I’m on the same plan.Service has been fine for me on tv and mobile devices.
I don’t care what the service is called so long as it continues as is at $45 / month for my “Go Big.”
The known brand of Direct TV and Direct TV now doesn’t have a great reputation, losing around 1 million subscribers in a year.
Right now there are many streaming platforms (YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, etc) and many cable over internet (xfinity, YouTube tv, sling tv, etc). No one lets you watch any local affiliate you want. I wouldn’t pay for cable TV, but I might pay that if I could watch local news where the event is occurring. Let me watch the commentators of the team I am rooting for.
...two different services, with stupid names, in the same app?
Yeah, that's totally not confusing.
I’ve gotten all my major network local channels with both DIRECTV Now and YouTube TV — ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, and NBC. I can’t get CBS on DIRECTV Now right now because AT&T is in a pissing contest with them over dollars.
Are you in a smaller market where your local channels aren’t offered on the streaming services? If that’s the case, I’d buy an HD antenna for $30-$50 to get your local channels and their “subchannels” and call it a day.
Let me clarify. I want access to all of the affiliates. I want to be able to watch the local news for Miami, Madison, Lake Tahoe, and Salt Lake City. I want to know what is going on with my high school. How did my college team, not know for their NCAA status, do? What’s going on in my brothers neighborhood? I don’t necessarily care about Kansas City news just because I might be traveling through there.
They should have called it AT&TTVNowTV&DirectTVNow
No sports, no DVR, no simultaneous streams, for a third of the price. We have it and it’s a good value for our living room since we don’t watch a lot of TV. My wife mainly uses it to watch Food Network. Sometimes I use it at work to watch breaking news coverage like when Notre Dame was burning down.What’s the difference anyway?
[doublepost=1564570269][/doublepost]I’d have called it AT&Tv Now.
AT&T today announced that it is rebranding DirecTV Now, its live TV streaming service, as "AT&T TV Now." The company said that existing customers will need to re-accept terms of service following the rebranding, and then their streaming plans will continue as usual.
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Other than the name change, AT&T hasn't announced any other overhauls to its live TV platform, so users can expect the same prices and channel availability as before. The company said that current DirecTV Now users will see the update automatically across devices.
Secondly, AT&T announced yet another new streaming platform, called AT&T TV, which will be piloted in select markets this summer. The company described this as a "connected TV experience with no satellite needed," which sounds essentially like another live TV streaming service, but gave no details about how it would be different from AT&T TV Now.
Both AT&T TV and AT&T TV Now will be accessed through the same AT&T TV app on mobile devices and on TV apps. AT&T said that customers can expect more details about AT&T TV as the rollout begins later this summer.
Article Link: DirecTV Now Rebranded as 'AT&T TV Now'
AT&T has owned DirecTV (and DTVN) for like over 2 years now. All of their subscriber loss has come while under the ownership of AT&T.
DirecTV Now was fine until this spring, when they instituted those catastrophic channel line up and price changes, probably at the behest of AT&T. I would know, because I was subbed to DTVN. It was almost as if they wanted their subscribers to ditch them. Before that, DTVN was actually a pretty decent service. AT&T singlehandedly destroyed DirecTV, no questions about it.
I suspect this was AT&T's plan all along. They didn't want the brand, but rather the IP and technological capability. A shame, really.
Don't forget Att's Watch TV too that is free with wireless service or $15 a month standalone. haha.
Don't forget Att's Watch TV too that is free with wireless service or $15 a month standalone. haha.
You can merge both accounts into one. Check your notices with your wireless account or your DTV account. There is an option to merge under a single login.As an AT&T wireless user and a DirecTV (satellite) subscriber, this merger has been nothing but frustration and confusion. They really have not done a good job combining the two. My CC charges each month for my DirecTV subscription say "AT&T Phone", which makes it really confusing. And trying to log into, specifically, one of my accounts, be it DirecTV or wireless, is no clearer. You'd think I'd have one login that shows me my two accounts. Nope. It's a convoluted mess.
But, I expected no less when AT&T bought DirecTV. AT&T botches everything they touch, and sure enough, they did.