Company Town. Nearly 3 million subscribers ditched DirecTV last year. Cost-cutting and big decisions loom, including whether to pay to keep exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket. Morrow believes the satellite TV business, while declining, will be around longer than some analysts have projected. Company research and customer surveys, he said, have shown that many consumers still want bundles of their favorite TV channels in addition to streaming services, like Netflix.
DirecTV also said it will honor terms of existing collective bargaining agreements covering union-represented employees. DirecTV maintains the rights to out-of-market Sunday afternoon football games through the season, but when the NFL deal expires the company will probably discontinue the package. In recent years, DirecTV has been losing tens of millions of dollars a year on its partnership with the NFL, and it can no longer stomach the losses.
In addition, the NFL has grown more interested in experimenting with streaming partners and granted a partnership with Amazon. What went wrong? Unfortunately, not all of its competitors can say that much. Hulu with Live TV , for example, didn't prove stable enough for my liking. Unfortunately, the upsides of DirecTV Stream against cable are the same upsides you get with all of the best cable TV alternatives.
For starters, you can stream all your favorite channels anywhere you go on your phone. Spectrum's mobile app only gives me that whole channel guide if I'm logged in on my home network. Secondly, DirecTV Stream offers the same month-to-month contract structure that the other cord-cutter services do. It's great, especially if you find that you don't like DirecTV Stream.
YouTube TV is already about 20 seconds or more behind my cable box, and that's not great watching live events with friends and constantly being behind them stinks. I understand that consent is not a condition of purchase. And that's not great. I hate to be a cliche millennial, but I do not want to get a call from DirecTV ever.
That's why we have websites. But then when I found the correct Google result, I couldn't check out, as it kept giving me errors at the billing page. When I got it to work on another device, I learned that the 'payment address' field may not have been working correctly.
This is all to say, though, that any suspicions of DirecTV Stream being a service that seems stuck in the antiquated methods of DirecTV and cable providers are warranted. Everything about the service just feels old. I don't want to cut the cord to go back to something that's rooted in the past. And then there's the whole "rewinding live shows" issue that I've run into elsewhere. Say you're watching a show that you've got set to record, and then channel surf over to something else during the commercial break to check out your other options.
When I did this, and went back to the show I was watching, I lost the ability to rewind past a certain point, even though I was recording the show. I had to then navigate the menus in the system to the My Library section to find the full recording of the live show. This is worse than cable shocking, I know and is the kind of thing that could send people running back to their cable box. You don't have this issue on YouTube TV either. I love that when I want to hear my favorite sporting event on the road, I just tune to the channel on my phone and plug into my car, so I can listen with free data.
The CloudDVR is great. We can watch our recorded video while traveling and the data is free. We can record a series, and now choose either all episodes or only new episodes. And when we travel our TV service goes with us wherever we go. I am always recommending this to others. It way exceeds all my expectations. I think the negative reviews are fake. My experience with this service is stellar, and I know others who have it and theirs is the same.
This app WAS amazing when it was direct tv. Extremely frustrating. I guess they want to sound like they have a solution. Well, no. Just no. Yes my computer is turned on. Thanks tech support.
Although the app was amazing for my use, there were some bugs anyway.
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