U-verse ups the HD ante, helps launch HBO2 HD

If you're an AT&T U-verse customer who's been longing for some more HD, your day is coming. Those among you who currently get HBO through U-verse will be treated to the premiere of HD flavors of HBO2, HBO Comedy and HBO Family. The HBO-less customers out there will see the HD offerings swell to 40 channels. Even though the IPTV platform has had its share of problems, even not-entirely-happy customers do admit that the pricing is pretty good, and AT&T's press release underscores the value proposition. Increasing the HD offerings certainly will go a long way toward the company meeting its goal of growing the subscriber list to one million by the end of the year, though.

[nathanh Posted Apr 2nd 2008 2:46PM]

This is definitely headed in the right direction. Personally, I would be far more interested in seeing Voom HD channels added to U-verse, since they have a wider selection of movies, in higher bit rates, and in the original aspect ratio versus HBO. But if one is willing to trade lower image quality (lower bit rates, and 2.35:1 movies cropped/pan&scammed to 1.78:1) for a few more recent titles, then the HBO HD option is not bad.

I also wouldn't mind seeing U-verse actually available in my neighborhood....

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 5:32PM]

Has anyone went from TimeWarner to U-Verse? How's the quality of the two compare?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 9:23PM]

And when will these HBO HD upgrades be coming to DirecTV?

[ipaladin Posted Apr 3rd 2008 4:09PM]

Is AT&T at full MPEG4 AVC quality or are they using HD Lite?