Recent content by MartyDe

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    Bit Rate Errors - causes and fixes?

    You may have to upgrade your antenna. Do you have an amplifier on your antenna?
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    Disney+ / Hulu / Etc...+ to rein in Password Sharing

    Bruce, why do you think HULU live will fail? Price? youtube competition?
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    Disney+ / Hulu / Etc...+ to rein in Password Sharing

    Another link if you get WSJ paywall. https://cordcuttersnews.com/disney-hulu-become-profitable-for-the-first-time-ever-disney-added-6-million-subscribers/
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    Traditional Providers Losses, 1st Quarter 2024 Edition

    On my street in CT there are 2 fiber companies plus Cox cable.
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    Buyout bid for Paramount

    Looks like Sony, Apollo want to make a move on Paramount. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paramount-jumps-report-sony-pictures-092905964.html
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    Received email from Netflix about household sharing

    Also saw this article that Netflix is going to stop quarterly reporting in 2025. https://www.reuters.com/technology/netflix-crushes-subscriber-forecasts-second-straight-quarter-2024-04-18/#:~:text=Netflix%20said%20it%20will%20stop,when%20major%20milestones%20are%20reached.
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    checking out Hulu. Comments?

    Now that UCONN Women's Basketball is over I am looking at streaming services. I want them to carry SNY, a local NY sports network. SNY carries some UCONN women's games. I see that Hulu has SNY for my CT zip code as well as the locals. I would stream via my existing Amazon firestick. Cox TV...
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    Streaming services using linear TV to help with income

    Interest article. It seems like a good way to help the bottom line. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-03-14/why-your-favorite-streaming-shows-are-showing-up-on-old-fashioned-tv#:~:text=Original%20series%20created%20to%20drive,to%20keep%20pace%20with%20Netflix.
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    Traditional Providers Losses, the entire year of 2023 Edition

    And ESPN has a plan. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/espn-executives-plan-survive-demise-cable-tv-rcna144416
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    Warner, Fox, Disney to Launch Streaming Sports Joint Venture

    I won't put down streaming, in fact I have a Firestick. I will give a positive to cable because I can hand the cable remote to my wife and she can find the UCONN women's basketball game by hitting the cable number for any one of the five channels they appear on. Well worth the money.
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    Roku Black Friday deals

    69 for me on that link. Chrome browser. This is strange.
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    Thank you Bruce, I hope this really ends this.
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    Apple TV + price increase

    Looks like a new price increase. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-raises-prices-on-some-subscription-services-including-apple-tv-155224791.html
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    Spectrum goes all streaming

    Is this a new trend? https://www.thelcn.com/news/local/spectrum-launches-new-device-option-to-replace-cable-box-xumo-tv/article_5259d16b-f033-5528-913c-6bc4b06499de.html#:~:text=Spectrum%20Cable%20customers%20have%20the,streaming%20and%20traditional%20TV%20landscape.