Have been trying out the new DirectTV Now streaming service this week and though it has a few bugs and faults, overall it's not bad.
A little background- In July my wife had to retire for medical reasons. As she's home all day now, I've been considering getting cable tv back (we have Comcast internet, 200/mbps). They have some "deals" for existing customers but trying to keep the cost around $100-$110/month would mean going to a much slower internet speed. So I had been reading about the DirectTV Now service and when it went live Wed, I signed up and paid for 1 month.
Got the "Go Big" package which is $35/mo for 100 channels. Normally $60/mo, initial subscribers get the $35/mo for as long as you keep a subscription (no contracts, cancel at any time), though they do say that it could go up in the future (what doesn't when it comes to internet/TV). The $35 deal is supposedly for a limited time but they don't give any cut off date. You can run it on 2 devices at the same time (computer, tablet, phone, Windows, iOS & Android). I run it via the recommended Google chrome browser on Windows 10 computers. Cost for internet & DTVnow is about $110 for us.
Web interface is OK, channel selection seems to be only able to be done through the Guide so if you're watching something and want to go watch something else you have to click on Guide, scroll down through the channel list and choose. Web interface comes up with volume auto muted. Decent on-demand list of programs/series.
Streaming so far has been pretty good (used it at home and work which has 100/mbps internet). HD picture quality is great, have only had a few stream pauses myself, wife says the web page crashed once on her.
At the $35 price it's a option for us now (and we still use OTA for live local and network TV), have to see in the future if the price shoots up.
www.directtvnow.com
Sam
A little background- In July my wife had to retire for medical reasons. As she's home all day now, I've been considering getting cable tv back (we have Comcast internet, 200/mbps). They have some "deals" for existing customers but trying to keep the cost around $100-$110/month would mean going to a much slower internet speed. So I had been reading about the DirectTV Now service and when it went live Wed, I signed up and paid for 1 month.
Got the "Go Big" package which is $35/mo for 100 channels. Normally $60/mo, initial subscribers get the $35/mo for as long as you keep a subscription (no contracts, cancel at any time), though they do say that it could go up in the future (what doesn't when it comes to internet/TV). The $35 deal is supposedly for a limited time but they don't give any cut off date. You can run it on 2 devices at the same time (computer, tablet, phone, Windows, iOS & Android). I run it via the recommended Google chrome browser on Windows 10 computers. Cost for internet & DTVnow is about $110 for us.
Web interface is OK, channel selection seems to be only able to be done through the Guide so if you're watching something and want to go watch something else you have to click on Guide, scroll down through the channel list and choose. Web interface comes up with volume auto muted. Decent on-demand list of programs/series.
Streaming so far has been pretty good (used it at home and work which has 100/mbps internet). HD picture quality is great, have only had a few stream pauses myself, wife says the web page crashed once on her.
At the $35 price it's a option for us now (and we still use OTA for live local and network TV), have to see in the future if the price shoots up.
www.directtvnow.com
Sam