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Did ATT Just Throw Dish A (small)Lifeline?

AT&T will screw it up with their own behavior.

This box is just a front end for the current DTV Now service they have, which already has routine outages and feels like an unfinished product. So I'd argue they already are.

Streaming is still so far off the reliability of satellite, if it went away tomorrow I'd go back to cable.
 
This box is just a front end for the current DTV Now service they have, which already has routine outages and feels like an unfinished product. So I'd argue they already are.
My comment about at&t's behavior has nothing to do with that.
 
I still have my big dish, and there is still a lot of stuff up there, but not everything. Some channels stream or fiber. That is the future.