Rumors have been floating around all week that AT&T will purchase DirecTV for a reported $50 billion. Now, BuzzFeed quotes unnamed insiders who say the deal will be officially announced tomorrow, ahead of trading on Monday. The deal would give AT&T access to DirecTV's 20 million subscribers, the largest satelliteā¦
An insider tipped us off that the satellite provider is launching the elusive Nomad tomorrow. The device grabs content off your DirectTV DVR, transcodes it, and makes it available for download to your mobile device or PC.
In August of 1956, science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote a letter to his friend Andrew G. Haley. In this letter, he predictedāwith uncanny accuracyāthe GPS and satellite TV systems of today.
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DirecTV currently only sends out two feedsāone to the east coast, one to the westāwhich each broadcast uniform content and advertising across their various markets. For advertisers with limited reach, this is wasteful; likewise, for viewers, this can mean annoyingly irrelevant ads.
While Americans had millions of ways to watch Obama's inauguration speech, here in China, I'm giving thanks for my one: gray-market Filipino satellite. Without it, I would've missed anything past where Obama muttered "communists."
Come this spring, parents will have another tool at their disposal when it comes to shutting up kids in the backseat. Called Cruisecast, it's AT&T's foray into car-based satellite TV, and it's expensive.
After punting their agreement with Dish Network to sell satellite as part of a triple play package, AT&T has decided to settle down with DirecTV. They'll keep hawking Dish through Jan. 31, after which they'll offer DirecTV anywhere they can't give you U-Verse as a TV option. Multichannel notes that this leavesā¦
In order to offer more HD channels, satellite providers need more satellites. So happy day for Dish Network subscribers, their EchoStar XI satellite was successfully launched this morning after a satellite propelled into space last March didn't reach the right orbit. This'll let Dish add 17 new HD channels shortly,ā¦
AT&T is nixing the agreement they've had with Dish TV since 2003 to sell their satellite TV service as part of a triple play bundle with internet and voice. Some are speculating it's because AT&T is simply down on satellite TV (it's got its own U-verse IPTV thing after all), but more likely it's pitting Dish andā¦
This is classic corporate espionage/sabotage at its finest. Dish Network is accusing News Corp.āwhich used to have a 39 percent stake in DirecTV and still provides its security techāof hiring hacker Christopher Tarnovsky to break into Dish's network, steal the security codes, and use them to make pirated cards toā¦
The oft-bought-and-sold ReplayTV found a new master today in the form of DirecTV. My theory is that they just really liked each other's names. (In case you didn't realize it, there's no such thing as MoneyTVāI made that up.) But the deal makes sense for other reasons. D&M Holdings, the parent of Denon and Marantz,ā¦
On Black Friday, some of you walked home with your first HDTV. Or second. Discount voodoo is understandably hard to resist. But unless you've got HD content, you've got nothin' but a pretty frame. Since it's the holidays, you probably don't wanna screw around in customer service hell. If you've narrowed your choiceā¦
Sirius' SCV1, also known as Sirius Backseat TV, is their latest product that receives three channels of TV programming as well. The three channelsāNickelodeon, Disney and Cartoon Networkā are all geared to keep kids entertained in the backseat while you're listening to regular Sirius music in the front seat. The SCV1ā¦
Ed Baig and Jeff Graham, the reviewin' duo over at USA Today, were among the first to press with a review of DirecTV's new mobile receiver, the Sat-Go. As you Giz readers probably already know, the kit by Humax has a 17-inch LCD screen, integrated receiver, "laptop-style" battery, remote and antenna. That is, the lidā¦
For those of you who really need to get DirecTV everywhere, you were probably eagerly awaiting DirecTV's Sat-Go satellite-tv-in-a-box service. Well, the wait's over, since DTV's just rolled it out officially.
Have boat, will travel. Now add the new TracVision M3 satellite TV system and you can travel in style. KVH Industries, Inc. has announced the M3 as the world's smallest marine satellite TV system, perfect for boats as small as 25 feet. Maybe you thought your vessel was just too tiny to be kicking up your feet andā¦
