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AT&T Adds Multiroom DVR Feature to U-verse TV

6:00 am on September 10, 2008 | Category: Telecom Services, Television

America’s leading telecom carrier, AT&T Inc., will soon allow its U-verse TV subscribers to watch DVR-recorded programming on as many as eight television sets, in a move to compete with other pay-TV operators that offer DVRs.

Multiroom DVR, as the feature is often called, is already offered to U-verse subscribers in San Francisco, and will be rolled out to the entire Bay Area by the end of this week, according to AT&T’s chief marketing officer, Rick Welday. It will be available to U-verse users throughout the U.S. (as a free add on) by the end of this year.

The feature will allow U-verse users to begin watching a TV program in one room, then pause it and finish watching later in another part of the house. Only the one set equipped with an AT&T DVR is capable of recording shows.

This differs from the DVR offering of TiVo, where shows can be recorded on and transferred to/from any TV set, but each set in the network must be equipped with a TiVo DVR, which cost between $150 and $600 a piece.

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