Author: Luke Bouma
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Amazon Paid $18 Million in Royalties to Independent Filmmakers in 2017
For years independent filmmakers have struggled to find outlets for their content. While YouTube and others may have offered a place for the movies to be seen many often hoped for a place to truly profit from their content. Now it looks like Amazon is becoming that place and is even pulling content creators away…
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The Dangers of Buying an Expensive Fully Loaded “Kodi Box”
Recently preloaded so-called “Kodi Boxes” have become popular. These boxes sometimes cost $300 or $400 each and promise free access for life to everything from cable channels to movies still in theaters. According to reports, these boxes have been selling by the hundreds of thousands. You can find them at flea markets, malls, and even…
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Editorial: Are We Seeing the Start of a Cord Cutting Price War?
For years now the dream of cord cutting has been the idea that it would trigger a price war. Similar to how a growing number of wireless carriers are driving unlimited data plans and family bundles, many had hoped live TV streaming services would do the same. Now it is starting to look like the…
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Reminder: Amazon’s HBO Deal is Coming To an End This Year
For some time now Amazon and HBO have had a deal to give Amazon Prime subscribers access to a back catalog of HBO shows. Now that deal is coming to an end. While we can confirm that the deal will come to an end this year according to a Variety story; however, signs are pointing…
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NewsON Now Streams Local News in 84% of The United States
Want to watch your local news on the go? NewsON is a free streaming service that gives users live and on-demand access to local news. You can access your local news when and how you want via iOS, Android, and Roku. When the news is live you will get a live feed, and if you miss it live…
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A $360 Cable Bill? We Take a Look at How It Happened to One Customer
We have all seen that way too good to be true deal on cable TV. From ads to people saying, “the deal was just too good I had to take it.” Yet what happens when all the freebies and promos come to an end? Thanks to one of our readers we can take a look…
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Set TV is Being Sued By Netflix, Amazon, & Other Major Studios
This week a long list of studios including Netflix and Amazon sued a Set TV. The lawsuit claims Set TV committed “mass infringement” of the content owned by the studios. The suit was filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Central California, and the list of plaintiffs includes Amazon, Netflix, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures,…
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HBO & Cinemax Are FREE on Sling TV Starting Today Through The Weekend
Been thinking about giving HBO a try? Today may be your lucky day because all Sling TV subscribers have free access to HBO and all of the HBO On-Demand content! This deal is running through Monday, April 22nd, 2018. This free trial comes just in time to see season two premiere of Westwood this Sunday on HBO.…
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This Website Will Help You Find Out if Your Local OTA Channel is Moving Soon
You may have heard that your local station is getting ready to move to a new channel number. For many Americans that is true and you will need to rescan or you will lose your local. A few years ago the FCC started the process of selling over the air TV spectrum. This sale meant…
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Amazon Tops 100 Million Prime Members
This week Amazon announced that for the first time they have over 100 million Prime members. This announcement came in the form of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s letter to shareholders. From the Jeff Bezos letter: Prime – 13 years post-launch, we have exceeded 100 million paid Prime members globally. In 2017 Amazon shipped more than five billion…