more than one. Get ready to pay up if you are a Spectrum customer. Spectrum and other cable TV providers are slowly rolling out their digital cable TV to new markets. That means no longer…
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How to Fix Buffering on Your Favorite Streaming Service
Buffering is something that happens to everyone at some point. Well, you may want to blame your streaming service more often than not the issue is on your end. everyone likes to blame the service. Yet the issue may not be the streaming service, it may be your home network. Now you may have seen…
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ESPN Adds Alexa Support to Their Fire TV App
Earlier today ESPN rolled out an update to their Fire TV app. With this update, ESPN adds Alexa support for ESPN and ESPN+. After the update Fire TV owners are greeted with a splash screen announcing the new Alexa support. Now with this update, you can use your Alexa powered remote to control the ESPN…
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Roku Beats Wall Street Expectations As Roku TV’s & Roku Ad Sales Take Off
Roku just announced their 1st quarter 2018 earnings and they beat what the analysts expected. Roku generated $61.5 million in hardware sales and earned $75.1 million with their advertising and licensing fees. Roku also reported that half of all Roku’s new users now come from Roku TVs. In total Roku had $136.6 million in revenue…
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Report: Apple Plans to Sell Video Subscription Through Their TV App
Today it was reported that Apple plans to expand their TV app to include the ability to subscribe to video services. From the sounds of the program, it sounds very similar to Amazon Channels a service from Amazon that lets you subscribe to multiple services and manage all the billing through Amazon. Now Apple wants to…
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Hulu Just launched Their New Live TV Guide On Multiple Devices
For some time now Hulu has been working on an updated version of their live TV guide. Today Hulu has started to roll that guide out to use on several devices. For now, the updated guide is available on the Xbox One, Apple TV (4th gen. Or higher), Amazon Fire TV (1st and 2nd gen.) and…
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Here Are All the New Android TV Features Announced at Google I/O
Yesterday at their I/O 2018 event Google gave an update on their Android TV. We learned about the new Android TV sound bar and the developer Android TV dongle but they also announced some software updates. Here is everything new on Android TV: The first big announcement was that Android TV now has 3,600 apps…
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Formula 1’s New Commercial Free Streaming Service is Now Live
Ever wish you could watch the race without the commercials? Now with Formula 1, you can do just that. We have known for a bit that Formula 1 racing planned to launch a subscription streaming service, and now we know even more about it. Now you can with the launch of F1 TV Pro and…
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Study: Most Americans Still Prefer Their Big TV to a Smartphone
For years we have heard that smartphones and tablets are how Americans are watching TV and that they no longer watch TV on a TV. A new study from nScreenMedia seems to show that while short form content is being consumed more on phones and tablets overall most Americans are still watching TV on their…
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21st Century FOX is Buying 7 Local FOX Affiliates From Sinclair
Today 21st Century FOX announced that they have come to a deal to buy seven FOX affiliates from Sinclair. This deal is said to be priced at about $910 million and includes stations owned by Sinclair and ones that will be apart of Sinclair’s agreement with Tribune. Here are the stations included in this: KCPQ-TV,…
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PlayStation Vue Pushes Back on Sinclair’s Statement
Recently PlayStation Vue lost all Sinclair-owned ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC locals. Sinclair was quick to point the finger at Sony for not being “willing to meet certain requirements for carrying our stations.” Now Sony has released an official statement on why Sinclair locals have been dropped. “We strive to provide the best value and…
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Roku is Reporting Their First Quarter 2018 Earnings Today; What You Need to Know
Later today Roku will announce their first quarter 2018 earnings. Here are three things you should know about Roku’s earnings report. #1 Active Users At the end of 2017 Roku had 19.3 million active accounts. That was up 2.6 million from the fourth quarter of 2017. With the holiday season over it will be interesting…
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Cohen Media Brings Their Huge Catalog of Movies to Amazon Channels
Today Cohen Media the owners of hundreds of rare and classic movies, spanning from the silent film era to present day announced a new Amazon Channel giving subscribers access to their catalog. This new Amazon channel is clearly targeting movie enthusiasts who want access to a large collection of classic and rare movies. “While the movie-watching experience…
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This Chrome Add-on Adds IMDb & Rotten Tomatoes Scores to Hulu
Ever looking through Hulu and find yourself checking IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes to see if you would like a show or movie? Now a new add-on from Flixed.io allows you to add IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes reviews to your Hulu browsing experience, giving you even more information about what others think of a show or…
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Expired: Roku & Amazon Have Some Great Mother’s Day Cord Cutting Deals
Roku and Amazon are celebrating Mothers Day with a great Cord Cutting deals. Here are a few of them that really stood out to us. The new Roku Stick and voice remote with TV power and volume is on sale right now for just $39! You can see our full review of the Roku Streaming Stick here:…
