Apple TV Update April 2014
So I turned on Apple TV last night to discover a new set of channels. The History and H2 Channel (in one), The Lifetime Channel, and The A&E Channel all sitting pretty in the middle of my carefully manicured home screen. “WOW! This is great!”my wife an I both exclaimed , BUT IT WASN’T. Sure you can now watch the OLD Episodes of these Channels but if you want to watch the new you need a cable subscription – Bummer for Cord Cutters like us. However our Internet came with a basic cable plan that included HBO, we don’t use it except for HBOGO access, now we’ll use it for more! So off to the internet I went this morning to see if I could link my account to The History Channel to watch all its crazy goodness, BUT WAIT I CAN’T.
Apparently you have to be a DirecTV – Optimum – Verizon Fios subscriber to get access to the new material ( this is all taken from the www.mylifetime.com/activate page ) Sadly I am a Comcast subscriber – This is sad on many levels, and thusly can not subscribe to the new goodness. Sure I can watch the older stuff but we Cord Cutters have been shoved to the back of the line the whole time and It’s nice that channels like HBOGO allow us to see a show almost in realtime the day its being aired -*note: When it works.
I noted before that my information came from the Lifetime website – This is because at this time 9:00AM 4/22/14 I am unable to access the History.com or AETV.com Websites to activate my device. I’ll keep Trying and let you know how it turns out.
Maybe they’ll release more access as they go or perhaps the final paperwork wasn’t processed yet I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Stay tuned for more adventures in AppleTV.
-Phil
