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On The Cheap: Amazon Brandishes Fire Stick; Shoots Special Price At Prime Members

Mordechai Osdoby — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:17:01 +0000

Despite Apple calling the Apple TV a “hobby”, TV streamers are big business. Amazon has been doing a great job of selling the still-fairly-new Fire TV system. Voice search and integration with Prime Instant Video have been big points in favor, but not so much the $99 price tag. After all, you can get same […]

No Maybes About It: Google Fiber Is Coming To Austin, TX

Justin Davis — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:55:17 +0000

Today, Google made a formal announcement with Austin, TX Mayor Lee Leffingwell that Google Fiber is indeed coming to the state capital in mid-2014. Google cites Austin’s rich artistic community and tech companies that fill the city, along with the University of Texas and the schools new medical research hospital. Kansas City became the first […]

Fox To Cancel Hulu Plus Viewers

Matt Algren — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:00:56 +0000

For the past six months, I’ve been getting addicted to my Roku-enhanced television. It’s been years now since I cancelled my cable service and I rarely miss it, especially with the abundance of old TV shows streaming to my Roku from Netflix. Still, we live in a “grass is always greener” culture, and I’ve begun […]

Monoprice Is Changing the Way We Buy Tech

Jeremy Goldstone — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:35:22 +0000

Monoprice may be the best worst-kept secret in tech. If you have put together a home theater system or a computer network and someone didn’t point you towards Monoprice, let’s just say you need to find yourself some geekier friends. Although not as well known as some other retailers, the company has become known as […]

Netflix Still Stealing Cable Customers

Matt Algren — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:00:54 +0000

It’s been a pretty bad 12 months for Netflix. Ever since the video juggernaut’s hefty price increase last year, they’ve been trying to make a comeback. First, the movie rental company split its streaming and DVD services entirely, and then they stitched them back together and promised no more price increases for the foreseeable future. […]

Hello, Corporate Obstacles To Innovation! #occupytelevision

Matt Algren — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:09:52 +0000

Last week, CBS CEO Les Moonves gave us an idea of his company’s attitude toward the increasing demand for online streaming of television content. On the subject of online content, Moonves had this to say (via Engadget): We — frankly, we don’t believe in them. We’re not going to go out and we’ve sort of […]

Cable Companies Bleeding Customers Instead Of Just Bleeding Them Dry

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:00:38 +0000

Back in June, we at Techcitement commented on the cable industry’s decision to focus on making cable more affordable. We were wondering how that was working out for them, and it looks like it’s not going down as well as they hoped. In a tally by the Associated Press, eight of the nine largest subscription-TV […]

Cable Companies Sensitive to Your Fiscal Needs

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:17:19 +0000

Reuters has a great article entitled “Cable Worried About Poverty, not Netflix”. In it, heads of large cable companies like Time Warner and Cox say their concerns are not new and different models, but that the current fiscal situation leads people to shed their services. I think what the executives and the author are missing […]