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AT&T mystery site offers free movies, TV shows online

September 4th, 2009, 7:55 am · 1 Comment · posted by

AT&T sneaks AT&T Entertainment into homes, a new place online to view full TV episdoes.Noted: As spotted on DSL Reports this morning, AT&T Entertainment appears to be a new Web site offering full episodes of popular TV shows, although available broadcasts don’t look much different from Hulu.com‘s offering. And for now, the TV shows and movies are free.

Shows include “The Office,” “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” “90210.” There are 114 networks represented, including the big 3 networks, PBS and MTV, plus untraditional outlets like World Cyber Games, The Onion and Hulu.

But some of the shows are just clips so don’t get too excited.

The bonus for AT&T U-verse TV customers is that they will be able to view their U-verse guide and manage DVR recordings within the AT&T Entertainment service, according to the FAQ. Also interesting to note is most videos will be on the site “indefinitely.”

AT&T Entertainment offers TV shows online, with links to Hulu.

While this may be part of the cable industry’s TV Everywhere movement to bring TV shows online to paid TV users, many of the shows have a link to Hulu. I spotted a Hulu logo during a quick glimpse of the service. The “My Name Is Earl” episode provides a related link to the same show on Hulu (see image on right).

MultiChannel News reported last week that AT&T and DirecTV were venturing into TV Everywhere land, though no official comment has been made. The effort was launched by Time Warner and Comcast Corp. Verizon joined last week to provide the service for its FiOS TV customers.

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  • K in LF says:

    Thanks for the heads up..Yes I think your correct about the content being the same as Hulus,,,I browsed a few pages and I think every movie on AT&T is also on HULU.

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