When Cord Cutting Is Better Than Cable
CNET> Reviews> TV and Home Theater by Matthew Moskovciak May 5, 2012 10:59 AM PD Canceling your cable subscription can require sacrifices, but sometimes the cord-cutting viewing experience is actually better than cable. Amazon Instant is one of the best ways for cable-cutters to catch up on TV shows. (Credit: Matthew Moskovciak/CNET) When people ask […]
Antennas Direct Announces DSI Systems as Newest Distributor
Antennas Direct and DSI Systems announce a partnership to distribute over-the-air television antennas. St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) April 30, 2012 Antennas Direct, the leader in over-the-air television antenna technology, and DSI Systems, the nation’s largest distributor of satellite and consumer electronic equipment, announce a strategic partnership to distribute over-the-air television antennas to retailers and integrators […]
Pay TV bills continue to increase by 6 percent, year over year, as consumer spending power remains flat.
PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, April 10, 2012 According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, the average pay-TV subscription for basic pay-TV service and premium-TV channels in the U.S. reached $86 in 2011. As TV program licensing fees have risen, pay TV monthly rates have also grown an average of 6 percent per […]
PlayStation 3 gets Amazon Instant Video
As of today, Sony has given their PlayStation 3 owners another option in cutting-the-cord. Sony and Amazon have partnered in launching the Amazon Instant Video app for the PlayStation Network. The Amazon Instant Video app will allow you to stream Television shows and movies via the Internet to your PlayStation3. A video library of over […]
MLB.TV Now Available on Xbox 360
If not being able to watch Major League Baseball has been that last thread you couldn’t let go off to cut the cord, now you can. Yesterday, MLB.TV Premium subscribers will have access to all available Spring Training games and every out-of-market regular season game on Xbox 360* as well as portability support to use […]
Time Magazine: The Return of Television Rabbit Ears?
Getting TV stations through the airwaves may seem like an anachronism in the age of streaming video online. But actually, the rise of Hulu and Netflix seems to be helping the rabbit ear industry. Over the last few years, many of us cut the cord on cable in favor of streaming programming online. Hulu Plus […]
Wall Street Journal: Over-the-Air TV Catches Second Wind, Aided by Web
Richard Schneider, President of Antennas Direct, was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal yesterday on the exploding market of free over-the-air TV viewership using our antennas. Read the full interview here:
Broadcast TV-Only Broadband Homes Jump 23%
The Nielsen Co. was careful not to fan the cord-cutting flames, but its latest Cross Platform Report shows that the number of U.S. homes with broadcast-only TV and broadband jumped 22.8 percent since the third quarter of 2011. Nielsen estimates that there are 5.1 million homes in that category, after 1 million joined in during […]
Generation Ys Latest Trend: Cord Cutting
Get out of the way baby boomers. The Generation Y’s are leading the way of how you guys used to watch TV growing up. They are becoming the predominate movement of over-the-air (OTA) television viewing today. Gen Y’s are intrinsically tuned in to trying different forms of how to watch TV. They are not chained […]
January 20th Antennas Direct Bus Tour Stops In Bridgeton, MO
If you don’t have cable or satellite and you want to watch television, you need a digital antenna. On Friday, January 20th, KPLR 11, FOX 2 and Antennas Direct are giving away at least 400 digital antennas* beginning at 10am while supplies last. Come to Car Credit City in Bridgeton starting at 10am. Each digital […]
Did 9 Million Cable Subcribers Cut The Cord?
A New year, new chance to talk about cord-cutting and shaving down your bills. Which is either a big deal that’s going to get bigger, or not ,depending on who you like to listen to. Wall Street Journal’s Peter Kafka reports.
Survey: Nearly One Tenth of Americans Have Cut The Cord.
According to a study conducted by consulting firm Deloitte, approximately 9 percent of users subscribing to premium television programming such as cable or satellite TV ditched those services in favor of online options during 2011. With more than 2,000 respondents between the ages of 14 to 75 participating in the survey, eleven percent are considering […]