AT&T to lose 1.1M TV subscribers as DirecTV continues nosedive

This pleases me.

I was a long-time DTV subscriber that recently cut the cord. It was a total pain, but I am now glad I did it and should have done it years ago.

What finally pushed me over the edge was a change DirecTV made. One day when you paused a program you were watching on your DVR, instead of showing a screensaver they’d show an ad for a Directv PPV movie. I have a bunch of movies on iTunes, I will literally never buy a movie on DTV. No way to disable it.

Something about the sheer stupidity of forcing an ad on someone who pays $200 a month (and knows they are overpaying) for a “premium” experience an ad for something they will literally never buy. It was just infuriating beyond belief.

I knew I would never be able to talk sense or get my voice heard at such a huge company. And I knew people would never cancel in large enough numbers that they got the message. But I cancelled anyways, pushed to do it, and glad I did.

But it did make me a hater to root against them. And so I am glad to hear that this decision among others is finally getting through to them.

Now I think I just need a home visit from one of the core developers of YoutubeTV to come and explain how I am supposed to use their dumb app and why they couldn’t make it like every other DVR in the past 20 years :)

I was a DirecTV subscriber for many years. Their customer service was great. After the AT&T acquisition customer service quickly declined to the horrible low level I had with other AT&T services and canceled. This pushed our household into the streaming world which has its own problems (and are getting worse quickly).