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You Can Now Get Same-Day in Home Antenna Installation
Installing an antenna, especially an outdoor antenna, can be something many do not want to mess with. From having to ground the antenna properly to running the wires into your house, many would rather just have someone else do it. Now Puls, a professional service company that in the past has offered home services including…
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PlayStation Vue Will Re-Add Tribune Fox Affiliates, Just Not Right Now
Back on December 15, 2017, PlayStation Vue dropped Tribune-owned Fox affiliates around the United States. Sadly, this happened just before the NFL playoffs started. Ever since that happened we have been flooded with questions about if they will be re-added. The good news is, yes, they will almost certainly be re-added. The bad news is…
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6 of the Coolest Products from CES 2018
Last week, tech companies, industry professionals, and consumers came together for the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The week was packed with product demos and unveilings. Below, we’re looking at some of the coolest products for our cord cutting readers that were introduced at CES 2018. Samsung The Wall We’re kicking the list…
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A Former Apple Executive Will Run Disney’s New Streaming Service
According to reports Disney has found their new head man to take on Netflix. Recently Disney hired a former Apple executive, Kevin Swint, to lead their new video on-demand service that is expected to launch in 2019. Kevin Swint was previously director of iTunes and now will be a senior vice president and general manager…
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DIRECTV NOW’s Buffering Is Getting Better But Is Far from Solved
At the start of January 2018, DIRECTV NOW had very bad week: Two separate long outages and a sudden spike in buffering. AT&T never came right out and said what caused the spike, but it seems a perfect storm happened. First, college football bowl games and playoffs all happened at once. Next, a flood of…
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A Fix for the Chromecast’s Wi-Fi Bug Is Rolling Out
Yesterday Google started to roll out a patch to fix the Chromecast Wi-Fi bug that was crashing Wi-Fi networks across a long list of routers. The issue was first spotted by TP-Link and affects Google’s Cast products, mainly the Google Home and Chromecast, which are causing issues with Wi-Fi networks. Google Cast sends packets between…
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DIRECTV NOW Is Rapidly Sending Out DVR Invites
If you are still waiting for your DVR invite, you are in luck. AT&T has recently picked up the rate that they have started to invite DIRECTV NOW subscribers into the DIRECTV NOW app and DVR beta. Yesterday AT&T sent out a large number of invites to the Fire TV version of the DIRECTV NOW…
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The FCC Decided Not to Redefine “Broadband Internet”
Recently there was great concern that the FCC would lower the definition of broadband internet from 25 Mbps down to the old standard of 10 Mbps. This week the FCC said it would not redefine broadband. This means that internet providers must offer 25 Mbps down if they want it to be considered broadband. “This…
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fuboTV Adds 14 More NBC & CBS Affiliates
Today the live TV streaming service fuboTV announced that they have added 14 new NBC and CBS affiliates across the United States. This brings the total number of local affiliates to 140 plus FOX network programming in 45 additional markets around the United States. This comes a week after fuboTV added 29 CBS & NBC affiliates last…
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Twitter & Gatorade Team Up to Stream High School Basketball
Twitter is continuing their dive into sports, and this time they are teaming up with Gatorade to bring you an early look at the next big basketball talents in the US. With this partnership Twitter will air #TheDebut, a first-of-its-kind live stream broadcast on Twitter, featuring eight high school basketball games highlighting great matchups that include…
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Amazon Prime Raises Their Monthly Price (Yearly Subscriptions Stay The Same)
If you subscribe to Amazon Prime through their monthly plan today may be the day to look at switching over to a yearly subscriptions. Starting today Amazon Prime members who pay monthly for the service will see their payments jump from $10.99 a month to 12.99 a month. ($155.88 a year) If you pay for an…
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Dish Officially Announces Legal Action against Two IPTV Services
A few weeks ago it was reported that Dish had filed two lawsuits targeting IPTV services. Yesterday, Dish formally announced the lawsuits and explained why they are taking these steps. The two IPTV services Dish targeted are Spider-TV and Tiger Star and, according to the complaint, Dish is suing them for broadcasting certain TV channels…
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Our Rebuttal to the Quartz Story “Streaming’s live-TV bundles aren’t actually saving cord-cutters money compared to cable”
Yesterday, Quartz published a story titled, “Streaming’s live-TV bundles aren’t actually saving cord-cutters money compared to cable.” As you may expect that didn’t seem to make sense to me, so I started to dig around to learn more. The short rundown of the story was it costs more to use live TV streaming services like…
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Disney & Twitch Team Up To Take on YouTube
You may know Twitch as the place to go and watch video games being played. Recently Twitch has expanded outside of video games into talk shows, vlogging, and more. Now they are teaming up with Disney Digital Network to help add support for pre-recorded videos on Twitch. Amazon the parent company behind Twitch has made…
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The Paramount Network Launches on Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, & Philo
If you are a fan of Spike TV we have bad news for you. Yesterday was the last day Spike TV will air in the United States. Today January 18th 2018 Spike TV will be rebranded as the Paramount Network as part of Viacom’s move to update their brand and to take advantage of their ownership…
