DIRECTV NOW LAUNCH

[Scott Greczkowski]

The platform will be personalized to you, the more you use it to more it customizes itself to you.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Brad Bentley takes the stage and hes going to give us a demo

Here are the programmers... (CBS and Showtime are missing and they are working on getting them)

Here is the pricing... No 4K and limited to two streams.

 

[jcrandall]

DIRECTV NOW programming packages are seeded from our existing satellite TV service, putting popular channels together for a great entertainment value:

• Live a Little – $35 / month (60+ channels)
• Just Right – $50 / month (80+ channels)
• Go Big – $60 / month (100+ channels)
• Gotta Have it – $70 / month (120+ channels)

"GO Big" will have into price of $35 for subscribers that sign on in the beginning, and will be grandfathered at that price.
Though he did clarify the price will increase over time as content prices increase (like DirecTV now).

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Here are some of the platforms supported (Roku support coming soon)

Free Apple TV with 3 month subscription or free Fire TV stick for one month subscription.

7 day free trial.

Buy a LeEco TV and get 1 year of DIRECTV Now included for free.

HBO for $5 , Cinemax for $5

 

[jcrandall]

Add HBO for $5 - which is a nice plus.

"Fans of HBO® and Cinemax® can add these channels for just $5 each per month in addition to your base programming package."

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

DIRECTV NOW is Data Free on the AT&T Mobile Network.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

AT&T just sent me the full details, which you can see at http://about.att.com/story/att_offers_three_ways_to_stream_premium_video_content.html

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

DIRECTV NOW will offer AT&T Originals, stuff from the Audience Network plus other exclusives such as Taylor Swift Now. Which will be 13 episodes.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Reese Witherspoon takes the stage to talk about Hello Sunshine

 

[jcrandall]

Launch 11/30

 

[satjay]

Will be interesting to see what makes up each package!


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[Ronnie-]

"GO Big" will have into price of $35 for subscribers that sign on in the beginning, and will be grandfathered at that price.

An incentive to keep people from swapping between services (sling and Vue). I get it, but depending on the channel lineups for the different tiers, I am not really thrilled with it. As when you swap or drop, you lose grandfather status (or so it reads).

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Almost 6,000 people watching.

DIRECTV NOW launches on 11/30/16

Now demo time, and for the demo they are using the Apple TV. It is fast in switching channels.

The interface to me almost looks like Sling TV

 

[jcrandall]

It is built on live streaming and on-demand, no mention of cloud DVR.

DirecTV has done major improvements to their on-demand library and this seems to be a big part of why.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Now they are talking about Fullscreen

Fullscreen curates good content from the internet and brings it home in one unique experience.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

A video is now being shown about full screen.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Not sure why this Fullscreen is a big part of DIRECTV NOW.... since he keeps mentioning that it is already available for all devices from their app stores. But hey that's just me.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Now has some of the people who make internet programming which is shown on Fullscreen.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yawn...

Fullscreen is a separate service..

Now they are taking a break and will be back in about 15 minutes with Q&A.

 

[tigerfan33]

No mention of locals or cloud dvr.


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