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Cord Cutting This Week Podcast #21 – Netflix is Cracking Down on Password Sharing, IPTV Lawsuits From Dish, New Nvidia Shields, & More
Join us every Thursday at 1 PM Eastern when we record our weekly Cord Cutting This Week Podcast. You can download the MP3 of the podcast here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/cordcuttingconversations/Cord_Cutting_This_Week_Podcast_21.mp3 Or use our RSS to subscribe: http://cordcuttingconversations.libsyn.com/rss Giveaway!!! Enter for a chance to win Roku Ultra & a $100 Netflix Gift Card! https://cordcuttersnews.com/we-are-giving-away-a-2019-roku-ultra-a-100-netflix-gift-card/ Story #1 Comcast Is…
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5 Gadgets to Improve Your Cord Cutting Setup
From improving sound quality to helping to avoid buying replacement remotes, here are a few of the gadgets that can add to your cord cutting experience. Google WiFi System Cost: $259 for a 3 pack A great streaming experience starts with a strong internet connection. Google’s system provides a strong connection throughout your home. The…
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How to Cancel DISH & Save Money But Still Watch Your Shows
Canceling DISH and becoming a cord cutter can sound scary at first, with a ton of options and decisions to make, but we hope this guide will show you that cord cutting is surprisingly easy. In fact, you may already have most, if not everything, you need. Today we are going to help you cancel…
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Tablo DVR is Ending Updates for Older Roku Players
This week Tablo DVRs announced that new app updates will soon come to an end for 14 older Roku Players. The good news is if you bought a Roku Player in 2013 or later you have nothing to worry about. If you do own one of the older Roku players your Tablo Roku Channel will…
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Is AT&T Trying to Kill AT&T TV NOW? It Is Starting to Look That Way…
Yesterday, AT&T made AT&T TV NOW the most expensive live TV streaming service on the market after a $15 a month price hike. Now AT&T TV NOW has plans as high as $135 a month for the Ultimate package. To make things even more confusing AT&T has also recently dramatically cut back on its marketing…
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Disney+ Just Announced Several New Nonfiction Programs Including a Revival of The Classic “People & Places” Show
Today Disney+ announced several new nonfiction programs that will be joining Disney+ on November 12th, 2019. This includes a new still-untitled documentary about Mickey Mouse himself. This news comes as we are now less than a month away from Disney+ launching making you wonder what other surprises Disney has in store for us when Disney+…
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Netflix Still has 2.28 Million DVD-By-Mail Customers
Remember when Netflix first started out as a DVD rental service? You’d receive the discs in the mail in those red and white envelopes and pop them into your DVD player. It’s been more than 20 years since Netflix launched, and today they are known as a streaming service and for their original content. But…
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Comcast Plans to Keep Its Cord Cutting Flex Streaming Player Locked Down With Limited App Support
Earlier today Comcast CTO Matt Zelesko and Eric Black, senior vice president of U.S. operations and video streaming held a talk at the NAB Show in New York. During the talk they made it clear that Flex, the company’s cord cutting streaming player, wouldn’t be open to all apps. “I’m not sure we’ll ever throw…
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AT&T TV NOW PLUS & MAX Plans Are Going up In Price By $15 a Month in November
Earlier today Cord Cutters News broke the news that A&TT TV NOW will be raising the price on grandfathered plans by $10 a month. Now AT&T has also started to inform PLUS and MAX customers that their plans will be going up by $15 a month to $65 a month for the PLUS plan and…
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You Could Earn $1000 & a Free Year of Disney+ for Watching 30 Disney Movies in 30 Days
Are you an avid Disney fan looking to earn some extra cash? If so, you might want to hear this. Reviews.org will pay you $1000 cash to watch 30 Disney movies in 30 days, all in preparation of Disney+ launching November 12. All you have to do is convince them you’re THE biggest, most dedicated…
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Roku is Cutting The Price of The 4K Roku Stick+ By $10 & Upgrading Its Remote
Good news for Roku fans, the Roku Stick+ is getting a price cut to just $49.99. Roku says this new price will roll out slowly starting on October 20th at all Roku retailers. This is not a short term sale but a permanent price drop according to Roku. The Roku Stick+ will also get a…
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Cord Cutters Need to Rescan Their Antennas Today As Some OTA TV Channels Are Moving
If you use an antenna to watch free over-the-air TV you will likely need to rescan as some OTA TV stations will be changing frequencies today to make room for 5G Internet. You can check on Antenna Web to see what channels in your area will be moving. If you woke up this morning and…
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AT&T TV NOW is Raising Its Price on All Customers
Earlier this year, AT&T TV NOW rolled out two new packages and dramatically raised the price on its older, now grandfathered packages. At that time, if you already had the packages, you got to keep your current price minus a small price hike. This morning AT&T started to contact AT&T TV NOW customers to inform…
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Roku Is Expanding Alexa, Google Assistant, & Roku Voice Commands Support Requirements to More Channels
Last night Roku informed developers that more Roku Channels will soon need to support voice commands from Alexa, Google Assistant, and Roku. According to Roku, effective March 31, 2020, subscription video on-demand Roku Channels that average 10 million hours of streaming in three months must support Roku Voice Commands. This means that soon more Roku…
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Our Rebuttal to NBC’s Latest Anti-Cord Cutting Story
NBC just can’t seem to help but attack cord cutting. This week NBC published their 3rd anti-cord cutting story of the year all pushing the idea that cable TV is cheaper than cord cutting. This time, NBC’s Sam Thielman released a story titled “The Disney+ rollout shows the streaming wars are over. Viewers lost.” As…
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