Author: Luke Bouma
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Older Sony TVs Will Lose Amazon Prime Video in September
In one more example of why you should be careful when buying a smart TV is Sony. This week it was announced that pre-Android TV Sony TVs will be losing Amazon Prime Video on September 25th, 2019. The good news here is these are all older TVs and if your Sony TV runs Android TV…
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AT&T Watch TV Is AT&T’s Forgotten Streaming Service & Concern For Its Future Grows
Yesterday, AT&T released its second quarter 2019 earnings. During this call, AT&T talked a lot about DIRECTV, U-verse TV, DIRECTV NOW, and HBO Max, but one service was completed ignored: AT&T Watch TV. AT&T’s public earnings report and press release did not mention AT&T Watch TV and it was not talked about during the earnings…
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Congress Wants to Update TV Laws To Address Cord Cutting & End Broadcast TV Blackouts
This week House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Modern Television Acto of 2019. This bill would replace the 1992 Cable Act. Part of it would address TV blackouts and seek to increase competition in the world of TV. “Congress today begins a reboot of the rules governing…
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YouTube TV & DIRECTV NOW’s Price Hikes Did Not Slow Down Cord Cutting
At the start of the second quarter 2019, YouTube TV and DIRECTV NOW raised their prices by $10 a month. At the time many press groups rushed to report how this was the end of cord cutting as we know it and that people would be going back to cable TV. Now we have hard…
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Spectrum Lost 141,000 TV Customers in The 2nd Quarter of 2019
Today Spectrum announced their 2nd quarter 2019 subscriber numbers. In that report, it was announced that Spectrum lost 141,000 TV subscribers in just 3 months. This comes as Spectrum residential video customers decreased by 145,000 in the 1st quarter of 2019. One of the bright spots for Spectrum was that they added 208,000 wireless mobile…
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Warning Apple’s TVOS 13 Public Beta Has Several Major Bugs
Recently Apple rolled out a public TVOS beta for the Apple TV. This TVOS 13 Public Betta sadly though seems to come with some major bugs. Multiple readers have reported serious issues including hang-ups, crashes, and excessive buffering when using the betta. There is also a growing number of complaints about the beta on Reddit.…
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EXPIRED: TCL’s 50″ 4K HDR Roku TVs Are on Sale For Just $278
Looking for a good but cheap Roku TV? Right now you can get a 50″ 4K HDR Roku TV for just $278. Or you can get a 55″ 4K HDR Roku TV for just $329.99. This is one of the cheapest options for a 50″ 4K HDR TV on the market right now. About this…
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Hulu is Offering $5 Off For 6 Months if You Get Showtime & Starz
Want to watch Showtime and Starz? Right now Hulu is offering both for $14.99 a month for 6 months as a bundle deal. That is a savings of $5 a month and gives you access to a huge catalog of movies and TV shows from Showtime and Starz. (Typically showtime costs $10.99 a month and…
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In The 2nd Quarter of 2019 Amazon Saw Sales Jump 20% to $63.4 Billion
Today Amazon announced their 2nd quarter 2019 earnings with a 20% jump in sales to $63.4 billion. Net income increased to $2.6 billion up from $2.5 billion of net income in the 2nd quarter of 2019. (These numbers do not include Prime day 2019.) “Customers are responding to Prime’s move to one-day delivery — we’ve…
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ESPN 8 The “OCHO” is Coming to Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, DIRECTV NOW, Hulu, & More on August 7th
For the 3rd year in a row, ESPN 2 will turn into ESPN 8 on August the 7th 2019. ESPN uses this yearly ESPN 8 to make a bit fun of itself and show sports that typically don’t appear on ESPN including dodgeball. ESPN 8 comes from the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and ESPN…