Category: DirecTV Stream
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First Look: DIRECTV NOW Beta on Roku
Yesterday AT&T started rolling out invites to test the DIRECTV NOW app beta on Roku players. Now, this is just testing the app, not the DVR. According to the emails going out, the DVR will come later. “The True Cloud DVR is not available for Roku devices yet. We’ll let you know when it’s ready…
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DIRECTV NOW Rolls Out a Beta Update Fixing Many Bugs & Adding CBS
Yesterday DIRECTV NOW rolled out a new beta app for their beta testers. This latest update seems to have addressed many of the common bugs the beta had. The update also for the first time added a CBS owned network CBS Sports to the beta. Here is a short list of some of the bugs…
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DIRECTV NOW Finally Officially Adds the Sportsman Channel
Yesterday, weeks after the Sportsman Channel was added, it was finally officially added to DIRECTV NOW. We first reported that The Sportsman Channel was added a few weeks ago, but only yesterday was it made official. “We are excited to continue to add growth in all areas of our programming and content distribution,” Outdoor Sportsman…
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DIRECTV NOW’s Buffering Is Getting Better But Is Far from Solved
At the start of January 2018, DIRECTV NOW had very bad week: Two separate long outages and a sudden spike in buffering. AT&T never came right out and said what caused the spike, but it seems a perfect storm happened. First, college football bowl games and playoffs all happened at once. Next, a flood of…
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The Paramount Network Launches on Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, & Philo
If you are a fan of Spike TV we have bad news for you. Yesterday was the last day Spike TV will air in the United States. Today January 18th 2018 Spike TV will be rebranded as the Paramount Network as part of Viacom’s move to update their brand and to take advantage of their ownership…
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DIRECTV NOW Rolls Out Fire TV DVR Beta to All Beta Testers
Last night DIRECTV NOW expanded their DVR beta for the Fire TV to all DIRECTV NOW Beta Testers. In the past, only a select few beta testers had access to the DIRECTV NOW Beta Test on the Fire TV. There is one catch you need to be using a 2nd gen Fire TV box like…
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DIRECTV NOW Adds 15 More CBS, FOX, & Univision Affiliates
Today AT&T announced the addition 15 new CBS, FOX, and Univision affiliates to DIRECTV NOW across the United States. With these new channels DIRECTV NOW now offers 250+ local channels in over 90 markets, reaching over 80% of U.S. TV households. All 4 major networks are available in over 40% of U.S. TV households. Here…
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DIRECTV NOW Adds More CBS Affiliates & The Sportsman Channel
Late last night DIRECTV NOW quietly added several Tenga owned CBS affiliates in several markets. In total Tenga has 10 CBS affiliates across the United State. (At this time we are unsure how many of them have been added.) DIRECTV NOW has also added The Sportsman Channel. We can confirm that it is in the…
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For The First Time Ever The Golden Globes Will Be Live Streamed
Last year if you wanted to stream the Golden Globes legally you found yourself out of luck. NBC made it clear that their contract with the Golden Globes did not allow them to stream the award show. This year you will be about to stream the Golden Globes on NBC’s website at http://www.nbc.com/live You will also be…
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DIRECTV NOW Went Down After a New Build Was Pushed Out
For the second time, this week DIRECTV NOW is down according to several of our readers and posts we found on Reddit and has been for a few hours according to reports for our readers. This outage is happening shortly after AT&T pushed a new build of the beta app out and it is possible…