Author: Luke Bouma
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EXPIRED: Buy a Fire TV Recast DVR Get a Fire TV 4K Stick & Antenna For $20
Thinking of buying a Fire TV Recast DVR from Amazon. Right now if you buy a Fire TV Recast DVR you can get a Fire TV 4K Stick and an antenna for just $20 more. Amazon often offers deals like this but we never know for how long. Sometimes they last months sometimes just for…
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T-Mobile TV Will Come Out Before Their 5G In-Home Internet
This week at CES, during an interview with FierceVideo COO Mike Sievert of T-Mobile talked about their new TV service. According to Sievert, the new T-Mobile TV streaming service will come out before their in-home 5G service; however, the 5G in-home service and their TV streaming service will go “hand in hand.” Now that does…
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Amazon’s New Free Streaming Service Is Now Available on Roku & Android
Yesterday Amazon launched a new free ad-supported streaming service called Freedive. This service runs through the Amazon-owned IMDb website. At launch, Amazon promoted the service as being available on Fire TVs and online. Now overnight Amazon updated their Roku channel to add free ad-supported movies. You have to do some digging. These new free ad-supported…
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PlayStation Vue is On Sale (Ends Soon)
Today Sony started a new sale on PlayStation Vue. Right now the PlayStation Vue’s Core Plan, typically $49.99 a month, is on sale for just $29.99 a month for the first month. All new subscribers can get the deal, and it looks like if you don’t have the Core Plan, you can upgrade and get…
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Amazon Launches an Ad-Supported Free Streaming Service
After denying reports that Amazon would launch a free ad-supported streaming service they did just that today. The Amazon-owned IMDb service today launched Freedrive an ad-supported streaming services available on Amazon Fire TVs and online. “Customers already rely on IMDb to discover movies and TV shows and decide what to watch,” said Col Needham, Founder and CEO…
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T-Mobile is Cracking Down on Spam Calls
Over the last few years, scams targeting cord cutters have grown. One of the newest scams is a fresh take on an old one. You get a call from someone claiming to be Netflix saying you need to update your credit card. From there they try to trick you into giving them your credit card so they…
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As Cord Cutting Grows Cable Companies Are Becoming Desperate to Trick You Into Coming Back
Recently we have heard from many new cord cutters who say cable companies are telling them it is less expensive to get Internet plus TV rather than just internet. WARNING: IT’S A TRAP! Now that is not new, but there is also a new wrinkle many cable companies are adding. They promise to lock in…
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TiVo Is Coming to the Roku, Apple TV, & Fire TV
This week at CES, TiVo announced that they are rolling out an app on many popular streaming devices including Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV. Now you will be able to stream content from your TiVo to your favorite streaming devices without the need for a second TiVo device. Cord Cutters News is meeting with…
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Hulu Announces a New User Interface With a New Grid Guide
Yesterday at CES Cord Cutters News meet with the new head of Hulu’s product team Jim Denney. At the meeting, we got an early look at a new user interface that is coming to Hulu in the Spring of 2019. This new user interface will bring a traditional Grid Guide to streaming players like Roku,…
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Amazon’s Fire TV Tops 30 Million Active Accounts, Beating Roku
Today Amazon announced the number of active accounts using a Fire TV. According to Amazon they now have over 30 million Fire TV accounts beating out Roku’s 27 million accounts according to an interview with CNET. (Now it is important to remember that accounts and number of devices sold are two different numbers. 1 account con…