TV Streaming Devices

With more people streaming TV, I’m encountered some confusion from people when attempting to watch live cable channels on their Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and other streaming devices. This confusion stems from people downloading cable channel apps, known as TV Everywhere Apps, to their Roku or other streaming devices. They download a channel app like [read How To Watch Cable Channels on Roku and Other Devices]

Amazon Fire TV has been quietly experimenting with integrating content from Live TV streaming services into Fire TV content discovery. Initially, Philo and Sling TV subscribers could log into their respective Live TV app on the Fire TV, and live TV shows available through channels on those services would be displayed on the “Live TV [read Amazon Fire TV Interface Integrates Live TV]

As a Roku owner, I understand it can be overwhelming to find quality channels on your Roku device. I’ve covered how you can get channels like AMC, HGTV, Discovery, and many more for just  per month on Philo. But what if you want free channels? Today, I’m going to cover some of my favorite free channels to [read Best Free Channels on Roku]

Using your Roku remote to search and install a channel app on your Roku device can be tedious. It’s a bit easier if you are comfortable using voice search if you have it, but otherwise, typing letters with the remotes directional arrows is a hassle. If you are like me, you probably have two or [read Install a Channel on Every Roku in One Click]

This weekend, my Roku TV met its demise during an escalated pillow fight. While the TCL makes an excellent Roku TV, it will lose to a kid and a high-speed bag of feathers every time (especially if they think they’re Thor and spin up fluffy Mjölner before throwing.) While this is an expensive error, I [read What Roku Remote Do You Need? Can You Go Without One?]

Google Chromecast is a tiny saucer-shaped device which plugs into your television and provides a means of streaming TV, movies and video to your television.  Priced of $30, it’s an affordable TV streaming solutions. Chromecast Prerequisites Google Chromecast is unique compared to similar streaming devices such as Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV.  Unlike its [read Google Chromecast (Gen 3) Setup and Review]

Roku just released updated versions of their previously discontinued Roku Premiere and Premiere+. In addition to the 2 different versions of Roku Streaming Stick and the Roku Ultra, Express and Express+ (See our guide on What is Roku for details on all models) that now makes 7 different Roku streaming devices on the market. Roku Premiere and [read Roku Brings Back Premiere and Premiere+]

I’ve always held that those intending to use Kodi to manage their streaming libraries should go with Nvidia Shield TV instead of using something like a jailbroken Fire TV Stick. Now Nvidia gives cord cutters even more reasons to go with a Nvidia Shield. Not only will the Nvidia Shield provide 4K UHD with HDR and [read Nvidia Shield TV Offers a Smart Home Bundle]

When Dish Network unveiled it’s AirTV at CES 2017 this year it promised to bring streaming and broadcast TV together in one device. I’ve been using the new AirTV for about 2 weeks now and want to go over the my experience so you can decide if this is the device you’ve been waiting for. [read Dish’s AirTV Brings OTA and Streaming Together]

One of my favorite pieces of cord cutting tech, is Western Digitals My Cloud Media Server. While most use this device for backing up files, photos, and videos on all their devices to one central location, My Cloud’s built in media server was critical in consolidating our family’s DVD collection. This involved converting our DVDs to MP4 [read How to Rip a DVD to an MP4 for Streaming]