EXCLUSIVE: AT&T HomeZone First Look

[GaryPen]

Wasn't up to the standard? Of who? Dish? That's pretty funny.

 

[ranger714]

Wasn't up to the standard? Of who? Dish? That's pretty funny.

Hehehe.... gotta love those floating/variable standards... <sigh>

 

[tnsprin]

Wasn't up to the standard? Of who? Dish? That's pretty funny.

It was mpeg2 based, just when Dish was starting Mpeg4. Hopefully they went back and redisigned it with a mpeg4 chip.

From the manuals that Scott posted the interfaces don't even begin to resemble Dish's.

 

[GaryPen]

A. They don't resemble Dish's because they are not Dish's. It was designed and manufactured by a different company. (BTW, that's a good thing.)
B. It wasn't MPEG2-only. It was always MPEG4 capable. Click here for an original product description:
http://www.2wire.com/?p=13

 

[tnsprin]

A. They don't resemble Dish's because they are not Dish's. It was designed and manufactured by a different company. (BTW, that's a good thing.)
B. It wasn't MPEG2-only. It was always MPEG4 capable. Click here for an original product description:
http://www.2wire.com/?p=13

The original announcement(which I have saved) said Mpeg2. From day one there were some that said it could do Mpeg4 but had to have a software change. I don't know the truth in this case.

 

[getsome831]

HD Homezone Finally available but...

$199 for an upgrade from SD Homezone according the utterly un-informed CS agent at dish i spoke with. Seems like they weren't even aware there was HD box, AT&T was but they were no help...told me it was a $99 upgrade and told me to hold the line...then i got forward to the $199 guy without ever hearing back from the AT&T CS. Screw these guys, i'm going to wait and see what's up with this pricing. I even asking the dish guy if i didn't have the SD version already would i incur any costs and he said he didn't know. Tools.

AT&T launches HD Homezone service - Engadget HD

AT&T Homezone(SM) - DISH Network Digital Satellite TV with AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet

 

[GaryPen]

Plus, it's just a friggin' 622!!!! What happened to the 2Wire Homezone HD receiver? I still haven't found a reason to leave cable and go back to Dish, or switch to DirecTV.