Category: Streaming Media

For video streamers, another price hike just means it’s Tuesday. For music streaming, however, price increases are bigger deals, and they tend to reverberate for everyone.  Take Amazon, which just hiked the…

Remember when you first signed up for Netflix streaming? It was nice. A few bucks a month for tons of good movies, some pretty decent original shows, zero ads, and you could…

Nope, there’s nothing wrong with your TV—that was an ad you just saw on Amazon Prime Video.  Like many of the big streaming services, Amazon Prime Video has rolled out an ad-supported…

Streamers love to fiddle with their navigation menus, moving this menu bar here and shifting this button there, all in the name of “streamlining” the experience. The changes are typically just different,…

Fans of physical media—myself included—tend to be a morbid bunch, dwelling on the rise of streaming while bemoaning the steady decline of Blu-ray, the home-media format of choice for cinephiles.  So when…

Plex is the middle of a full-on makeover, starting two months ago with the rollout of an all-new look and feel for its mobile app, and now Apple TV users are getting…

Netflix is metaphorically flexing its muscles and spiking the football this week, announcing both record fourth-quarter subscriber gains and price hikes for nearly every one of its plans. In other words, the…

We’re getting used to Netflix hiking its prices on a regular basis, and this time, it’s raising the price on nearly all its plans, including a first-ever price increase for Netflix’s newest…

DirecTV has made good on its plans to launch a sports and broadcast streaming package for less than its standard TV plans, but the savings aren’t enormous. The DirecTV Stream MySports plan…