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Report: Amazon’s Fire TV Is Growing Faster Than Roku
For years Roku has built a sizable and dominant lead in the world of streaming players. Our recent in-house surveys have shown about 70% of our readers not only own but also use a Roku streaming player. Yet we have noticed that Amazon’s Fire TV is seeing strong growth. Now others are starting to notice…
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PlayStation Vue Adds Tastemade to Their Lineup
Today PlayStation Vue quietly added Tastemade to their lineup. Tastemade will deliver original programs on categories of food, home, and travel, and provide a 24/7 linear channel with hundreds of hours of original programming, including 10 new episodic series to roll out over the next year, plus live programming and thematic blocks. Tastemade’s slate of original…
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Roku is Giving $50 Credits to Some Customers Who Pre-Ordered The Roku TV Wireless Speakers
Did you pre-order the Roku Wireless Speakers for $199.99? Today Roku announced that customers who pre-ordered the Roku TV Wireless Speakers but paid the full $199.99 will be getting a $50 credit to bring the price down to the earlier $149.99 introductory price. Here is the email Roku sent to customers who pre-ordered the Roku…
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Comcast Agrees to Repay Customers After Charging Hidden Fees in Massachusetts
Today it was announced that Comcast and the Attorney General of Massachusetts Maura Healey have agreed to repay Comcast customers affected by hidden fees in Massachusetts. “Comcast stuck too many Massachusetts customers with lengthy, expensive contracts that left many in debt and others with damaged credit,” AG Healey Maura said. According to the AG Comcast would advertise…
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Hulu is On Sale Right Now For Just $5.99 a Month (Limited Time Deal)
Looking for a great deal? Been thinking about trying Hulu but have yet to sign up? This may be the time to try it out as for a limited time, new Hulu subscribers will get the limited commercials plan for just $5.99 a month for 12 months for new and select returning customers. If you want…
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PlayStation Vue Adds Out of Market Fox Sports RSN To Their Sports Add-on
Last year PlayStation Vue added a Sports Add-on that gave you access to additional sports channels and the ability to watch select regional sports networks out of market. (Yet only the national feed no access to most live sports events on the regional sports channels.) At launch one of the main holdouts was FOX who…
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How to Fix DIRECTV NOW’s Login Error
Have you been struggling to log into DIRECTV NOW on your laptop or desktop PC only to be sent to an error page that says Not Found? You are not alone as a growing number of readers have been complaining about this error. The good news is there are a few options to get around…
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Review: Amazon’s Fire TV Recast OTA DVR
Today we got our hand on the new OTA DVR for the Fire TV called the Fire TV Recast. This DVR lets you stream your antenna to Fire TV, Echo Show, Android, and iOS. (Sadly that is the full lineup of supported devices.) Here is our full review: You can find the Fire TV Recast on…
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Spectrum’s A La Carte TV Streaming Package Now Offers A 7 Day Free Trial
Last year Spectrum TV started to quietly allow customers to sign up for a small a la carte package of 10 channels you pick and you get your locals for $21.99 a month. The package offers your locals including PBS and 25 music channels. From there you can pick 10 additional channels from a long…
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Netflix is Testing a Cheaper Mobile Only Subscription
Looking for a way to save money? Only watch Netflix on your phone or tablet? Now Netflix is testing a cheaper mobile-only subscription. According to reports in Malaysia Netflix is testing a mobile-only option that costs about $4 USD each month. This comes as Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently said that Netflix would be testing…
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Hidden Cable TV Fees & Taxes Can Add Over $60 a Month to Your Bill
As the year comes to a close we are once again seeing a flood of ads pushing crazy good deals on cable TV. Or maybe you have had a phone agent tell you they can give you TV and internet cheaper than internet only. So how can they advertise these great deals and yet you…
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Piracy Is a Multi-Million Dollar Business
Have you ever wondered how much privacy services make? This week we got a good idea after DISH won their lawsuit against Set TV. According to the recent court ruling, Set TV was offering illegal access to live TV streams for $20 a month. In the ruling, the Judge said that Set TV had 180,398…
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How Long Until Cord Cutting Kills Cable TV? We Take a Look
Currently, there are 91.3 million pay TV customers. That number is quickly dropping. Pay TV services are losing 11,000 customers every day. Those numbers are enough to make Pay TV service providers very nervous and for good reason. If the companies continue losing customers at a rate of 11,000 per day, they’ll have no customers…
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Pluto TV Is Just Added Two New Channels To Their Lineup
Today Pluto TV announced they are adding two new channels to their lineup: Pluto TV Animals and Pluto TV Romance. These new channels join a growing number of new channels added to Pluto TV over the last few months. Here is how Pluto TV describes these new channels: PLUTO TV ANIMALS Whether it growls, hisses,…
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Review: ViewTV 2018 Outdoor Amplified Digital HDTV Antenna With 150 Mile Range
Today we take a look at the 2018 ViewTV Outdoor Amplified Digital HDTV Antenna with a 150-mile range. You can find our full review of the 2018 View TV antenna on YouTube TV here: You can find this antenna on Amazon HERE. About This Antenna: Features: Built-in Low-Noise and High Gain Amplifier Built-in motor turns the…
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