AT&T’s $15 streaming service is now live, but is it worth it?

Earlier this month, AT&T finally took the wraps off its long-teased skinny streaming bundle, called AT&T Watch. The service isn’t pretending to be a replacelment for cable: instead, it’s a collection of channels (mostly now owned by AT&T) for nearly the same price as your monthly Netflix subscription. Starting today, it’s available to some AT&T customers for free, or to the rest of us mortals for $15 a month.

The service is free for anyone who subscribes to one of AT&T’s brand-new unlimited data plans, which are confusingly called Unlimited &More and Unlimited &More Premium. Pricing for those is nearly the same as AT&T’s current unlimited plans: the cheaper Unlimited &More plan costs $70 per month for a single line, or $160 for four lines, while Unlimited &More Premium is $80 for one line, or $190 for four. Those plans are also now live, although the big catch is that the more expensive plan doesn’t come with free HBO any more.

• A&E
• AMC
• ANIMAL PLANET
• AUDIENCE
• BBC WORLD NEWS
• BBC AMERICA
• BOOMERANG
• CARTOON NETWORK
• CNN
• DISCOVERY
• FOOD NETWORK
• FYI
• HALLMARK
• HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERIES
• HGTV
• HISTORY
• HLN
• IFC
• ID
• LIFETIME
• LIFETIME MOVIES
• OWN
• SUNDANCE TV
• TBS
• TCM
• TLC
• TNT
• TRUTV
• VELOCITY
• VICELAND
• WE TV

Coming soon after launch:

• BET
• COMEDY CENTRAL
• MTV 2
• NICK TOONS
• TEEN NICK
• VH1

If you want to try out AT&T Watch, the service is offering a seven-day free trial.