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In September a number of media members reported on Portal TV, a new living room based device from Facebook designed to allow users to use their TV’s as video phones to talk to other face to face via Facebook’s video call feature as well as WhatsApp. The device also offers streaming services including Amazon Video, SHOWTIME,…
It’s time to stop lumping AT&T streaming services with things like Hulu, Sling TV, and YouTube TV. It appears AT&T has jumped the shark when it comes to pricing options. When it originally launched there might have been no better deal than AT&T DirecTV now service $35.00 for over 60 channels. Not only did it…
Let’s talk about intellectual property. Intellectual property is protected by one of two means, you have a patent, which is usually designated for a tangible object. That would be something like an EpiPen or intermittent wipers for your car. It’s a product that you created. Then there are intangible things. This would be something like…
On July 23rd, Bijan Stephen, writer for The Verge, published an article about Plex. No doubt as a Plex user I’m obviously biased in favor of this particular software and I won’t deny that I use it far more frequently on my Roku TV than I do my subscription to Hulu or Netflix but one…
Roku and Amazon Fire TV are not services. This is not the first time we have mentioned this, but I guess it’s our soapbox. I used to see people ask what was the better choice between Roku and Netflix. This was very early in the streaming days when Roku’s were just something found at niche…
