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Or let us use our Apple TVs as Genie Mini boxes.
I’m still salty that the DirecTV app doesn’t support AirPlay. Or picture in picture. And how about an Apple TV app that we can use when the satellite goes out due to rain or snow?
 
Damm... we have DirecTV Now, Watch ATT... another one... how about merging into 1 and making this really good, a la carte (really a la carte, channel by channel) service.

A la carte would be prohibitively expensive.
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Piracy was on the decline, but its going back up again due to all these separate streaming services. Nobody is going to subscribe to every service to get access to their shows. They'll subscribe to a couple and pirate the rest.

Oh please not that excuse. Pirates will pirate no matter what.
 
Oh, boy! A new streaming service! I can’t wait to give them my money!

With all of these new streaming services its becoming more and more expensive to watch the shows you want to. Although, tey still aren't doing contracts so at least you can pay one month for one service just to binge watch a season of the show you like.
 
Noooooo! We can't keep getting more and more streaming services. The biggest appeal with streaming video is that you get so much content in one place and for one reasonable fee. But if every freaking company is just going to start having their own streaming service, then we're basically going back to the cable TV model, which was awful!
 
A la carte would be prohibitively expensive.
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Many channels would simply go out of business as they would not get enough in subscription revenue to produce their shows.
Oh please not that excuse. Pirates will pirate no matter what.
Yup
 
I use to be able to stream DirecTV Now on my Apple TV 4K using a VPN on my router, but DirecTV are doing something I haven't come across before, and I don't think It's just blocking IP's. att owns DirecTV, right?
Hello, they require a location services and now use the AppleTV GPS. VPNs don’t work
 



AT&T's WarnerMedia is working on its own streaming service to compete with Netflix, Hulu, Disney, and others, the company announced today.

According to AT&T, the upcoming streaming service is "another benefit" of the merger between AT&T and Time Warner. AT&T says it is committed to launching a "compelling and competitive product" that helps the company expand its reach.

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AT&T's streaming service will include the WarnerMedia collection of films, television series, animation, documentaries, and more. The plan is to "create such a compelling product" that it will help distributors increase customer penetration and help AT&T reach additional customers.

AT&T already owns DirecTV and offers live streaming content through DirecTV Now, HBO Go, and HBO Now.

At the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit on Wednesday, WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey said that HBO will be a "lead brand" in the new service. From CNBC:Along with HBO, the service will include content from Turner and Warner Bros.

According to Stankey, the new streaming service will feature a "compelling price point" when it launches in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Article Link: AT&T's WarnerMedia to Launch New Streaming Service in Fourth Quarter of 2019
This will be a huge hard pass for me. I’ve worked for WB for some time on the low low end of the totem pole, and it had some ups, but mostly downs. But I am mostly concerned/disappointed with the quality of content from WB, NewLine, CW, TNT, CBS, CNBC, CN, etc. **They don’t create fun, unique shows or ideas, but instead try to imitate another company or show and it results in terrible offerings (Suicide Squad, Arrow, Black Lightning, Scream Queens, Justice League, DC Legends, Big Bang, Little Sheldon, Etc, etc.) WB has never learned to keep their hands out of a new and unique project they hired a director and producer to create, which has caused so many issues and a great loss of potential profits... and just bad quality shows that I want to like, but WB guts them to try and be like Disney instead of themselves, so any content this might offer will be an easy pass for me. I don’t love Disney, but I see myself opting for their service more.
Also WB doesn’t take real risks, unlike Disney that does and they are much bigger for it.
 
This is going to turn into cable 2.0 with each streaming service being what a cable package once was. Want channels A, B, and C? Well you have to subscribe to this streaming service, but it also comes with D through J, which you don’t watch. Oh you want channels X, Y, and Z too? Well those are actually on a completely different streaming service that you’ll have to pay another monthly bill for. But hey it comes with channels N through T at least, even if you don’t watch them. Enjoy the days where Hulu and Netflix covers 95% of your viewing habits while it lasts.
 
So many streaming services... it’s so fragmented I think they’re all bound to fail. Nobody is going to pay $50+ a month to get such a variety of them. 2 services tops...

I was thinking the same thing. These new streaming services popping up really needs to stop.

PS Vue may be the first live streaming service to shutter it's service from what I've been reading. Which is a shame considering I've been a subscriber for almost two years now.
 
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