Saturday, December 24, 2011

Question about ATT UVERSE TV...is this cable tv?

Hi my house is very old and we do not have cable connection and i was wondering what is ATT UVERSE TV? how will it connect? is it a satellite dish or what? explain! thanks!|||ATT U-Verse is a different flavor of "cable" TV. ATT will have to run a line to your home. This is similar to getting a DSL line installed. There will need to be a visit from the ATT Technician, access to your home and they will leave a box behind for each TV set. I hope this helps.|||U-verse TV is delivered via IPTV from the head-end to the consumer's Total Home DVR or standard set-top box. U-verse uses H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) encoding which compresses video more efficiently than the traditional MPEG-2 codec. Broadcast channels are distributed via IP multicast, allowing a single stream (channel) to be sent to any number of recipients. The system is also designed for individual unicasts for video on demand, central time shifting, start-over services and other programs desired by only one home at that particular time. The set-top box does not have a conventional tuner, but is an IP multicast client which requests the stream desired. In the IP multicast model, only the streams the customer uses are sent. The customer's connection need not have the capacity to carry all available channels simultaneously.


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