What The Disney Spectrum Fight Tells Us About Cable

Well what happened to the Spectrum Disney standoff being a cannon event in the story of pay-tv? To say the hype did not live up to the final result would be a gross understatement. This was going to be it. Charter’s CEO Chris Winfrey was seriously talking about how TV was not profitable and that…

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Why It’s Hard To Hear Dialogue On Streaming Content

Good news. It’s not just you. A new report from the New York Times says that the dialogue in streamed content is more difficult to understand and it’s not simply a matter of an individual’s ability to hear otherwise. According to the NYT reporting about 50% of Americans — and the “majority” of young people…

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Price Hikes Are Not Greed

It’s greed. That’s what people say every time something goes up in price. And sometimes it is true. Most companies charge as much for something as they think the market will allow and have to look at the diminishing returns of either charging too little vs the cost of providing the service or product or…

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Looks Like Netflix Customer Lied About Cancelling

Two years ago, when industry types began talking about a Netflix password-sharing crackdown we started seeing various survey results saying that customers who use other’s passwords would not get their own accounts if they lost access to someone elses. For instance a little over a year ago, results from a survey by reviews.org showed that…

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Sling Free Stream Needs Its Own App

Sling TV announced today that its free streaming options were coming to Android mobile users. The ad-supported service provides close to 400 channels and 41,000 on-demand titles from across a huge spectrum of partners within the Sling TV app. Sling TV says that this summer the free selections will include: “True Crime Story: Look Into…

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