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Comcast Is Dumping Their Focus on the Bundle as Cord Cutting Grows
For years, Comcast has built their business on bundling. The goal of every sales agent was to get a “triple play” sale that included TV, internet, and voice. Now Comcast has announced that they are shifting away from bundles as they push internet-only broadband to customers. According to a story from the Wall Street Journal,…
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High Speed Fixed Wireless Home Internet Is Coming to Rural America
This week, the cable company, Midco, who has over 385,000 customers, announced that they will be switching from traditional cable to offering fixed wireless home internet. This new internet option will work just like 5G but runs on a slightly different standard. Midco currently operates in Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. They…
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New York Orders Charter Out of The State
Today New York ordered Charter’s Spectrum cable to leave the state after accusing them of not meeting their commitments. Charter has 60 days to complete services as the state transition to a new provider. New York is also seeking $3 million dollars in penalties from Charter. “Charter’s repeated failures to serve New Yorkers and honor its…
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How to Watch The NFL Games on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More
We are only a few weeks away from the start of the 2018 NFL pre-season. What is even better is the fact that you do not need to pay the high cost of cable with long-term contracts to enjoy it. The NFL is our most requested sport when it comes to how to watch sports…
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Disney & Fox Shareholders Approve The Fox Merger
This morning the shareholders of the Walt Disney Company voted to approve the purchase of most of 21st Century Fox. According to disney, 99% of the shareholders voted yes. FOX shareholders also approved the merger today. “We are extremely proud of the businesses we have built at 21st Century Fox, and firmly believe that this combination…
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DIRECTV NOW’s Price Hike is Now Official
Today the DIRECTV NOW $5 price hike is official. The next time your bill renews it will go up $5 a month. This price hike comes just about a month after AT&T launched their $15 a month AT&T Watch TV live TV streaming service. It also comes only a few weeks after AT&T closed on their deal…
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YouTube TV Expands 60 FPS Support to More Locals
Last night YouTube TV quietly rolled out 60 FPS support to CBS and NBC. This means in most markets YouTube TV now offers 60 FPS support on ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC. So what is FPS? Well, frames per second (FPS) tells you how many times the image on your screen is refreshed every second.…
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As Cord Cutting Grows, Comcast & AT&T Are Losing More Than 8,000 Subscribers Every Day
Now is a bad time to own a pay-TV service like Comcast or DIRECTV. This week both AT&T and Comcast reported their second quarter 2018 numbers. The services lost a combined 740,000 traditional pay-TV subscribers, which works out to be over 8,000 subscribers every day. AT&T lost about 600,000 DIRECTV and U-Verse TV customers. Comcast…
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Hulu is Celebrating Community Service Week With Hulupalooza
This week Hulu announced that they will hold their first-ever national volunteer initiative – Hulupalooza – a week-long effort bringing together the company’s 7 U.S. offices in 6 states reaching more than 20 different organizations nationwide. Hulu has teamed up with local organizations in various cities across the country to give back to the communities they…
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Photos Of a New 3rd Gen Amazon Echo Dot With Better Sound Leak Online
If you are a fan of Amazon’s Alexa service we have good news for you. Today new images of a 3rd gen Amazon Echo Dot have leaked online. The photos first showed up on FrAndrodi and Numerama and give us a hint into what we can expect from the Echo Dots. From the looks of…
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You Can Now Go To The Movies for Just $3.99 a Month With Sinemia
Do you love going to the movies but hate to pay full price? Sinemia, the subscription service and MoviePass rival, has cut the price of their service to just $3.99 a month. Sinemia is the main competitor of MoviePass, the subscription service that lets you watch a movie a day for $9.99. Now Sinemia starts…
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Tablo DVRs Add Support For 5.1 Surround Sound
Today Tablo announced that they have added support of 5.1 surround sound to their popular DVR for cord cutters. This all comes with a new 2.2.22 firmware update that is now rolling out. Here are the supported devices: *Your streaming device must also have the 5.1 surround sound enabled to take advantage of the 5.1…
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Philo is Partnering Up With 750 Cable & Broadband Providers
As cord cutting grows smaller cable TV providers and broadband providers have been looking for ways to offer a streaming option to their subscribers. Now the National Cable Television Cooperative has partnered with Philo to offer the streaming service to their customers. “Our partnership with NCTC will expand the available options for millions of TV lovers by…
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Amazon’s Fire TV Includes Hidden Support for OTA TV But Don’t Expect a USB Tuner Anytime Soon
For some time now Amazon’s Fire TV Edition smart TVs have had support for antennas. This allowed owners of the Fire TV smart TVs to connect an antenna and watch their antenna through their Fire TV smart TV. Many have hoped this support would come to a Fire TV one day. Well, we have good…
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Amazon Prime Video Is Adding Dolby Atmos Support
Dolby Atmos is the next level audio technology offering an immersive and object-based audio experience. It is often referred to as the gold standard of audio and even supports overhead audio for home theaters with ceiling speakers. Now Amazon is adding Dolby Atmos Support to Amazon Prime Video. On August 31, 2018, Tom Clancy’s Jack…
