Category: News
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Cord Cutting This Week #66 – New Net Neutrality Rules, Sling TV, AT&T Makes Changes to WarnerMedia & More
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. (Also let…
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Here Is Every Channel DIRECTV NOW Plus & DIRECTV NOW MAX Offer
Yesterday Cord Cutters News was the first to report that DIRECTV NOW will be rolling out a $10 price hike and two new packages. The new packages will be called DIRECTV NOW Plus with 40+ channels for $50 a month and DIRECTV NOW MAX with 50+ channels for $70 a month. Today Cord Cutters News…
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T-Mobile Plans to Bring 5G Home Internet to 90% of Americans
This week T-Mobile filed a new FCC document pushing for their merger with Sprint, and it included new details about their 5G home internet plans. According to T-Mobile, they plan to bring 5G Home Internet to 90% of Americans. To do this T-Mobile says they need to merge with Sprint. “What T-Mobile has done for…
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How to Watch ESPN3 on The Roku, Fire TV, & Apple TV
Late last year DIRECTV NOW dropped support for ESPN3. After months of waiting AT&T announced that DIRECTV NOW should never have had ESPN3. The good news is that ESPN3 is on almost every live TV streaming service: Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu, YouTube TV, and others. Let’s take a look at some of the options.…
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DIRECTV NOW Will Reportedly Raise its Price $10 a Month Next Week & Launch 2 New Packages
Today Cord Cutters News has learned that AT&T will reportedly replace their current packages with two new ones and raise DIRECTV NOW’s price by $10 a month. The new packages will be called DIRECTV NOW Plus with 40+ channels for $50 a month and DIRECTV NOW MAX with 50+ channels for $70 a month. Current…
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Amazon Reportedly Demanded SiliconDust Remove the HDHomeRun Premium TV Service from The Fire TV
Tonight SiliconDust announced that Amazon has demanded it remove their live TV streaming service HDHomeRun Premium TV service from Amazon Fire TV devices. It seems that Amazon wants SiliconDust to do this before they would allow the HDHomeRun app back on the Fire TV app store. A few weeks ago, Amazon removed the HDHomeRun app…
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DIRECTV NOW Adds More CBS Locals
Today DIRECTV NOW started to add more CBS local affiliates. As best we can tell DIRECTV NOW has started to add more CBS local affiliates owned by Sinclair, News-Press & Gazette Company, & Meredith. Have you noticed a new local added to DIRECTV NOW? Leave us a comment and let us know what new locals…
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Tablo Agrees to Grandfather Current Subscribers Into Their Old DVR Plans
Today Nuvyyo the company behind the Tablo DVR announced that they would grandfather all current Tablo DVR subscribers into the current Tablo DVR plan instead of moving them over to the new plan. The big change with the new Tablo DVR subscription for new subscribers will only be good on one DVR. In the past,…
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Redbox Brings 4K UHD Rentals to 15 New Cities
Today Redbox announced that they are expanding their 4K Ultra-HD movie rentals to 15 new markets. Now you will be able to rent 4K UHD movies for just $2.50 a night. New movies available to rent in 4K UHD include “Creed II” and “A Star is Born,” and more coming soon, including “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of…
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Amazon Upgrades The Fire TV Recast to Support External Hard Drives
When the Fire TV Recast, the DVR for antennas from Amazon, first launched it did not support external storage. Now Amazon has updated the Fire TV Recast DVR to support external hard drives. This means you can now expand the storage of your Fire TV Recast DVR by adding an external hard drive. Now in…