Author: Jess Barnes

  • RCA Announces New Roku TVs, and Android TV, Antennas, Soundbars, and More at CES

    RCA Announces New Roku TVs, and Android TV, Antennas, Soundbars, and More at CES

    At their booth at CES this year, RCA is displaying a line of new products, including a 55” smart TV, a 65” Roku TV, an indoor antenna, a soundbar, and an outdoor speaker. Along with the products in the RCA booth, we got to take a look at a new Android TV RCA is releasing…

  • EarthLink is Working on a New Wireless Internet Service for Cord Cutters

    EarthLink is Working on a New Wireless Internet Service for Cord Cutters

    EarthLink knows that living an area with limited options for internet providers can be frustrating, often leading to customers paying premium prices for less than stellar internet speeds and bundles of unwanted services. They want to fix that. We’ve been waiting for EarthLink to create a wireless internet service since the company saw a reboot…

  • AT&T Plans to Bundle AT&T TV & HBO Max With Wireless to Draw in New Customers

    AT&T Plans to Bundle AT&T TV & HBO Max With Wireless to Draw in New Customers

    Yesterday, AT&T released its Citi 2020 Global TMT West Conference Call. During the call, AT&T discussed how they see broadband, media, and other services working together to bring in more customers. AT&T CFO John Stephens was the first to mention the plan for bundling AT&T services. He said that AT&T wants to be the provider…

  • The CES 2020 Cord Cutting Awards Go To…

    The CES 2020 Cord Cutting Awards Go To…

    CES 2020 is in the books and today we want to look back at the best of the best for cord cutters. Today Luke and I picked out our favorite products and services we saw at CES 2020. So here is our list of the best of CES 2020:  The Best Overall Cord Cutting Product…

  • Discovery is Planning to Launch a Streaming Service Featuring All of Its Brands for Cord Cutters

    Discovery is Planning to Launch a Streaming Service Featuring All of Its Brands for Cord Cutters

    This week, at a Citi investor conference, Discovery CEO David Zaslav said that while the company is doing well on cable and pay TV platforms, he’s well aware that in order to continue growing, the company needs to expand. “If we want to win in the long-term – and we have this great IP that…

  • How Did Streaming Services Do at the Golden Globes?

    How Did Streaming Services Do at the Golden Globes?

    Last night, the Golden Globes aired on NBC, hosted by Rocky Gervais. Streaming services earned nominations for both original series and films. Now that the awards show is over, here’s how Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Apple TV+ did. Before the awards show, Netflix took the lead with 17 nominations. In the end, they took…

  • TIDAL is Now Available on Vizio Smart TVs

    TIDAL is Now Available on Vizio Smart TVs

     Music fans, you can now stream music from TIDAL on Vizio SmartCast TVs. Today, the music sgtreaming service announced that it will be available on Vizio SmartCast TVs beginning today. Subscribers will now be able to access over 60 million tracks, 250,000 videos, and original content directly from their TV. Vizio users can find the…

  • TiVo Owners Will Have to Wait for Roku and Apple Apps  

    TiVo Owners Will Have to Wait for Roku and Apple Apps  

    While we’ve been focusing on TiVo’s announcement of their new streaming player that will launch in April, there’s one announcement that we haven’t gotten at CES – a date for the apps for Roku, Apple TV, and others to stream recorded content from TiVo. TechHive reported that Ted Malone, TiVo’s vice president of consumer products…

  • The Free Streaming Service STIRR Adds Six New Channels to Their Lineup

    The Free Streaming Service STIRR Adds Six New Channels to Their Lineup

    The free streaming service STIRR has recently added six new channels to their lineup. iewers can now watch over 90 live channels of news, movies, sports, comedy, and more along with over 3,300 hours of on-demand content. Fridays (175) was ABC’s late night comedy show that aired on Friday nights from April 1980 to April 1982. The…

  • Amazon’s Fire TV Has a New & Improved Prime Video App

    Amazon’s Fire TV Has a New & Improved Prime Video App

    This morning, a source for Cord Cutters News shared that the Amazon Prime Video app for Fire TV devices has a new look, resembling the app update for tablets and mobile. A couple weeks ago, we reported that Amazon was rolling out new features to its website when you stream Prime Video. These updates included…