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venturebeat | March 30, 2018

Amazon today announced updates to Alexa’s Video Skills API, which will soon allow users of TiVo, DirectTV, DISH, and Verizon television services to record their favorite shows using their voice on an Alexa-enabled device so a user will be able to say “Alexa, record the Warriors game” to start a DVR recording.The update announced today for the API that gives Alexa control of video content will also allow customers to navigate to often-used destinations, like a show guide, home s...

Variety | July 02, 2018

AT&T is raising the prices of DirecTV Now starting this month, by an additional $5 monthly for all plans a move that the telco says brings its entry-level internet-TV bundle in line with competitors.AT&T’s $5-per-month price increase takes effect July 26, 2018. For customers who subscribed to DirecTV Now before then using a promo offer, the price won’t change until the promotion ends.The telco has marketed DirecTV Now as a less expensive and more convenient way to buy pay TV ...

Fierce Cable | July 25, 2018

AT&T ended its second quarter by adding another 342,000 subscribers to its DirecTV Now platform, bringing the total for the service to 1.8 million.In all, AT&T recorded 80,000 total video net adds during the quarter and claimed its total video customer base “stable” with DirecTV Now. But the numbers suggest that AT&T’s traditional video platforms (DirecTV and Uverse) lost more than 250,000 subscribers.In a somewhat truncated press release put out for AT&T’...

Venturebeat | October 10, 2018

Having made a major investment in spatial computing startup Magic Leap back in July, AT&T today announced its next two steps for the partnership: building a 5G network at Magic Leap’s headquarters to test next-generation headsets, and preparing a version of its over-the-top TV viewing app for the current-generation Magic Leap One.AT&T CEO John Donovan joined Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz on stage at the L.E.A.P. developers conference to discuss the announcements. Most interestingly, ...