Items tagged with Starz
With every passing day, more people are looking to the cut the cord with their cable and satellite TV providers in favor of streaming solutions. This has led to some intense competition among streaming set-top box and dongle providers, along with standalone services such as Netflix and Hulu. To make its own set-top box more competitive, Apple is trying to strike a deal with HBO, Showtime, and Starz to be able and package all three channels in a single bundle.Apple also wants to be able to offer the bundle as a standalone package through Apple TV. That would be a deviation from how things operate in the pay-TV world, where cable and satellite providers require that customers subscribe to a basic...
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Amazon Prime started out as a nifty little program that offered members free 2-day shipping on millions of qualifying items. That perk still applies, though Prime has become so much more. It's also worked its way up to a full fledged streaming video service, and through a new partnership program that ties in with Prime, members can bundle in premium content from the likes of Showtime, Starz, and others. Showtime and Starz both run $8.99 per month. That's a couple bucks cheaper than it costs to stream Showtime through iTunes or Google Play, both of which charge $10.99 per month for Showtime. And for Starz, this is the first time it's been available to consumers without having to pony up for a...
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Google's little HDMI Chromecast dongle has been on the market for just over a year now, and as much as we liked it when it first came out, it's even better today. That's thanks to a constant stream up of updates. Hundres of apps have been added, such as HBO Go and Pandora, to name just two of many, and with the most recent update, even more have joined the fray. Just in time for the holidays, Google added a handful of family-friendly games like Wheel of Fortune, Hasbro's Monopoly Dash, Scrabble Blitz, Connect Four Quads, and Simon Swipe. For each one, you can use your phone or tablet as the controller and our TV as the game board or score board. You'll also find more active titles such as Just...
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Apple has been trying to add content to the iTunes Movie and TV store in an attempt to push the Apple TV and iTunes in general. The latest content to be added are from Starz and Manga, but sadly these seem somewhat limited compared to the complete Starz and Manga libraries:“The first offerings from Starz include two half-hour sitcoms, Hollywood Residential and Head Case, as well as four Anime favorites from Manga Entertainment : Tokko, Noein, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Tactics.”Anime fans may be displeased with the four initial offerings, especially given the lack of the legendary cult-classic Akira....
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