Netflix Cracks Down On Unauthorized Account Sharing
Netflix is cracking down on account/password sharing through a new tool that will restrict sign-ons from multiple addresses without confirmation from an account holder’s secondary device, typically a smartphone. Users logging into a Netflix app from outside the main household will be asked to verify…
Black Friday Deal Offers Hulu Subscription For $1.99/Month
Hulu, Disney’s other major over-the-top streaming service, is available now at a special $1.99 per month for 12 months of its basic offering as part of a limited-time 2020 Black Friday promotion that expires at 3 a.m. Dec. 1st. Through the deal, new subscribers will…
Roku Beefs Up Free Live TV Channels, Movies
Pandemic sheltering consumers looking for something more to stream for free got some good news from Roku this week. The streaming media player resource, said it has added more than 30 live linear TV channels to its Live TV Channel Guide posted inside The Roku…
Traditional Pay-TV Subscriptions Continued To Decline In Q1
Despite the surge in viewership of online streaming content during the COVID-19 sheltering period, subscribers to traditional pay-TV services like cable, satellite and telco-TV continue to dwindle at an alarming rate. The top 10 U.S. pay-TV service providers hemorrhaged a cumulative 2.33 million subscribers during…
Fandango To Acquire Vudu Movie Service From Walmart
Long-time transactional video on demand (VOD) streaming movie service Vudu, currently owned by Walmart, is being acquired by Comcast-owned movie ticket and VOD service Fandango for an undisclosed amount. Under the deal, Vudu, which was acquired by Walmart 10 years ago for $100 million, will…
ViacomCBS Expected To Announce Expansion Of CBS All Access
The recently merged ViacomCBS is reportedly looking to expand its CBS All Access over-the-top (OTT) streaming service operations, bringing in more content assets from various Sumner-family interests to beef up its direct distribution offerings. The plan, first reported last week by CNBC, would include bringing…
Movies Anywhere Launches New Content Locker Service
Walt Disney has brought together five of the six major Hollywood studios to provide a new digital content locker for the ownership and playback of streamed movies accessed through an app called Movies Anywhere. Movies Anywhere, which launched Wednesday night, uses a free app…
Review: New Tablo DUAL Makes Cord-Cutting A Little Easier
Nuvyyo, manufacturer of the popular Tablo DVR designed to bring live and time-shifted over-the-air (OTA) TV to cord cutters, upped the ante on its whole-home TV streaming experience Wednesday by introducing its Tablo DUAL, a next-generation version that includes 2-tuners and 64 GB of…
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