Category: Amazon News
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Amazon’s New Space-Based Home Internet Service Joins The Satellite Industry Association As An Executive Member
In April, we learned that Amazon was planning to launch 3,236 satellites to build a network to provide global high-speed Internet. Unlike current satellite Internet, these devices will be in a far lower orbit and offer far faster speeds. Amazon is awaiting FCC approval for the launch of its first set of satellites. While waiting, it’s…
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5 More Pro Tips for Fire TV & Fire Stick Owners
The Fire TV and Fire Stick are powerful streaming players, and with these tips you can get even more out of them. Earlier this year we posted 5 Pro Tips for Fire TV and Fire Stick owners. Now we have 5 more pro tips to help you get the most out of your Fire TV.…
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Amazon Will Stream Thursday Night NFL Games For Free This Year
Today Amazon announced their fall 2019 NFL Thursday Night Football Schedule. This is the 3rd year in a row that Amazon will stream Thursday Night NFL games to Amazon Primembers for free. Now if you are a Prime member you will be able to stream Thursday night NFL games through your Prime Video app on…
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Amazon Will Now Sync Your Recently Watched Shows & Movies Across All Fire TVs
Amazon has started to roll out a new update to its line of Fire TV Players. With this update, Amazon has added the ability to sync recently watched Prime Video titles across all Fire TV. This means if you watch something on one Fire TV you will find it listed in your recently watched row…
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74% of American Households Reportedly Subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon
Do you subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon? Turns out you are not alone. A new study from Leichtman Research Group says 74% of all American households subscribe to at least one of these services. This is a noticeable jump from 2015 when only 52% of American households subscribed to one of these services and…
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Here is Everything Coming to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime the Week of August 26th, 2019
Available August 27 Million Pound Menu: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Season 7 — NETFLIX FAMILY Available August 29 Falling Inn Love — NETFLIX FILM Kardec — NETFLIX FILM Workin’ Moms: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL Available August 30 The A List — NETFLIX ORIGINAL CAROLE & TUESDAY — NETFLIX…
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Amazon’s Free IMDb TV Service is Now Available on iOS & Android
Amazon recently launched a new free ad-supported streaming service called Freedive. Amazon later renamed the service to IMDb TV. With IMDb TV you can get access to thousands of movie and TV episodes for free with ads from Amazon. At launch, Amazon promoted the service as being available on Fire TVs, Roku through the Amazon…
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Amazon Is Being Sued by Major Book Publishers Over Audible’s Speech-to-Text Feature
This week, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster sued Amazon over Audible’s new Speech-to-Text feature. This new feature takes spoken words and transcribes them into written words using machine learning. This allows Audible subscribers to read along as they listen to a book. As you may understand book publishers are unhappy…
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Amazon Is Helping Subscribers Save Money By Reminding Them About Subscriptions They Are Not Using
Have you forgotten about a subscription you had only to learn later you were still paying for something you didn’t want? Amazon wants to help Prime members with this issue by notifying Amazon Channels subscribers about channels they are paying for but are not using. Here is the email Amazon is sending out reminding Amazon…
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How to Legally Watch Live TV on The Fire TV & Fire TV Sticks Without Cable TV
We often get asked how you can legally watch live TV on the Fire TV, Fire TV Sticks, & Fire TV Cube. Many are concerned that they may accidentally get a pirate service, so we want to look at some of the most popular ways to watch live TV on your Roku and Roku TV…