U-verse

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Zoly join:2004-01-04 Houston, TX	U-verse C'mon people! Yes, U-verse is not perfect. I have it since January 2007 and I like it. Though HD compression makes it not so good. But I get almost every channel including all premiums and Elite Internet for $135 per month. DVR is included and I record a lot of HD on it as I do not have time to watch live TV. I am in Houston and service was out from 9 am till 2:45 PM. It really did not bother me as it happened the first time. I used to have outages and multiple HD problems with Time Warner too. When I had Direct TV, I was without the service every time it was raining in my area... Yet, DirectTV and now Comcast are still in business... So, one Outage does mean nothing. I remember 2 years ago Time Warner had problems with the Internet connection in my area for more than a week (it was worse than dial up and with a lot of time-outs), TV portion did not work for the same period of time. Almost 2 week they were trying to fix it!!! They did in the end.
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morbo Complete Your Transaction join:2002-01-22 00000	i think it is different because it is a nationwide outage. there aren't many of those, ever.
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Uncle Paul join:2003-02-04 USA kudos:1	reply to Zoly So, hows that new HD Dual tuner DVR workin for ya?
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Zoly join:2004-01-04 Houston, TX	Their DVR can record 4 programmes at the same time, yet ATT limits you now to one HD stream at any given time. This is very inconvenient but I have some workarounds. I schedule HD recording for a day and night time so I could watch HD at evenings. For locals I have an OTA antenna and the quality is just fantastic. I even have more locals in HD using OTA then with U-verse and/or Comcast. My roommate still keeps basic Comcast and we are using it with my built PVR which gets a lot of HD channels from Comcast using QAM tuner. So I can schedule recordings on my PVR as well... But I do understand that I am not the majority of people who uses U-verse's only-one-HD-stream-per-household... Actually, U-verse should get 2 HD streams by the end of this year..
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en102 Canadian, eh? join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA	reply to morbo I agree on that. A local area, is typically related to local line down, power outage, equipment, etc. A nationwide outage = someone sleeping in the network operations center, or poor planning for upgrade/patches. -- Canada = Hollywood North
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digitalfreak Premium join:2005-12-09 Blacklick, OH	reply to Zoly Nope, they've already said that dual HD streams have been pushed back to 2008. Guess what? I'm recording 4 channels (out of 70+) of HD goodness whenever I want with DirecTV. It's 4 because I only wanted 2 DVRs. Could be 16 if I wanted. That ain't never gonna happen with PU-Verse.
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Uncle Paul join:2003-02-04 USA kudos:1	reply to Zoly Seems that you go well out of your way just to record more than one HD source... and I'd be VERY surprised if ATT actually rolls out more than one HD source by years end. But realistically, you should be able to watch/record as many HD sources as you want.
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etaadmin join:2002-01-17 Dallas, TX kudos:1	reply to Zoly said by Zoly: Their DVR can record 4 programmes at the same time, yet ATT limits you now to one HD stream at any given time. This is very inconvenient but I have some workarounds. I schedule HD recording for a day and night time so I could watch HD at evenings. For locals I have an OTA antenna and the quality is just fantastic. I even have more locals in HD using OTA then with U-verse and/or Comcast. My roommate still keeps basic Comcast and we are using it with my built PVR which gets a lot of HD channels from Comcast using QAM tuner. So I can schedule recordings on my PVR as well... But I do understand that I am not the majority of people who uses U-verse's only-one-HD-stream-per-household... Actually, U-verse should get 2 HD streams by the end of this year.. Yeah right! »DVR messed up? »utalk.att.com/utalk/board/messag···d.id=870 »utalk.att.com/utalk/board/messag···.id=1156 »utalk.att.com/utalk/board/messag···d.id=278 »utalk.att.com/utalk/board/messag···.id=1105
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Zoly join:2004-01-04 Houston, TX	said by etaadmin: said by Zoly: Their DVR can record 4 programmes at the same time, yet ATT limits you now to one HD stream at any given time. This is very inconvenient but I have some workarounds. I schedule HD recording for a day and night time so I could watch HD at evenings. For locals I have an OTA antenna and the quality is just fantastic. I even have more locals in HD using OTA then with U-verse and/or Comcast. My roommate still keeps basic Comcast and we are using it with my built PVR which gets a lot of HD channels from Comcast using QAM tuner. So I can schedule recordings on my PVR as well... But I do understand that I am not the majority of people who uses U-verse's only-one-HD-stream-per-household... Actually, U-verse should get 2 HD streams by the end of this year.. Yeah right! »DVR messed up? »utalk.att.com/utalk/board/messag···d.id=870 »utalk.att.com/utalk/board/messag···.id=1156 »utalk.att.com/utalk/board/messag···d.id=278 »utalk.att.com/utalk/board/messag···.id=1105 It is good that U-talk forum helps people. I visit that site too. And I have had several problems with Uverse DVR. But it does not mean I am having them every week or every month. Comparing U-verse to Comcast - I have about the same number of bugs and frustrations. The only difference it the price. I don't know why you are so sure about the quality of the product just by reading posts. Once U-verse will be in Liverpool, TX, get it and try it, then we can talk about positives and negatives of that service.
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