YouTube TV is an alluring choice for consumers with its unlimited cloud-based DVR and low starting price of $35 a month. Unfortunately, as is often the case, there is another kind of cost for this low price service—your time. YouTube TV subscribers are going to be forced to watch commercials on shows you record on […]
Tag: Sling TV
Sling TV Launches Live Programmatic Advertising Service
The digital and advertising worlds continue to collide as Sling TV partners with Adobe’s newly created Advertising Cloud to deliver a programmatic TV offering that allows advertisers to bid in real time on livestreaming and video-on-demand content. Essentially, this means that advertisers will be able to bid on Sling TV’s slice of ad inventory through […]
Sling TV Opens Up Paid Access To Cloud DVR
DISH Network has been testing a Cloud DVR service for their Sling TV users since November 2016. This initial round of testing was done through a closed beta of Sling users who accessed the service through a Roku product. Those DISH customers who don’t use Roku products can finally rejoice as DISH invites them to […]
YouTube To Enter MVPD Market
YouTube is looking to expand its services, and hopefully its revenue stream, with the launch of YouTube TV sometime in 2017. YouTube TV will be a virtual multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) that will feature 40 cable channels when it first launches. YouTube has made it clear that this will be a contract free service […]
Comcast Rolls Out New Stream TV App
Comcast is finally updating their Xfinity TV mobile device app with a new one called Xfinity Stream. The new app isn’t just delivering a new user-interface but a multitude of new features for Xfinitiy subscribers including: live-TV access, on-demand programming, DVR recordings, filtering content with critical scores as well as Common Sense Media ratings, and […]
DISH Network’s Sling TV Cloud DVR Beta
In what can only be seen as a direct response to AT&T’s recent DirecTV NOW launch, DISH Network has announced a new network DVR beta test for Sling TV subscribers. The beta is showcasing what is being touted as a true cloud DVR with up to 100 hours of storage space. When you hear “cloud […]
