June, 2017 | CompuScoop.com

What to do of your Cable System doesn’t support single sign-in for Apple TV

Dan Uff June 4, 2017 1

Single sign in is a feature for Apple TV that lets the end user sign-in to their TV cable system using a single sign-in page. Then if they download an app for a cable channel (such as Discovery) and go into the LIVE page, the channel would already be available without that user having to sign-in to that cable channel's web site and sign in there.

But what if your cable service is not on the list of single sign-in providers? In that case, you'll have to:

Go to the LIVE page of that Apple TV app.
Select "other cable system" or something like that.
The page will show a login URL (such as http://www.investigationdiscoverygo.com/activate).
The page will show a special code. Enter the code into the cable channel's page.
After that, the cable channel will show up.

You'd have to do the above for each cable channel app.

Samsung to try to spoil new iPhone sales In South Korea by flooding the market with “old” Galaxy Note 7 Units

Dan Uff June 3, 2017 1

Talk about a "fire sale",

“In February, Patently Apple posted a report titled “Samsung Backtracks and is Reportedly Planning to Sell Refurbished Note 7 Smartphones in Q3.” Samsung’s President of Mobile Communications, D.J. Koh, announced during a special presentation surrounding the findings of the Note 7 fires by independent sources, that 4.7 million Note 7 smartphones were produced and that 96% of them had been returned to them,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “Samsung further noted that they would sell refurbished Note 7s at a later date.”

“At the time the rumors were that Samsung would use the refurbished Note 7’s to excite sales in emerging markets with cheap Note 7s,” Purcher reports. “But… with the iPhone 8 capturing the imagination of global consumers as they delay the purchase of a smartphone this year until they see what innovation Apple could be bringing to market, Samsung has decided that they would sell the refurbished Note 7’s [in the South Korean market] just prior to the release of the iPhone 8 in order to hurt sales of the iPhone 8.”

Read more in the full article here.