Baseball and the Final Four are upon us, and the NBA and NHL postseasons are heating up with the Spring, even if football is months away. But no matter how much you're enjoying the singular benefits of your favorite sport, America's sports-padded cable TV packages are still forcing you to subsidize football — even in April.
Maybe you can't do all of those at once, but if you're a cord-cutter or a cord-never or you're stuck at work and want to watch the 2013 NCAA basketball tournament online, you're not totally out of options.
There's this idea that young people, who have grown up in a streaming Internet world, aren't getting cable and they never will. We call these people cord nevers and wanted to put some statistics behind the theory.
Recent cord cutting numbers of about 400,000 last quarter might not prove a threatening trend, but that's not the number that matters.
Now that Google has decided to delay the release of its media streaming device, the Nexus Q, to make it "better," we have some advice from unhappy reviewers for how Google could achieve that goal.
Streaming TV box maker Roku just got $45 million and a "strategic relationship" from big media players News Corp. and British Sky Broadcasting, a sum and connections it can use to give us more streaming options (mostly) without cable.
During yesterday's quarterly earnings report, Netflix mentioned a possible end to its relationship with Epix -- one of its movie providers -- as if it were no big deal to lose a contract that provides many popular new release movies.
The Wall Street Journal reports the Justice Department is investigating whether cable companies have been unfairly working to regulate Internet consumption to prevent people switching from cable to online video.
Following its failure to separate its DVD and streaming businesses with its loud and unpopular Qwikster rebranding effort, Netflix has taken subtler tactics to segregate its two types of customers: buying up the domain DVD.com.
Netflix may have reached a financial roadblock in its plan to win back respect and subscribers.
A quote from the Steve Jobs biography has the Apple TV rumor mill up and running again.
It is going to be tough to find everything you want to watch in one place
Plus: Michael Fassbender on the shortlist for 'U.N.C.L.E.' and 'Robocop'
It won't give them many movies, but it does show they can beat out the likes of HBO for content
Online only services just won't have as many movie offerings
Recent moves suggest the company has forgone customer satisfaction for its bottom line
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