Category: Amazon News
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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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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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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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Roku Adds Amazon Alexa Support
Today Roku announced that they have added support for Amazon Alexa. You can now use your Amazon Alexa-enabled device to control your Roku through the Roku Alexa skill by asking it to “Alexa, find comedies on Roku”, “Alexa, pause Roku” or “Alexa, open Hulu on Roku.” Additionally, Roku TV users can turn on the TV,…
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Comparing Data Usage for Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon
As cord cutting grows, so does concern over data caps. Many cord cutters are limited by data caps enforced by their ISP. As streaming options grow to include 4k, the risk of going over your data cap increases. On average the data cap in the US is 1TB a month, but caps can go as low…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon For The Week of March 4th
March 5 Disney’s Christopher Robin March 6 Secret City: Under the Eagle: Season 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL March 7 Doubt The Order– NETFLIX ORIGINAL March 8 After Life– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Bangkok Love Stories: Hey You!– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Bangkok Love Stories: Innocence– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Blue Jasmine Formula 1: Drive to Survive– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Hunter X Hunter (2011):…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon in March 2019
March 1 A Clockwork Orange Apollo 13 Budapest — NETFLIX FILM Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks Emma Junebug Larva Island: Season 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Losers– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Music and Lyrics Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Northern Rescue– NETFLIX ORIGINAL River’s Edge (JP)– NETFLIX FILM Stuart Little…
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Cord Cutting Today #1 – Free Fire TV Stick 4K, HDHomeRun Premium TV Outage, & More
Today is the very first episode of 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 a effort to help keep you up to date on everything happening…
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PlayStation Vue is Giving Away a FREE Fire TV Stick 4K if You Sign Up (Conditions Apply)
Looking for a free Fire TV Stick 4K? Been thinking about getting PlayStation Vue? Right now if you signup for PlayStation Vue’s Core or higher plans you can get a free Fire TV Stick 4K. There is a catch though you have had to receive an email with this offer to get it. So make…
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AT&T is Shaking Up The Leadership At HBO & Turner
It is being reported that David Levy a longtime Turner executive is leaving WarnerMedia as is Richard Plepler the longtime CEO of HBO. “My dad always gave the best advice,” reads the letter Plepler sent to HBO employees. “Whenever there was a difficult decision to make, he counseled that since no one could ever have…