So, with Apple now having tv how will that affect directtv? And AT&T?
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Before you go cable cutting realize that the Apple TV is in its own sandbox of limitations. I have 3 of the 3rd gen and 1 4th gen. The "TV" that's available comes with an al a carte subscription fee or is tied to your existing tv service. YouTube is the only real "free" video platform. An Apple TV is sadly not even close to a replacement for regular television. Not yet.
we cancel our AT&T U-Verse cable service and buy an AppleTV device. For the $99 price of the magic little box, we would save ourselves $86 per month in subscription and equipment rental fees. We’ve been AT&T customers for almost 3 years, having signed up as soon as their U-Verse service was available in our neighborhood. Before that, we had Time Warner.
I’m returning the Apple TV today. The only thing I’ll really miss about it is being able to stream music from my iPhone and/or Mac desktop computer to it. But if I want to play music from my phone on my home stereo, all I really need is a $6 audio cable from Radio Shack. Put one end in your iPhone’s headphone jack, and the other end in your stereo’s audio input.
In short, canceling cable service and buying the Roku XS 2 as a replacement is saving us almost $1,000 a year! Sure, I’ll miss ESPN, Discovery Channel and a few others, but are they worth $1,000 a year