Category: Blog
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Cord Cutting May Be the Real Winner of the Raycom & DIRECTV Fight
Yesterday Raycom Media started telling viewers of its 40 over-the-air TV stations that DIRECTV may soon cut off their access. The current carriage agreement between Raycom Media and DIRECTV will expire on August 31, 2017. Now Raycom has started to tell viewers that they should be ready for DIRECTV to drop their stations. “Unfortunately, there’s…
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We Are Giving Away a Roku Ultra Along With Gift Cards to Sling TV & Netflix
Don’t Forget: We are giving away a great cord cutting kit for new or current cord cutters. In this giveaway, you will find a Roku Ultra and a $30 Netflix gift card, along with a $25 Sling TV gift card. A little bit more about the Roku Ultra: Perfect for HD and 4K Ultra HD…
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How to Make Cord Cutting Easier
Cord cutting can be slightly intimidating at first for new cord cutters. You go from watching TV the same way for 30 or more years and now you need to learn a new way to do the same old thing. The good news is cord cutting does not need to be scary or intimidating at…
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Exposing Cable TV’s Ties to Anti-Cord Cutting Stories
Recently there has been a flood of anti-cord cutting stories all targeting the same ideas: cord cutting costs too much and is too hard. I cut that argument apart in a post already this week that you can find here. This time I want to take a look at the cable companies that are pushing…
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Giveaway: Win a Roku Ultra Along With Gift Cards to Sling TV & Netflix
We are giving away a great cord cutting kit for new or current cord cutters. In this giveaway, you will find a Roku Ultra and a $30 Netflix gift card, along with a $25 Sling TV gift card. A little bit more about the Roku Ultra: Perfect for HD and 4K Ultra HD TVs, features…
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Editorial: There Is a Real War Against Cord Cutting
This is something that I have hinted at in the past but it has now become too obvious to ignore. With all the poorly conceived anti-cord cutting stories I have to speak out. There is an organized effort to aggressively go after cord cutting. (There I said it.) Clearly there is an organized group with…
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How to Get The DIRECTV NOW DVR & Hulu Live on Roku – Answering Your Questions
We are getting a ton of questions about two popular topics. First, what is new with DIRECTV NOW’s DVR, and is there any hope of getting in on the beta. Second, we are also hearing a lot of questions about when Hulu’s live TV service will come to Roku players. So I wanted to take…
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My Reply to the New York Times’s Anti-Cord Cutting Story
Once again the New York Times has been less than kind to cord cutters. Just over a year ago I posted a reply to its story “The Downside to Cord-Cutting.” Now it has a new one called “The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It’s Here”. This story by Kevin Roose brings up many popular themes…
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Editorial: The War on Cord Cutting Is Heating Up
You can often tell who someone is afraid of by who they attack. The same thing is true with companies as more and more effort is being made to downplay cord cutting. People and companies are scared of cord cutting and the attacks on it are heating up. Just this week a slew of anti-cord…
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Our Top 10 FREE Fire TV Apps for August 2017
The Fire TV is full of great apps 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 apps on the Fire TV as of August 2017. #1 Pluto TV Download now to stream Pluto TV’s 100+ channels of…