Apparently sightings started last week, but I just picked up on the news that AT&T is now rolling out a second HD stream to U-verse homes. Sounds like a good precursor to AT&T’s whole-home DVR service (on Motorola set-tops) promised for this year, yes?
From the U-verse Users forum:
It appears that St. Louis will be getting this profile first (2 SD and 2 HD streams) and it will roll to other markets over the next month or so.
With multiple HD streams AT&T is looking to prove that it has the bandwidth over copper to deliver a competitive TV service.
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