EXCLUSIVE: AT&T HomeZone First Look

[lovswr]

No it's not, this has nothing to do with Lightspeed.

Well then do you know what the transport is? New Services are nice & all, but what about deliverey?

[keenan]

No it's not, this has nothing to do with Lightspeed.

I believe it is the same box, just logoed for Dish and maybe some internal differences for sat instead of IPTV.

The below is the box to be used with Lightspeed and it appears to be identical, externally anyways. The below link provides a lot of info about the box.


http://www.2wire.com/?p=11

2Wire.com: Set Top Boxes

[campinfool]

Homezone is designed for those who are not reached by lightspeed yet or will not be reached. It is essentially the same thing as U-Verse but with DISH instead of IPTV.

[Smith, P.]

Scott, since we talking about Home Network - could you please check there what is a "HOME PLUG" feature hiding in ViP622 ?

[lovswr]

I believe it is the same box, just logoed for Dish and maybe some internal differences for sat instead of IPTV.

The below is the box to be used with Lightspeed and it appears to be identical, externally anyways. The below link provides a lot of info about the box.


http://www.2wire.com/?p=11

2Wire.com: Set Top Boxes

Thanks Scott, that was just what I was looking for.


At the bottom of the page you linked. With your super-fast DSL connection... So this gonna use my existing DSL connection huh.


Before I call BS I have one more question. As I understand it, normal, live Dish programming would come through the bird, as always, but all the On Demand & whatnot comes through my DSL? I have 6 tuners counting my SD Tivo. If say two of them at the same time wanted an On Demand stream there goes my DSL connection for what I really want it for. Which is to say my latency will be shot to hell.

I am completely unconvinced that at&t can do what Bellsouth can not. That is get my just not quite 6mb copper lines, to qualify for 12~14mb. Let alone two of them for bonding. (I am assuming that they are going to use the same technologoy as LIghtspeed. If I'm wrong on this bet, then all my assumptions are off) We have not even started talking about streaming HD anything yet.

The long & the short of it is, if the cable companies, 10 to 12 years ago had started laying single mode fiber to our premises, this site would be CableGuys US.

After having spent the last 18 1/2 years in the tranport communications business, I'm here to tell you that copper in the last mile is going to be the bane of any services provider. Unless, at&t has some kind of super-secret compression tech that they are going to spring at the last minute, this boondoggle will not even serve as an adequate holdover until they actually do start laying fiber.


edited: Changed DirecTV to Dish.....via letterman

[slacker9876]

OK ... I ama little lost on this one. Looks like a great device, but it has the DISH logo right on it. Also, it has the Denver local market listing and AT&T has no presense in the Denver market (yes I know Echostar is headquartered here) ... Would be great, I am ready to abandon DirecTV and thier down-rezzed sh!t HD programming, the wife may have to pass on Sunday Ticket ... this livin in "New York" crap is old too.

I did not see where anyone asked about availability timeline, any word on a real product roll?

[Scott Greczkowski]

Real Proudct Roll out I believe is June 27th. However that may be just for Texas.

They had denver listings showing in the guide as thats where they were showing it off at.

[slacker9876]

the 27th is great, but that does not explain a DISH logo nor the lack of availability in the "home" market. any details buddy?

[Scott Greczkowski]

It has the Dish Logo on it because its a Dish Network receiver.

No idea what your talking about in reguards to the HOME market.

[keenan]

It has a Dish logo because it's being marketed and co-branded by Dish Network. The guide listings were probably worked up just for the demonstration.