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U-verse TV is delivered via IPTV from the headend to the consumer's receiver, required for each TV. Transmissions use digital H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) encoding, compared to the existing deployments of MPEG-2 codec and the discontinued analog cable TV system. The receiver box does not have a RF tuner, but is an IP multicast client which requests the channel or "stream" desired. U-Verse TV supports up to 4 active streams at once. The system uses individual unicasts for video on demand, central time shifting, start-over services and other programs.


HD TV streams run using 5.7Mbps of bandwidth whereas SD TV streams run using about 2Mbps of bandwidth.



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  • Note some features are not available, if have u-verse TV without u-verse internet: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28577341- typo: In "Internet" heading this section, there's an unbalanced double-quote before "In Bridge mode, ...". (Plus it describes overrage charges that are not enforced yet).

    2013-10-07 17:23:17 (brookeKrige See Profile)



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last modified: 2013-09-23 23:08:26