Tag: Roku
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Cord Cutting News Roundup: New Hulu Live Details, FCC Auction, Sports Free Streaming, Roku’s TiVo Deal, & More
Cord Cutting News Week in Review: New Hulu Live Details, FCC Auction, Sports Free Streaming, Roku’s TiVo Deal, & More Wow what a crazy week for cord cutting. Several huge deals happened, and we got a look at Hulu’s new live TV service. So here is a quick breakdown of what happened this week. YouTube…
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Roku Strikes a Deal with TiVo
This week Roku struck a deal with TiVo that will help Roku improve its platform. TiVo has a huge library of licenses and patents that device owners such as Roku need to pay for. Now Roku has struck a new deal to use a collection of some 6,000 patents owned by TiVo and, more importantly,…
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Cord Cutting News Roundup: YouTube TV Ads, Roku OS 7.6, DIRECTV NOW Adds New Channels, & More
Once again cord cutting is growing at a crazy-fast pace. So far this week we have had several major cord cutting news stories. It is likely that you may have missed a few of them. The following is a short list of the big cord cutting news stories so far this week. DIRECTV NOW This…
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Roku Announces the Roku OS 7.6 Update with New Cord Cutting-Friendly Features
Roku announced the details behind its 7.6 Roku OS update. Along with a host of fixes and improvements under the hood, cord cutters will find several new features they will love. The Roku OS 7.6 roll out starts as Roku sets new records for both market share and active users. According to Roku, at the…
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Expired: Weekend Cord Cutting Deals For The Weekend of April 8th 2017 – $1.02 6ft HDMI Cables & More!
Fire Tablet Sale! Starting at Just $39.99! Beautiful 7″ IPS display and 1.3 GHz quad-core processor. Available in four colors. Now with the Alexa cloud-based voice service – just press and ask Enjoy millions of movies, TV shows, songs, Kindle e-books, apps and games 8 or 16 GB of internal storage and a microSD slot…
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Here Are The Top 10 FREE Roku Channels as of April 2017
Roku has long been the leader in free video channels; however, with so many channels to choose from, finding the best can be difficult. So here are the top 10 free Roku video channels as of April 7th, 2017, according to the Roku Channel Store. (Note: We only included video channels on this list. Pandora would once again be number…
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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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Roku is Hiring Lobbyists to Help Fight for Net Neutrality
Roku seems to be gearing up for a fight to support net neutrality. To do this, Roku has hired a pair of lobbyists through an outside government-affairs firm, per an ethics report filed this week. These lobbyists will focus on net neutrality and this is the first time Roku has ever hired lobbyists in Washington…
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New Data Gives Us a Look At The Most Popular Streaming Players
The battle for your living room TV continues to heat up around streaming media players. Now we get a fresh look at who is leading in sales. ComScore released new data on sales of streaming players this week. According to this data, Roku is not only leading but dominating the set-top box market by a…
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Why DIRECTV NOW Not Being on Roku Yet Is a Good Thing For Cord Cutters
Last week AT&T missed its goal to release a Roku channel for DIRECTV NOW. I know many of our readers are upset about that, but it may be a good thing for cord cutting overall. When AT&T first released DIRECTV NOW it was a rushed product “not ready for primetime.” It had many early issues…