AT&T gearing up for Total Home DVR rollout?
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 15th 2008 12:32PM
posted Aug 15th 2008 12:32PM
Take this one with a hearty helping of salt for now, but we've received a bit of information that hints strongly at AT&T revealing a whole home DVR (possibly dubbed Total Home DVR) in the very near future. Unfortunately, details about the unit itself are still few and far between -- we've no idea who will be manufacturing it, and we can't confirm / deny whether it'll revolutionize your life (or the way you see U-verse TV). Still, we've reason to believe that the provider will be coughing up the official verbiage soon enough, so keep an eye out.[Thanks, Anonymous]
It will be out very soon! No need for any additional equipment as it will work by adding more streams to the member. You will only be able to access the DVR from nonDVR boxes, you will not be able to record or delete from these boxes. Only DVRs with firmware version 1.6 and up will receive full Total Home DVR streams.
1.6? Verizon just added HD streaming from HD-DVR boxes with verizon 1.6. Portland, OR got the update first last week (Aug 6). SD streaming had been available for a while, well ever sent I got Fios TV with Multi-Room Media service in Jan '08.
I find it odd and/or weird coincidence that at&t too is at 1.6. Are they both using the same software house to build the applications/firmware?
Microsoft is the software "house" providing AT&T with U-Verse software (server and client), and from what I've heard Verizon is NOT using Microsoft. That makes it a conicidence.
Verizon isn't even IPTV-based (for the most part).
The version number is a coincidence.
Verizon isn't even IPTV (for the most part). There's very little that is similar between the two.
The version number is a coincidence.
And yes, the WHDVR is supposed to work on your existing gear; no new hardware involved.
I had a ech out to y house twoe weeks ago and he is telling me WHDVR will be launched mid October in Houston area..