Month: December 2019

Samsung TV owners can now watch the Celeb News Channel ‘Hollywire’ for Free

CompuScoop Staff December 23, 2019 0

Last Sunday, streaming network Wurl announced they are now delivering the celebrity news channel Hollywire to Samsung TV Plus, as well as other OTT platforms.

That means you can get access to Hollywire’s 24/7 celebrity news, interviews and original shows straight through your Samsung TV plus with just an internet connection.

“We are leveraging Wurl’s leading technology to deliver our content to our loyal fanbase, as well as reach new viewers on their Samsung Smart TVs,” said Tony Moras, CEO of Hollywire. “Wurl’s business model is ideal for our distribution needs, and its team of experts is able to adapt to any specifications. While most video delivery services only offer individual video uploads, Wurl provides a mass upload feature which we are capitalizing on to deliver our expansive content portfolio to viewers. This was an incredibly helpful for our launch.”

“Hollywire’s millions of fans can now access the Hollywire channel in a linear format with just an Internet connection,” said Sean Doherty, CEO of Wurl. “Helping our customers get their great content to their viewers is our bread and butter, and we’re excited to have Hollywire join the Wurl Network.”

Via: CordCuttersNews.com

Deal Alert: Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD Storage) – Silver

Dan Uff December 22, 2019 0

For a limited time Holiday price, Amazon is selling one of its #1 best sellers - the Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Sliver) for a price of just $699.95 (reg. ~~$999.00~~)

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Disney CEO Responds to Fan Outrage over Rise of Skywalker

CompuScoop Staff December 21, 2019 0

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Much like every Star Wars film before it, The Rise of Skywalker has divided both fans and critics and it would seem that now Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger has stepped in with his thoughts on fans disliking the movie.

Here’s what he said when speaking to Variety:

We don’t overreact, we respect fans of Star Wars, that’s really important to us, to Lucasfilm, to the franchise. We do the best job we can, we think we had a very hard job in bringing this forward… satisfying the traditional fans and touching on themes and characters and places they were familiar with, but introducing the new places, new stories, new characters.

He went on to state that Star Wars isn’t the only franchise Disney owns where fan backlash is something to deal with, comparing it to both Marvel and Disney releases:

We know we’re never going to please everybody all the time, and we see that with Disney films, with Marvel films. So I don’t mean to suggest that I’m dismissive of it because we respect our fans, but we don’t overreact either.

To be fair, these comments are totally fair. It does seem that there are some Star Wars fans that are never happy and there’s always something wrong with the franchise.

Personally, I thought that The Rise of Skywalker was one of the best Star Wars movies made to date and JJ Abrams did a fantastic job at answering all of the questions left by the previous two movies.

Given that The Rise of Skywalker is the last time we are going to see these beloved characters on screen, hopefully, the next Star Wars movies won’t divide the fans and the team at Lucasfilm take the franchise into an even more exciting direction.

Via: InsideTheMagic.com