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Amazon & SpaceX’s New Home Internet Services Will Reportedly Save Americans $30+ Billion Annually
This year we learned that Amazon was working on launching a home Internet service by launching satellites into low earth orbit. Recently SpaceX received FCC approval to do the same, offering their own home Internet service. Now, according to a study from BroadbandNow, these new services will drive down the cost of home Internet. This…
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Philo is Expanding Voice Controls on Android TV
Today at Google IO it was announced that you will soon be able to launch into channels on Philo just by asking your Google Assitant on Android TV. For example, when this update rolls out asking Google on devices like the Nvidia Shield to “open BBC American on Philo” and BBC American will start playing.…
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Cord Cutting Today #48 – Roku Improves Voice Commands, BBC Leaving Netflix, & More
Recently we started a new daily YouTube video. Cord Cutting Today will look at the biggest Cord Cutting stories from the past 24 hours in about five or so minutes. We will post these Monday through Friday in an effort to help keep you up to date on everything happening in the world of cord…
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Spectrum Makes it Harder to Cancel Home Internet
Spectrum this month started to notify customers that they are changing their cancellation policy for internet customers. In the past if you canceled mid-month and did not have a contract you could get a refund for the rest of the month you did not use. This comes from Stop the Cap who spotted that Spectrum…
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Study: Americans With Access to More Than 2 Internet Providers Pay Less for Home Internet
Earlier this month the research group BroadbandNow released a new study that looked at the average costs of home internet. The most interesting part of this report was that it shows how Americans with more than one internet option pay less for internet. According to this report, Americans with just 1 Internet provider pay an…
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Roku’s 55″ 4K HDR 6-Series TV From TCL’s is Now Just $529.99 (A New All Time Low Price)
TCL this week once again cut the price of its flagship Roku TV the 55″ TCL 6-Series Roku TV 4K HDR this time to just $529.99 down from $799.99. In 2018 we listed this TV as the best TV for under $1,000 and now it is an even better deal now it costs just $529.99…
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Fox Is Cutting the Number of Commercial Breaks in the Next Years Super Bowl
Good and bad news for football fans. After growing push back from fans, Fox and the National Football League have agreed to cut the number of commercial breaks, but they will be longer. Overall the number of ads will be the same but there won’t be as many interruptions in the game. The question now…
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How to Watch ESPN On Roku, Fire TV, Android TV, and Apple TV (May 2019 Update)
Now that ESPN’s streaming service ESPN+ has had time to build partnerships, develop its own content, and fine tune its features, it’s become an even better resource for cord cutting sports fans. Unfortunately, ESPN+ doesn’t have all of the ESPN content that some viewers are looking for. The good news is you can watch ESPN,…
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Starz is Just $5 Right Now: This Is Why You’ll Want To Get The Deal
Last week, Starz brought back their popular deal, offering a subscription to their streaming service for just $5/month for the first 3 months. Start out with a 7 day free trial and you’ll get this message from Starz. “From Obsessable series to unmissable movies, there’s no shortage of big hits for you to enjoy on…
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Mohu Is Turning 10 Years Old & They Are Offering 40% All Antennas
May marks 10 years since Mohu launched. To celebrate, Mohu is offering 40% off everything on their website with promo code MOHU10YEARS. (Make sure to use the promo code at checkout.) Mohu started out building innovative antenna technology to fit within mudflaps of US military ground vehicles. This was used to detect, neutralize, and defeat…
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Discovery’s New Streaming Service Will Launch in 2020
For over a year now Discovery has been talking about launching a dedicated streaming service for Discovery-owned content. This includes the newly acquired Scripps networks like HGTV. Discovery has even struck a deal with the BBC to include BBC content on the service. Now it has been announced that this new service will launch in…
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Over 14,000 Americans Cut the Cord Every Day
The numbers are in, and cord cutting is growing faster than ever. This week, the Informitv Mulitscreen Index released its final numbers. According to that report, 1.28 million American households dropped traditional pay TV in the first three months of 2019. That works out to be over 14,000 Americans canceling cable TV every day. “There…
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Deal Alert: The First Month of Fox Nation is On Sale For Just $0.99
If you love Fox News you may want to check out their new streaming services Fox Nation. The Service costs $5.99 a month or $64.99 a year. Now though for a limited time, you can get the first month of Fox Nation for just $0.99 and $5.99 after that. (This is a limited time deal…
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NESN is Warning PlayStation Vue Subscribers That Switching Services Maybe The Only Option to Get NESN Back
A few weeks ago PlayStation Vue dropped NESN from their lineup. Now it looks like talks between NESN and Sony to bring NESN back to PlayStation Vue are not going well. In an email sent to NESN supporters, Peter Plaehn NESN Vice President of Affiliate Relations warned that if they have PlayStation Vue switching may…
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The New Court TV Roku Channel is Now Live
Back in December, it was announced that Katz Networks was relaunching the crime network Court TV. First launched back in 1991 the network was relaunched as truTV in 2007. Now Court TV is just days away from launching on May 8th, 2019 as a free over the air TV network. Want to get ready for…
