Category: News
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US Near the Bottom in 5G Speed Rankings
The 5G cell network first hit the United States about 18 months ago, so we’ve got some good data now about its overall performance. And unfortunately, it’s not great news. Out of 12 countries tested by Opensignal (an independent mobile analytics company), Saudia Arabia was the clear winner, leading the way both in overall speed…
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Samsung Will Launch New 4K Projector, ‘The Premiere’ Later This Year
Samsung has announced the latest edition to its ‘Lifestyle’ series, this time it’s a 4K, ultra-short throw projector called ‘The Premiere.’ The laser projector is designed to be a high-end alternative to Samsung’s traditional QLED TVs that doesn’t pull focus away from your home decor. According to Samsung, this projector can be placed right in…
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Paid ATSC 3.0 Based Service Evoca is Now Live in Boise, Idaho
Evoca has kicked off its early access program for residents of Boise, Idaho. Evoca is a new company aiming to leverage ATSC 3.0 to offer pay TV service. The company says it offers “unmatched audio and video clarity and a variety of quality, must-watch TV programming for less than $50 per month.” Those in the…
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Disney+ Announced ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Release Date
After a long wait and much speculation, Disney+ officially announced the release date for season 2 of The Mandalorian. The series will return to the platform on October 30th for the second season. Just like season 1, new episodes of the show will be released weekly on Fridays. Not too many details have been shared…
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Locast Expands to Detroit
Locast, the nonprofit-run local broadcast TV streaming service, is now available in the Detroit area. The service is offering over 65 local V channels for free to those in the Detroit and Ann Arbor market in Michigan. “For the first time, more than 4.5 million residents in Michigan will be able to watch their local TV…
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Amazon Music Partners With Twitch to Launch Live Streaming Feature
Today Amazon and Twitch announced their partnership to integrate Twitch’s live, on-demand streaming feature into the Amazon Music app, allowing artists to go live to their fans through the platform. The feature is now available to the 55 million Amazon Music users on both iOS and Android. This launch comes at a time when in-person…
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Netflix Outlines New Tricks to Offer More Data-Cap-Friendly 4K
In a lengthy and detailed post published on the Netflix Technology Blog, a group that focuses on encoding and video algorithms laid out new techniques they hope will offer up higher-quality video for subscribers. In some cases, their internal testing has offered similar video quality at half the bitrate of their current encoding techniques —…
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Here’s Everything Coming to Amazon Prime Video in September 2020
September marks a brand new slate of titles coming to Amazon Prime Video that you can watch for free with your Amazon Prime membership. Prime Video recently topped the list for the streaming service with the most number of newly released movies. Amazon came in at the top with a whopping 1,802 new releases in…
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Possible Retail Listings Suggest $50-$60 Range for Google’s ‘Sabrina’ Android TV Dongle
Featured Image: XDA Developers A flurry of rumored retail listing leaks point to a price range of around $50 to $60 for Google’s oft-rumored Android TV dongle, aka “Sabrina.” 9to5Google caught wind of a possible Home Depot listing that points to a $49.99 price. Since then, other sites have chimed in with details from more…
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Get a Tablo Dual Lite for $99.99 (Normally $149.99)
Tablo Dual Lite devices are on sale for just $99.99 in-store and online at Best Buy and online at Amazon. Take advantage of this deal now to save $50 off of the regular price. The Tablo DUAL LITE OTA DVR for cord cutters features: 2 Over-the-Air ATSC Tuners Ethernet OR WiFi Connection Whole-Home & Out-of-Home Streaming Virtually Unlimited…