U-Verse

The Future of TV According to AT&T

The video labs at AT&T's Atlanta HQ are not located on the higher floors of its 47-story Midtown Center where, between demos, you can casually scrape a view of the city through giant windows. You know, where you might expect to see the future of TV. Instead, they're buried down on the second floor in a building a few doors down, in a plain gray room, whose only exceptional attribute is a wall of TVs—eight total including two 60-inchers—which are hooked up to experimental U-verse IPTV DVR boxes. In this room, sitting on the single blue-green couch, you can stare up and see the future—TV-to-phone video calling, iPhones as remote controls, on-screen visual voicemail, MST3K-style chat while viewing and more—TV as you will hopefully know it in the next couple of years. More »

3:00 PM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By matt buchanan
15,768 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: I made the unfortunate mistake of leaving my cable company and becoming a U-Verse subscriber. There will be no witty words or biting sarcasm in this post as I no longer have the energy after dealing with AT&T. It is more »

at&t

AT&T Dumping Dish TV (Is Satellite Screwed?)

AT&T is nixing the agreement they've had with Dish TV since 2003 to sell their satellite TV service as part of a triple play bundle with internet and voice. Some are speculating it's because AT&T is simply down on satellite TV (it's got its own U-verse IPTV thing after all), but more likely it's pitting Dish and DirecTV against each other in a bidding war, since U-verse deployment ain't exactly a runaway train speed-wise. So, realistically, you could see AT&T hawking DirecTV instead of Dish next year, which would be a blow to to the latter, since they're already little number two. But maybe AT&T will be super ballsy and push off satellite altogether. [Info Week]

11:55 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By matt buchanan
2,890 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: This is just playing out the rest of the contract, folks. more »

giz explains

Giz Explains: IPTV, or Cable From the Phone Company

If you still rock the bunny ears we salute you. But odds are, you probably get TV one of two ways: Cable or satellite. There's a newer way: IP, that is Internet Protocol, TV—in this case, the TV delivered over the internet by your phone company. Verizon and AT&T push FiOS TV and U-Verse, respectively, in select regions of the country where their fiber networks have been built out. (Update: As has been pointed out, FiOS TV isn't actually IPTV, my bad.) In a lot of ways, it's the TV of the future—in part because most of you can't get it yet. Beyond that, the technology that delivers it to your home, as well as who is doing the delivering, opens up some pretty sweet new interactive possibilities. And even for regular old boob tubing, the way it's architected means its good for HD buffs. More »

2:30 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By matt buchanan
7,954 views, 48 comments

Latest by daapw110: for U-verse and FiOS does there have to be a box hooked up to every tv? i understand that there would have to be a box hooked up for IPTV to work, but if i wanted to watch normal more »

microsoft iptv

Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Is Way Better Than Cable or Satellite

Microsoft's Mediaroom is the company's IPTV solution that brings TV into to your house (much like cable and satellite) over IP. You might be familiar with it in its commercially released service forms such as AT&T U-Verse here in the US or BT Vision in the UK. The features out now—quick channel changing, multiple channel records simultaneously without a hardware tuner limit, multi-room viewing, multiple picture-in-picture—are pretty fantastic, but we had a visit with Microsoft earlier this week and learned that what's coming soon is even better. More »

11:00 AM on Sat May 17 2008
By Jason Chen
42,412 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: When if IPTV coming to New York, 'cause I WANT IT NOW!!!!! more »

cable

AT&T's U-Verse Screwing With Network Says Comcast

Leaky signals from badly-installed AT&T U-Verse systems are squeezing up into the cable network and degrading broadband performance for others on some nodes, according to Comcast. About 40 cases of the problem have been reported since AT&T began supplying U-Verse in the Chicago area, with about 17,000 Comcast customers being affected. And though at first it sounds a bit like a schoolyard tussle, AT&T's lack of response has led Comcast to seek a restraining order from a court in Illinois. More »

9:24 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,879 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: 1)Premise Technicians for U-verse MUST disconnect any old cables and cap the ones not being used in either direction, with the idea that if the cust wants to revert back to the old service the lines are still usable.2)Cable guy more »

internets

AT&T Bumps U-Verse Top Speed to 10Mbps, Verizon FiOS Chuckles

We'd heard that AT&T's U-verse service was getting a new top tier of 10Mbps downstream, up from 6. It's official now, and still weak and girly (despite the "Internet Max" moniker) compared with Verizon's competing FiOS, which has up 50Mbps packages in some spots. FTTP FTW, guys. [AT&T]

12:50 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By matt buchanan
5,931 views, 33 comments

at&t report card

AT&T Year-End Report Card: C

AT&T, the supermassive telecom and largest wireless carrier in the US, is affectionately known by Giz readers as the Death Star. Why? Its reach is Empire-worthy and well, just look at that damn logo. 2007 was an appropriately big year that started off with a double-barrelled blast: AT&T snagged exclusive rights to the iPhone in the States and killed off the Cingular brand. But was it strong with the Force for the rest of the year? More »

4:00 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By matt buchanan
6,548 views, 32 comments

Latest by n/a: @OMG!!! Ponies!!!: why are you always the first to comment on any story? Do you work? more »

patience

AT&T Cuts U-Verse Fiber Optic Rollout Schedule Estimates

After cutting U-verse rollout schedule estimates in May for the end of 2008 from availability in 19 million homes to 18 million, AT&T's at it again, now chopping it to 17 million. Apparently the rollout in former BellSouth territory (the Southeast) is causing the snag, as well as forcing AT&T to pump more cash into prep work—an extra $500 million. While fiber optic rollout isn't cheap for AT&T or Verizon, all the delays make it seem like it's never coming to my backyard. [AP/Yahoo!]

3:25 PM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By Matt Buchanan
8,262 views, 19 comments

Latest by dave the wet sprocket: i'll refuse for the rest of my life to sign up for at&t's fiber-op service, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the experience or the technology. it has everything to do with the three jackhole shills more »

cellphones

Program AT&T U-Verse DVRs From Your Phone Starting: Now

If you have an AT&T (Cingular) mobile phone and its U-Verse IPTV service, starting today you can program your DVR from your phone. This is basically playing catch-up to Verizon and TiVo, who've had their on-the-go programming app out for a month. Anyway, from your phone you log in to a WAP site, where you can scope out program listings and manage your recording queue, adding or deleting shows from your schedule, as well as from the hard drive itself. Anyone here actually have U-Verse TV? – Matt Buchanan More »

8:15 PM on Thu Apr 19 2007
By Matt Buchanan
4,911 views, 9 comments

Latest by kevina: i have uverse also. multiple HD streams shouldn't be too far off, at least for me, since I have a pretty short vdsl loop. my one gripe is that the compression for the HD programming is set too high... the channel more »

home entertainment

AT&T U-Verse Fiber Service First Look

Fiber to the home is on the horizon, and it's even being rolled out in some areas such as San Antonio. A tipster saw a demo of AT&T's U-Verse service, which that company calls FTTN (fiber to the node), and he reports that the cable television service is going to be nice and quick, with channels changing quickly and the program guide popping up without delay. More »

9:20 AM on Mon Jul 3 2006
By Charlie White
4,199 views, 8 comments

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