AppleInsider Staff
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.
Marko Zivkovic
Wesley Hilliard
Christine McKee
Malcolm Owen
William Gallagher
Andrew O'Hara
15 Comments
And the writer also was incorrect in stating that previously the DTVnow deal was for 4 months of service...it was free AppleTV 4K for $105 (3 months @ $35/mo).
So not only has DTVnow increased their monthly from $35 to $50, but they've required an extra month of service.
Why does everyone think they cut Discovery and Viacom and others? I still get them, and while the 2 introductory pkgs do not include them, they are still listed in OTHER PACKAGES...
Where do they specifically state they have removed them or will remove them?
The price of video streaming has gone up and I don't think it will come down any time soon, unless the providers start offering 5G streaming deals.
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. :smile: (That's a $10-$15 value)
* 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.
It is definitely the promotion of the month club around AT&T. In February they were giving away the AppleTV 4K if you signed up for fiber Internet service for a year. I was already using DTV Now, but not with their fiber internet, so I picked up one during that promotion.