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Amazon Will Reportedly Have 55.7 Million Fire TV Users in 2019
Today Amazon reported their 4th quarter 2018 numbers and eMarketer used these numbers to project out what Amazon will do in 2019. According to Amazon net sales increased 20% to $72.4 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $60.5 billion in fourth quarter 2017. Operating income increased to $3.8 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $2.1 billion in fourth quarter 2017.…
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AMC Premiere Subscribers Will Get ‘The Walking Dead’ a Week Early
Today AMC announced that if you subscribe to their AMC Premiere service, you will get access to The Walking Dead a week early. The service costs $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year and gives you access to select AMC programming commercial free. Now it seems they are looking to expand their service into new…
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EXPIRED: The Amazon Fire TV 4K Stick, Fire TV Cube, & Fire TV Recast DVR Are All On Sale
Did you miss out on Amazon’s Christmas sales? Right now Amazon now has it’s line of Fire TV products once again on sale. Right now you can get the Fire TV Recast DVR 500GB version for $189.99 or the 1 TB version for $229.99. You can also get the Fire TV Stick 4K for just $39.99.…
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You Can Now Stream Locals For FREE in Washington DC. & Baltimore Thanks to Locast
Locast a new live TV streaming service that launched back in January in New York City to offer access to 15 stations including ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC. Now Locast is expanding into a 7th market with the addition of Washington DC. and Baltimore today. Don’t look for Locast to stop there according to the people behind the…
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What Does DIRECTV NOW’s Downturn Mean for the Future of Cord Cutting? We Take a Look…
Yesterday DIRECTV NOW announced that it had lost 267,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2018. This instantly started a flood of finger pointing that cord cutting is coming to an end. Yet at the same time, DIRECTV and U-Verse TV lost 750,000 subscribers in 2018, cord cutting is still quickly growing. So why did…
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Hulu is Testing Ads When You Pause Your TV
Back in December, it was reported that Hulu was working on ads that would show when you pause your video. Today Hulu started to roll out these ads in partnership with Coke. Now when you pause your video a still ad appears, that takes up a little less than 1/4 of your screen. For now,…
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UltraViolet is Shutting Down
Today UltraViolet announced that they will be shutting down on July 31st, 2019. This comes as Disney’s Movies Anywhere service has slowly replaced UltraViolet as a single repository for all of your content. UltraViolet would allow you to create a library of all your movies in a single place. From there you could link it to…
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Spectrum Lost 36,000 TV Customers & 83,000 Voice Customers in The 4th Quarter of 2018
Today Spectrum announced their 4th quarter 2018 subscriber numbers. According to Spectrum residential video customers decreased by 36,000 in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared to the fourth quarter of 2017 when video customers increased by 2,000. During the same time, residential voice customers declined by 83,000, compared to the fourth quarter of 2017 when voice customers grew by…
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5 Pro Tips for Roku TV Owners
Roku TVs are becoming extremely popular in the United States. Today we are going to look at five pro tips to help you get the most from your Roku TV. #1 Featured Free One of the newest features on Roku TVs and Roku players is called Featured Free. This new section pulls together all the…
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EXPIRED: The Roku Premiere is On Sale At a New All Time Low Price of Just $29.99
Want a cheap 4K streaming player? Right now the 2018 Roku Premier is on sale for just $29.99. This is a new all time low price for the Roku Premiere. You can find this deal on the Roku Premiere on Amazon HERE. More about the Roku Premiere: Incredible picture — simple way to start streaming…
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CBS All Access’s The Twilight Zone Reboot Gets a Premiere Date
Today CBS announced that their reboot of the Twilight Zone will premiere on April 1st, 2019. On that date CBS All Access will release two episodes of the Jordan Peele’s reboot of The Twilight Zone and new episodes will be added every Thursday after that. This all comes according to a report from The Wrap. You can see…
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AT&T’s New Subscription Streaming Service Will Include Ads on Some Plans
Today AT&T announced new details about their new subscription streaming service they plan to launch later this year. For some time now we have known that there would be multiple subscription plans. Now we have learned the lower level plans will include ads even though you are paying. If you want an ad-free experience you will…
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PlayStation Vue Drops MGM HD
Back in 2017, Sony announced plans to drop MGM HD from PlayStation Vue only to backtrack and announce a deal was reached to keep the network. Now it looks like that deal has come to an end and PlayStation Vue has indeed dropped MGM HD From their lineup. No longer is MGM HD the 24/7…
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XUMO & The PGA Expand Their Content Deal
Today the PGA Tour announced a deal that will renew and expand their partnership with XUMO. With this new deal, the PGA Tour will distribute more than 175 hours of live Featured Holes coverage on XUMO from 23 events in addition to expanded highlights, player interviews and tournament recap shows on XUMO for free through their…
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AT&T Sees 5G As a Replacement For Residential Broadband
Today during AT&T’s 4th quarter earnings call AT&T reconfirmed plans to use 5G for home internet. AT&T already has a mobile version of 5G live but plans to launch a fixed 5G home version sometime soon. With 5G home internet, you will be able to get fiber internet speeds without needing to physically run fiber to your…
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