Tag: Amazon
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Cord Cutting This Week #11 – Free Streaming Locals, Amazon Price Hike, & More
This week we continue our weekly recap show called Cord Cutting This Week. Every week I pick out a handful of stories I think could have the most significant long-term impact on cord cutting and give you my personal opinion on them. The show is still in beta, as we test out how the show will look,…
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Amazon Prime Raises Their Monthly Price (Yearly Subscriptions Stay The Same)
If you subscribe to Amazon Prime through their monthly plan today may be the day to look at switching over to a yearly subscriptions. Starting today Amazon Prime members who pay monthly for the service will see their payments jump from $10.99 a month to 12.99 a month. ($155.88 a year) If you pay for an…
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Disney & Twitch Team Up To Take on YouTube
You may know Twitch as the place to go and watch video games being played. Recently Twitch has expanded outside of video games into talk shows, vlogging, and more. Now they are teaming up with Disney Digital Network to help add support for pre-recorded videos on Twitch. Amazon the parent company behind Twitch has made…
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Expired: Deal Alert: Certified Refurbished Fire TV Stick Just $29.99
Today Amazon once again has certified second-gen Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remotes for just $29.99. About this Fire TV Stick: A Certified Refurbished Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote is refurbished, tested, and certified to look and work like new. The next generation of our bestselling Fire TV Stick–now with the Alexa…
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Amazon is Updating The Fire TV to Promote Live TV
Today Amazon announced that they have started rolling out an update for the Fire TV to promote discovery of live TV and even the ability to tune into live channels with Alexa. This new section is called “On Now” and will promote live TV from services you are signed into including Cinemax, Showtime, Starz, and…
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CES 2018 Recap: Roku/Android TV Dominated, But the Fire TV Was MIA
CES 2018, the Consumer Electronics Show, is now over, but it was jam-packed with meetings and exploring the newest in technology. So I want to take a minute and review what I thought were some of the highlights of CES 2018 from the viewpoint of a cord cutter now that I had time to look…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon For The Week of January 15th 2018
Netflix January 15th 2018 Olympic Winter Games Preview: Meet Team USA & Go for the Gold Rehenes Unrest January 16th Dallas Buyers Club Katt Williams: Great America Rita, season 4 January 17th Arango y Sanint: Ríase El Show Friday Night Tykes, season 4 January 18th Bad Day for the Cut Tiempos de guerra, season 1…
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DIRECTV NOW Rolls Out Fire TV DVR Beta to All Beta Testers
Last night DIRECTV NOW expanded their DVR beta for the Fire TV to all DIRECTV NOW Beta Testers. In the past, only a select few beta testers had access to the DIRECTV NOW Beta Test on the Fire TV. There is one catch you need to be using a 2nd gen Fire TV box like…
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Amazon’s Original Show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is FREE For Everyone
Yesterday Amazon announced that in celebration of their two Golden Globe wins, they are making their Prime Original The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel available for free for everyone this weekend. Now anyone can watch the series at no cost starting Today, January 12 and concluding at 11:59pm local time Monday, January 15, using the Prime Video app for…
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Amazon’s NFL Gamble Paid Off Big
Today Amazon opened up and gave us a look at how their NFL Thursday Night Football deal paid off. Here are a few highlights from the data Amazon sent Cord Cutters News. During the 2017 NFL regular season, Amazon Prime Video live streamed 11 games – including 10 Thursday Night Football matchups and a special Christmas Day game…