tsfrawl
| Total House DVR NEWS
i just posted this on a review thread but thought it note worthy enought to post seperatley:
Here's something you all might find interesting:
I signed up for Uverse last week (southeast Michigan). I have 6 televisions in my house (nevermore than 3 on at a time). As most know each television has it's on box - on June 15 AT & T will enable DVR functionality on EVERY box providing me with over 700 hours of recording space in SD or 200+ HD. Each DVR will be accessible from any TV. If in fact both people were telling the truth AT&T just trumped every service out there. |
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tsfrawl
| Liars one and all...torch the post |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | reply to tsfrawl
The DVR is accessible currently from any of the STB's. All you can do is watch. You can't schedule, delete or pause live TV. Those will come in two more phases. |
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x51
join:2009-05-27
Stratford, CT
| They cant enable actual recording on all the boxes, since the others don't have hard drives. (at least mine don't)
But when they offer the ability to pause and schedule from any box it wont matter, all will be equal.  |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | That's what I said above, you can't schedule. Phase II is supposed to be record, schedule and delete. Phase III will be pausing live TV from the STB's. |
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ILpt4U
Premium
join:2006-11-12
Lisle, IL | And Phase IV External Hard Drives?
Ok, ok, I made that up...
But why stop @ Phase III? |
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dcjoedog
join:2008-08-20
Marietta, GA | reply to tsfrawl
Phase V - Try and take over the world!
"It's Pinky and The Brain, Pinky and The Brain
One is a genius, the other insane..."
Sorry |
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Jdidy uverse
@sbcglobal.net
| reply to gdm
said by gdm  :That's what I said above, you can't schedule. Phase II is supposed to be record, schedule and delete. Phase III will be pausing live TV from the STB's. Since when? Unless something has changed (I will verify this later just to make sure), I have been able to record, schedule, delete and pause from ANY stb for quite some time. Infact I know this since I do a lot of work from my office. Although I think it uses the Main DVR stb to do all of this, its not standalone on each STB. |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | You can only do this from the DVR not the STB's non-DVR. |
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Jdidy uverse
@sbcglobal.net | I think you mis-understood, I am able to do this from ANY stb. Again, I will verify this later, but I do use these features and do this quite frequently, so I am 98% sure. |
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Jdidy uverse
@sbcglobal.net
| Ok, just to make sure I wasn't being a total idiot, I went ahead and checked now. I have 1 DVR STB, and 3 NON-DVR STBs, all of them are able to use the same DVR functions & features, including recording, scheduling, deleting, and pausing. Am I not supposed to be able to do this for some reason? Just the idea I am getting from this thread... |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | reply to Jdidy uverse
Not sure how that's possible because it hasn't been rolled out at all. AFAIK it's only being used in the labs. |
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Jdidy uverse
@sbcglobal.net | Weird, I guess I should consider myself lucky then. Would be quite annoying if it worked like any of the other ways mentioned here. |
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WhiteWizard
Premium
join:2005-07-04
Madison, WI
clubs: | Well ATT was supposed to be rolling out and update to allow the standard stb to all of this. The update was supposed to come out may/june.
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phatrabt
join:2002-01-29
Marietta, GA
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·Comcast
|  reply to tsfrawl
I have the service and it's great, but I've never understood why the capability wasn't there from the beginning? I wouldn't think it's a BW issue from the RG\DVR\STB since both coax and CAT5 have plenty of bandwidth. I wouldn't think the coding would be that difficult, but I could be wrong. The only reason I could see would be hard drive speed in that seek read\write times would have to be fast to support 4 STB's recording\playing simultaneously. Perhaps someone else has more info? |
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plvick
join:2008-12-22
San Antonio, TX
| reply to Jdidy uverse
said by Jdidy uverse :
Ok, just to make sure I wasn't being a total idiot, I went ahead and checked now. I have 1 DVR STB, and 3 NON-DVR STBs, all of them are able to use the same DVR functions & features, including recording, scheduling, deleting, and pausing. Am I not supposed to be able to do this for some reason? Just the idea I am getting from this thread...
I was really surprised when I discovered I was not able to do all of this stuff from my office STB. I am glad to see you can, I expect an update will allow me to do it soon then. Are all your STB's Motorolas? |
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Jdidy uverse
@sbcglobal.net
| said by plvick :said by Jdidy uverse :
Ok, just to make sure I wasn't being a total idiot, I went ahead and checked now. I have 1 DVR STB, and 3 NON-DVR STBs, all of them are able to use the same DVR functions & features, including recording, scheduling, deleting, and pausing. Am I not supposed to be able to do this for some reason? Just the idea I am getting from this thread...
I was really surprised when I discovered I was not able to do all of this stuff from my office STB. I am glad to see you can, I expect an update will allow me to do it soon then. Are all your STB's Motorolas? Yes, all my STBs are the greyish/silverish Motorola boxes that most everyone (atleast newer installs) seem to get, with the Red, Blue, Green lights. |
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MyDogHsFleas
Premium
join:2007-08-15
Austin, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Southwest
| reply to phatrabt
said by phatrabt :I have the service and it's great, but I've never understood why the capability wasn't there from the beginning? The software (Microsoft) wasn't ready. Big surprise, I know. lol |
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rambler358
join:2009-05-21
Torrance, CA
| reply to Jdidy uverse
said by Jdidy uverse :
I think you mis-understood, I am able to do this from ANY stb. Again, I will verify this later, but I do use these features and do this quite frequently, so I am 98% sure. Are you by chance in or around the Austin, TX area? |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·PHONE POWER
·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to ILpt4U
said by ILpt4U :But why stop @ Phase III? Because, PHASE III = PROFIT!
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