How New Streaming Solution Bespeaks Next-Gen Entertainment

New internet-driven TV experience is facilitating users tune to a channel, search for shows or movies in a compatible smart-home setup.

 FREMONT, CA: A telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services, AT&T, has launched AT&T TV that is pushing subscribers to the back burner of pay-TV strategy. The new internet-driven competitor likely won't stanch the cord-cutting bleeding. The broadband-delivered service delivers a lineup of hundreds of live TV channels, 500 hours of DVR storage space, and 40,000 on-demand titles that are built on an Android-based set-top. DirecTV can be streamed on a mobile device anywhere in the U.S. It is also the company's first product that embraces other streaming services, with access to Netflix, Disney Plus, YouTube, Spotify, Pandora — and HBO Max in its May Launch. AT&T TV necessitates high-speed internet with a recommend the least connection of 8 megabits per second per stream.

The AT&T TV voice-facilitated remote control is combined with Google Assistant, letting users instruct it to tune to a channel, search for movies or shows, provide weather reports and even dim the living-room lights if they have a compatible smart-home setup. The service alone is unlikely to drive a dramatic shift in sub-trends but should lower costs in entertainment segment while providing a boost to addressable advertising AT&T TV enables a maximum of three concurrent streams and comprises three months of free access to HBO, Showtime and Starz, Cinemax, and video-on-demand library with 55,000 titles and 500 hours of DVR storage.  

AT&T has found its mention in 20 Most Promising IoT Solution Providers by CIOReview. AT&T is an American multinational conglomerate and telecommunications company, providing wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services. The company is the world's largest telecommunications company, provider of mobile telephone services. AT&T is also the biggest provider of fixed telephone services in the United States through AT&T Communications.