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AT&T's DirecTV Now Plagued With Outages and Sports Blackouts (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Barely two weeks after ATT launched DirecTV Now, the online streaming service's customers have already been hit by multiple outages, unexpected blackouts of live local sports games, and missing channels. There was an outage of about three hours last night and a two-hour outage Friday night, TVPredictions reported today. "DirecTV Now's customers said they couldn't log onto the streaming service, or they were suddenly met with a blank screen if already watching," the report said. The "Error Message 30" article tells customers that they may be suffering from "an intermittent or weak Internet connection," but in this case the problem was on DirecTV's end. "Tuesday evening we experienced an issue that prevented some customers from streaming on DirecTV Now," ATT told Ars today. "The issue has since been resolved and we're seeing normal streaming levels at this time. We thank our customers for their patience." Even when DirecTV Now works, availability of live sports games hasn't lived up to what the company promised. There appear to be technical problems affecting local games, but licensing restrictions may be limiting availability as well. This past Sunday, some DirecTV Now subscribers in cities such as San Francisco, Tampa Bay, and Atlanta could not watch NFL games on local Fox channels due to a technical problem, TVPredictions reported in another article.
Antenna? OK, grandpa. So you are saying there are these magic rays that go through the air that your magic "antenna" can catch and turn into a NFL game? Delusional!
So you are saying there are these magic rays that go through the air that your magic "antenna" can catch and turn into a NFL game? Delusional!
If this Science Fictional technology of sending TV through the air, instead of through a cable, as God intended, is ever invented, it would be disruptive! Think of the damage that it would do to the children of cable industry workers.
This would cause more unemployment than Artificial Intelligence Automation and Guy Fawkes mask toting Anonymous Cars!
Note that these would be American jobs that would be lost: no cable country in the USA would send a technician from India to the US to fix your cable problem in Camden, NJ. Although, given the time it takes for the cable company to send a technician to fix your problem at home . . . it might seem like the technician is swimming from India to the US.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!