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PlayStation Vue Re-Brands My Shows as My DVR
PlayStation Vue has recently been rolling out a long list of updates. A new Roku app was the first significant change followed by removing out of home streaming restrictions on many devices. Now PlayStation Vue is rebranding their My Shows as My DVR. It seems that Sony is working hard to make the DVR more…
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Twitter & MLB Once Again Team Up For the 2018 Season
Once again, Twitter and Major League Baseball have teamed up to offer a free game of the week. The weekly games will be available in the United States for free to logged-in and logged-out users on Twitter and connected devices via live.twitter.com/MLB and @MLB. Each weekly stream will be a simulcast of a participating team’s…
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1 Gbps Wireless Internet Is Coming to 40K New Underserved Locations
Wireless internet is the future of home internet. With wireless, you no longer need to run a physical wire to each house, which is one of the most time consuming and expensive parts of rolling out home internet. Now Redzone internet has announced plans to continue their roll out of 1 Gbps fixed wireless internet…
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Report: CBS Plans to Merge With Viacom In a All Stock Deal
For a few months now we have heard that CBS and Viacom have been in talks for a possible merger. Now Reuters is reported that CBS plans to make an all stock offer to merge with Viacom bellow current market rates. According to reports Viacom and CBS hope to have a deal in place before…
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Survey: Most Cord Cutters Looking Plan to Buy a Roku Streaming Player
Recently Cord Cutters News conducted our Spring 2018 Survey and more than 2,500 of our readers took the time to let us know what they think on many cord cutting topics. One of the questions we asked our readers was if they plan to buy a streaming player this year what company would they buy…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon For The Week of April 2nd 2018
Netflix April 2 La Piloto: Season 1 April 3 Fary Is the New Black April 5 Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall Despicable Me 3 April 6 6 Balloons Amateur Fastest Car: Season 1 Money Heist: Part 2 My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman: Jay-Z Orbiter 9 Ram Dass, Going Home Sun Dogs The 4th Company…
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ESPN’s New Streaming Service ESPN+ Will launch April 12th
Today ESPN announced that their new streamings service will launch April 12th and cost just $4.99 a month. “With ESPN+, fans have access to thousands more live games, world class original programs and on-demand sports content, all at a great price,” said Jimmy Pitaro, ESPN’s president, in a statement. ” They will get all of that as a part of a completely re-imagined, increasingly personalized ESPN App that provides…
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Older Roku Channels Have Until the End of the Year to Update
Roku has been upgrading not only its boxes but also its user experience. In recent months many high profile older Roku Channels such as MLB.TV and PlayStation Vue have updated with new refreshed looks. This is part of Roku’s effort to push channel owners to update. Now it seems that it has come to an…
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PureFlix is Adding Spanish-Language Titles
PureFlix is best known for their family friendly, and faith based programming. Now they are looking to expand from English only shows and movies, to Spanish-language programming. The new site, Pureflixespanol.com will offer a wide range of programming and in addition will be adding close to 100 titles on a monthly basis. “When Hispanic consumers…
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PlayStation Vue is Once Again Giving Away FREE Upgrades to Their Elite Package
Once again, PlayStation Vue is giving away free upgrades to its Elite package. Several readers today told Cord Cutters News that they an email from Sony about the additional channels in their PlayStation Vue app. This is not the first time that Sony has given away free upgrades to their Elite package as they have…
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Several PBS Stations Are Shutting Down
Several years ago the FCC asked TV stations to sell their current over-the-air frequencies to cellphone providers. Many stations agreed to the auction and brought in millions of dollars from the sale. Most will be switching channels over the next few years. For example, FOX may switch from Channel 46 to Channel 17. Yet some,…
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Roku Releases Streaming Socks to Control Your Roku With Your Feet
Every had your hands full but still wish you could control your Roku? Now with the Roku Streaming Socks, you can do just that. Yup no longer do you have to worry about messy or full hands with the new Roku Streaming Socks. Here are the socks in action: Key features include: 1) Highly-sensitive built–in motion sensors: all…
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Survey: The Best FREE Streaming Service Is… (Spring 2018 Survey)
Every quarter we survey our readers, and this spring more than 2,500 Cord Cutters News readers took the time to let us know their views on some of the most popular cord cutting services, devices, and more. One of the questions we asked was what is the best FREE streaming service. According to our readers,…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon in April 2018
Netflix April 1 A Sort of Family Along Came Polly Bad Boys Battlefield Earth Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure Big Time Body of Lies Cabin Fever Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever Cats & Dogs Cold Mountain Dare to Be Wild Deep Blue Sea Fish People Friday Night Lights Jackass 2.5 Life Is Beautiful Looney Tunes: Back in…
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DIRECTV NOW vs PlayStation Vue vs YouTube TV vs Philo vs Sling TV vs Fubo TV vs Hulu – Updated April 2018
Today we update our side by side look at the major live TV streaming services. With a lot of new channels added to services like DIRECTV NOW we wanted to update our live TV streaming service break down. This month we looked at Fubo TV, Philo, Sling TV, Hulu’s live TV beta, YouTube TV, PlayStation Vue, and DIRECTV NOW with the…
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