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Kliphton, thank you for this article. I really appreciate it. I really hope this service is launched this week. I also hope that they do offer a 7 day trial. I really want to see how accessible this App might be. I'm hoping that it will be much more accessible than Sling. I'm excited about this, and I love the price. Although, if it were $50, I still would be willing to pay that. I will watch for articles and information as well. But if you hear of anything else, please let me know. Thank you, Terri On 11/14/2016 1:56 PM, Kliphton Miller wrote: Here is the link to read article http://www.businessinsider.com/directv-now-apple-tv-and-fire-stick-giveaway-2016-11 Article is belo. AT&T plans to give away free Apple TVs and Amazon Fire TV Sticks with its coming $35-a-month streaming TV service, DirecTV Now, according to leaked documents viewed by Variety<http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/directv-now-channel-list-leak-1201909846/>. AT&T made waves in the industry last month when it announced that DirecTV Now would provide more than 100 channels for a mere $35 a month, undercutting many rivals on price. (Wall Street was expecting it to cost about $50 a month, according to analysts at Macquarie.) AT&T says it will be able to make the economics work at that price in part by cutting out legacy equipment like satellite dishes. DirecTV Now will be delivered over the internet, eliminating the need for cable or satellite but, to watch it on a TV, requiring a streaming box (like an Apple TV) or a smart TV. Not everyone, however, has a streaming box ready to go. With this leak, it seems as if AT&T will try to bridge the "streaming gap" for customers by simply giving them a free streaming box. And make no mistake: This is a monster giveaway. Variety says people who sign up for three months of DirecTV Now will get a free Apple TV. DirecTV Now is only $35 a month, which means AT&T is asking for just a $105 commitment. An Apple TV alone costs $150 at retail. And if you don't want to commit to three months of DirecTV Now, you can sign up for one month ($35) and get a free Amazon Fire TV Stick. That would cost you about $40 at retail. The fuzzy details We still don't know exactly which channels will be on DirecTV Now. AT&T has already signed deals with HBO, Discovery, NBCUniversal, Turner, Viacom, Disney, AMC, Scripps, Starz, and more. So it seems as if all the big guns will be signed up for launch. But exactly which channels they are providing is still up in the air. (An ad for the service viewed by Business Insider showed that ESPN would be on it). DirecTV Now will have a "72-hour catch-up window," according to Variety, which will let you watch shows on-demand for three days after they air. But there may be limitations on this feature — ESPN isn't on that catch-up list, for instance. DirecTV Now will also have an on-demand library of "up to 14,000 titles," according to Variety. For those who don't want to start paying before testing it out, DirecTV Now will let you have a seven-day free trial, according to an ad viewed by Business Insider that has since been taken down. The future is streaming AT&T has big plans for DirecTV Now and thinks it will be the company's primary TV platform by 2020<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-20/at-t-said-to-discuss-idea-of-takeover-in-time-warner-meetings>, according to Bloomberg. In the immediate time period, a recent report<http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/att-directv-now-price-35-month-1201901470/> from MoffettNathanson estimated that DirecTV Now could snag 11 million subscribers. On Nov 14, 2016, at 2:30 PM, Kliphton Miller <kliph...@icloud.com<mailto:kliph...@icloud.com>> wrote: committing to 3 months is true. Go to cord cutters.com<http://cutters.com> and read the article there. I also sent in a article this morning that says the service should launch this week. On Nov 14, 2016, at 12:08 PM, Terri Stimmel <icecreamlove...@outlook.com<mailto:icecreamlove...@outlook.com>> wrote: Hello everyone, As I mentioned yesterday, I tried talking to someone at Direct tv, about this new service. She didn't seem to know really anything, but that the service might exist. So this morning I thought about calling my local AT&T store. I got a little more help from a guy there. He wasn't sure when the service was coming out. He thought it would be the middle of this month, or some time next month. He said that I should receive emails about it, and even fliers in the mail. I asked him if he heard about the deal where if you purchased 3 months of service you would receive a 4th generation Apple tv. But he hadn't heard of this. Doesn't surprise me, that sounds a little too good to be true. Although, I could be wrong. He says it's open to everyone, and you don't have to qualify for it. He says it's like signing up for Netflix. Well, this is good to know. 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