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DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

These remaining DirecTV subscribers are gonna be pissed when AT&T swaps out the dial-tone on their landline for an ad stream.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Most of them are probably boomers and will be dead soon, anyway

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    does at&t still own direc tv?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I don't know. Maybe not. Last I worked with them they were still Hughes, but the ATT acquisition had been announced.

    Fun story... it once took a bit over an hour to get from their building on Imperial Hwy to the passenger terminal at LAX, and you can see LAX out the uber window on the other side of the street the entire ride. Lol.

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