Tag: Roku

  • DIRECTV NOW is Now Available on More Roku Devices

    DIRECTV NOW is Now Available on More Roku Devices

    To the joy of many Roku owners AT&T today updated their Roku Channel to include support for more devices. Back in June when DIRECTV NOW came to Roku it only supported the following devices: Roku Streaming Stick (2016) Roku Premiere Roku Premiere + Roku Ultra Roku 4 Roku 3 Roku Express Roku Express+ 4K Roku…

  • Giveaway: 3 Months FREE DIRECTV NOW, HBO, STARZ, Cinemax, & A Roku Premiere

    Giveaway: 3 Months FREE DIRECTV NOW, HBO, STARZ, Cinemax, & A Roku Premiere

    To celebrate my 5th anniversary of becoming a cord cutter we are giving away 3 months of DIRECTV NOW Gotta Have It package with over 120 channels. You will also get 3 months of FREE HBO, STARZ, and Cinemax. Now to make sure you have something to watch all of that with we are including the…

  • Roku Is Making Important Upgrades & Has a Planned Temporary Service Outage

    Roku Is Making Important Upgrades & Has a Planned Temporary Service Outage

    Roku has recently been seeing solid growth and is rumored to be getting ready to go public with $1 billion target deal. Now Roku has announced plans to improve its service to handle more Roku users. A statement on Roku’s website read, “We are migrating to new and more scalable servers to accommodate more Roku…

  • Hulu’s New Live TV Service Has Started Beta Testing on a New Device

    Hulu’s New Live TV Service Has Started Beta Testing on a New Device

    It looks like Hulu is getting close to adding one more device to its new Hulu app and live TV streaming service. Currently, Hulu supports Apple TV, Xbox One, Chromecast, and Fire TV with its new app. Now Cord Cutters News has confirmed that Hulu has started beta testing the new app and live TV…

  • Roku is Dominating in the United States But the Fire TV Is Catching Up

    Roku is Dominating in the United States But the Fire TV Is Catching Up

    As more Americans are streaming their TV instead of using a cable TV box it has created a huge market for streaming players. Now we get a look at who is winning the streaming player battle in the United States. According to the research firm eMarketer, in 2017 38.9 million Americans use a Roku player…

  • BBC America Releases a Roku Channel

    BBC America Releases a Roku Channel

    Do you have DIRECTV NOW or PlayStation Vue? Well, now you can log into BBC AMERICA on your Roku player. In tandem with services like DIRECTV NOW  you can tune in for the world premiere of Top Gear America on July 30th with the new Roku Channel. BBC AMERICA describes themselves as a hub of innovative, culturally contagious…

  • Here Are 5 FREE Roku Channels Every Cord Cutter Should Try For July 2017

    Here Are 5 FREE Roku Channels Every Cord Cutter Should Try For July 2017

    Roku Streaming Players are full of great channels but it can be hard to find the ones you want. So we thought we would take a look at what are some of the best Roku Channels of 2017. Here is our short list of Roku Channels every cord cutter should check out. #1 Pluto TV…

  • 5 New Roku Channels Every Cord Cutter Should Check Out for July 2017

    5 New Roku Channels Every Cord Cutter Should Check Out for July 2017

    2017 has been a great year on the Roku with hundreds of new channels added and just recently many great ones and it is only half over. So we thought we would take a look at what are some of the best new channels on the Roku. Here is our short list of Roku Channels…

  • Roku Is Now a $1 Billion Company & Plans to Go Public

    Roku Is Now a $1 Billion Company & Plans to Go Public

    For a few months now we have heard rumors that Roku was going to go public and sell stock. Now The Wall Street Journal and Tech Crunch both say the deal is done and Roku will go public this year. According to reports Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and Allen & Co have all been selected as…

  • The Roku 7.7 Update is Now Rolling Out

    The Roku 7.7 Update is Now Rolling Out

    In late June Roku details about its new Roku OS 7.7 update to the popular Roku line of streaming players. They started to roll it out recently and now it seems like it is picking up speed. This update is mostly backend changes and bug fixes, but there are a few important changes that many…