The video labs at AT&T's Atlanta HQ are not amid on the college floors of its 47-story Midtown Center where, amid demos, you can accidentally scrape a appearance of the city-limits through behemothic windows. You know, area you ability apprehend to see the approaching of TV. Instead, they're active down on the additional attic in a architecture a few doors down, in a apparent gray room, whose alone aberrant aspect is a bank of TVs-eight absolute including two 60-inchers-which are absorbed up to beginning U-verse IPTV DVR boxes. In this room, sitting on the individual blue-green couch, you can beam up and see the future-TV-to-phone video calling, iPhones as limited controls, on-screen beheld voicemail, MST3K-style babble while examination and more-TV as you will hopefully apperceive it in the next brace of years.
There's a adventitious you won't, actually, see this TV in a few years, at atomic served up from AT&T. Alone 379,000 subscribers are currently absorbed up to U-Verse TV, and it's not accessible to a accomplished lot added than that. Rollout is slow. But alert to Peter Hill, VP of articulation and converged services, allocution about what the aggregation is alive on for U-verse, you'd never apperceive that aggregate he was assuming me was just for a tiny, advantaged sliver of TV viewers. (BTW, for a abundant hands-on cable vs. U-verse analysis to see what they're getting, analysis out this piece.)
The aboriginal affair I spot-and ask about-when I airing in is the Xbox 360 on the shelf, a apparitional admonition of the promise of a all-over IPTV box. The status? Microsoft and AT&T accept to "come to terms" on it. Whatever that means, but the all-a-quiver amusement dotting our barter implies you'll apparently never see it in the States. On to the absolute show.
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Integration is the key to AT&T's IPTV vision-integration with the internet, with your home arrangement and media, affiliation with AT&T's services. But that doesn't beggarly TV itself is demography a backseat. Accomplished home DVR is accession soon, so that one DVR box will beck agreeable to any and every TV on the arrangement (currently, alone the TV anon jacked into the DVR can play aback DVR content). You'll absolutely be able to abeyance something in one room, and aces it aback up in another. With whole-home DVR, the box will be able to accompanying beck eight feeds to every TV in your house: Three hi-def additional one standard-def beck from the DVR, additional 2 HD and 2 SD streams of reside programming. All those TVs are accepting all that agreeable from one box. (For the nerds, anniversary HD beck is encoded in MPEG-4, active at a capricious bit amount that hovers about 6.5Mbps. The U-verse aqueduct is congenital on a 25Mbps profile, which is divvied up by high-end QoS for TV and your internet.)
Next, we go into some of the media administration stuff, which apparently looks accustomed to anyone with an Xbox 360 or media extender aback U-Verse uses Microsoft's IPTV platform. Music, movies, pictures, streamed to your TV from a accepted Windows Vista or Media Center PC on the network-basic, but nice, aback this is all just pumping into your set-top box. They've aswell got TVersity active off their network, which basically will beck annihilation to any accessory with a web browser, be it PSP or iPhone. It's active over Wi-Fi and it's in fact abuse snappy. I'm not absolutely abiding how this fits into the IPTV platform, added than their eyes of a absolutely networked home.
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All of this is "six to nine months" advanced of the acreage now. So, you could apprehend this getting in the next year, admitting it's not clearly appear yet. It's all about mainstreaming media alive and sharing-a babyish step, but apparently necessarily to get, say, your parents accessible for what's advancing afterwards it. This is if Peter ancestor on the "ultra-bleeding bend box" admitting he warns me none of this is in fact affirmed to become a TV reality.
Fire up the box. Welcome to Peter's favorites. Yep, like Sezmi, anybody gets their own alone TV setup, with recommendations, favorites, etc. You can aswell log in and ascendancy the set-top box from the iPhone, like a candied multi-touch remote. It's active over Wi-Fi and it's as acknowledging as any added limited control. But you know, sexier. An app for alive to the iPhone? Not yet, I'm told, aback there are "certain areas of the iPhone" area "Apple is befitting the experience..." "Controlled?" I volunteered.
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It's a acceptable alteration to the added internet-y getting they've got traveling on. Integrated RSS feeds-you can apprehend Giz on your TV and accept it not attending like crap! Video RSS feeds are area it's at though, like a augment of CNN clips that consistently refreshes. It's like Headline News, afterwards the waiting. Course, it can aswell cull in YouTube, admitting I'm added absorbed in Hulu.
Here's area AT&T allowances from getting AT&T here, with your buzz jacked into your set-top box. Maybe added "cool" than critical. A bulletin allurement for a video allotment alarm from a bounded Atlanta 404 amount appears on the screen. Caller ID on the TV. We accurately yes, and we're searching through the eyes of an LG Glimmer on our TV. Yeah, it looks like $.25 on the 60-inch DLP set, but it really works. Next, I alarm Peter's corpuscle and leave a articulation mail. A few abnormal later, we're abreast by the TV we've got a new voicemail waiting, so we cast over to a account of admission calls. We can accidentally analysis out the voicemail or add the acquaintance to our abode book.
The finale: It's basically Twitter TV. You jump into a babble allowance with your accompany (or allure them) and you can bark out IMs that are calm on a timeline as you watch Leonidas atomically bang chichi Persians into bottomless pits. And lest you were afraid about text-typing via a very shitty limited control, I in fact acclimated an iPhone to ascribe the text. Afterwards you can go aback and abrade the chat timeline like approved IM, searching for a asset of acumen that might've accidentally slipped out during the bacchanal of abandon (or whatever abroad you and your accompany are accompanying watching). BTW, the abominable avatars will be adapted to attending beneath like late-'90s Messenger, I'm told.
While these are all, by themselves, just little $.25 of coolness, taken together, it is a about-face from the mostly acquiescent way we watch TV. We actively time and place-shift now, but already we're plopped in foreground of the screen, ascribe from us stops, admitting decades of anticipation that TV would become added and added interactive. U-Verse is not wholly revolutionary, but it's a stride against accurate TV 2.0, with agreeable from assorted sources, fueled by the internet. TV's got to do something, afterwards all-there's beneath and beneath acumen to be fatigued to that accurate idiot box, if there are so abounding boxes out there for so abounding altered kinds of idiots. Of course, cable's got its own account about the approaching of TV, and anon we'll be searching into that too.
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