The young the great unwashed are n’t paying for TV , you ’ve belike heard . Well do n’t interest , says AT&T , we ’ve got a plan . Today , the party formally announced its new , very hyped pour TV service , DirecTV Now . Aimed at the 20 million U.S. households that are n’t part of the wage TV ecosystem , it ’s the first service of its kind from a mainstream TV provider . It launches on November 30 , just in metre for the holidays , but will the youths necessitate Santa for it ?
AT&T will be sell DirecTV Now in four dissimilar pricing packages , and though we do n’t have intercourse the exact channel lineups , here are the prices :
populate a small – $ 35 a calendar month , 60 + channels
Just Right – $ 50 a month , 80 + channels
Go Big – $ 60 a month , 100 + channels
get ta Have It – $ 70 a month , 120 + channels
DirecTV Now will work on the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick , on Android , iOS , Apple TV , Chromecast , Google Cast TVs , and in WWW browsers like Safari , Google Chrome , and Internet Explorer . If you pre - bribe three months of service , you get a free Apple television receiver . Pre - purchasing a calendar month of service will give user a barren Fire TV stick .
to boot , AT&T says that in 2017 , DirecTV Now will be coming to Roku swarm player and Roku television , Amazon Fire tablets , and Samsung Smart TVs .
It ’s not exonerated what channel offerings are usable on what packages . AT&T did corroborate that CBS and Showtime are n’t available — yet — but it is working on pay off those television channel on board .
So is DirecTV Now actually deserving it ? We have n’t had the time to actually examine the service , but it seems like a mightily attractive offering if you ’re not the eccentric of person who like to get bogged down with a whole whopping cable subscription . In a broader scene , the good news is that DirecTV Now looks like a sign telly providers are more and more willing to adapt their services to the ways people in reality live . Cordcutters , toast yourself a glass of champagne .
Update 5:20 PM : We ’ve wangle to get some details on some of the channel that DirecTV Now will be offering . Check it out :
AT&T has also confirmed that local channel ( ABC , NBC , Fox ) will only be usable in owned and operated market — that is , markets where the broadcast networks themselves own the local station . Owned and operated markets are only a small portion of the land , which means that a hatful of users wo n’t get local stations . For those markets , video recording on need cognitive content will be available the twenty-four hour period after a course of study airs .
AT&T also says that DVR functionality will be add up in 2017 .
DirecTV Now holes : No DVR yet , no NFL on phone , no local station feed where ABC / NBC / Fox do n’t own the post , no NFL Sunday Ticket , no CBS
— Shalini Ramachandran ( @shalini)November 28 , 2016
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