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DIRECTV NOW Will Reportedly Raise its Price $10 a Month Next Week & Launch 2 New Packages
Today Cord Cutters News has learned that AT&T will reportedly replace their current packages with two new ones and raise DIRECTV NOW’s price by $10 a month. The new packages will be called DIRECTV NOW Plus with 40+ channels for $50 a month and DIRECTV NOW MAX with 50+ channels for $70 a month. Current…
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Amazon Reportedly Demanded SiliconDust Remove the HDHomeRun Premium TV Service from The Fire TV
Tonight SiliconDust announced that Amazon has demanded it remove their live TV streaming service HDHomeRun Premium TV service from Amazon Fire TV devices. It seems that Amazon wants SiliconDust to do this before they would allow the HDHomeRun app back on the Fire TV app store. A few weeks ago, Amazon removed the HDHomeRun app…
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DIRECTV NOW Adds More CBS Locals
Today DIRECTV NOW started to add more CBS local affiliates. As best we can tell DIRECTV NOW has started to add more CBS local affiliates owned by Sinclair, News-Press & Gazette Company, & Meredith. Have you noticed a new local added to DIRECTV NOW? Leave us a comment and let us know what new locals…
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Tablo Agrees to Grandfather Current Subscribers Into Their Old DVR Plans
Today Nuvyyo the company behind the Tablo DVR announced that they would grandfather all current Tablo DVR subscribers into the current Tablo DVR plan instead of moving them over to the new plan. The big change with the new Tablo DVR subscription for new subscribers will only be good on one DVR. In the past,…
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Redbox Brings 4K UHD Rentals to 15 New Cities
Today Redbox announced that they are expanding their 4K Ultra-HD movie rentals to 15 new markets. Now you will be able to rent 4K UHD movies for just $2.50 a night. New movies available to rent in 4K UHD include “Creed II” and “A Star is Born,” and more coming soon, including “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of…
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Amazon Upgrades The Fire TV Recast to Support External Hard Drives
When the Fire TV Recast, the DVR for antennas from Amazon, first launched it did not support external storage. Now Amazon has updated the Fire TV Recast DVR to support external hard drives. This means you can now expand the storage of your Fire TV Recast DVR by adding an external hard drive. Now in…
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Locast is Starting a Competition to Pick the Next City They Will Launch In
Today Locast announced a new competition to help pick the next city that they will launch their free local TV streaming services in. You can visit https://www.locast.org/donate-next-city/ and for each dollar, you donate toward a $250,000 goal Locast will add one vote to your home town. “Our fans have been AMAZING ” said SFCNY Chairman…
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Tablo Posts an Update About Their New Automatic Commercial-Skipping Feature
In January, Tablo announced that in March they will be starting an open beta for an automatic commercial-skipping feature. This new feature makes it possible for any subscription-enabled Tablo OTA DVR to play most recordings without any commercials. This new feature will use machine learning to skip past commercials on your recordings. Now that feature has…
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Amazon is Reportedly Close to Buying The Yes Sports Network
As part of the deal to get Department of Justice approval for the Disney and Fox merger there was a requirement that the Fox Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) would be sold off. According to the deal, when Disney closes on the sale of most of 21st Century Fox they would sell off the regional sports…
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Here Are The Top 10 FREE Roku Channels as of March 2019
Roku has long been the leader in free video channels; however, with so many channels to choose from, finding the best can be difficult. So here are the top 10 free Roku video channels as of March 8th, 2019, according to the Roku Channel Store. Top 10 1. /YouTube: https://channelstore.roku.com/details/837/youtube 2. The Roku Channel: https://channelstore.roku.com/details/151908/the-roku-channel 3. Pluto TV: https://channelstore.roku.com/details/74519/pluto-tv 4. TubiTV: https://channelstore.roku.com/details/41468/tubi-tv 5.…
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Disney’s New Streaming Service Will Reportedly Include Every Disney Movie Ever Made
Later this year Disney will be launching a subscription streaming services according to Disney’s CEO Bob Iger during a company shareholder meeting according to Polygon. “The service, which I mentioned earlier is going to launch later in the year, is going to combine what we call library product, movies, and television, with a lot of…
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Sprint Customers Can Now Get a 30-day Free Trial of Showtime
Are you a Sprint customer? Right now you can get a 30-day free trial of Showtime from Sprint. Typically Showtime only offers a 7-day free trial and most services including Amazon Channels are still only offering a 7-day free trial. In a tweet, today Sprint’s CEO Michel Combes announced the new deal: #MySprintRewards keeps getting better…
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Cord Cutting Today – New Net Neutrality Rules, XUMO, Commercial Skipping, DIRECTV NOW, & 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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Disney Plans to Close on Its Deal to Buy FOX ‘Soon’
Today Disney’s CEO announced that they expect to close on its deal to buy most of 21st Century Fox “soon.” This comes from a report from Variety as CEO Bob Iger talked about the Fox and the upcoming Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge opening. With this deal, Disney will get ownership of 20th Century Fox movie and…
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Hulu Has a New Billboard Campaign Celebrating International Women’s Day
Today Hulu announced that they are taking over more than 180 digital billboards across the country including in New York, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Dallas. Hulu has also curated five different female-centric content collections that spotlight the world’s most breakthrough female icons, characters and creators. The collections, which launched earlier this month featuring content like original series The…
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