DirecTV Now is the Future of Television!
The future of television is here. No more missing work for installations; no more long contracts; DirecTV Now is here! It is the future of television!
21 June, 2018 | Posted by: James Patrick Begley
Category: Streaming, Technology, TV, This & That | No Comments
What a wonderful time to be alive! The future of television is here. No more missing work for installations; no more long contracts; no more clunky TV boxes and tangled wires; and most importantly, no more overspending. DirecTV Now is here!
The state of cable television today
Live TV streaming services are the future of television, and you can expect that every cable TV monopoly (err… I mean, company) in America will be creating their own version of it. Dish Network was the first to pioneer this trend with Sling TV. As with Netflix and Hulu, all you need is a good Internet connection (preferably 5 Mbps per device streaming) and a smart device. Presently, there are only a handful of these live TV streaming services. We’re going to take an in-depth look at DirecTV’s lovechild, DirecTV Now. Four years after purchasing DirecTV, AT&T has seen the writing on the wall. Mainstream America is becoming less and less smitten with satellite installations, two-year contracts, and $7 leasing charges for each TV box per month. A household with four TVs on a middle-of-the-pack channel package with DirecTV averages around $150 per month. After the first year, new customer promotional pricing expires. If you have unlimited data, streaming services like Netflix ($8/month) and Hulu ($7.99/month) are proving more economical to the family piggy bank. DirecTV is not the only cable company suffering to this new trend in America. Everyone is.The deets
AT&T’s answer to the problem is DirecTV Now. Popular TV channels, along with local and regional sports networks, can all be broadcast live from any device that can connect to the Internet (tablets, smartphones, laptops, PC’s, smart TVs, etc.). Don’t have a smart TV? No problem. Turn your dumb TV into a smart TV with Google Chromecast, Roku, Amazon Firestick, or Apple TV. DirecTV Now is currently offering a promotion that will give you a free Roku, valued at $49.99, if you prepay for one month of service at full price, which can be as low as $35. If you aren’t happy with the service, you can cancel after the first month with no penalty and get a $15 discount on a Roku. Not too bad if you ask me! They have another promotion for you Apple-lovers where if you prepay for 3 months at full price, which can be as low as $105, you get a free AppleTV. That’s a retail value of $179. If you’re already up-to-date with today’s technology, then the above promotion probably means nothing to you. So, DirecTV Now’s promotion for $10 for the first 3 months on the “Live a Little” package will probably tickle your fancy better. At $10 a month, you get 60+ channels which includes your local channels and pretty much all the top channels that most people would want to watch. After three months, the price reverts to the regular rate of $35. I can handle a $35 cable bill, and I’m pretty sure you can, too. And did I mention you can cancel or start back up at any time? There’s also one more promotion you can take advantage of where you try the service free for a week and see if it’s worth paying the full retail price for whatever channel package you choose, but I feel like the two promotions I mentioned above are much better. I mean, I could easily blow $10 on a McDonald’s drive-thru lunch session, so why not get TV for a month instead? Below are the lineups showing the most popular channels for all the packages offered by DirecTV Now.
Pretty much every main channel is covered in these packages. And did you notice that it’s just $5 for HBO? Pretty sweet deal for all you Game of Thrones fans. I’d bend the knee to that (that reference will only make sense to GoT fans). Seriously, though, this is where DirecTV Now really wins: their premium channel pricing.
Setup is easy, but you do need to be mindful that whichever promotion you settle on, your credit card will be set to auto-charge itself whenever a payment is due; if you plan on canceling, you will need to do it manually.
