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Plex Now Lets You Rent Movies On Top of Its 50,000 Free Movies You Can Stream
Do you use Plex to manage your media and stream free ad-supported movies? Now you can also rent movies movies from Plex for the first time. Plex says rental prices start at $3.99, with new movies added to the daily. You can also add the selection to your Plex Watchlist on Plex for when you’re…
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Google Nest WiFi Mesh Routers Are On Sale At Just $174.94 For a 3 Pack Covering 6,700 Square Feet
Are you looking for a really good deal on a WiFi router? Right now, Google has their Mesh Routers on sale. To make sure you have a good WiFi signal for all of your streaming players, TVs, game systems, phones, smart home devices, etc, you may want to think about a mesh system like the…
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Cable TV and Broadcast TV Expected To See Revenue Drop in 2024
Broadcast and cable TV revenue could fall 7% this year, a TD Cowen analyst told Reuters. Despite expanding digital advertising, the traditional TV business — which makes up 80% of ad revenue for media companies — is in a continued decline, according to the report. The forecast underscores the larger trend of cord cutting eating…
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AT&T Wants to Shut Down Its Landline Phone Service
Do you still use an old-fashioned landline phone service? Its days may be numbered as AT&T and other providers are moving to shut it down and replace it with an Internet-based phone service. AT&T has asked the California Public Utilities Commission to shut down its traditional phone service. The telecom giant argues that maintaining copper…
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Bally Sports & MLB Have a Big Court Hearing This Week Over TV Rights — Here Is Everything We Know
On February 9, 2024, Bally Sports will have a critical hearing related to the future of multiple MLB teams on its networks. This comes after multiple delays in the hearing, including a last-second switch with Amazon proposing to take over streaming from Bally Sports. Bally Sports offered MLB slightly lower pay for the 2024 season…
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YouTube TV’s New Enhanced 1080p Is Experiencing a Bug But Will Be Back Soon
Seven days ago we broke the news that YouTube TV started testing a new and improved 1080p video quality. Now though many have noticed this new enhanced 1080p has gone missing and is no longer an option. Now YouTube TV says this is a glitch that YouTube TV is working on fixing. The enhanced 1080p…
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Break Up Disney? One Activist Investor Wants to Split Up the Media Giant
The battle over Walt Disney’s future has gotten even more complicated, with another activist investor jumping in with his own proposal to break up the media giant in smaller businesses. The proposal comes from Blackwells Capital, a second investor looking to shake up the company with its own candidates to serve on the board. In…
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DIRECTV STREAM Adds Three New The CW Affiliates to its Lineup
DIRECTV on Tuesday said it added three new The CW affiliates to its live-TV streaming service, DIRECTV STREAM. The channels are KGCW-CW in Quad Cities, Iowa, WWLP-CW in Springfield-Holyoke, Massachusetts, and KXMA-CW in Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson, North Dakota. The three channels are just the latest affiliates to be added to DIRECTV STREAM’s lineup as the company works…
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ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery Team Up For Sports Streaming Bundle to Launch in Fall
Walt Disney’s ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday said they were forming a joint venture to create a new sports-centric streaming service that would bundle together the three media giant’s content. The joint venture will have its own leadership, and the three companies will each one a one-third stake in the business, which…
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This is How Verizon is Reducing the Lag Time in its 5G Network For Wireless and Home Internet Service
Verizon is working towards reducing the lag time time of its network to offer consumers a faster and more responsive experience on 5G. The carrier, working alongside telecommunications equipment provider Ericsson, completed trials of the advanced Low-Latency, Low-Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S). The mouthful of jargon means it’s trying to reduce the so-called latency of the…
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Google Fiber Is Coming to Nevada
Nevada residents are now in line to receive GFiber, Google’s fiber internet service, by mid-2025. “Earlier today, the Clark County Commission approved a franchise agreement with GFiber, which will allow us to bring fast, reliable internet to our first community in the Silver State,” GFiber’s West Region General Manager Ashley Church said in a blog…
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Disney+ Joins Hulu in Password Sharing Crackdown
It appears the era of sharing passwords to access Walt Disney services is coming to an end. Disney+ began emailing customers this morning alerting them of new policies related to sharing. The language is identical to what users of sister service Hulu received last week, noting that the service is adding limitations on sharing outside…
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Amazon Freevee is Adding 18 New Channels, Including TMZ & Local News
February is here, and Amazon is adding a ton of free movies to the service. Freevee is owned by the online retail and offers over 400 live TV channels and thousands of movies and TV episodes. Amazon’s Freevee is available on Roku, Fire TV, the web, iOS, Android, and more, and no Prime account is…
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Two Local Gray Television Stations in Wyoming and Nebraska Have New Owners
Local TV viewers in the Cheyenne-Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and Casper, Wyoming are in for a shake up as the parent company of the two stations, Gray Television, has sold them to a rival broadcaster in an asset swap. Gray will sell KGWN Scottsbluff, known as NBC Nebraska, and KCWY, a local station in Casper known as…
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The New Echo Show 8 is At a New Lowest Price Ever of Just $89.99 Its Lowest Price Ever
Are you looking for a new Echo Show 8? The 2023 Echo Show 8 is a huge step up from the older Echo Show 8. Now it is at its lowest price ever and even lower than its Black Friday price it was just at. Right now, you can get the Echo Show 8 for…
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