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Comcast Reportedly Has a New Tactic to Trick Cord Cutters Into Buying Cable TV
For years phone reps have tried everything possible to get cord cutters to come back to cable TV. Typically these efforts go by ads that hide many of the fees and taxes. More recently they have started to limit access to their fastest internet packages to TV customers. Now we have been hearing of a…
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The Chromecast Player is Likely At a Dead End
The first generation Chromecast player was released on July 24, 2013, followed by the second generation in 2015 and the Chromecast Ultra with 4K in 2016. Now it is starting to look like Google may be about to discontinue or stop future development of the standalone Chromecast player. This week Google held their Google I/O…
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Google Joins Amazon, Verizon, & More in The Video Streaming Alliance
Today Google announced that they are joining The Streaming Alliance (SVA) a group that promotes best practices for video streaming. First formed in 2014 the alliance seeks to work with video streamings to help create best practices for the industry. Google will join Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Arris, Bamtech Media, Beamr, Charter Communications, CenturyLink, Comcast, Conviva,…
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5 Easy Tips to Improve Your Wi-Fi Signal for Better Streaming (2018 Update)
Do you struggle with buffering? Often when cord cutters experience buffering they often blame the streaming provider when the real issue is their Wi-Fi network. These complaints are common with live TV services as they often say “Netflix works but my live TV service does not.” The truth is live TV needs a little more…
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Discovery’s CEO Thinks Their New Streaming Service Could Top 100 Million Subscribers
Recently the race for streaming subscribers has become very heated. A growing number of services are launching and fighting for your streaming dollar. This week Discovery’s CEO David Zaslav was very candid when talking about Netflix recently topping 100 million subscribers. “I believe the next one to get to 100 [subscribers] is not going to…
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Hulu is Coming Back Online
Update: We are now hearing from our readers that Hulu is slowly coming back online. If you have Hulu you may have noticed that right now the services is out in the United States. Details are thin but reports from our readers say some can’t log in and others report being unable to play anything…
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Today Only You Can Get 3 Months of Pandora Premium For FREE
Today Pandora is offering three months of their Pandora Premium services for FREE. Now, this deal ends tonight so don’t wait as it may never come again. You can find this deal online HERE. Here is everything that comes with Pandora Premium: Search and play any song Create playlists — on your own or powered…
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CenturyLink Plans to Bundle Live TV Streaming Services With Your Home Internet
For months now we have heard that CenturyLink was planning on bundling a live TV streaming services like Sling TV or DIRECTV NOW with their home internet service. Even before CenturyLink launched their own live TV streaming services. (That later shut down.) Now Centurylink during their 1st quarter 2018 earnings call announced that they have a…
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Amazon Updates Their Roku Prime Video Channel to Make it More Like The Fire TV
Yesterday Amazon quietly updated their Prime Video Channel on Roku. (Formally called the Amazon Video Channel.) This comes after Amazon has recently started to rebrand their Amazon Video service as a Prime Video. Well, Amazon is calling it Prime Video you don’t need to be a Prime member to use the channel. You can still buy…
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YouTube Kids Launches a ‘Month of Making’ to Inspire Kids
Looking for something fun for your kids to do this month? Maybe something that is also educational? Well, YouTube Kids wants to be that place with what the are calling a Month of Making. Right now on YouTube Kids has a long list kids and teens to get inspired to create something awesome with their…
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Amazon’s Twitch Streaming Service Gets Their First Free 24/7 TV Network
Today Amazon’s Twitch streaming service and Stadium the 24/7 sports network announced a deal to bring Stadium to Twitch. With this deal Twitch gains access to a 24/7 live linear sports network and its first major 24/7 TV network streaming for free on the service. With this deal Twitch viewers gain access to 250 live games…
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The US Senate Will Vote to Restore Net Neutrality Next Week
Yesterday it was announced that the United States Senate will hold a vote under the Congressional Review Act to restore net neutrality rules. Through the Congressional Review Act the Senate can force the FCC to reverse their ruling on the net neutrality rules, and only 51 votes will be needed to restore the FCC rules.…
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Sling TV Adds Air TV Support to Their Roku Channel
Recently Sling TV updated their Roku Channel to add support for their new network Air TV device. Now you can stream your locals from your antenna through your Air TV network device to your Sling TV Roku Channel. (Note this is the black AirTV box that supports streaming over your home network.) Now the stand-alone…
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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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