13 posts tagged “hdtv”

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.

Of course there no news from ATT  when they will be adding third or forth HD Streams,  or Faster Internet access.

On the other hand, with the ddition of Four National HD and two Local HD Channels and 2HD/2SD. Yes ATT has a history of beening  late of rolling out new features and adding new channels. But compared to the Bi-annual  Prices hike from Comcast. I figure in the long Run ATT will be the Better option for the Price and features I am looking for.

http://tinyurl.com/6n3ltg

I just this Morning for Least for the SF/SJ Bay Area ATT has added KICU HD Ind ch 1006 and KBWB HD  Ind Ch 1020. Plus KRCB PBS Ch 22.
It seem odd that ATT can added new HD on the local Level, But not nationally.

A number of cities will be seeing the service activated in waves (or so it seems), and while some folks should be noticing the change at any moment, others could be waiting for a good while still. We won't keep you wondering any longer -- head on past the break for the entire list.

http://tinyurl.com/699sjd

Migration Start

Migration Complete

• San Francisco
• 5/19/08
• 5/19/08
• 7/2/08

Now is there any news or leaks about next round of HD Channels coming to ATT UV. I have seen rumors circulating around the net stating ATT will have a total of around 80 HD channels in their national Channel Line up, coming later this summer for UV. But I won't believe until I see it.

I was going through the various UV Channels today (For those times I am Really Bored). And I notice that on their Retail Barker Channel 9000, at part of the promo highlighting UV HD Programming now includes

Now if or when ATT will be added these HD channels is Anyone guess??? 2009 2012?????

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In other News. Still No signs of Sci-Fi HD, USAHD, Weather Channel HD or CSN BA HD from ATT U-Verse

I have Recently notice there some new Free VOD Selections . Nothing really to get excited about

Music > Flow,  Sports > Beijing Olympics, Octane, Cutting Edge > Ripe 

Also in the PPV Vod there Same Day DVD and Havoc TV.

This is from the U-talk boards from member U-tech:

Living in Silicon Valley it only natural, that SF/SJ Bay Area might be next in line to get  2 HD Streams. But still, at this time ATT has not rolled out their U-Verse Voice  in our area.

I Just off the phone with ATT and  Upgraded tonight to their U-Verse Max Tier Internet. No, Its not as fast as Comcast Blast tier 16/2. But I am Currently, saving over $40 a mouth over Comcast. Now if only ATT could get off their duff and  add  USA HD, Sci-Fi HD, TWC HD, AMC HD, FSC HD, Smithsonian HD and CSN BA HD to their Nation HD Channel Line up.




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Also Tonight, Since the cancellation of The Lab with Leo Laporte from How-to Channel and G4Tech TV, I have felt that, it was no longer necessary for me to have an Webhost  to post these Episodes from the show and other Nostalgia ZDTV/Tech TV  Media from the Good Old Days.

 Now that I Parted ways with  midPhase. I have moved my Full time blog here to Vox. And moved my Family Photos to Photoshop Express and My Public Photo to Flickr.

Mr. York led AT&T’s U-verse fiber-optic television service from its late 2004 inception to its June 2006 launch, during which time he helped negotiate about 150 licensing agreements with content providers. U-verse, which has about 45 linear high-definition channels, is planning for about 100 by the end of the year, although Mr. York declined to say when the service would have video-on-demand in HD. U-verse, which reported about 230,000 subscribers in December, expects to have more than 1 million subscribers by the end of the year.

Like Verizon’s FiOS service, AT&T says it provides cost savings by bundling U-verse with AT&T’s telephone and high-speed Internet services, which satellite television customers are unable to do. More importantly, because of U-verse’s use of Internet protocol, “our video and audio quality is considered superior to our competitors,” said Mr. York. He added that a higher percentage of U-verse subscribers opt for its high-definition package than customers at competing cable and satellite services.

Well Its not the End of the World if right now ATT does not Offer Local on 8's in HD from the Weather Channel HD. Or an updated Ubar Weather Infomation in HD. 

I rather see ATT offer faster Internet Access then 20 SD Stretch-O-Vision HD of those 60 HD Channels of ATT Planning in Adding this year.

1124 USA Network HD
1216 CNBC HD
1511 Sci Fi Channel HD
1804 HBO2 HD
1806 HBO Family HD
1808 HBO Comedy HD
1811 Bravo HD

If this weekends Update Includes 1124 USA Network HD and 1511 Sci Fi Channel HD. I will be excite. Now If FSC and Gol tv Hurry up to Launch their HD Channels. So ATT could  Add these Soccer HD Channels 1654 and 1656 to their nation HD Lineup!!

I just scanned through the ATT HD Channels 1000's and there are any new HD channels added to their HD line-up.

But Alas ATT It not roll out any of these HD Networks to their National Line up. But however good news about last weekend's update.

http://www.gotapex.com/software-os-and-the-internet/165228-at-and-t-uverse.html

The 1HD stream is a current limitation with Microsoft Mediaroom 1.1. With 1.2 and beyond, this will be more selectable (especially when AT&T goes with better MPEG4 encoders that will get a 1080p HD stream down to about 6Mbps). The MS Mediaroom application on the gateway (which runs Windows CE, incidentally), works on a token relationship with the U-Verse backend systems. The token handling algorithm in 1.1 didn't work so well apparently, so they went with fixed limits for now. When they upgrade to 1.2, they will allow more HD streams depending on the current bandwidth usage on the line