Category: News
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Roku’s 55″ 4K HDR 6-Series TV From TCL’s is Now Just $549.99 (A New All Time Low Price)
TCL this week once again cut the price of its flagship Roku TV the 55″ TCL 6-Series Roku TV 4K HDR this time to just $549.99 down from $799.99. In 2018 we listed this TV as the best TV for under $1,000 and now it is an even better deal. If you want something bigger…
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BBC Shows Including Classic Doctor Who Episodes Are Coming to Pluto TV
Today Pluto TV and BBC Studio’s announced a deal to bring BBC Studio content to Pluto TV. With this deal, Pluto TV will be able to offer on-demand content to shows like Antique Roadshow and even a dedicated Doctor Who channel on Pluto TV. Highlights of the free available programming include: Nearly 1,000 episodes of…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon For The Week of April 8th 2019
April 9th Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Season 6 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL April 10th New Girl: Season 7 You vs. Wild — NETFLIX ORIGINAL April 11th Black Summer — NETFLIX ORIGINAL April 12th A Land Imagined — NETFLIX FILM Band Aid Huge in France — NETFLIX ORIGINAL Mighty Little Bheem — NETFLIX ORIGINAL The Perfect…
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Next Gen ATSC 3.0 TV is Starting to Roll Out This Year in 40 Markets
Today it was announced at NAB that 40 TV stations will start rolling out Gen OTA ATSC 3.0 TV this year. With this upgrade soon you will be able to watch free over the air TV in 4K and improved reception. These stations include ones from Fox Television Stations, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, Univision, SpectrumCo…
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The Free Streaming Service Filmrise Launches a New Set of Apps on The Fire TV
For years Roku has had a huge advantage when it came to free content. Now Amazon has closed that gap by first launching its own streaming service and now bringing a large collection of Filmrise apps to the Fire TV. First launched in 2010, Filmrise has a huge catalog of movies and TV shows. These…
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SiriusXM and Pandora Launch Pandora NOW
Sirius XM and Pandora have teamed up to create Pandora NOW, according to a press release from last week. The goal of Pandora NOW is to combine the personalized listener experience of Pandora with the curated lists and reach of Sirius XM Radio. The new “exclusive listening experience” is for both Sirius XM customers and…
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Philo Is Testing a Co-Viewing Feature
Today at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference Ben Chambers the CTO at Philo gave a talk about the service. During that talk, Mr. Chambers updated everyone on the progress of Philo’s co-viewing feature that will allow people in different places to watch the same show and movie together even if they are in different…
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More Older Americans Are Now Subscribing to Video Streaming Services
For years it has been said that streaming was mostly something teens and 20 somethings did. Now according to a new study from Ovum, Americans 35-44 are the most likely to subscribe to a streaming service according to a presentation at NAB from Tony Gunnarsson Ovum Principal Analyst. According to Ovum, people aged 35-44 are…
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The Classic Movie Streaming Service Criterion Collection Launches Today
Late last year it was announced that FilmStruck was shutting down. FilmStruck was a partnership between TCM now owned by AT&T and The Criterion Collection. Now The Criterion Collection has announced plans to launch their own streaming service later today. (We do not know the exact time of the launch but today is when it…
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Hulu Wants to Create Ads Targeting Binge Watchers
Recently we learned that Hulu planned to cut the number of ads per break. Hulu also recently cut the price of their streaming service with ads by $2. Many have wondered how Hulu can do cut its price and number of ads. Now we have learned that Hulu plans to counter some of this by…