AT&T's U-verse TV signs up Starz HDTV
by Richard Lawler 
posted Aug 8th 2006 at 5:36PM
AT&T's U-verse FTTN & FTTP service may not actually offer high definition yet, that hasn't stopped them from adding additional programming for HDTV owners. The Starz package, including Starz HDTV and video-on-demand is the latest station to sign up with the service, which we expect will roll out HD in September or so.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Skinenbones @ Aug 8th 2006 10:48PM
I will believe it when I see it. I used to work at AT&T, and I had been hearing that IP TV will be offered in various areas though out the united states by the end of the year.
The purchase of AT&T by SBC was to buy the infrastructure, so why is it that my broadband service can only get 1.3 down? In order for you to get an HD singnal over a phone line, they are going to have to do way better than that.
Plus the fact that they partnered with MicroSoft makes me want to run and hide.
MadcapMagician @ Aug 9th 2006 8:57AM
I live in Indiana, and I am keeping an eye on them. If they can offer me good service at a comparable price, then I'd be interested. They obviously have a looong way to go in providing HD, DVR and stable service... I heard, though, that they're going to begin service in areas in Indiana soon thanks to deregulation here, though.
GhostDoggy @ Aug 10th 2006 3:14AM
Skinenbones, haven worked for AT&T you might want to consider the following aspects: First, SBC bought AT&T LD, not AT&T Broadband. Second, the rate at which you personally can download data has nothing to do with the AT&T LD infrastructure, but rather the SBC localized (neighborhood) infrastructure.
The only 'AT&T' about U-verse is that SBC chose to use AT&T instead of SBC as the market-branding post purchase of AT&T LD. AT&T contributed nothing to the U-verse project. Complain about your local telephone company and its inability to deliver to you better bandwidth rates.
BTW, I work in the WAN-implementation (core) for a major telephone company about to be eaten up by SBC. Its terrible regarding the chosen methods for delviering video, even with modern compression codecs, on those silly copper-pairs. Its like beating a dead horse two decades after it died.