What is the SBC media portal?

[cmags]

signed up with sbc/dish 3 months ago, what is the media portal i am hearing about? how would this benefiit me? will i be able to get other channels or programming if sbc subcontracts out? perhaps locals in hd? thanks

 

[chaddux]

signed up with sbc/dish 3 months ago, what is the media portal i am hearing about? how would this benefiit me? will i be able to get other channels or programming if sbc subcontracts out? perhaps locals in hd? thanks

We should really just eliminate the Search button completely. Apparently, it's much too complicated of a device for anyone with less than 10 posts to use.

 

[NightRyder]

Man, lot's of grumpy people today. I'll be nice and post this for the search impaired.



"Press Release

SBC Communications Announces Joint Venture to Launch Home Entertainment Service for SBC | Dish Network, SBC Yahoo! DSL Customers

Service combines satellite TV programming with Internet-based video on demand, music on demand, Caller ID, digital photo-sharing and remote access

San Antonio, Texas - January 3, 2005 - SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) today announced it has formed a joint venture with 2Wire Inc. to deliver a home entertainment service that integrates satellite TV programming, digital video recording, video on demand, and Internet content including Yahoo!® Photos and music via an award-winning new set-top box - and ties it all together with the familiar and intuitive SBC Yahoo! user interface. The joint venture is part of a two-pronged SBC video strategy to extend home entertainment video services to customers through either high-speed fiber or DSL.


The service will combine content delivered by broadband and satellite into one easy-to-use package, giving consumers a powerful new way to extend the SBC Yahoo! DSL experience beyond the desktop to bring entertainment content to their TV screens and stereos. Today’s announcement builds on the recently announced expanded alliance with Yahoo! Inc. which calls for the companies to extend the SBC Yahoo! customer experience beyond the desktop. The offering will be available to customers who have both SBC | DISH Network and SBC Yahoo! DSL services. It is expected to roll out in mid-2005...."

For even more info see below

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-14,GGLD:en&q=sbc+media+portal


NightRyder

 

[cmags]

wow some people must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed. i should have phrased my question much better. i have read the posts and the info on the sbc site. i was asking for info on any special offer or opprtunity(like different channels and such) that sbc might be offering in future or different options that might not be offered to regular dish cunstomers.

 

[kevink]

I haven't even been able to find any good information about when it will actually be available, other than vague reports earlier in the year about summer.

When you consider that SBC promised DSL in my neighborhood back in 2000, and it only became available a couple months ago, it could be 2010 before it is available

The main feature I think I would like is being able to schedule events via the web, in case I need to change things while out of town.

On the down side, reports I have read seem to indicate that one of the 2 TVs have to be HD, which I don't have yet, and that finances won't allow this year at least.

It appears that any additional programming are in the future. Maybe PPV, especially in areas where SBC does their fiber upgrades.

 

[chaddux]

wow some people must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed. i should have phrased my question much better. i have read the posts and the info on the sbc site. i was asking for info on any special offer or opprtunity(like different channels and such) that sbc might be offering in future or different options that might not be offered to regular dish cunstomers.

Ah. So you asked the wrong question. Looked like you were just asking what it was and what it did.