Category: TV
TV Premieres 2024: Exciting New Shows Arriving
by Bill Frost | Feb 29, 2024 | Entertainment, TV, What to Watch
It’s March, which means we’ll finally get to see new seasons of 9-1-1 (now on ABC instead of FOX), Girls5eva (now on Netflix), and Family Guy (now on Wednesdays—what’s going on?). Also premiering this month are Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, Wonka, and the 96th Academy Awards. Spring into some fresh TV!
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What Is Streaming TV?
by Bill Frost | Feb 9, 2024 | TV
Streaming TV is simply video content delivered over the internet instead of a cable in the ground or a dish on the roof. Watch on a TV, tablet, phone, laptop, or wherever you want, no muss or fuss—if you have a decent internet connection, you’re ready to stream.
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Where You Can Watch New Girl
by Bill Frost | Feb 8, 2024 | Entertainment, How to Watch, Streaming, TV
Attention, True Americans: New Girl left Netflix, its streaming home for a decade, in April 2023. All that quality time you spend with Jess, Nick, Schmidt, Winston, and Cece has come to an end—at least on that service. As of April 2023, you now have two New Girl streaming choices: Hulu and Peacock.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender, Shōgun, and the Biggest New and Returning Shows to Watch
by Bill Frost | Feb 1, 2024 | Entertainment, Streaming, TV, What to Watch
Even though it’s been covertly engineered by the lizard people at the Pentagon, Taylor & Travis’ Super Bowl LVIII isn’t the only TV event of February 2024. Donald Glover’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith series, Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show, the writers’ strike-delayed new seasons of your favorite network shows, and more are on deck (as is a new season of Below Deck).
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Chromecast 3rd Generation Review
by Bill Frost | Jan 29, 2024 | Equipment, Reviews, Streaming, TV
Google’s Chromecast 3rd Generation is a plug-and-play streaming device in the most literal sense: simply insert it into your TV’s HDMI port, and you’re ready to go. Well, there’s also a second plug for power—but setting up a Chromecast is still ridiculously easy, not to mention cheap.
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Best Smart TVs of 2023
by Randy Harward | Jan 29, 2024 | Equipment, TV
We’ve compared several new smart TVs, considering these questions and more, and found four to recommend to you. The Samsung QN90B is our overall favorite, the LG C2 OLED is our pick for best picture, and bargain hunters will love the Hisense U8H ULED Google TV and TCL 5-Series Roku TV.
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TiVo Stream 4K Review
by Bill Frost | Jan 29, 2024 | Equipment, Reviews, TV
At $30.95, the TiVo Stream 4K is one of the cheaper streaming devices on the market, and it features a cross-platform aggregation function that can save you some jumping between apps. Unfortunately, that function is limited to a handful of apps, only one of which offers live TV streaming.
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Niche Live TV Streamers Shine as Competitor Prices Surpass Cable
by Taylor Kujawa | Jan 26, 2024 | Best of the Best, Entertainment, Reviews, TV
Uncover real perspectives from 7,150 customers. See how live TV streaming services like YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, and more stack up in user satisfaction.
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The Daily Show Guest Host Lineup 2024
by Bill Frost | Jan 25, 2024 | Entertainment, Streaming, TV
The Daily Show has been a news-adjacent institution since 1996, when it launched on Comedy Central with host Craig Kilborn. Then came anchors Jon Stewart (1999–2015) and Trevor Noah (2015–2022), but the news desk now sits empty in 2023. Well, not exactly. On Tuesday, January 17, The Daily Show relaunched with a series of weekly guest hosts.
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Amazon Fire TV Cube Review
by Bill Frost | Jan 24, 2024 | Equipment, Reviews, TV
The Fire TV Cube is the full-featured, bigger/squarer brother to Amazon’s Fire TV Sticks. The Fire TV Cube is also one of the most futuristic and feature-rich streamers we’ve reviewed on CableTV.com, and one of the first to challenge our love for the Roku Ultra (that’s a big deal around here).
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