Aereo

Goodbye, Aereo: Company To Sell Off Its Assets to the Highest Bidder

Once believed to be a cord-cutters dream, Aereo will conclude its near 8-month-long death rattle as the company sells off its TV streaming technology to the highest bidder in late February 2015. According to The Wall Street Journal, all sales will be overseen by the broadcasters that originally busted up Aereo in the first place.…

Aereo Has Filed for Bankruptcy

The struggling Aereo, which closed its Boston offices but refused to actually shut down, is now filing for Chapter 11 reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. https://gizmodo.com/aereos-latest-death-rattle-comes-as-boston-office-shutt-1655599827 In a company blog post, CEO and founder Chet Kanojia explained: While we had significant victories in the federal district courts…

Aereo’s Latest Death Rattle Comes as Boston Office Shutters

Well, that’s no good. Aereojust sent a letter to its employees announcing that it would be closing its Boston offices, laying off all 43 employees that work there, and shuttering operations. The company is not shutting down, yet. But unfortunately for hopeful cord-cutters, this is not a good sign, especially after the crushing Supreme Court…

Aereo May Live On As a DVR Service

A ruling from a federal judge in New York slammed the door firmly shut on Aereo’s ambitions to stream free-to-air channels over the internet in real time, with (yet another) court ruling. https://gizmodo.com/aereo-down-supreme-court-rules-against-the-cord-cutter-1595835152 A little backstory: in June, a Supreme Court ruling slammed the door in Aereo’s face, determining that the little startup was basically…

The Supreme Court’s Aereo Decision Won’t Screw Up Dish (Yet)

The Supreme Court’s decision against Aereo was a huge bummer for cord-cutters. Even worse, some content providers (coughFoxcough) were trying to use to hit other similarly awesome services as well, like Dish’s “Anywhere” streaming. Good news: It didn’t work. Yet. Right after the Aereo verdict came down, Fox asked the 9th Circuit for a preliminary…

Aereo Will Shut Down Service at 11:30 AM EST Today

In a blog post published just this morning, Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia announced that the streaming cloud-based TV service will go dark at 11:30 AM EST today. The move responds to this week’s Supreme Court decision that called Aereo’s particular type of service illegal. The fight’s not over, but Aereo’s defeat is a crushing defeat…

The Aereo Ruling Is Already Being Used Against Other Smart TV Tech

Just two days ago the Supreme Court killed Aereo by ruling that its streaming television service was breaking the law. The Guardian reports that Fox wasted no time in citing the ruling to support its claims that Dish’s awesome watch anywhere tech violates its copyright. https://gizmodo.com/aereo-down-supreme-court-rules-against-the-cord-cutter-1595835152 As with most Supreme Court cases the implications for…

How to Stream Broadcast TV To Your Computer Now That Aereo’s Gone

The Supreme Court has effectively shut down Aereo, your previous best choice for streaming broadcast TV to your computer, Roku, Apple TV, and beyond. Don’t lose heart! There are still ways—far less convenient ways, but still—to grab signals from the air and put them on your screens. https://gizmodo.com/aereo-down-supreme-court-rules-against-the-cord-cutter-1595835152 Lifehacker’s got a nice rundown of your…

Aereo Down: Supreme Court Kills the Cord-Cutter’s Dream

Today, the Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Second Circuit in ABC vs. Aereo. Translation? Aereo lost big. It’s now illegal. And that sucks. Essentially what the Supreme Court determined today is that Aereo, the innovative cloud-based antenna and DVR, violates copyright law. It’s basically a cable company, says the ruling, instead of…

Aereo’s Bringing Live Streaming TV To Chromecasts and Android Devices

Aereo, the brilliant (if beleaguered) system that lets you watch or record broadcast TV from any screen, anywhere, just added support for Google Chromecast and a handy Android app. Now, basically any Google-powered device you own can be a TV. With the Android app installed on your device, you can set up your Chromecast wonder-dongle…

Why Aereo Matters

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of the television networks versus Aereo, an innovative service that lets you stream broadcasts over the internet. How it’s decided could define the future of television, and how we watch it. While Aereo seems to be a logical evolution of live TV for the…

Aereo to Add Chromecast Support for Ultimate TV Nerd Nirvana

What do you get when you combine Aereo’s anytime, anywhere, broadcast-TV-via-internet cloud service with Google’s Chromecast wonder-dongle? A confluence of TV gizmo delight—and that’s exactly what Aereo announced today. If you happen to live in one of the cities that supports Aereo, and you’re a proud Chromecast owner, starting on May 29th you’ll be able…

Streaming TV Isn’t Ready for Prime Time

So you’ve done it. You’ve cut the cord. You’ve got your Netflix and your Hulu Plus and your Aereo and your cousin’s HBO GO password and a bag of popcorn. You’re comfortable with the sacrifices—honestly, mostly just ESPN—and prepared to embrace the glorious future of television. Only problem? The future of television’s not prepared for…

Aereo, the amazing watch-broadcast-TV-anywhere-via-internet company, turned off service in Utah and Denver today. It’s the latest in a long-drawn-out battle over whether the service is legal. The major networks will take the Aereo showdown to the Supreme Court next month. [The Salt Lake Tribune via Engadget]

The Supreme Court announcedit will hear ABC V. Aereo, which holds important implications for copyright in the world of streaming video. The network sued the cloud DVR service for copyright infringement, arguing that it’s retransmitting broadcast signals without permission. Aereo says that because it’s using thousands of antennas, the service is legit. Aereo won the…

Bloomberg: DirecTV and TWC Might Create an Aereo-like Service

As cable companies continue to come up with creative ways to sell us TV without hooking us onto traditional cable, Bloomberg is reporting that DirecTV and Time Warner Cable are both thinking about creating an Aereo-type streaming service for customers to use. If it works like Aereo, it means you get to watch TV over…

Aereo is now available for Android! At least, it is if you’re running 4.2 and live in New York City, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, or Salt Lake City.

Aereo has announced that its streaming TV service will land in Atlanta on June 17th—and it still hopes to be in 22 new cities by the end of the year, too.

Aereo’s Cloud DVR Pricing Is Now Simpler (But Not Necessarily Better)

Aereo’s embattled cloud-based DVR service for network television is getting an updated pricing structure on May 15th. The options will be trimmed from the previous 5-tier structure down to just two plans. Sure, that should be easier for people to understand, but the rejiggered structure makes the cheaper monthly plan far less attractive. https://gizmodo.com/cable-killing-tv-service-aereo-has-won-a-major-court-de-5993146 Now…

Aereo’s cloud-based DVR for broadcast TV launches in Boston on May 15th—Even though nobody’s sure it’s legal.