AT and many similar companies have their inbuilt TV streaming services.
One of the services known as DirectTV Now and DirecTV has many different customization options.
If you want to enable closed captioning on DirecTV Now, then go through the steps mentioned below.
· Find the Captioning column.
· After that, choose the View Style.
· In case you are using the Chromecast for casting any content with the closed captions from your phone to the DirectTV Now, you have to move the display to get the captions option on your DirecTV Now.
We started with mechanical-scan television receivers; then the invention of the cathode-ray tube resulted in the rise of electronic TV; after that it was the upgrade from black-and-white TV to color transmission; a bit later we saw cable and satellite TV; now we can enjoy fine movies and the latest shows streamed right to our smart TV sets, tablets, and even smartphones in full HD, on-demand and on the go.
These days, we are witnessing the rise of excellent video streaming services – Hulu, Netflix, DirecTV Now, Twitch, HBO Now, Amazon Video, and even YouTube TV – that are gradually replacing traditional cable and satellite TV.
Some of these channels even managed to make their mark on the 2017 Emmy nominations list.
There are also several cable and satellite TV alternatives (DirecTV and Sling TV) that don’t produce any original content but still broadcast good TV.
Sling TV, DirecTV Now, and PlayStation Vue are probably the best-known live TV streaming services (or cord replacements, as they’re called) – and these three services, by the way, are quite similar in practice.
Sling TV doesn’t produce any original content of its own but instead provides access to a range of the most popular cable channels with a diverse selection of movies and TV shows on a monthly subscription basis (the same is true for DirecTV Now, but is not the case with Hulu).
CBS television channels are set to be restored Thursday to AT's DirecTV, DirecTV Now and other pay-TV customers, as the two companies reached a deal after a nearly three-week blackout.
CBS and AT said Thursday that their multi-year deal will cover the CBS-owned stations of its namesake broadcast channel, the CBS Sports Network and the Smithsonian Channel across DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-verse, as well as the upcoming TV platforms AT hopes to launch.
(Note: CNET is owned by CBS.)
AT is aiming to launch a Netflix-like streaming service called HBO Max in the spring of 2020, but that isn't expected to carry live channels.
The blackout hit AT pay-TV customers in 17 cities -- New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Tampa, Seattle, Detroit, Minneapolis, Miami, Denver, Sacramento, Pittsburgh and Baltimore -- as well as more than 100 CBS stations and affiliates on DirecTV Now.
It stemmed from a dispute over the rates that AT pays CBS to carry the channels, after the companies' 2012 agreement expired last month.
