Anyone have AT&T Uverse? - Blu-ray Forum

QOTSA1 · 08-02-2008, 01:34 AM

Anyone have AT&T Uverse in their house? I have Time Warner Cable now and I am thinking of switching. Time Warner has such a limited amount of HD programing and does not have NFL network or Fox Hd, and football season is just around the corner. If you do have Uverse what do you like or dislike?

arush5268d · 08-02-2008, 01:56 AM

I don't have Uverse available in my area but I have many friends and co-workers that have it and they absoblutely love it!

QOTSA1 · 08-02-2008, 05:42 PM

Looks like they have more of a HD selection that Time Warner, I'm just a little unsure about there internet (DSL or Cable?)

arush5268d · 08-02-2008, 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by QOTSA1

Looks like they have more of a HD selection that Time Warner, I'm just a little unsure about there internet (DSL or Cable?)

It's DSL. AT&T would never use cable as they are a phone company. The Uverse system works off of a fiber connection instead of the traditional copper lines.

PoLskA · 08-02-2008, 07:39 PM

DSL is usually a lot slower than cable internet...

i have Comcast... cant complain...

chnandler_bong · 08-03-2008, 02:46 AM

We got it at my house about a month ago and I couldn't be happier! We have the 6.0 Mb internet with a permanent $10 discount (which makes it cheaper than the 3.0 Mb). The HD looks comparable to what we had before (Dishnet), but it's still gorgeous, and when they push out the software that will allow all receivers to view DVR recordings it will be awesome!

JadedRaverLA · 08-03-2008, 01:52 PM

I know a few people (like chuckuykendall above) who have had a fairly positive experience with Uverse -- mostly due to the price. But there are some MAJOR trade-offs.

1) It's NOT cable. All the channels are not sent at once, and there's no such thing as an analog channel that you can just use the TV to tune.

2) 4 incoming signals (1 HD) at a time. If you live alone or just have one HDTV that may not matter to you, but it can be a huge dealbreaker for those with multiple setups, or who simply want to record multiple HD channels simultaneously. They are working to increase this to 2 HD streams at a time, but this will likely be accomplished by compressing the HD streams even further.

3) The HD is HYPER-compressed. Uverse works over the standard twisted pair copper wiring already going to your house. It's only fiber-optic to the big Uverse box somewhere in your neighborhood. They have to massively compress both SD and HD sources (using AVC) to keep the bitrate low enough to transfer 4 at a time (and still have bandwidth left for your DSL modem). If your existing service has mediocre quality, you may not see the difference... but against a real HD feed, it's not even close.

QOTSA1 · 08-06-2008, 02:51 AM

Thanks for the feedback. I'm getting it installed tomorrow. You can get 2 hd streams at a time, but if you are watching hd on 2 tv's or watching hd and recording a hd show you cannot watch another show even on a different tv. There is only 2 of us in the house so I don't think it will be too much of a problem. I'm just excited I will finally be able to watch Fox in hd and get the NFL and Big Ten networks.

Cyorg · 08-06-2008, 03:00 AM

No comment.

BigRick · 08-06-2008, 01:43 PM

You like football. Get DirectTv. Get the Sunday ticket. If people actually knew how interactive the Sunday Ticket package really is there would be a lot more people getting the Sunday Ticket. People that have it know what im talking about.

QOTSA1 · 08-09-2008, 12:38 AM

I got it installed yesterday and to be honest i'm not blown away by the HD quality. Not quite as good as Time Warner.I have thought about getting DirectTV, but from what I have been told by people who live here in Wisconsin and have had DirectTV it is kind of risky with the weather here being bad here about 25% of the year.

mogumbo · 08-09-2008, 06:07 PM

I got U-verse to get away from Comcast. They're a bunch of crooks. That said, Comcast's service was better, but not $45 better. U-verse is that much cheaper in my case. U-verse service is adequate but nothing to write home about.

Comcast was giving me about 6 Mbps download and U-verse does about 1.5Mbps. It looks to me like U-verse compresses its HD channels more. I was watching the Olympics opening ceremonies and could see plenty of compression artifacts. In particular, a lot of blurry faces in the crowd scenes. But it's nowhere near bad enough to make me want to switch back to Comcast. If I really want to see HD I watch a blu-ray anyway.

mtmw1863 · 08-09-2008, 06:23 PM

I had ATT U-Verse for 3 months last year. They had great channel selection and low prices but the service was, unfortunately, terrible. Picture would freeze or the sound would go out or both. It would happen almost religously every 3rd day and I had to find that "secret" customer service number to talk to a real person. I spoke to them more in 3 months than I spoke to my cable company in 15 years (No kidding). AT&T came out twice to re-wire the house but it did not work. I had to go back to Cablevision; which has been reliable.

ECWaenigma · 08-12-2008, 01:23 AM

My parents have it and I definitely want it. Have Dish Network right now and was happy with them until they ditched Monsters HD and the rest of the VOOM! HD channels. And then they raised HD service from $10/month to $25! U-verse (when you are in my area), here I come.

Kyzer the Medic · 08-12-2008, 01:47 AM

I have Uverse for my cable internet and DirecTv for my TV. Mostly because of NFL Sunday Ticket on DTV. I can say that the price for 12mbps down cable the price was the best I've found.

BigGeezy · 12-11-2008, 03:13 PM

I live in a new apartment complex and we fiberoptic lines all the way to our jacks in the walls. I have an AT&T labeled fiberoptic box in my closet with all of the lines interfaced. But get this, my apartment is set up only for this service, no cable jacks installed... where the cable jacks would be, there are multiple fiberoptic jacks. I can only recieve AT&T service at the apartment.

My credit is not that great, but it's not horrible. Any utility company I have ever needed and applied for I have been able to get, not Uverse. They ran my credit and said "nope". It sucks because I'm living in an apartment that can only recieve their service, no one else is contracted to the area I am in. They won't even set my account up with a credit card and auto payments.

mikejet · 12-11-2008, 03:22 PM

My coworker loves it simply because she can program her DVR while at work through the web.

Mr. HiDef · 12-11-2008, 03:23 PM

U verse is garbage had it for about a month and switched back to comcast

and I am a sales rep for ATT so I can get the service cheap and I still rather pay full price for comcast thats how bad it is

ifuwereahotdog · 12-16-2008, 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. HiDef

U verse is garbage had it for about a month and switched back to comcast

and I am a sales rep for ATT so I can get the service cheap and I still rather pay full price for comcast thats how bad it is

Want to explain?

grip24 · 12-16-2008, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikejet

My coworker loves it simply because she can program her DVR while at work through the web.

DTV has that also...Just go to their web site and is there....

08-02-2008, 01:34 AM	#1
QOTSA1 Member Member since:Mar 2008 Location:Appleton, WIsconsin	Anyone have AT&T Uverse? Anyone have AT&T Uverse in their house? I have Time Warner Cable now and I am thinking of switching. Time Warner has such a limited amount of HD programing and does not have NFL network or Fox Hd, and football season is just around the corner. If you do have Uverse what do you like or dislike?

12-11-2008, 03:23 PM	#18
Mr. HiDef Expert Member Member since:Nov 2008 Location:Fox Lake IL Blu-ray collection:89	U verse is garbage had it for about a month and switched back to comcast and I am a sales rep for ATT so I can get the service cheap and I still rather pay full price for comcast thats how bad it is Last edited by Mr. HiDef; 12-11-2008 at 03:27 PM.

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08-02-2008, 01:56 AM	#2
arush5268d Banned Member since:Jan 2008 Location:Houston, TX Blu-ray collection:85	I don't have Uverse available in my area but I have many friends and co-workers that have it and they absoblutely love it!

08-02-2008, 05:42 PM	#3
QOTSA1 Member Member since:Mar 2008 Location:Appleton, WIsconsin	Looks like they have more of a HD selection that Time Warner, I'm just a little unsure about there internet (DSL or Cable?)

08-02-2008, 07:39 PM	#5
PoLskA Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Apr 2008 Location:Livonia, MI Home Theater Gallery:50 4K collection:948 Blu-ray collection:2585 DVD collection:64 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:381	DSL is usually a lot slower than cable internet... i have Comcast... cant complain...

08-03-2008, 02:46 AM	#6
chnandler_bong Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:Sep 2007 4K collection:91 Blu-ray collection:598 DVD collection:182 Digital collection:97 iTunes collection:132 Trading Score:329	We got it at my house about a month ago and I couldn't be happier! We have the 6.0 Mb internet with a permanent $10 discount (which makes it cheaper than the 3.0 Mb). The HD looks comparable to what we had before (Dishnet), but it's still gorgeous, and when they push out the software that will allow all receivers to view DVR recordings it will be awesome!

08-03-2008, 01:52 PM	#7
JadedRaverLA Power Member Member since:Apr 2007 Blu-ray reviews:2	I know a few people (like chuckuykendall above) who have had a fairly positive experience with Uverse -- mostly due to the price. But there are some MAJOR trade-offs. 1) It's NOT cable. All the channels are not sent at once, and there's no such thing as an analog channel that you can just use the TV to tune. 2) 4 incoming signals (1 HD) at a time. If you live alone or just have one HDTV that may not matter to you, but it can be a huge dealbreaker for those with multiple setups, or who simply want to record multiple HD channels simultaneously. They are working to increase this to 2 HD streams at a time, but this will likely be accomplished by compressing the HD streams even further. 3) The HD is HYPER-compressed. Uverse works over the standard twisted pair copper wiring already going to your house. It's only fiber-optic to the big Uverse box somewhere in your neighborhood. They have to massively compress both SD and HD sources (using AVC) to keep the bitrate low enough to transfer 4 at a time (and still have bandwidth left for your DSL modem). If your existing service has mediocre quality, you may not see the difference... but against a real HD feed, it's not even close.

08-06-2008, 02:51 AM	#8
QOTSA1 Member Member since:Mar 2008 Location:Appleton, WIsconsin	Thanks for the feedback. I'm getting it installed tomorrow. You can get 2 hd streams at a time, but if you are watching hd on 2 tv's or watching hd and recording a hd show you cannot watch another show even on a different tv. There is only 2 of us in the house so I don't think it will be too much of a problem. I'm just excited I will finally be able to watch Fox in hd and get the NFL and Big Ten networks.

08-06-2008, 03:00 AM	#9
Cyorg Special Member Member since:Jul 2007 Location:San Antonio, TX. PSN ID: Cyorg Blu-ray collection:62 Blu-ray reviews:1	No comment.

08-06-2008, 01:43 PM	#10
BigRick Special Member Member since:Mar 2007 Location:ANAHEIM, CA Trading Score:3	You like football. Get DirectTv. Get the Sunday ticket. If people actually knew how interactive the Sunday Ticket package really is there would be a lot more people getting the Sunday Ticket. People that have it know what im talking about.

08-09-2008, 12:38 AM	#11
QOTSA1 Member Member since:Mar 2008 Location:Appleton, WIsconsin	I got it installed yesterday and to be honest i'm not blown away by the HD quality. Not quite as good as Time Warner.I have thought about getting DirectTV, but from what I have been told by people who live here in Wisconsin and have had DirectTV it is kind of risky with the weather here being bad here about 25% of the year.

08-09-2008, 06:07 PM	#12
mogumbo Member Member since:Jan 2008	I got U-verse to get away from Comcast. They're a bunch of crooks. That said, Comcast's service was better, but not $45 better. U-verse is that much cheaper in my case. U-verse service is adequate but nothing to write home about. Comcast was giving me about 6 Mbps download and U-verse does about 1.5Mbps. It looks to me like U-verse compresses its HD channels more. I was watching the Olympics opening ceremonies and could see plenty of compression artifacts. In particular, a lot of blurry faces in the crowd scenes. But it's nowhere near bad enough to make me want to switch back to Comcast. If I really want to see HD I watch a blu-ray anyway.

08-09-2008, 06:23 PM	#13
mtmw1863 Member Member since:Mar 2007 Location:Norwalk, CT Blu-ray collection:90	I had ATT U-Verse for 3 months last year. They had great channel selection and low prices but the service was, unfortunately, terrible. Picture would freeze or the sound would go out or both. It would happen almost religously every 3rd day and I had to find that "secret" customer service number to talk to a real person. I spoke to them more in 3 months than I spoke to my cable company in 15 years (No kidding). AT&T came out twice to re-wire the house but it did not work. I had to go back to Cablevision; which has been reliable.

08-12-2008, 01:23 AM	#14
ECWaenigma Active Member Member since:Mar 2008 Location:Lockport, IL Blu-ray collection:1187 Blu-ray reviews:2	My parents have it and I definitely want it. Have Dish Network right now and was happy with them until they ditched Monsters HD and the rest of the VOOM! HD channels. And then they raised HD service from $10/month to $25! U-verse (when you are in my area), here I come.

08-12-2008, 01:47 AM	#15
Kyzer the Medic Active Member Member since:Jan 2008	I have Uverse for my cable internet and DirecTv for my TV. Mostly because of NFL Sunday Ticket on DTV. I can say that the price for 12mbps down cable the price was the best I've found.

12-11-2008, 03:13 PM	#16
BigGeezy Member Member since:Nov 2007 Location:Fort Worth, TX	I live in a new apartment complex and we fiberoptic lines all the way to our jacks in the walls. I have an AT&T labeled fiberoptic box in my closet with all of the lines interfaced. But get this, my apartment is set up only for this service, no cable jacks installed... where the cable jacks would be, there are multiple fiberoptic jacks. I can only recieve AT&T service at the apartment. My credit is not that great, but it's not horrible. Any utility company I have ever needed and applied for I have been able to get, not Uverse. They ran my credit and said "nope". It sucks because I'm living in an apartment that can only recieve their service, no one else is contracted to the area I am in. They won't even set my account up with a credit card and auto payments.

12-11-2008, 03:22 PM	#17
mikejet Banned Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Los Angeles, CA Blu-ray reviews:5 Trading Score:29	My coworker loves it simply because she can program her DVR while at work through the web.

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