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DIRECTV NOW DVR NOT Likely to Come Out in January or February
Back on December 30, 2017, we predicted that the DIRECTV NOW DVR would likely be released in January 2018. Almost every day we get an email or in our weekly Q&A a question about the DIRECTV NOW DVR. Readers are interested in what is happening, so we wanted to update our prediction. A lot has…
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Here is Everything New on Acorn in February 2018
Monday, February 5th THE HEART GUY, Series 2, Episodes 1 & 2 (Exclusive North American Premiere) “A satisfying, funny and touching redemption fable…This Heart Guy is a heartthrob for sure, and the show’s another fine and entertaining discovery by Acorn.” –TV Guide Akin to an Aussie Doc Martin with its fish-out-of-water premise and eccentric characters, the series follows a charming and genius doctor (Rodger Corser, Glitch,…
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Mozilla Adds Turbo Mode With Improved Privacy to Firefox on the Fire TV
Back in December 2017, Mozilla released Firefox on the Fire TV. With the Firefox app on the Fire TV, you have a fully powered browser on the Fire TV. With Firefox on Fire TV, you can: Easily watch videos from YouTube and other popular sites Go to YouTube and other sites directly from the Firefox…
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Sling TV Expands Into Puerto Rico
Today Sling TV announced that they are expanding their live TV streaming service into Puerto Rico. This gives residence in Puerto Rico access to a new streaming option to replace traditional pay TV. “DISH has served customers in Puerto Rico for 20 years, and we have been proud to lead the way in delivering the…
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YouTube TV Pulls Support for Roku Players
After working for almost a week a few hours ago Google updated YouTube TV to remove support for casting to Roku players and Roku TVs. Starting with an update about a week ago YouTube TV was updated and allowed casting to Roku players as long as you had the Roku YouTube Channel installed. The casting…
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New York & Montana Pass Net Neutrality Laws
This week, New York became the second state to pass a net neutrality law with an executive order from Governor Andrew Cuomo. According to the executive order, all contracts with the state of New York will mandate that the provider must adhere to network neutrality, which will effectively force ISPs who want a contract with…
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How to Watch YouTube TV on Roku Players
Yesterday we broke the news that you can now cast YouTube TV to Roku players from phones and tablets. Many readers wrote in not sure exactly how that works. Update: Google just updated YouTube TV to pull support for Roku Players. Details can be found HERE. So we wanted to take a minute and explain…
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First Look: DIRECTV NOW Beta on Roku
Yesterday AT&T started rolling out invites to test the DIRECTV NOW app beta on Roku players. Now, this is just testing the app, not the DVR. According to the emails going out, the DVR will come later. “The True Cloud DVR is not available for Roku devices yet. We’ll let you know when it’s ready…
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DIRECTV NOW Starts Beta Testing The New App on Roku Players
Today AT&T started rolling out invites to test the DIRECTV NOW app beta on Roku players. Now this is just testing the app not the DVR. According to the emails going out the DVR will come later. “The True Cloud DVR is not available for Roku devices yet. We’ll let you know when it’s ready…
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Report: CBS & Viacom Boards to Discuss Merger
Just over a week ago we learned that talks between CBS and Viacom have started for a possible merger. Now we have learned that the talks are going to the next level as CBS and Viacom Boards of Directors will meet to discuss the merger idea. Back in 2010, the two companies merged only to break…
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fuboTV Adds 9 new CBS & NBC Affiliates
Today fuboTV announced that they have added 9 new NBC and CBS affiliates. With this move fuboTV now offers NBC to over 50% of Americans. Here are the 7 NBC affiliates that fuboTV added: NBC KOAA – Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO WITN – Greenville-New Bern-Washington, NC WLEX – Lexington, KY WMTV – Madison, WI WNYT –…
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Pandora Premium Arrives on the Fire TV
Yesterday Pandora updated their Fire TV app with several new features. For the first time Pandora Premium members will be able to access their on-demand content through the Fire TV. So, what’s new? Search and play songs, albums, or playlists for any occasion. Enable Autoplay so the music never ends. Pandora keeps it going with…
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Fire TV Adds Single Sign-On Support
Today Amazon enabled the ability to sign in once with a pay-TV provider and get access to a growing list of apps like Hallmark Channel, CNN Go, DIY, A&E, History, and more. This allows you to avoid the annoying task of having to log into each app individually on the Fire TV. Now you can log in…
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YouTube TV Adds Casting Support For Roku Players
When YouTube TV first launched it only worked on Android, iOS, and Chromecast via casting. Later they added support for casting to Apple TV, and released an app on Android TV. Now YouTube TV has added support for Roku players and TVs. UPDATE: A few hours ago Google updated YouTube to remove support for casting…
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Charter is Testing 5G Home Internet in 6 Cities
For some time now we have known that Charter has been working on 5G home internet. Now they have announced six cities that Charter will test out 5G home internet. 5G home Internet promises to bring fiber Internet speeds without the cost of running fiber to each house. With 5G you will be able to get…
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