DirecTV Content To Begin Streaming by Year-End, Says AT&T
AT&T's DirecTV video services will be offered via streaming over mobile devices, smart TVs and PCs sometime in Q4, AT&T said in a news release Tuesday. The company said the three video packages -- DirecTV Now, DirecTV Mobile and DirecTV…
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Preview -- won't require annual contracts, satellite dishes or set-top boxes. The advertising-supported Preview package will be free and feature some content from AT&T's Audience Network and a variety of other networks and content sources, plus millennial-targeted video from Otter Media, AT&T said. The Mobile package will be focused on smartphone users, while the Now package will include "much of what is available from DirecTV today" in on-demand and live programming and also have a number of add-on options, the company said. It also said it will continue to provide DirecTV's satellite TV service and its U-verse TV and Internet service.