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Roku is going to further confuse the consumer market with its latest commercials and it doesn’t have to. A new ad shows a couple discussing streaming on their TV when the woman states that the TV is a “Roku TV”. Why is this a mistake? Because despite how it is marketed, Roku does not make…
Okay Roku users, I’m going to encourage you to calm down. This week the Internet has been abuzz concerning the latest threat to the universe, otherwise known as the possibility that Amazon and Roku are going to come to an impasse that would somehow remove the Amazon video app from Roku devices. I can understand…
Here we are again. YouTube is in another staring contest with a streaming platform. Last time it was Amazon and the Fire TV platform. Amazon slipped right past the problem via the introduction of Fire TV compatible browsers that squashed the threat of not having the app and eventually YouTUbe was again available on Fire…
Could Disney part ways with ESPN? This is a concept broached recently in a piece by Front Office Sports. The thinking behind the piece is that Disney wants to focus more solely on streaming content and take focus away from legacy media such as ESPN’s family of cable channels of which there are at least…
At the height of the short-lived drama between Comcast and Google, it was reported that YouTube TV was going to encourage users to sign up for Peacock. Why? The perception was that the $4.99 a month service essentially offered everything that would be lost by not having a dozen channels including the flagship, NBC. Is…
