Wouldn’t need a dish. Your TV service comes thru the interwebs. Direct now is really no different than any other streaming service (YouTube TV, Xbox/PSView, Hulu....). They’d just rather call it something your familiar with. The next big this will be when 5G fully comes on board. If it were me, I’d get on a fiber network and stream whatever you want from whoever you want.
Sell you the broadband, let you do what you may with it. Wireless won’t be able to touch the speed of light.
If you already have it, or purchase it (Uverse TV), then you’ll continue with your service. Just saying that the word we are hearing is the company will stop selling uverse TV to new potential customers 4th quarter (sept-oct). Just gonna selling internet, slap a modem in , and let you do what you’d like with the speed delivered. So many people are pulling the plug on TV programming, I think the thought might be that it’s not worth the cost to produce a product that #1 isn’t selling, or #2 when you own DirecTV as well, might want to consolidate.
Like I said earlier, if you can get on fiber, it’s really the way to go. Secure limitless speed. You’ll probably need at least a good 18-25Mbps to get your stream on and still have bandwidth for a few other devices to be efficient at the same time. If you have kids with tablets and ****, might want to plan for more if available. Comcast can offer you pretty good speeds too, but I hear they’re more of a pain to deal with than us. Good luck homes!
What is a fiber network? I’d like to dump Comcast, but by the time I pay for a streaming service for $50 then have to get internet service from another provider it doesn’t seem like I’d be saving all that much. And I wouldn’t have a DVR, which I use so much.
YoutubeTV. It has a DVR, with unlimited storage. I also have AT&T internet with 24mbp speed (its the best i can get at my house too.) Surprisingly to me, its been enough speed for a family of 4 to stream our TV.
AT&T, Google, Verizon and a few others have actually gone pole to pole, or running conduits thru buried utility neighborhoods, placing fiber through a ton of neighborhoods in the past 2 years. HOA’s have been our biggest opponent due to some tight asses not wanting their grass disturbed, even tho we replace it. Provides an actual strand of fiber to you house, versus fiber to a node somewhere in you neighborhood and then copper to your house from there. Copper is metal, metal has resistance, relies on frequencies to travel thru it. Fiber is glass, no resistance, speed of light. Don’t get me wrong, 100M or 1Gig is total overkill for the average household, but it sure is nice for piece of mind.
