Barb Gonzalez

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SmartStream
DirectTV Now Launches with Free Apple TV, Fire TV Stick Offer
Barb Gonzalez  |  Dec 01, 2016  |  0 comments
AT&T has released the live TV and VOD streaming app, DIRECTV NOW. While the app has many problems at launch, AT&T is offering some attractive incentives to lure new subscribers.
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4K TV Reviews
Discovery+ Streaming Service To Launch in January
Barb Gonzalez  |  Dec 23, 2020  |  1 comments
Discovery+ will launch on January 4th as the newest aggregated subscription streaming service. Drawing on 17 of Discovery's channels, the service will offer the largest inventory of unscripted and non-fiction programming.
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CES 2015
Dish Announces 4K Box, Live TV Streaming Service
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jan 06, 2015  |  0 comments
In typical Dish grandstand fashion, the company reeled off a slew of announcements about an upcoming 4K set top box, the launch of Sling Television stand-alone streaming service, newly designed hopper menus and remote control, and whole home audio.
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CES 2017
Dish Anywhere Comes to Fire TV
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jan 08, 2017  |  0 comments
The Dish Anywhere app has expanded beyond mobile phones to the TV on Fire TV sticks and media players. The app can access a Dish Hopper receiver’s live TV, guides, and DVR. Users can start recording or set up scheduled recordings.
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SmartStream
Dish Chairman: We're Not Trying to Destroy TV Networks With Our Commercial Skipping DVR
Barb Gonzalez  |  Feb 28, 2013  |  0 comments
Dish co-founder debunks rumors that the comapny is trying to bankrupt TV networks with its AutoHop commercial-skipping DVR feature...
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SmartStream
Dish Offers "Reverse AutoHop" Ad Skipping Feature for Super Bowl
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jan 29, 2015  |  0 comments
Dish Network is offering a special feature for this year’s Super Bowl. Not everyone watching the Super Bowl is a football fan. There have been many years that I’ve been guilty of talking through the game only to stop and watch the commercials. The AutoHop feature on Dish’s Hopper DVR typically skips commercials but has been re-engineered for the Super Bowl game.
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SmartStream
Dish Releases AirTV Mini to Simplify Sling TV Experience
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jul 18, 2019  |  0 comments
DISH has just released a new AirTV.  The AirTV Mini is a palm-sized dongle that appears to be a promising upgrade from the original 2017 AirTV Player. 
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SmartStream
Dish Subscribers Get Showtime Anytime and Other Streaming Improvements
Barb Gonzalez  |  Mar 25, 2015  |  1 comments
At long last Dish subscribers can watch Showtime Anytime on media players and mobile devices. Here are the details.
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CES 2012
Dish Unplugged Brings Blockbuster, HBO GO
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jan 10, 2012  |  0 comments
Dish Network will bring Blockbuster@Home and an expanded version of HBO On Demand and Cinemax on Demand to customers who haven’t been able to stream movies and TV shows because they have slow internet. “Dish Unplugged” will stream content directly to the “Hopper” DVR via satellite.
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SmartStream
Disney to Move Hulu Content to Disney+
Barb Gonzalez  |  May 17, 2023  |  4 comments
By the end of the year, Hulu will be rolled into the Disney+ app and viewers will be able to find and stream both services' content without switching between apps. The strategy was announced in a call with Disney investors last week.
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