U-Verse

AT&T Is Already Rolling Out a $200 Wireless-and-TV Plan with DirecTV

Late last month, AT&T bought DirecTV for $48.5 billion, merging America’s second biggest cell carrier with its biggest satellite TV provider. Now, DirecTV and Ma Bell are already announcing a $200 promo deal that’ll roll out nationwide next week. With the promo, new customers to AT&T’s U-verse TV or DirecTV will get basic HD TV…

AT&T is currently experiencing a nationwide blackout in U-verse service. The company says the outage is “due to a power-related issue triggered by a third-party at our video hub.” [Mashable]

Have AT&T U-Verse? Well, You’re Getting New Movies From Sony, MGM and Two Apps Today

Starting today through Sunday, AT&T U-Verse customers will be able to preview a brand spankin’ new Screen Pack filled with even more content than was previously available, says AT&T. For the low, low price of only $5 a month, U-Verse TV Screen Pack customers will instantly have unlimited access to “an extensive library” of movies…

U-Verse Wireless Receiver Frees Your TV to Move About the House

While TVs have entrenched themselves in living rooms across the country, sometimes you want to enjoy your favorite shows on the deck, in the garage, or even on the roof. (We’re not here to judge.) And come the end of the month, AT&T U-Verse subscribers will be able to move their TVs to any room…

AT&T to Impose Data Caps on DSL, U-Verse Customers Starting May 2

Citing an official confirmation from AT&T rep Seth Bloom, DSLReports is, well, reporting that AT&T will pull the trigger on data caps on heavy users of its U-Verse and DSL offerings, starting May 2. DSL users will receive a 150GB cap, while U-verse users will receive a 250GB cap, with penalties imposed after a customer…

Soon, You’ll Be Talking to Your DVR

Using the iPhone and Android phones as touch remotes is effectively old school at this point. Next up, telling your TV what to watch—which is what’s next for AT&T and likely, U-Verse customers.

AT&T’s Windows Phone 7 U-Verse App Is What a TV Guide Should Be

AT&T’s U-Verse app for Windows Phone 7 is fairly snazzy. It’s got a full programming guide with DVR remote controls, and you can also download shows to watch later (no streaming yet, boo). A 30-minute show averages around 80MB, according to AT&T, and should take around 10 minutes to download over Wi-Fi. Yes, you gotta…

AT&T Adds Visual Voicemail For U-Verse Landlines

It comes with a few big “ifs”—if you’re a U-Verse subscriber, if you have a landline, if you have an iPhone or BlackBerry—but if you meet those preconditions, AT&T’s Voicemail Viewer will give your home visual voicemail superpowers. The free app lets you access home voicemails from your phone, using roughly the same visual voicemail…

AT&T U-Verse Mobile First Video: Watch Your Favorite Shows By Phone

AT&T’s U-Verse Mobile app is coming, and we’ve gotten our first demo of how AT&T’s bringing TV to phones. It’s a sleek-looking, intuitive interface that’ll let U-Verse customers watch recorded video on their phones. U-Verse customers were already able to program their DVRs from their phones, in a similar manner to Comcast’s DVR app, and…

Our Price of TV Loyalty: 20% Off the Top

For a 20% savings, more than 50% cable and satellite subscribers are likely to jump ship to save money. But Telco TV (services like AT&T U-verse) have a much, much more loyal following. Anecdotally, would you agree? [Multiplayblog via engadgetHD] https://gizmodo.com/the-future-of-tv-according-to-at-t-5022574

Network Use Not the Only Reason For AT&T to Hate 3G iPhone SlingPlayer

Everyone may think that AT&T threw their fat around and made Apple lock down the SlingPlayer iPhone app because of AT&T’s lousy network, but a tipster tells us there’s a more nefarious reason at play. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-uses-semantics-to-justify-locking-down-slingplayer-5251464 While it is true that AT&T’s already clogged 3G pipes would burst into unusability if tons of people were…

AT&T Developing All-In-One U-Verse and Femtocell Box

An AT&T employee says that a U-Verse IPTV box with Femtocell capability is in the works. That’s one set top unit that’ll have TV, telephone, internet and improve cellular reception. I’ve got particularly weak AT&T reception in my house, so any news on Femtocells, useful for improving coverage by bridging cell call data over a…

AT&T Boosts U-Verse Top Speed to 18Mbps

While AT&T U-Verse lags far, far behind Verizon FIOS in the insane bandwidth race, the boost to 18Mbps downstream for the top tier U-Verse package that starts Nov. 9 nearly doubles the relatively pokey 10Mbps they offered. To put it in perspective though, Verizon has an upstream package that still goes faster than that. And…

AT&T Monthly Bandwidth Caps Are Here

AT&T’s bandwidth caps for its high speed internet customers are here. They’re conducting a “market trial” in Reno that started on Nov. 1, where users get between 20GB and 150GB a month, depending on their speed tier. Unlike Time Warner’s trial in Beamont, where caps were only applied to new customers, existing customers will also…

Walmart: Would You Like a Side of AT&T U-Verse With That Vizio TV?

AT&T is going to sell its U-Verse TV and internet service at Wally World and Circuit City in areas where it’s available, hoping to juice adoption rates. Which means that Walmart’s odd metamorphosis into a place you can legitimately go gadget shopping (at 3AM while completely hammered, which, let’s be honest, is the real appeal…

AT&T Looking for New Ways to Meld iPhone with U-Verse

AT&T is figuring out options for linking U-Verse to the iPhone, and plans on eventually introducing services that’ll meld the two into an all encompassing home theater system. Features being developed include using the phone as a remote control, listening to voicemail on TV, downloading shows from DVRs onto iPhones and virtually hurling tomatoes at…

AT&T Changes Terms of Service, Fastest U-Verse Subscribers Will See Slowdowns

AT&T’s just updated its terms of service for broadband customers, and starting next month, if you’re a heavy downloader, get ready to have your connection squeezed to a trickle. While they haven’t implemented usage caps a la Comcast (yet) they are using a similar traffic management technique starting on Oct. 18 you will see throughput…

AT&T U-Verse Update Now Allowing DVR on 8 TV Sets At Once

In an attempt to one-up Verizon’s FiOS, AT&T has finally rolled out a new software update for its U-verse service that’ll let subscribers watch recorded shows on up to eight different TV sets. FiOS only offers multiroom DVR for seven different televisions currently. The feature is already available in San Francisco and nearby subscriber cities,…

Verizon FiOS: How They’re Futurizing TV Faster Than AT&T and Big Cable

Verizon’s New Jersey headquarters is a complicated place. Part bunker, part weirdly Buddhist sanctuary, it housed the original AT&T before the government cut it up into little pieces, half of which became Verizon, and half of which have congealed back together, T-1000 style, into Verizon’s biggest competitor. I’m told when Verizon moved in, the exorcism…

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…