HBO Weighs Going a la Carte For The First Time Since Inception As Netflix Nips At Its Heels
Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes Monday said the company might offer HBO’s service to consumers as a stand-alone product, rather than be tied to a pay-TV service subscription offering. It would be the first time in HBO’s nearly four decades of operation that it would be offered a la carte.
How To Add Free Local HDTV Channels To Your DISH Network Lineup
Read how a Rachel Cericola adds her local HDTV Channels to her current DISH Network for free using Antennas Direct ClearStream 4. Her story is very informative from installing the ClearStream 4 to setting up her tuner. Her bottom line is that she is getting local HDTV channels for free!
Cable Bills: More Leverage For The Mayor Of Boston
Mayor Monio of Boston is telling his fellow 15,000 to 20,000 Bostonians, which subscribe to Comcast’s basic cable package, that there is an alternative to the cable giant’s recent double-digit increase on that plan. OTA antennas. Read how the Mayor is informing the poor and elderly, who mainly receive basic cable, about antennas as an […]
Cable Giant’s Are Bleeding: 500,000 Cable Subscribers Lost In 3rd Quarter
Can over a half million ex- cable subscribers be wrong? I don’t think so. Numbers are the proof. And that number is staggering. Cable subscribers are walking away from the exorbitant pricing of cable companies. GigaOm’s Ryan Lawler tells the full story here:
Las Vegas Locals Use Antennas To Get Programming
According to Cox Cable, approximately 20 percent of Las Vegas residents still watch over-the-air programming, which is higher than the national 5 percent to 10 percent reported by the Consumer Electronics Association . A new antenna installation company, Free Vegas TV, plans to educate those over-the-air TV consumers about the 41 high-definition channels that are […]
Verizon Expands ESPN Streaming Deal
FiOS TV Users Now Get ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU Online Verizon this week announced that they’ve expanded their licensing deal with Disney Corporation, and as a result will now offer more ESPN content streamed via broadband. In addition to the ESPN3 service (which requires that your ISP strikes special deals with ESPN to view) Verizon […]
Netflix Poised To Pass Comcast
Comcast has been viewed adoringly for their revenue growing by 7% last quarter as well as dividends increasing. One area that didn’t go up was the number of video consumers. About 135,000 fewer customers than last quarter. Netflix, along with HD antenna Television viewing, is package that many cord –cutters are using to walk away […]
What Is The Difference Between New And Refurbished Antennas ?
Question: What is the difference between new and refurbished? What makes a unit refurbished? Does being refurbished impact the signal quality whatsoever? Thanks, Jake Hello Jake, The refurbished antennas we sell, for the most part, are returns from previous customer purchases. Perhaps the antenna was not the right strength for the area that they live […]
Television-Ready, Web-Worthy Gadgets Ready To Raid Markets
It’s about to get a lot harder to turn off the TV. A torrent of television-ready gadgets will hit the store shelves this year, including dozens of phones and tablet computers that will allow viewers to watch movies and TV shows from just about anywhere. The proliferation of viewing devices — including a new generation […]
Microsoft Has “Mind Blowing” 360 TV Programming Plans For The Future
According to Jeff Ross, executive producer of Conan O’Brien’s Conan show on TBS, Microsoft has some big plans for Xbox Live and streaming television. There have been rumblings of Microsoft wooing several companies to acquire content for a pay-television service that would stream through the Xbox 360 console. Would original programming like something from a […]
Hulu CEO Kilar Raps Traditional TV’s Model, Lays Out ‘Future of TV’
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar gets down and dirty in a post disapproving of the old business practices of traditional television. Kilar states “Traditional TV has too many commercials”, and that cord cutters have confirmed that “users they will go to great lengths to pass up the advertising load” of traditional TV. Consumer viewers are on […]