Category: DIRECTV
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AT&T’s Warner Bros. & Universal Pictures Home Announce a New Joint Venture
Today AT&T’s Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Announced a joint venture to merge the two physical disc home entertainment operations in the United States and Canada into a single group. This new partnership would merge the two operations to offer physical discs sold int North America from a single company. It…
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AT&T TV NOW Adds 500 Hours of DVR Storage & 3 Streams to Select Packages
Do you have an AT&T TV NOW Plus or Max package? Good news – your DVR storage just went up to 500 hours and AT&T added a free 3rd stream. The downside is AT&T TV NOW customers on the grandfathered plans do not get this free extrea stream, and the 500 hours of DVR storage…
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AT&T’s Crunchyroll & VRV Streaming Services Announce a New Chief Technology Officer
Today AT&T’s streaming services Crunchyroll and VRV announced a new Chief Technology Officer to help take over these services with 2 million subscribers and over 50 million registered users. Thomas Overton will be the new Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Overton brings with him more than 15 years of engineering management and experience. Previously, he was…
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AT&T TV NOW Adds New DVR Features to Its Live Feed on More Devices
Late last year AT&T started to roll out an updated DVR to its AT&T TV NOW service. Subscribers may not have noticed any changes, but the back end of AT&T’s DVR service on AT&T TV NOW was expanded and improved according to AT&T. The only noticeable change at the time was beta testers who still…
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AT&T Plans to Bundle AT&T TV & HBO Max With Wireless to Draw in New Customers
Yesterday, AT&T released its Citi 2020 Global TMT West Conference Call. During the call, AT&T discussed how they see broadband, media, and other services working together to bring in more customers. AT&T CFO John Stephens was the first to mention the plan for bundling AT&T services. He said that AT&T wants to be the provider…
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AT&T, Frontier, & Others Are Fighting the FCC Rules Mandating Faster Internet
The FCC recently started to offer $20 billion to help Internet companies bring high-speed Internet to rural America. The FCC wants to make available a tier of funding for companies offering Internet speeds above 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. Companies offering slower speeds will be limited to one part of the $20 billion…
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AT&T is Turning The Audience Network Into a HBO Max Preview Channel
Today AT&T’s Chief Content Officer announced that they plan to turn the Audience Network into a promo channel for HBO Max. AT&T will use the channel to air content from HBO Max to give subscribers a taste of why they should sign up for the new service when it launches. “We will begin to transition…
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AT&T TV NOW Adding Ads When You Pause to More Devices
Late last year AT&T started to test out ads when you pause AT&T TV NOW with its Osprey Android TV box. Now AT&T has announced that it is expanding its pause ads to all of AT&T TV NOW starting today. Now after 30 seconds of pausing show or movie with AT&T TV NOW you will…
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AT&T is Adding Ads When You Pause to Epix & Starz
AT&T’s advertising company has said that they will be introducing pause ads to Epix and Starz channels on DIRECTV and AT&T TV Now. We first learned about pause ads toward the end of 2018, when AT&T and Hulu were both working on ads that would appear when viewers paused their DVR recordings. Then, at the…
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AT&T Thinks Its New AT&T TV Streaming Service Will Be Just as Good as DIRECTV
Next month, AT&T will launch its new TV service nationwide. AT&T TV will go live nationwide in February 2020, according to AT&T Communications CEO Jeff McElfresh, speaking at the Barclays Global TMT Conference. “Our growth agenda is on fiber, in our entertainment group, and on AT&T TV,” said McElfresh. McElfresh went on to say that…