Category: TV
What Is a Smart TV?
by Randy Harward | Dec 14, 2024 | Entertainment, Equipment, TV
If you’re in the market for a new TV, you’ve almost certainly run across the term smart TV. And if you’re like most folks, you’re almost certainly wondering what the heck that is. We’re here to walk you through everything you need to answer the question, “What is a smart TV?”
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2025 Live TV Streaming Customer Satisfaction Awards Survey: Niche Services Nudge Heavyweights Like YouTube TV Aside
by Randy Harward | Dec 12, 2024 | Featured, Industry News, Reviews, Streaming, TV
Read real perspectives from 8,097 customers. See how live TV streaming services like YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Frndly TV, Philo, and more rate in user satisfaction.
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2025 TV Customer Satisfaction Awards: Is Cable Back From the Dead? Customers See Life in Providers Like Xfinity and Verizon Fios
by Logan Jones | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Industry News, Reviews, TV
We asked nearly 6,000 cable, satellite, and fiber TV customers to rate their TV providers. Verizon Fios again emerged as the provider with the highest overall satisfaction rating (79%) and earned the highest ratings on 19 of 20 questions. Read on to see what’s so great about Verizon Fios—and how your TV provider fared.
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8 Best Christmas TV Episodes
by Bill Frost | Nov 27, 2024 | Entertainment, Family, Holiday, Listicles, TV
TV Christmas episodes are better than Christmas movies in at least one aspect: They’re shorter—do you have time to watch a two-hour film during the holiday season? Ho-ho-nope. Here are some great modern-classic TV Christmas episodes to squeeze in this yuletide season, including a couple that may spike your familial anxiety. (You’ve been warned.)
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How to Connect Your iPhone to Your TV
by Randy Harward | Nov 10, 2024 | Equipment, TV
Whether you need to mirror your phone screen or use your iPhone as a remote, we’ve rounded up the most common ways to connect your iPhone to your TV and how to do it.
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What Is Over-the-Air (OTA) TV?
by Rachel Oaks | Oct 21, 2024 | Equipment, TV
Over-the-Air (OTA) TV is high-definition television broadcast from local television stations in your area. The only things you need to enjoy it are a TV and an antenna. You can even use an OTA DVR to record live TV.
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Binge or Cringe: ‘The English Teacher’
by Bill Frost | Oct 16, 2024 | Entertainment, How to Watch, Streaming, TV, What to Watch
On Labor Day 2024, FX casually dropped the first two episodes of English Teacher, a high school workplace comedy about, you guessed it, an English teacher. The eight-episode series follows Evan Marques (show creator and star Brian Jordan Alvarez), a chronically late and overly principled Austin high school teacher. He’s also gay, which is simultaneously irrelevant and central to the story.
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CableTV.com’s Best New TV Shows of 2024 (So Far): Agatha All Along, The Penguin, English Teacher, and More
by Bill Frost | Oct 2, 2024 | Entertainment, How to Watch, TV
Fall is here, so it’s time to award another 10 new TV shows with CableTV.com’s 2024 “Best” trophies. (There aren’t actual physical awards, but we can modify a couple of bowling trophies if requested.) We have an excellent mix of dramas, comedies, and not one but two Batman-related properties—let’s go!
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Dive Into Terror: The 14 Best Horror Shows Ever Made
by Bill Frost | Oct 2, 2024 | Entertainment, Horror, How to Watch, Listicles, Streaming, TV, What to Watch
Narrowing the list of “best” horror TV series down to a single read is a task almost scarier than the shows themselves—how do you exclude The Twilight Zone? What about The Walking Dead? Why was Teen Wolf even considered? Here, the CableTV.com horror hounds focused on genuine fright factor, production quality, and, most importantly, streaming availability.
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4 Ways to Never Pay for TV Again
by Randy Harward | Sep 18, 2024 | Deals, Equipment, TV
Read our guide to learn how to never pay for TV again by using free trials, FAST streaming services, OTA antennas, and more.
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