Author: Luke Bouma
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3.0 Over The Air TV Testing is Coming to California
Today it was announced that the new ATSC 3.0 OTA TV standard is expanding their testing into Santa Barbara, CA. This comes as the family-owned News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) announced that they will start testing the new OTA TV standard. “While most people wouldn’t expect cutting-edge technology in a relatively small market, the fact is…
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Scammers Are Once Again Targeting New Roku Owners
This month Roku is officially launching a new line of Roku players. This means thousands of new Roku owners will be setting up their new Roku and many will likely find themselves facing a popular scam targeting Roku owners. Just this week we saw a huge uptick in readers reporting scams targeting Roku owners. Hopefully,…
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AT&T Is Expanding Public 5G Testing
Want to test out 5G home internet in person? AT&T wants to give you a hands-on test at the upcoming Flacons vs Dallas Cowboys game on November 18, 2018. Can’t make the game and live in Hawaii? AT&T plans to offer in-person 5G internet tests in Hawaii at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit. AT&T has…
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Pluto TV Hopes to Improve Their Ads
This week Pluto TV announced that they are partnering with audience intelligence and data-management company Tru Optik. With this partnership, Tru Optik will help Pluto TV offer better targeting, validation, and measurement to their ad partners. “By leveraging Tru Optik’s household graph, we will provide every brand partner with an unparalleled targeting, measurement and validation offering,”…
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Can I Really Use a Paperclip to Watch Over-the-Air TV? (Guest Post)
Today’s post is a guest post from the great team over at TabloTV.com. Laura Slater is one of the cord cutting experts at TabloTV.com and has been blissfully cable-free since 2010. She enjoys sharing the money saving tips and tricks she’s learned to help others join the cord cutting revolution. When you search for advice on accessing Over-the-Air…
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DIRECTV NOW Adds Dolby Digital Audio Support to More Channels
A few weeks ago, DIRECTV NOW added Dolby Digital Audio and DTS support to select FOX stations including FOX News. Now DIRECTV NOW is rolling out Dolby Digital Audio to Disney-owned channels including select ESPN channels. If you have a sound system that supports Dolby Digital Audio or DTS you should now be able to…
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Cord Cutters News Coffee Mugs Are Now For Sale!
If you have watched any of our weekly Cord Cutting Q&As, you may have noticed that I often drink out of a Cord Cutters News mug. Many readers have asked if they could buy a Cord Cutters News coffee mug and now you can! I ordered 50 Cord Cutters News mugs as a limited edition…
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3 Easy Tips to Fix Buffering on Your Favorite Streaming Services
Buffering is something that happens to everyone at some point and everyone likes to blame the service. Yet the issue may not be the streaming service, it may be your home network. With this being one of the most popular questions we get we wanted to once again address Here are three tips to fix…
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Review: 2018 TiVo Bolt OTA DVR for Antennas & Cord Cutting
Recently TiVo announced the new TiVo BOLT OTA DVR designed for cord cutting. This new DVR not only is a dedicated OTA DVR, but it is also a 4K streaming player. Now we got our hands on the 2018 TiVo BOLT OTA DVR. Here is our full review: The new four-tuner TiVo BOLT OTA costs $249.99…
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You Can Now Watch Hulu on The Amazon Echo Show
A few weeks ago Hulu announced that they will be the very first live TV streaming service available on Amazon’s Echo Show device when the 2nd gen Echo Show launches next month. The Echo Show has had on-demand services for some time but now Hulu is bringing their live TV streaming service to Amazon’s newest…