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Roku is Testing a New Roku WiFi Extender
This summer, Bloomberg reported that Roku was working on a WiFi extender that would help strengthen weak WiFi to improve streaming quality. We now know that Roku is testing that WiFi extender, called the Roku Relay. Here’s how Roku describes the Relay. Roku Relay is a dual-band network device that creates a stronger wireless connection…
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Plex Adds More TV Shows to Its Soon to Launch Free Streaming Service
Recently we learned that Plex, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate have teamed up for its new ad-supported free streaming service. Now Plex has announced that they’ve partnered with Legendary Television Distribution, LLC to bring some of its content to Plex’s new free streaming service. Legendary Television Distribution is the company behind titles like Colony, The Looming…
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Amazon Music is Now Available on The Apple TV
Today Amazon announced that they have launched an Amazon Music Apple TV app. With Amazon Music you can access music you have purchased, or access hundreds of songs for free if you are a Prime Member. Want even more? If you buy Amazon Music Unlimited you can get access to thousands of songs through the…
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A New Food and Drink Focused Streaming Service SommTV Launches
SommTV, a new streaming service featuring food and drink related content, has officially launched. SommTV was created by the producers of the “Somm” documentary film series. The streaming service will make a full launch in March 2020, but viewers can now subscribe at an introductory price of $9.99 per month or $74.99 per year. ‘There’s…
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The FCC Just Awarded $61 Million to Help Expand High-Speed Internet to Rural Americans
Today the FCC announced that it has awarded over $61 million in new funding to help bring high-speed Internet to rural Americans. This award will help expand Internet to rural Americans in Washington, Massachusetts, Minnesota, California, Montana, Iowa, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kansas. Funding for this initiative comes from the Universal Service…
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Drew Barrymore is Getting Her Own Talk Show on CBS
Drew Barrymore is adding talk show host to her list of accomplishments now that CBS officially said ‘yes’ to her pilot from August this year. According to a story by Variety, Barrymore will host the syndicated talk show set to launch in fall 2020 on CBS Television. “It is beyond my wildest dreams to have…
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YouTube Has Expanded Its Lineup of Free to Watch Movies (With Ads)
Back in November 2018, YouTube quietly added about 100 hours of movies to its platform. These movies are 100% free with ads and include a mix of well-known movies like The Terminator, Lord of War, Meatballs, and more. Now YouTube has tripled the number of movies it is offering for free and started to promote the free…
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Comcast Has Over Charged Thousands of Internet Customers (Check Your Bills)
If you have Comcast as your Internet provider, you may want to check your recent bills. Comcast has confirmed that a “software error occurred” that has resulted in about 2,000 customers being mistakenly charged for going over their monthly data caps. Comcast imposes data caps in 27 of the 39 states it operates in. If…
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DIRECTV & DISH May Merge & Be Run By AT&T According To a New Report
Over the last few months, there has been growing pressure on AT&T from investors to do something with the declining DIRECTV satellite unit. Some investors have even called on AT&T to sell off DIRECTV’s satellite service. Now according to a report from Fox Business, there is a deal in the works that would see DIRECTV…
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Do We Have Too Many Cable TV Channels? Wasn’t Cable Meant to Be Easy?
Recently we have seen a growing number of stories online about how streaming is just too complicated because there are so many services. One recent example of this was the Los Angeles Times story “Oversubscribed! Wasn’t cord-cutting supposed to streamline our lives?” This question about too many streaming services raises one more question. Do we…
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Review: The 2019 Fire TV Cube From Amazon vs The 2018 Fire TV Cube
Today the 2019 Fire TV Cube hits stores with its new hexa-core processor making it more than twice as powerful as the first-generation Fire TV Cube. The question now is will this new more powerful processor show up when you take it home and plug it in. Thanks to Amazon we got our hands on…
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Cord Cutting Today #162 – AT&T Selling Some of Its Operations, TCL’s New Roku TVs, & More
Cord Cutting Today is our daily look at some of the biggest stories happening right now in the world of cord cutting. You can find these videos posted on YouTube every Monday through Saturday. Today we take a look at some of the biggest stories in the world of cord cutting. Including AT&T Selling Some…
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Amazon Announces New Details About ‘Jack Ryan’ Season 2 (Spoiler Alert)
Calling all John Krasinski Fans – season 2 of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan will premiere November 1, 2019, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, and we have all the details of every episode below. In the second season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, after tracking a potentially suspicious shipment of illegal arms in the Venezuelan jungle,…
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Lionsgate Might Spin Off Starz into Its Own Company
Starz, the premium cable channel owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp., may become it’s own separate company according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Lionsgate is said to be considering this move in an effort to allow shareholders to invest directly into one business or the other, along with reducing the parent company’s nearly…
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Pluto TV is Celebrating Halloween With a Different Horror Movie Every Night
If you’re looking to get in the Halloween mood, Pluto TV has just what you need with their 31 Nights of Horror. You can watch a different scary movie every night at 10 pm ET during October on the Pluto TV Horror Channel 68. From classics like Day of the Dead to more recent titles including You’re…
