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AT&T to Target Cord Cutters With Late 2016 Launch of 'DirecTV Now' Streaming Video Service
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All of the providers block out games at the request of the leagues.
So I would a still be tied to Comcast for high speed?
What would get me excited is a better high speed vendor (Comcast speed minus Comcast pricing/shenanigans/customer service) and channel apps - pay for only the channels I want. 2 channels? 20? My choice.
This clearly oversimplifies what it would take to appease all the major players, but it's something I would like as a consumer.
Cheers.
What would get me excited is a better high speed vendor (Comcast speed minus Comcast pricing/shenanigans/customer service) and channel apps - pay for only the channels I want. 2 channels? 20? My choice.
This clearly oversimplifies what it would take to appease all the major players, but it's something I would like as a consumer.
Cheers.
Pricing as already been revealed. For the 40 Channel Tier it's $25. For the 75 Channel Tier it's $40 and for the 100 Channel Tier which includes locals and ESPN and local sport stations cost $55
It's primarily bootlegged content from servers around the world. Some of it is in okay format, but most looks really shoddy on a good screen over 52". I have been playing with it a while now and the majority of content just isn't high end.
Then there is the whole legal / ethical thing...
You still can't beat PlayStation Vue. Tomorrow PlayStation is letting you watch it on multiple devices at once. If you have 4 Rokus you can watch 4 streams and so on. Also if you're a PS plus subscriber you get $10 off your fee every month. They are also rolling out a yearly package that will save you over a $100 a year. Plus PlayStation Vue's cloud DVR is insane. I can record 10 or more shows at once. Also PlayStation Vue is coming to Apple TV on 9/30 so that's a big plus.
Link for the tiers? The 100 Channel tier is too close in pricing to cable and likely doesn't have DVR functionality to skip commercials. The 40 and 75 channel tiers, remains to be seen what channels and functionality are included.
This is exactly right. Unless you have unusually eclectic tastes, you shouldn't expect to save a lot of money from skinny bundles. The 140 channels you don't care about are almost free for you. Not a lot of people watch them, so they don't have much leverage with the cable companies, so they don't get much in the way of carriage fees. In some cases they get nothing, or even pay for access, just so they can sell advertising.
When we switched to DirecTV the technician installed the dish, ran the wires to the existing coax, plugged it in. Came inside and removed the FIOS boxes and installed the Directv boxes. The DTV boxes use RF for remote control so they can be hidden in your "beautiful home theater setup" (LOL)
You have my full attention, AT&T. Don't blow it.
Been saying this for years. They could reduce so much overhead and leave all the hardware up to companies like Apple.
I think it should be two stream minimum, maybe three, but I can see how this could be abused as you couldn't lock it down to a certain IP address with mobile streaming.
This sounds like a net neutrality violation. It gives them an unfair advantage. At least T-Mobile doesn't restrict which companies can sign up for their free standard definition streaming tier—or worse, limit it to a T-Mobile only service.
These alleged "holdouts" have been pissing me off for years when these rumors come up for AppleTV subscriptions, among others. They're likely the cable networks that hardly have any viewers, but get paid by being bundled in with everything else, and they're rightly scared to death. I wish we could get rid of bundling altogether. That's what excited me about the AppleTV subscription rumors. Plans like this could roll out faster if we could just pick what we want to stream. Let everyone else fall behind, and then feel pressured into meeting the demands of the market.
This "DirecTV Now" would definitely have to hit in this price point for me to consider it. Otherwise I might as well sign up for cable again, which I won't. I hope Apple is still working on things. It would be great to pick a few sports channels, a few science-oriented channels, some news channels, a couple food-related channels, and local TV from the main networks. Ideally I could see myself paying $30/mo for that, which would basically be about 20 channels, but I'd be willing to go up to $40/mo if they allow streaming to all members in my family, like the Apple Music family subscription that I have.
Overall this is interesting news, and AT&T was saying the right things. I'm still worried they'll find some way to screw it up, but I found this quote from Randall Stevenson in the article to be interesting:
This is so true. Apple tends to follow this philosophy, and it has served them well. For years investors used to worry about the iPhone cannibalizing the iPod. Today, most people would laugh at such a worry. The iPhone is hundreds of times more successful.
Where's the announcement about Vue coming to apple TV on 9/30? I've been following and waiting for this for a long time now. Tired of logging into all these separate apps with my Vue login.
I hate to be the "Net Neutrality!!!" guy, but nobody else has brought it up... This violates Net Neutrality.
What difference does it make if they can get the price down for a solid lineup bundle of the most popular networks? The reason the cord cutters exist is not because subscriptions were getting bloated with garbage channels but rather because cable companies used it to justify steep price increases. It was the crazy $100+ subscriptions and annoying fees that turned people off.
I don't see an issue if they bring 100 bonafide rating proven channels for, say $65 and what via app or BYO TV box, like ATV or Amazon Fire, and no bogus HD fees. Tall order though as most content providers (Disney, CBS, NBCUniversal, etc. like the junk channels they can throw cheap midnight infomercials on b/c it makes them $), so I'll be impressed when I see the lineup.
Uhhh, piracy? I've heard Plex and ThePirateBay are good for that. Kodi sounds kinda jank.
If you have att wireless and DIRECTV you can already stream through the DIRECTV and NFL Sunday ticket app data free.
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No it doesn't. They aren't slowing anyone else's service down or speeding theirs up. If you stream their service over their other service it's free. It's an incentive for their bundled customers. It doesn't affect any other companies.
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No it doesn't. They aren't slowing anyone else's service down or speeding theirs up. If you stream their service over their other service it's free. It's an incentive for their bundled customers. It doesn't affect any other companies.
No. it is theft. And the only reason you feel otherwise is your perception that somehow you are entitled to it. Even if you don't admit it, you and those that liked your post think somehow tv/movies should be given to you wherever and whenever you please.
And because you sit in your home and enjoy anonymity. You are not like other criminals that do it face to face.
You are the same.
The problem with PS Vue is their anal IP restriction policy. My Comcast head end tends to issue me IP addresses that show up in one of two different TV markets so each time I get a new IP address my damn Vue account gets locked and they end up canceling it and I have to sign up again. Plus one of the markets has local channels available and the other does not.
Same here. Getting ready to cancel u-verse mostly because of cost but also because the internet will go out roughly once a night requiring a reboot of the modem. Not hard to do (the reboot) but a hassle.
Not to mention, depending on distance from the node, you may only be able to get 12 mbps max on U-verse, which doesn't even meet the FCC definition of broadband.
Not me. They've only rolled it out to a few areas in STL. I'm in Kirkwood and can't get it. They have a long ways to go.