Cox Pulls The Plug On flareWatch OTT TV Service

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Another one bites the dust… Cox Communication’s over the top flareWatch television experiment has come to an end, with customers being notified of service termination and refunds (1, 2) while the landing page indicates “Service Unavailable.” The offering, built upon FanTV hardware, was intended to provide advanced television services, including cloud DVR and VOD, to cord cutters (who’d effectively replace one cord for another). Next?

4 thoughts on “Cox Pulls The Plug On flareWatch OTT TV Service”

  1. Would love to hear any details about this experiment. Why was it shut down? Did the service suck? Did people not subscribe? Did it not scale?

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