I was actually considering cutting the cord and going with this service primarily with Apple TV. Do you currently use it? Is it that bad?
Don’t listen to the naysayers, it’s largely fine. I’ve been using it for a year and a half.
I was actually considering cutting the cord and going with this service primarily with Apple TV. Do you currently use it? Is it that bad?
It doesn’t have locals or Viacom channels either. Just turner owned stations. Not really comparable at all.The AT&T Watch TV app also updated for new iPads. I'm surprised I never hear anyone talk about that anymore. It's largely the same as my DirecTV Now subscription, but doesn't have live sports, but only costs $15 a month! Do people really care that much about sports? When I had DirecTV Now it would have blackouts for local baseball and football, which are the only sports I watch, and most of the time it didn't even have the football game because it didn't have our local channels. You can just use OTA for that, though we don't get it at our house even when I bought a nice Leaf antenna, so let's just say I have found "other means", lol.
For me the big benefit is being able to use DTVN at both our home and our little weekend/vacation place. I can put up with some annoyances for the huge savings vs. two cable bills.
I just double-checked my December bill, and it shows $35.00 on the website. It also shows $35.00 was charged to my credit card for the "Go Big" package, which includes HBO.
I agree with all this. It's not really that great of an app but the price is still good and the fact that you can get HBO for only $5 a month makes it a good deal. It still has a long way to go.The service isn't as bad as it was when it originally launched. The service does have some hiccups, but it's not bad overall. Plus, I do like getting HBO for $5/month. If it weren't for that (and Viacom channels that most other streaming services don't have), I'd go back to Playstation Vue.
So now you can watch DirecTV on your iPad’s curved display.
The service isn't as bad as it was when it originally launched. The service does have some hiccups, but it's not bad overall. Plus, I do like getting HBO for $5/month. If it weren't for that (and Viacom channels that most other streaming services don't have), I'd go back to Playstation Vue.
Hopefully you can keep sneaking under the radar with that because even $35 isn’t correct. Tax should be charged on that amount, lol.
DirecTV Now is awesome and looks awesome on my 3rd Gen iPad Pro. People like to hate for no reason.
I hated it because it didn’t work, constantly had freezes, and the DVR they promised later in launch year never materialized that year. So I gave up and went to Youtube TV which while not without it's own occasional problems is oh so much better.
I tried DTVN for a long time because of the price. I finally got tired of the crappy Apple TV interface. Now using a competing service and I love the unlimited DVR, but even more than that, love being able to pause LIVE TV indefinitely. This was one of the headliner features of the original TiVo, but on DTVN you can't do it. Sure, you can pause to freeze the video playback, but when you resume it jumps you back to the live point, skipping everything in between. That's pretty much useless. Also, DTVN does not support the Siri voice control for things like "skip ahead 2 minutes" or "what did he say", two things I use constantly on Apple TV.
I agree that it mostly okay. I do not like their guide, but I am BETA testing their Osprey streaming device, and it goes back to their traditional channel numbering scheme.I was actually considering cutting the cord and going with this service primarily with Apple TV. Do you currently use it? Is it that bad?
DirecTV Now is awesome and looks awesome on my 3rd Gen iPad Pro. People like to hate for no reason.
Savage comment. Love it.So now you can watch DirecTV on your iPad’s curved display.
I am in the exact same boat! hard to pass up HBO for $5 and Viacom channels. Otherwise PS VUE has the best features and most stable app.
Sounds like you're referring to experiences well over a year ago, given that the DVR launched in May 2018.
Believe it or not, they've actually updated the software many times since then.
The other aspect is people seldom mention what hardware they ran the DTVN service on. That makes a difference too.
I definitely agree that PS Vue is leaps and bounds more stable that DTV Now. I never had Vue record an incorrect TV show like I have with DTV Now (although it mainly only happens when my wife records a show on MTV).
But it's hard to pass up HBO for $5/month. I may shop around if DTV Now ups the price of HBO, but I'm staying put for now.
Duh...I am sure they have updated.
Complaining about your experiences with a very old (relatively) version of the software in a thread discussing the current version isn't very helpful IMHO -- and frankly is potentially misleading to other Macrumors readers.
Sorry you're still carrying around that anger, but DTVN today is way better than what it was in late 2017. Still not perfect by any means, but there's been a lot of improvement since then.