AT&T Wants In On Chicago HD Market

By Margaret Lyons on Jul 22, 2008 6:46PM

AT&T is set to enter the Chicago TV market, filing notice last week that "it may begin offering Internet-based high-definition television service in portions of Chicago in as soon as 10 days." All together now: Anything but Comcast.

The Trib gave AT&T's service a six-week testdrive, and found "Comcast edges out AT&T in breadth of TV programming, but AT&T is much easier to use and has cleaner, modern on-screen graphics."

Comcast has an ace up its sleeve: If you have two or more HDTVs, you can set up each with a high-definition DVR. With AT&T, you can record up to four programs simultaneously on four separate boxes, but you're limited to one HD DVR.