Netflix Is About To Give You $800 Million Worth Of More Original ContentTelecommunications giant AT&T has taken the wraps of a new video streaming service designed to deliver ‘TV your way’ (in the words of CEO John Stankey), featuring dozens of channels across both TV and mobile devices. Called DIRECTV Now, the new service is targeted at the more than 20 million US households that don’t have cable or satellite TV. Full details of the channels available with each package have yet to be announced, but AT&T does state that they’ve been ‘seeded’ from the DIRECTV satellite services. AT&T has also confirmed that you can add HBO and Cinemax to any of the four packages for a (not unreasonable) extra $5 each a month. Other devices are set to be added in 2017, with AT&T already listing Roku streaming players, Roku TV models, Amazon Fire tablets, and Smart TVs from Samsung and ‘other leading brands’.

Source: Forbes November 29, 2016 01:18 UTC