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Verizon is Cracking Down on Robocalls
Today Verizon announced that their new Call Filter app will be released in March 2019. This new app will crack down on spam calls by notifying Verizon customers for free that the call is likely spam. You will even be able to set the app up to auto-block any suspected spam calls. “Happy Valentine’s Day! But if there’s…
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The Live TV Streaming Service Vidgo Launches on Android TV Devices
Late last year, the long-awaited Vidgo live TV streaming service launched with several international packages. This week, Vidgo started to take beta testers for a new English-based package. Vidgo is available on iOS, Android, and Web with Roku and Apple TV support coming in the following weeks. Now Vidgo has officially launched on its second…
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DIRECTV NOW May Be Working on Adding “Socialable” Viewing
For years now, companies have tried to find new ways to let friends and family who live in different areas watch TV shows together. Now it looks like AT&T is looking at options to add what they call “socialable” viewing. This new option would allow people to simultaneously watch the same programming together even if…
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5 Tips to Help You Get the Most from PlayStation Vue (2019 Update)
PlayStation Vue has several great features that make using the service so much better. Sadly after talking with some PlayStation Vue subscribers recently, I was surprised by how few of them take advantage of everything PlayStation Vue has to offer. If you are a long-time PlayStation Vue subscriber, you may already know these options. Yet…
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Over 39 Million Americans Are Planning to Cancel Cable TV As Cord Cutting is Set to See Explosive Growth in 2019
This week UBS released their latest survey looking at the current state of TV consumption. In it, we get more bad news for the cable TV industry. According to UBS, 20% of Americans plan to cut the cord in the next 12 months from the time the survey was taken. This works out to be…
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Apple Reportedly Plans to Announce Its TV Streaming Service on March 25th
For some time now, we have known that Apple was hard at work building a Netflix-like streaming service. Now according to Bloomberg Apple plans to announce their new streaming services at an event that will happen on March 25th, 2019. It is also reported that Apple will announce a new news service at the event.…
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How to Watch the 2019 NBA All-Star Game On Roku, Fire TV, & Apple TV
This weekend is the 2019 NBA All-Star game. Starting on Friday, February 15th, 2019 with the MTN DEW ICE Rising Stars game at 9pm Eastern followed by the State Farm All-Star game on Sunday, February 17th, 2019 at 8pm Eastern. This year both games will air on TNT and this year there are many great options…
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Right Now You Can Get CBS All Access FREE For 3 Months
Today Slickdeals posted a way to get 3 months of CBS All Access for free through a trial subscription. This deal will give you access to 10,000 CBS episodes, live TV, plus CBS All Access Original shows. Including Original shows like Star Trek Discovery and the soon to be released The Twilight Zone reboot. Note,…
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Philo Adds Support for the Fire TV Channel Guide
Ever wish you could view the channels from your antenna and Philo all in the same place? Now with the Fire TV, you can do just that. Recently Philo added support for the Fire TV’s Channel Guide. You will now be able to bring up the Fire TV Channel Guide to see what is live…
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Tablo DVR’s Parent Company Just Received $1 Million in New Funding
Today it was announced that Nuvyyo the parent company behind Tablo DVRs just received a $1 million CAD in new funding from BDC Capital’s Growth and Transition Capital “Thanks to this injection of funds from BDC Capital, we are able to rapidly expand production of Tablo DUAL LITE OTA DVRs to fulfill recent orders from a…
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AT&T, Spectrum, Comcast, Dish, & Verizon Lost 1.1 Million Subscribers in The 4th Quarter of 2018
Cable TV had a really bad 2018 with over 1.1 million subscribers canceling their traditional pay-TV services in just the 4th quarter. This news comes as today Dish announced that they lost 334,000 pay TV subscribers in the 4th quarter of 2018. Dish’s losses are in addition to the 658,000 DIRECTV lost, 36,000 Spectrum lost, 19,000 Comcast…
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YouTube TV Announces Known Issues on The Apple TV, Xbox, & Nvidia Shield
Having trouble with YouTube TV? You may not be alone yesterday YouTube TV staff posted an official bug list on Reddit. This list included known issues for the Apple TV, Xbox, & Nvidia Shield. Here is the full list of known issues YouTube TV posted on Reddit yesterday: Here’s a current list of our known issues…
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Sling TV Is Still The Largest Live TV Streaming Services With 2.42 Million Subscribers
After DIRECTV NOW reported it had lost over 200,000 subscribers many wondered if Sling TV would also lose subscribers. Today we learned that Sling TV gained subscribers and now has over 2.42 million subscribers. Sling TV started 2018 with 2.21 million subscribers and while growth slowed from 2017 Sling TV gained subscribers in every quarter of…
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EXPIRED: The Roku Express is On Sale For Just $24.98
Looking for a cheap but good quality streaming player? Right now the new Roku Express with 5X the power is on sale for just $24.99. The Roku Ultra is also on sale for $85.63. Here is our review of the Roku Express: About the Roku Express: Simple setup with an included High Speed HDMI Cable Easy-to-use…
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T-Mobile Plans to Offer “Affordable In-Home High-Speed Broadband” to Millions of Americans
For years the last thing holding many Americans to their cable TV company has been high-speed internet. Now with 5G T-Mobile is promising to break millions of Americans free from the high cost of cable internet. “We will bring new competition to Big Cable in two ways,” he argues. One is the speed and capacity…
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