Or Goren

Or Goren covers the shift from traditional pay-TV to streaming for Cord Busters, focusing on how viewers can cut the cord while keeping access to major channels, platforms and devices in the UK TV market. He is the founder, editor and head writer of Cord Busters, after working as a news editor and journalist for many years. His work sits at the intersection of entertainment, consumer technology and money-saving, with detailed attention to pricing, contract terms and how different bundles and apps fit together on modern TV platforms.

EE TV, Disney+ And Pay-TV Bundles

Goren’s recent coverage puts EE TV’s boxes and their app line-ups under close scrutiny, treating operator hardware as another gateway to streaming entertainment.

In his piece on Disney+ arriving on the EE TV Box Pro and Box Edge, he explains how the app is added alongside Netflix, NOW and other services, and stresses that Disney+ on these boxes still requires a standalone subscription billed directly by Disney. He breaks down Disney+’s three tiers - Standard with Ads, Standard and Premium - with their monthly and annual prices, and then contrasts those with a temporary “six-month saver” promotion that lowers each tier’s cost in exchange for a minimum term.

The same article walks through EE’s own Entertainment, Sport and Full Works packages, listing the promotional prices, the standard charges that follow, and the scheduled March price increases, so readers see not just the headline deal but how it will climb over the next two years.

In a later story on BT’s new cheaper EE TV bundle, Goren again focuses on the package structure and the trade-offs behind the lower headline price.

He sets out the five EE TV packages now on sale - Entertainment, Entertainment Plus, Sport, Sport Plus and Full Works - and spells out which streaming services are included in each, from NOW Entertainment and HBO Max Basic with Ads to Netflix and TNT Sports. He notes that the entry Entertainment package uses the non-recording Box Edge and makes clear that all the TV bundles are sold on 24‑month contracts, with broadband charges sitting separately. A table of current prices and planned increases in March 2027 and March 2028 shows his typical approach: turning complex entertainment bundles into a structured, forward-looking view of what they will really cost.

Freeview, Freely And Broadcast Reliability

Goren also covers broadcast platforms and their resilience, treating Freeview and Freely as part of the wider cord-cutting landscape rather than legacy infrastructure. When Everyone TV warned that Freeview reception could be disrupted over a spring weekend because of high-pressure weather conditions, he published a practical explainer on what viewers should expect and how to respond. The article highlights the specific dates when disruption is possible, urges viewers not to retune their devices during the outage, and explains that if they have already retuned, the only remedy is to wait for conditions to settle and then retune again.

He goes on to point readers towards alternatives via the internet: Freeview Play boxes and TVs connected online, and streaming apps from BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Channel 4 and others on devices like Amazon Fire TV, Roku and most smart TVs.

His piece on the Humax Aura EZ Freely box tackles a more technical question - which channels it can actually record. Goren reports that recording works only from traditional aerial-based Freeview channels, confirming that Freely’s streaming channels are accessible but cannot be recorded to the box’s hard drive.

He sets out Humax’s own statement that recording and live pause require an aerial connection and lists the box’s capabilities when used that way, including recording up to four channels while watching a fifth and using a 2TB drive for up to 1,000 hours of recordings. The article then contrasts that experience with Freely’s streaming interface, where recording disappears and viewers must rely on on‑demand playback instead of local storage.

Across both stories, his coverage shows a consistent focus on how platform design and signal conditions translate into real-world viewing and recording options.

Streaming Devices And Anti-Piracy Enforcement

Beyond operator TV, Goren reports on streaming devices and how enforcement actions shape what ordinary users can do on them. In his coverage of Amazon’s ban on “dodgy” Fire TV apps reaching the UK, he explains that Amazon is now blocking certain apps at launch, so users can still install illegal IPTV apps from third-party sources but hit an “app disabled” screen when they try to open them.

He describes how Amazon actively scans Fire TV devices for specific apps identified by ACE as providing pirated content and prevents those apps from working, rather than blocking sideloading outright.

The piece distinguishes between installation and actual use, underlining that the practical impact for viewers is the sudden inability to run apps they may have relied on, even though the technical steps for installing them have not changed. This kind of coverage shows him treating anti-piracy measures as part of the streaming ecosystem, with an emphasis on the consequences for device owners rather than abstract enforcement.

Cord Cutting Guides And Money-Saving Focus

Goren’s broader body of work frames cord cutting as both an entertainment and a financial decision, with Cord Busters positioned as a guide for TV viewers who want to stop paying expensive cable and satellite bills. He writes comprehensive guides on how to watch TV without traditional cable, including a beginner’s guide described as a complete UK resource for cutting the cord and switching to streaming services and broadcast alternatives. In profiles of his blogging, he describes running Cord Busters alongside a second site focused on frugal living, earning money and saving, which reinforces the money-saving lens he brings to TV coverage.

Across his news stories, box explainers and guides, pricing tables and contract lengths appear as regularly as platform names and app lists, giving his entertainment coverage a clear consumer finance edge. For a story to fit his interests, it typically needs to touch either the economics of TV - subscriptions, bundles, promotions and long-term costs - or the practicalities of accessing channels and services via boxes, devices and apps.