Why are there so few apps ? You would think they would at least have a HBO/MAX app . Att owns both.
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Yes hopefully with new company we will get more interactive apps .
And a voice remote . I remember beta testing multi room dvr back in 2009 , and genie 2 has been out for a while . Feel we need more innovation lol
Custom mix channel, sports betting app like E* something lol
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And a voice remote . I remember beta testing multi room dvr back in 2009 , and genie 2 has been out for a while . Feel we need more innovation lol
Custom mix channel, sports betting app like E* something lol
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Don't count on it ... this is not a company thats buying to improve it.
The only thing you are going to get from the new company is an accelerated shut down
DTV's hardware does look increasingly dated, especially with regard to its lack of streaming apps compared to current offerings from DISH, Comcast Xfinity, etc. I guess it's possible the new company invests money to bring out a new generation of DTV receivers with popular apps but that seems unlikely. Because if a customer wants streaming apps, it means he has broadband. And if he has broadband, well, they already have a solution for you in the form of AT&T TV (or whatever the new DirecTV company renames it to), which has a custom box with voice remote, Google Assistant built in, and access to tons of Android TV apps. And pretty much the same channel packages as DTV, but cheaper.
Only way I could see them bringing apps to DTV is if they made the AT&T TV Android TV box work as a client receiver in conjunction with a DBS server like the HS17 (i.e. Genie 2). In fact, language in the original user manual submitted to the FCC with the AT&T TV box a few years ago suggested that that may have been the plan.
I think it's simply that by the time there was a real need for streaming apps on DTV receivers, AT&T had bought the company. And their long-term master plan from the get-go was to essentially blend DTV and Uverse TV together into something that would work over any internet connection -- what would ultimately come to market (with simpler hardware and much later than originally anticipated) as AT&T TV. Read this article from way back in 2015, just after AT&T bought DTV:
AT&T to stop investing in U-verse CPE, will move to new in-home architecture using DirecTV system
AT&T said it plans to stop investing in its U-verse CPE platform and will instead use a "derivative" of DirecTV's in-home equipment to create a new, in-home TV product that the company said will display content from AT&T and others. The company also said users would be able to access the same...
I think AT&T's plans had always been to shift their viewers toward the internet. I just don't think they saw the need to bring out a new generation of DBS-only hardware with apps, or to try to get apps on DTV receivers like the HR44, HR54 or C61.
