It doesn’t look like it I’m a AT&T customer and my next bill is going to go up $25 instead of the announced $10.
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DirecTV Now Confirms $10/Month Price Hike for Existing Users, Raises HBO From $5 to $15/Month for New Add-Ons
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It doesn’t look like it I’m a AT&T customer and my next bill is going to go up $25 instead of the announced $10.
+1. Our April bill is showing $70 while our March bill was $49.xx. Went back to look at previous bills and Jan 2018 was $38.xx...meaning our bill has almost doubled in one year. Not cool. Might be switching sooner than I thought.Looking at my next bill in April, this is not true. Unless there is a glitch in their billing...
Current: Go Big $40 + HBO $5 + Showtime $8 = $53
April 12: Go Big $50 + HB0 $15 + Showtime: $11 = $76 (even though it shows $78 on my next bill)
edit: Just checked again and they have updated the projected bill for April. Shows $45 now which means they must have backtracked on the $10+ to existing accounts...or it will change again over the upcoming weeks.
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Canceled AT&T Wireless last month and just canceled DirecTV Now. I don't watch much sports and all the news channels are crap, so I am finding Philo at $16 a month with 3 streams and unlimited DVR to be a perfect match for my needs. I will never do business with AT&T again.
DirecTV Now is still way better service for me than Comcast/Infinity was. Infinity was always buffering or telling me "Sorry, this channel is not currently available" which drove me nuts. So far DirecTV Now is rock solid, so I'll be sticking with them for the time being. However, the pricing trend is making me consider other options. I just don't get why they are doing this, where's the credible explanation?
Youtube TV is best... especially with my $35 grandfather plan. The DVR has been amazing from day 1.
I'm thinking of going the same route. Fortunately, Sling also has a promotion of cutting the normal $25 rate down to $15 for 3 months. Seeing at my parents' house that I can watch something on the Sling Orange package using the Sling app on the TV while streaming on one of the channel apps on a phone (in this case WatchESPN), I think that I get through the rest of March Madness this way. My whole reason for leaving Sling back in 2016 for DirecTV Now is because I could not do this--the app stream and the service would conflict with the Sling Orange single stream.
Because we can. Because we always have. Because we always will. It's in our nature. - AT&T
AT&T is the proverbial scorpion and we're the frog carrying them across the river.
But Apple will be cheaper and pass the savings on to the consumer like they usually do.
I still have a hard time believing how so many people can be convinced to pay out such ridiculous amounts of money so that they can sit in front of a TV to watch mostly ads and trashy shows.
I logged into my account less than an hour ago and under payment history, it said my grandfathered plan was going to be $70 next billing cycle. I just logged in again and now it says $45 - which is what I am currently paying.
so are the grandfathered plans going up in price or not?
so are the grandfathered plans going up in price or not?
This is STILL better than what I had with Charter, as long as I stay on my legacy package.
Charter charged me ~$80 a month and didn't provide even half the channels I get with AT&T or the ease of "watch anywhere". Paying $55 (Legacy price) for everything+HBO is still a deal.
For new users... Well, good luck. I don't think AT&T is for you.
Also, HOLY CRAP. The new plans remove ALL channels my wife and I watch.
Just going over what I've added to my favorites:
BabyFirst (for my daughter)
Comedy Central (Viacom)
Discovery Life
MTV/MTV Classic (Viacom)
Nick
Nick Jr
Paramount/Spike
Science (our #1 most watched channel)
TLC
The Weather Channel
I cancelled PlayStation Vue when they took my Viacom channels. AT&T just got rid of Viacom and a bunch others.
I wonder how long before they kill off the channels for existing customers? I've been with them since day 1. If they touch my channels, I'm gone. It's not a price thing any more. I'll go to another service.
Hell, I'll go back to Charter if they're the only ones that give me my channels.
Charter charged me ~$80 a month and didn't provide even half the channels I get with AT&T or the ease of "watch anywhere". Paying $55 (Legacy price) for everything+HBO is still a deal.
For new users... Well, good luck. I don't think AT&T is for you.
Also, HOLY CRAP. The new plans remove ALL channels my wife and I watch.
Just going over what I've added to my favorites:
BabyFirst (for my daughter)
Comedy Central (Viacom)
Discovery Life
MTV/MTV Classic (Viacom)
Nick
Nick Jr
Paramount/Spike
Science (our #1 most watched channel)
TLC
The Weather Channel
I cancelled PlayStation Vue when they took my Viacom channels. AT&T just got rid of Viacom and a bunch others.
I wonder how long before they kill off the channels for existing customers? I've been with them since day 1. If they touch my channels, I'm gone. It's not a price thing any more. I'll go to another service.
Hell, I'll go back to Charter if they're the only ones that give me my channels.
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How can they charge $15 for HBO when you can go directly through HBO to get HBO Now for $15? I understand it is not a premium, but you aren't getting any sort of deal for bundling... which isn't that supposed to be the whole point?
But given that you can have 3 accounts, the cost increase won't be as much when you're dividing it among 3 people
I stopped watching commercial TV thirty years ago. I get basic internet service now (I had dialup in the 80's) and don't miss the garbage TV offers. It's amazing how bad the programing is. The terrible acting, the outright fraud of "non-fiction" shows, the too frequent commercials, and dramatized news programing is an awful experience when I'm "induced" to watch it in a waiting room.
Life is too short to watch that garbage.
Instead of TV, go for a walk, read a book, learn a new language, volunteer or, post more comments on MacRumors
Life is too short to watch that garbage.
Instead of TV, go for a walk, read a book, learn a new language, volunteer or, post more comments on MacRumors
You could also just tell the kids, “No.” I mean, was anybody ever really worse off from watching less TV?
To the surprise of no one with a functioning brain.
Anyone of the belief that these OTT TV services wouldn't ultimately land more or less where traditional cable TV package prices are was certainly living in delusion and denial. Sooner or later, they'll all be the exact same price.
Anyone of the belief that these OTT TV services wouldn't ultimately land more or less where traditional cable TV package prices are was certainly living in delusion and denial. Sooner or later, they'll all be the exact same price.
Solution: read a book. No one "needs" TV/video streaming to live.
there are HUNDREDS of videos i am really interested in and have yet found time to watch on youtube, not to even mention so many movies, all for free. and yet people are paying to watch stuff on TV? this news and the concept of cable tv reminds me of 1996 and the chicago bulls. a long bygone era. yet here it is in 2019. insane and mindboggling.
It was obvious the movie channels were being offered at a loss. Considering the price HBO has been trying to get from Dish, theres no way DirecTV was getting HBO for $3 a month.
Cutting the cord is going to get very expensive as each content creator “exclusives” their content to their own pay platforms. And to watch each you will need to quit one app to launch another.
If only there was a consolidator available, where you could pay a fee and they would you provide all the channels and content in one place, and allow you to watch that content on demand, for a fee if its brand new or free if its not, or record it for later viewing. And what if ot automatically saved entire series for you as soon as they are released?
Cutting the cord is going to get very expensive as each content creator “exclusives” their content to their own pay platforms. And to watch each you will need to quit one app to launch another.
If only there was a consolidator available, where you could pay a fee and they would you provide all the channels and content in one place, and allow you to watch that content on demand, for a fee if its brand new or free if its not, or record it for later viewing. And what if ot automatically saved entire series for you as soon as they are released?
Not only fewer channels and charging more, but they're eliminating the more intelligent channels and keeping entertainment and reality dumb downs. Either that's a travesty or a brilliant financial move.
I'll hang in there with my grandfathered intro-priced Go Big. But if that's ever eliminated, no way I'm staying with the 2 mind-numbing choices.
I'll hang in there with my grandfathered intro-priced Go Big. But if that's ever eliminated, no way I'm staying with the 2 mind-numbing choices.