CCT #166 – Dish is Suing More IPTV Subscribers, Comcast's Hidden Price Hike, & More

Story #1 Amazon’s Fire TV Sticks Are on Sale Starting at $24.99 (For a Limited Time) https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/amazons-fire-tv-sticks-are-on-sale-starting-at-24-99-for-a-limited-time/

Story #2 DISH Is Threatening More Lawsuits Against IPTV Subscribers & Resellers https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/dish-is-threatening-more-lawsuits-against-iptv-subscribers-resellers/

Story #3 Comcast Is Moving Some TV Channels to More Expensive Packages As a Hidden Price Hike https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-is-moving-some-tv-channels-to-more-expensive-packages-as-a-hidden-price-hike/

Story #4 Disney+ Confirms That The X-Men, Darkwing Duck, Recess, Newsies, Gargoyles, & More Will Be Included at Launch https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/disney-confirms-that-the-x-men-darkwing-duck-newsies-gargoyles-more-will-be-included-at-launch/

Story #5 The New Onn Roku Smart Soundbar From Walmart is Now Available in Stores & Online https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/the-new-onn-roku-smart-soundbar-from-walmart-is-now-available-in-stores-online/

Story #6 FedEx Now Lets you Bring Your Online Returns to Walgreens Making Life Easier https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/fedex-now-lets-you-bring-your-online-returns-to-walgreens-making-life-easier/

Story #7 Tubi is Launching a New Free Kids Area With 5,000 Hours of Content & Expanding Into the UK https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/tubi-is-launching-a-new-free-kids-area-with-5000-hours-of-content-expanding-into-the-uk/

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Please, have a video detailing step by step after we unplug the DVR and before we call and cancel Direct TV what do we do?
What is the first thing we do and buy?

Tubi is a great channel

I find it interesting that Dish, (who has regularly screwed it's customers for years) is going after people buying their content from someone else. Perhaps if they weren't so crooked and overpriced people would have no reason to get the content elsewhere.

The other day I went to watch something on TMC and found that it was not available to me. I have had comcrap for over 2 years and always had TMC. I liked the older movies. This is pretty darn bad to do this and not let me know. I have to hear from it via third party like this. Im getting ready to go IPTV instead but now hearing about the lawsuits I have to alter my plans a bit.

The problem is streaming is legal as long as u don't resell it and download the content. I just stream it .

Cable TV service should cost under $20/month.  Anything with ads should be no extra charge.  Period.  If they want to charge for anything else as "premium" then advertising should be illegal on such pay channels.  OTA stations carried via cable should not get separate payment from cable but the cable companies should not be allowed to overlay their own advertising replacing the OTA ads or one second of the programming.

If you think that's extreme you should price out service in India, etc. where the providers have all of the same costs of doing business that they do here and more but "full boat" packages, basic service and set-top box included, go for under $10/month.  U.S. customers are being literally robbed by predatory corporations.

The 4K promo code worked for me

It's a scam can't you tell? Stop trying to scare people. If said it over and over if they want me to use their service make it available internationally.

On other tip with Fedex and Walgreens, if you have something being delivered theatre requires a signature and you’re not going to be home you can have them deliver it to Walgreens and pick it up later.

Consumers Pirating .. if you were dumb enough to use your actual credit card on PayPal then yeah you're screwed. Heads up to dummies .. get a prepaid VISA.

I guess I am curious how Dish got anyones Paypal information. Did Paypal give Dish this info?

Comcast "moving channels" .. if they're removing content from your plan without notification or credits then effectively that's Theft by Deception.

They sell iptv services too, they should just make streaming illegal.

The FireStick 4k promo worked for me for qty 1. I needed to replace 2 1st Gen sticks so I had to pay full price for 2nd 4k stick. FYI – YTTV is available for FireTV now but not compatible with 1st Gen Firesticks.

Don't you need a 4k tv to get the full effect of the 4k firestick?

Companies need to take it easy cause they ain't stopping where tech is taking this world.

luke, the fact comcast moving channels around on their own stuff with price hikes is kind of messy
if places Like Youtube tv sling tv ps vue and amazon prime want to act like a positive alternative to comcast in terms of both tv programming and movies, especially if there was More features added, then thats cool, but they need to be persistant about it so they don't get fallen behind comcast

i like tubi tv and the roku channel, i think they are great free services
and i think its cool that even plex is adding ad supported movies and tv shows

im going to get straight to the point involving my arguement involving disney plus, and it goes back to my hbo max arguement
people Need to have more options
if people want to buy seasons of these disney tv shows and disney movies, then that is far more affordable
than having to spend upwards to 60 bucks a year on a addon for hulu
disney just needs to get the peaceful solid message that they need to make their tv movies and tv shows more widely available for Everyone else on these movies anywhere stores like amazon, vudu, google play. fandango ,etc for folks who like to buy their movies and tv shows

So Paypal rats out customers. smh.

Who wants Roku ?…..

Many people who subscribe to IPTV services have no idea that they are stealing services on the legitimate equipment (cracked Firestick, various android boxes, etc.) that they've purchased. There are ads all over the internet and Facebook for these iptv services that look no different than legitimate services that cost more money. Going after the subscriber is likely not the way to go to deal with this.

So I've been with Prime pretty much from the beginning. This is my 5th FireTV device and the 4k promo code worked for me…. so YAY!

Just use a green dot card no name on card at all

Dollar general in my town is doing FedEx pick up and drop off

I’ve used the FedEX @ Walgreens for returns. This was so much closer than the FedEX store. I was very happy for having this option.

I been watching the Adams family sometimes on Pluto tv

I think is more beyond copyrights ownership , the actual issue is the cable companies are losing clients. Instead of give a better service to the customer. They prefer to go after people that looks for other alternatives to cable.,

Next dish be going after Walmart and Roku owner s

This sounds like a great lawsuit against paypal. There's no way in hell Dish should be getting this information.

first of all Good Afternoon take that Roku Garbage out Amazon and Android boxes are better and about Dish and Cable if they stop Raising the prices and for the Sevices this wouldn't happen but Dish and Direct are to high price and then you asked them to remove a channel they end up is Removing more then that one channel's is there fault this Happen
and yes that iptv is not the best but. the prices you can't beat that so no Iptv is not going no where all this is there fault and is all about streaming now i was a long costumer for a lots of years even local channels cable and Satellite want to take over so inther net is the best way to go too Have a Great day

I am one of the Comcast subscribers who is slowly losing parts of his channel package. I am on the Premiere package which is/was all the premium channels except Epix. This summer I lost Cinemax, which included 9 channels. Then the report of the then upcoming TCM move/loss. I filed a complaint with my state AGs office. Someone from Comcast eventually contacted me to try and see if they could help. I said you can help by decreasing my monthly fee. No help offered however about 2 weeks later the same person calls me back to say someone from higher up reviewed my plan and decided to give me a $150.00 credit on my acct. I felt that was okay enough however now the Starz removal has been confirmed so guess it's starting all over again for me.

And now I find out the Feds are looking at Comcast for some bad practices.

They have No business what people do with their own internet connection! And what and where they buying! They must keep out of our business! We can also Sue them because they spying on us !!!!! They can shut hell up !

IPTV consumers are not breaking any laws, period! Reselling, yes, but not a consumer. They are sending out letters, that is all, they can't sue you for copywrite infringement. This is a scare tactic!