DirecTV is offering a free Apple TV 4K if you pay for four months of service in advance
In case you missed the last few times that DirecTV Now and AT&T wanted to give you an Apple TV 4K with four months of service pre-paid, now's your chance.
The company is offering up the Apple TV 4K, plus four months of service for $200 again. Considering the 32 gigabyte Apple TV 4K retails for $179 alone, the programming effectively costs $21 for four months.
The streaming platform provides users with a variety of popular cable channels, including properties owned by AMC, Discovery, Disney, NBCUniversal and Viacom, among others. In November 2017, AT&T struck a deal with CBS to carry streaming and on-demand content from CBS News, CBS Sports Network, The CW, Pop and Showtime.
Along with the Apple TV, DirecTV Now supports a wide variety of internet-connected devices including Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, iPhone, iPad, Android hardware, Chromecast, and Google Cast-enabled LeEco ecotvs and VIZIO SmartCast Displays. Subscribers can also access programming through web browsers.
AT&T's offer is available to new subscribers while supplies last. For more information on the Apple TV 4K, please see our hands-on review.
The company is offering up the Apple TV 4K, plus four months of service for $200 again. Considering the 32 gigabyte Apple TV 4K retails for $179 alone, the programming effectively costs $21 for four months.
The streaming platform provides users with a variety of popular cable channels, including properties owned by AMC, Discovery, Disney, NBCUniversal and Viacom, among others. In November 2017, AT&T struck a deal with CBS to carry streaming and on-demand content from CBS News, CBS Sports Network, The CW, Pop and Showtime.
Along with the Apple TV, DirecTV Now supports a wide variety of internet-connected devices including Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, iPhone, iPad, Android hardware, Chromecast, and Google Cast-enabled LeEco ecotvs and VIZIO SmartCast Displays. Subscribers can also access programming through web browsers.
AT&T's offer is available to new subscribers while supplies last. For more information on the Apple TV 4K, please see our hands-on review.
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So not only has DTVnow increased their monthly from $35 to $50, but they've required an extra month of service.
Where do they specifically state they have removed them or will remove them?
I subscribed to DirecTV Now on day one and got a free AppleTV and the GoBig package and when I look back now, I am very happy I did because it was a great deal.
I prepaid $35 per month and although my price has since gone up to $50, it is still a good deal because I count 134 channels in the now grandfathered GoBig Package which is no longer offered.
Note that the DirecTV Now service is much better now than it was when I signed up.
* HBO is included in the package and Games of Throne is coming.
* DVR is included in the package at no extra cost.
* DirecTV Now have partnered with AppleTV service to support single sign-on and SIRI channel tuning.
* You can stream all the channels from anywhere in the country over 4G, WiFi or Wired.
* AT&T has worked out most of the kinks and the streaming is now excellent and channel switching is fast including SIRI tune to, switch to, change to commands etc...
So if you were planning to switch to streaming anyway, then this is not a bad deal because the monthly price is competitive for the package and you get a free AppleTV, HBO and DVR.
If you were to cancel your old subscription and then resubscribe, then you would lose them.
But you're right. The monthly price has gone up.
Also curious why AppleInsider thinks just because they fixed one of the errors in their story they should remove ALL of the comments pointing out the other issues. As I pointed out in the comment I can't find anymore, AMC is no longer included. Neither is any Viacom channel currently (although rumors are they might come back in a few days based on a new agreement).
We were ready to switch to DTVN now as soon as they supported signing into TLC's native app (something my wife wanted). With their new change, I can't figure out why anyone would choose their service over other options (they used to have the most complete package of the channels we watch). Now we're stuck waiting to see what Apple TV's new service offers or having to subscribe to more than one service to get all the channels.
I would not recommend anyone getting this version of the Apple TV and wait it out until the next iteration and see what they have to offer. As it stands now, the Apple TV is not worth it.
We liked the DTVN service but it was lacking in a couple of areas. They fixed the lack of single sign-on finally, but didn't ever fix that you couldn't sign into all of the apps for all of the networks. Rather than fix it, they just dropped a lot of the networks and increased the costs.
Last year, they switched some aspect of sign-on and jacked up my ability to sign in to any AT&T platform, to include my iPhone and iPad Pro with LTE. I also could not log in to watch the DTVN I was paying for.
No help by phone or online worth bothering with, so I went to an AT&T store where I was informed that they could do nothing to help me- for an AT&T product at an AT&T store. If we reset the DTVN PW I could not get in to AT&T to manage my cell accounts and if we reset the AT&T PW it would lock me out of DTVN. After numerous rounds of this with AT&T I fixed the problem by canceling the DTVN and switching to YouTube TV.
The only downside to YTT is the lack of HBO which is now unfortunately the property of AT&T.