Tag: Amazon
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Cord Cutting News Roundup: Sling TV Adds New Channels, Comcast/Verizon Want In, YouTube TV, & More
Wow this past week has been one of the busiest weeks we have ever seen for cord cutters. From new device news to new streaming services, it all happened this week. As we know many of our readers work during the week, so we wanted to do a quick week in review to break down…
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Cord Cutting News Roundup: YouTube TV, DIRECTV NOW Just $10 With FREE HBO, Fire TV, & More
In the last 24 hours there have been many major breaking news stories related to cord cutting—from YouTube TV going live to DIRECTV NOW offering a way to get its service for $10 a month. So we thought we would give a quick rundown on the biggest stories from the last 10 days. Maybe you…
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Amazon Start Rolling Out a New User Interface to 1st Gen Fire TVs
The long awaited new Fire TV user interface is finally coming to 1st generation Fire TVs and Fire Sticks. The new 5.2.4.1 software update gives 1st-generation Fire TV and Fire TV Stick owners the all new Fire TV interface to those older devices. This new user interface was released to 2nd-gen devices at the end of last…
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Amazon Strikes $50 Million Dollar Deal to Stream NFL Games
Today the NFL and Amazon has reached a deal to stream 10 Thursday night games similar to the deals that Twitter had last year. The one-year agreement is valued at around $50 million, according to people familiar with the matter. That price tag represents a fivefold increase over the NFL’s agreement with Twitter Inc. for the…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon For The Week of April 3rd
Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon For The Week of April 3rd Netflix: April 4 Chewing Gum: Season 2 (Netflix original) Louis C.K. 2017 (Netflix original) April 6 Disney’s The BFG April 7 El Faro De Las Orcas (Netflix original film) Dawn of the Croods: Season 3 (Netflix original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8nldFzpiQ&t=1s The Get…
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HBO Makes Changes to Its Free Trial
This week we learned that PlayStation Vue cut its free trial from 7 days down to 5 days. Now it seems as if HBO is also cutting back on its free trial. Late last year HBO released an Amazon Channel allowing Amazon subscribers to subscribe to HBO through Amazon. This gives subscribers full access to…
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Apple Plans to Take on Amazon Channels with Bundled Premium Channels
Apple has a plan B after its live TV streaming service failed. It looks like Apple plans to sell bundles of premium channels. According to Recode, Apple plans to sell a bundle of HBO, Showtime, and Starz. It is rumored that you may get a discount, but as of right now we do not have…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon For April 2017
Netflix: April 1 A Weekend with the Family A Nightmare on Elm Street Across the Universe An American Tail An American Tail: Fievel Goes West An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster Boy Bye Born To Be Free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob1tnjItuI4 Cool Runnings Good Witch: Season 2 Gremlins Only for One Night Richard Pryor: Live…
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Amazon is Working On a Web Browser For the Fire TV
Ever wish you could browse the web on your TV? If you own a Fire TV, you will soon be able to do just that. Yesterday AFTVnews.com reported that Amazon is working on a Fire TV version of its Silk browser. The Silk browser is what you will find if you use a Fire Tablet.…
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Comcast Hires Former Amazon Video Exec To Lead New Cord Cutting Effort
Yesterday it was leaked that Comcast was planning a live TV streaming service for later this year. Now it seems that it has hired Euan McLeod to help lead the push into this new IP TV service. Euan McLeod was recently head of video at Amazon where he led strategy and development for project and…