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kthanks.
]]>Jul 15th 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/15/atandt-where-is-our-whole-home-dvr-whdvr/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/15/atandt-where-is-our-whole-home-dvr-whdvr/DirecTV promised this capability several years back at CES, and has yet to deliver.

FIOS' implementation of it sucks-ass, and doesn't work for HD recordings.

The only thing consumer-grade that comes close is TIVO-HDs/S3s, with their Multi-Room Viewing, but you pay a premium for it since you have to have full-blown Tivos in all rooms you want to watch in.

I think the big stickler is DRM. The content owners don't want HD quality video moving around your network so easily so your teenager can capture it and put it on bittorent. Not like everything isn't already being put out there anyway?!@#

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It's a DVR/satellite that has two (or three, if you get a 622 or 722 with an OTA tuner) tuners, and two outputs, one HD (in the case of the HD DVRs.) The non-HD signal is modulated into a basic NTSC channel and routed through the existing TV/cable cabling in your home to whatever TVs you want, and controlled by a "remote" that uses UHF instead of infrared to control the DVR.

Of course, this is AT&T, so this can't be the same thing. After all, it's not like AT&T's TV service is just a rebadged Dish Network service. No. It must be something entirely different.

OMG Darren! You didn't blame Toshiba's reluctance to embrace Blu-ray for AT&T not having a "whole house DVR"! You need to be more careful, what will Time Warner say at review time if you don't find more excuses to make illogical pro-Blu-ray rants? You're letting down the whole team!]]>Jul 16th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/15/atandt-where-is-our-whole-home-dvr-whdvr/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/15/atandt-where-is-our-whole-home-dvr-whdvr/Jul 16th 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/15/atandt-where-is-our-whole-home-dvr-whdvr/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/15/atandt-where-is-our-whole-home-dvr-whdvr/Jul 18th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/15/atandt-where-is-our-whole-home-dvr-whdvr/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/07/15/atandt-where-is-our-whole-home-dvr-whdvr/Jul 18th 2008 2:40PM