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Roku Is Looking for Beta Testers
Would you like to test out the latest Roku players and features? Right now, Roku is looking for beta testers to help with their new products. This is your opportunity to shape the future of Roku players and even to a point the future of cord cutting. To be a Roku beta tester, you will…
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YouTube Originals Will Soon Be Free For All As Google Makes Changes to YouTube Premium
Today Google announced that it is updating YouTube Premium its paid premium version of YouTube. As part of this change, YouTube Originals will now be free for all but Premium Members will get early access to YouTube Originals before they are posted for free online. “New YouTube Originals series, movies, and live events released after…
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PlayStation Vue is Moving Some Discovery Owned Networks to More Expensive Packages
Today PlayStation Vue posted a warning on its website that they are moving Destination America and the Science Channel from the Access Plan to the Elite Plan. The good news is if you like MotorTrend it will be joining the Access Plan for all PlayStation Vue subscribers. This change will happen in September 2019. No…
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Cord Cutting Today #122 – PlayStation Vue Shutting Down? No It is Not But We Explain What is Happening
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 PlayStation Vue Shutting…
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Amazon Is Adding Multi-Room Music Groups To The Fire TV Cube
Today Amazon announced that they have started to roll out support for Multi-Room Music Groups to the Fire TV Cube. With Multi-Room Music you can have your music played synced across multiple Alexa powered devices to hear your music through your whole home and now even on your Fire TV Cube. To create a Multi-Room…
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Hulu Will Likely Dethrone Sling TV as The Largest Live TV Streaming Service By The End of 2019
Recently Hulu stopped officially talking about live TV subscribers. All we could get out of Disney was a statement that Hulu was the fastest growing live TV streaming services in the 2nd quarter of 2019. (Because of Disney’s accounting system that is the 3rd quarter of 2019 for Disney.) Now Craig Moffett a well-respected analyst…
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Disney+ Announces Cast of The Live Action Lady and the Tramp
Disney+ will be bringing the live action version of Lady and the Tramp to the streaming service when it launches on November 12. Here’s the lineup of actors and actresses who will voice the film. Justin Theroux will be the voice of Tramp, played by a rescue dog named Monte. Tessa Thompson will be voicing…
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Netflix Announces The Kominsky Method Season 2 Premiere Date
Netflix series The Kominky Method has been renewed for a second season and will premiere on Friday, October 26. Fans heard from series creator Chuck Lorre back in April, at the Contenders Emmys. At that time, Lorre commented, “There’s hope in Season 2.” “There was a lot of loss and melancholy in the first eight…
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Movies Anywhere Is a Great Must Have Cord Cutting Tool
Movies Anywhere wants to make the movie watching experience easier and better by acting as a home for movies you’ve purchased from digital retailers. Working with most major digital retailers, this is a great option for cord cutters. Now that UltraViolet has shut down, users may be looking for an alternative. Movies Anywhere can become…
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AT&T’s DIRECTV NOW May Be Slated For “Something Close to Elimination” According to MoffetNathanson
Recently, AT&T announced a major change to its TV plans with the announcements of HBO Max and AT&T TV. Now Craig Moffett from MoffetNathanson opened up about the current state of live TV streaming services and AT&T’s plans for DIRECTV NOW. “As subscribership gains for the vMVPDs have slowed … the starry-eyed ambitions of their…
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Here Are The Top 10 FREE Amazon Fire TV Apps As of August 2019
The Fire TV library of apps has been quickly growing to offer a range of apps giving users access to a ton of 100 percent free content; however, many of the apps are not video apps, so it can be challenging to find good cord cutting apps. So here are the top 10 free video Fire TV apps…
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Cord Cutting Today #121 – New 4K & 8K TCL Roku TVs, 5G Home Internet Rolling Out, & 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 New 4K &…
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Sony is Reportedly Deprioritizing PlayStation Vue
Today Sony reached out to all of the PlayStation Vue affiliates to inform them that they have decided to “deprioritize” PlayStation Vue. This includes Sony shutting down its affiliate program with websites to promote PlayStation Vue. According to the email that went out to PlayStation Vue affiliates sony is deprioritizing Playstation Vue across all channels…
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YouTube is Making Changes to How it Handles Copyright Claims
Today YouTube announced a significant change to how it handles manual copyright claims. In the past, if a small part of a video included copyright material, the content owners could claim all revenues from the video. Many creators have felt that this was unfair as maybe some background music from a store only appeared in…
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Plex is Rolling Out a New Desktop App
Today Plex announced a new desktop app for MacOS and Windows. This new update will bring new features in what Plex says is a “much more capable player.” So what is Plex? Plex is a media service that lets you manage your media and access content from partners like Tidal on all of your devices.…
