AirTV is shipping to customers without its biggest feature

Back at CES, we were quite smitten with AirTV’s ability to put all of your streaming services and over-the-air channels in the same place. Well, it looks like the set-top box is shipping to customers without its key feature. AirTV doesn’t currently integrate OTA channels inside the Sling guide, instead there’s a button that launches a Google Live Channels app.

A customer pinged Dish CEO Roger Lynch last week after receiving an AirTV that lacked the feature. Lynch explained that the boxes on display at CES a few weeks ago were running a beta version of the software and that the OTA feature “will be rolled out soon.” Other users report that Netflix queues and recommendations are absent from the guide as well. This is a major issue since AirTV has been on sale since the day it was announced in Vegas over two weeks ago. We’ve reached out to AirTV for more information on the issue and we will update when we hear back. For now, it doesn’t look like the device is putting OTA channels and streaming services in one spot at all — which was kind of the whole point.

@markreaume The version shown at CES had beta software where the locals are integrated. That feature will be rolled out soon.

— Roger Lynch (@RogerLynch) January 13, 2017

Via: Zatz Not Funny

Source: Roger Lynch (Twitter)