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If your TV streaming service is losing millions of customers, something needs to change. AT&T has decided that for TV Now, increasing the price by 30 percent is the best thing to do. As 9to5Mac reports, the cheapest TV Now option is the Plus package, which costs $50 and offers access to over 45 channels of content. The Max package increases the channel count to over 60 and offers more sports coverage for $70. Starting next month, however, they are getting a price hike to $65 and $80 per month, respectively. Meanwhile, the other plans—Entertainment, Choice, Xtra, Ultimate, and Optimo Mas—will get $10-per-month price hikes each. So the highest price plan, Ultimate, will soon be $145 for 125+ channels. AT&T is informing existing customers of the price hike via an email and there's no way around it, apparently. You can either agree to pay the higher price or cancel the service. TV Now used to be called DirecTV Now, but AT&T decided on a rebrand earlier this year. … [Read more...] about AT&T TV Now Gets a Price Hike (Again)

Good and bad news, YouTube TV subscribers. YouTube is adding nine new channels to its live TV service. But it's also raising prices. Previously priced at $39.99 a month, YouTube TV now costs $49.99 a month. Those billed through Apple, meanwhile, will be charged $54.99 per month. The price hike went into effect Wednesday for new members. Existing subscribers will see the new rate on their bills after May 13. As a silver lining, YouTube is adding Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, and MotorTrend to the service. The company also plans to add OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network later this year. You can also now subscribe to Epix through YouTube TV for an extra charge. In a statement, YouTube TV VP of Product Management Christian Oestlien said the company is raising prices "to keep bringing you the best service possible." Related How to Download Video From Your Favorite Streaming Service How to Download Video From Your Favorite … [Read more...] about YouTube TV Gets Hefty Price Hike

If you've been subscribing to YouTube TV for a long time, then chances are a Showtime subscription is heading your way for the summer at no extra cost. As Engadget reports, YouTube is rewarding subscribers who have been using the premium streaming service for a while with a free Showtime subscription. What we don't know yet is how long your YouTube TV subscription needs to have been active to qualify. YouTube simply describes the offer as open to "longtime friends." The Showtime offer will grant access to all content on the service, but without the usually $10.99 charge every month (or $109.90 a year). It's also nice to hear that the free subscription does not end with an auto-renewal with charges attached. You can keep watching until Sept. 5 and then decide if you want to continue or not. Obviously Showtime is hoping you will pay up and continue being a subscriber after that. Related YouTube Premium vs. YouTube TV: What's the Difference? YouTube Premium vs. YouTube TV: What's … [Read more...] about Some YouTube TV Subscribers Will Get Showtime for Free

SAN FRANCISCO—At a Game Developers Conference presentation tonight, Nvidia revealed Shield, a living room gaming and 4K video streaming-focused extension of its existing portable- and tablet-based Shield game console line. The "streaming device on steroids," as an Nvidia rep referred to it, will be available in "early May" for $199 with an included controller. The Android TV-based, Tegra X1-powered Shield will run a selection of controller-optimized Android titles natively—Nvidia says a curated selection of 50 such games will be available at launch, but others will also be playable from the Google Play store or even through sideloading. This includes all the games that already run on Nvidia's Shield portable and Shield tablet consoles; games purchased on one of those devices will be playable on the others through the same account. Nvidia also left open the option of games that takes particular advantage of the extra processing in the X1 chip, which doesn't have the … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Shield is a $199 Android TV streaming microconsole powerhouse

UPDATE (12/28): On Jan. 1, Google was supposed to officially end support for the YouTube app on Fire TV devices. But Amazon may have decided to respond four days ahead of that date. On Thursday, Fire TV devices started displaying a new YouTube app that launches the video streaming service through the Firefox or Silk browser. This occured after Amazon began rolling out the browsers across its media streaming players just over a week ago. Amazon didn't directly comment on the change. In an email, a company spokesperson said: "At this time, all I can confirm is that YouTube and millions of other websites are accessible by using a web browser like Firefox or Silk on Fire TV." Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Original story 12/5: Google is pulling YouTube from Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV devices over the online retailer's refusal to carry certain products from the search company. In pulling the YouTube support, Google noted that its own products, Google Home … [Read more...] about YouTube Dropped From Amazon’s Fire TV, Echo Show (Again)