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No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
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September 24th, @02:17PM
| Forget cable card use ip ATT they are trying to be better then cable, which isnt so hard. But why doesnt cable offer ip cable anyway? It would have solved the cablecard issue. Plus with a box that can do quam and ip, it would be compability with anyone. | |
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ninjatutle
You can keep the "change"
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| Re: Forget cable card use ip Why would Comcast cable do this when they could just rent you a second box for $20.95 
Seems like a no brainer to me. Everyone wins, Comcast sees higher revenue, Motorola sells more boxes, tax is applied to additional box. Well everyone wins except for the customer... | |
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join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY | They could just charge more for a whole house dvr just like verizon does with theirs on fios | |
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join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Either your bill is wrong or you have a third box in the house. Comcast doesn't normally charge both fees for extra DVRs (at least they didn't in the 2 years we had 3 DVRs with them.) | |
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ninjatutle
You can keep the "change"
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | Re: Forget cable card use ip Maybe someone else would like to post a screen a shot trying to prove me wrong? | |
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Neyland85
join:2003-02-04
North Augusta, SC | For Once ATT has done something the other providers should actually adopt. | |
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j84
@comcast.net | Re: For Once they are. cable companies are coming out with a dvr that is on the headend side instead of at the sub home. | |
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join:2004-03-19
Covington, LA | Re: For Once And that's going the wrong way with it. | |
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| pandora
Premium
join:2001-06-01
Outland
 ·Comcast
| How many concurrent users can a DVR support? If you are recording 4 HD streams, and playing 4 HD recorded streams to 4 STB's you are going to have one very active hard drive. How many hard drives can sustain such a high transfer rate?
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The Dv8or
I post because you're unable to Google
Premium
join:2001-08-09
Danbury, CT
clubs:
·AT&T U-Verse
| Is it in Danbury, CT? I saw this morning that the channel bar changed on my TV, but I didnt check my non-DVR TV this morning. Usually the channel bar change signifies a firmware upgrade, so I wonder if we got it where I live too.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Interesting... Total Home DVR... yet still no Uverse Voice, and Uverse has been availabe here since May 2007.
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MTU
Premium
join:2005-02-15
Santa Maria, CA
 ·AT&T Yahoo
| U-Verse I was very impressed by U-Verse at relative's home in West Hills area of LA County. Recent install after ATT reps went door-to-door offering install at cheap rates (I can't recall what pricing was). Wireless 'net hub installed in a closet, very clear video, nice installation.
I'm not a big fan of ATT but U-Verse looked much better than what is offered in my area (central coast Calif)
Where I live it's either ATT (dsl) or Charter for Internet, and Charter or satellite for TV. | |
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jjoshua
Premium
join:2001-06-01
Scotch Plains, NJ
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September 24th, @03:13PM
| Record 4 shows at once? Wasn't uverse proud that they were able to offer 3 streams at one time? How can you record 4 shows at one time?
»AT&T To Offer Three HD Streams | |
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| dealing3000
join:2001-06-14
Chatham, NJ | Re: Record 4 shows at once? The recording takes place off site so no need for the show to even reach your local box. | |
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P Ness
You'Ve Forgotten 9-11 Already
Premium
join:2001-08-29
Cromwell, CT
clubs: 
| Re: Record 4 shows at once? said by aaronwt  :said by dealing3000 :The recording takes place off site so no need for the show to even reach your local box. Sounds like a lawsuit will be happening if that is the case. LOL did already with cablevision and the supreme court threw it out... | |
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aaronwt
Premium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
·Verizon FIOS
·Comcast
·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: Record 4 shows at once? said by P Ness :said by aaronwt :said by dealing3000 :The recording takes place off site so no need for the show to even reach your local box. Sounds like a lawsuit will be happening if that is the case. LOL did already with cablevision and the supreme court threw it out... No they didn't throw it out they ruled in Cabelvisions favor as long as each recording from each user was kept separately it was fine. That is why I say a lawsuit will be happening becasue the ruling for cablevision doesn't apply if you use one recording for everyone. Each user must have their own recording stored and be initiated by the user. | |
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Premium,MVM
join:2005-11-06
Powell, WY
clubs: | Re: Record 4 shows at once? I don't see the problem with AT&T's design though. Unless they take one DVR in a household streaming to multiple units within that same house illegal, since one recording will be used between the boxes. | |
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kdepasquale
join:2004-03-13
Livermore, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| That's not how it works actually. Each stream used while recording uses up one of your available streams just like if you were to watch a show live. Everything is stored on your local DVR.
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ji4
@comcast.net | its 4 regular channels at once not four hd channels | |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA | Three HD streams. Current service is 2 HD streams and 2 SD streams.
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Samus82
Radly
join:2002-01-29
Chicago, IL
clubs: | Re: Record 4 shows at once? yes but if you watch anything that any of the other tv's are watching it counts as 1 stream. | |
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Rookie
@rr.com
| Re: Record 4 shows at once? does anyone know if they are offering VOIP services via the same line? I have an install scheduled, but I was reading the fine print that was talking about VOIP. I am not interested in that. No 800 service and only 4 hour on site battery back up. I prefer regular voice services. is uverse voip and TV service? | |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | Re: Record 4 shows at once? I think it's a 8 hour battery backup. The VoIP part is called U-Voice and is pretty nice. If the battery goes out you can have it forward to a "safe number" like a cell phone.
If you don't want it you can still get a regular landline. | |
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GhostDoggy
join:2005-05-11
Duluth, GA
| Wolf in sheep's clothing Whole-house DVR does not overcome nor resolve certain facts about AT&T's U-verse problems. First, they are increasing video compression at the coast of video quality. I guess they decided that if DirecTV can do why not them? Thus, the AT&T U-verse HDlite initiative is born.
Next, this does nothing to increase the recording capacity within the household. In fact, it does everything to reduce the household recording time. Instead of have two or three set top boxes with X recording time, you now just have one whole-household with X recording time.
Of course, both of these initiatives are not for the benefit of the cowsumers, but the benefit of AT&T. The tight-wadded wallet nature of SBC (ahem, AT&T) is at hand, here, and their method of playing has nothing in benefit for its cowsumers.
If you are one of the too-stupid to know better then I guess what AT&T does to you makes little difference. Moo. | |
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ebubman
join:2002-01-17
Enola, PA
 ·Vonage
·Comcast
| comcast 2nd box agree with previous poster regarding being a comcast customer & having a 2nd hd/dvr box for $20/mo. i suspect comcast has no motivation to consider whole house dvr when they reach into my pocket (obviously w/ my permission, at-this-time) for the extra $20 spot. another reason i'm looking @ direct tv. | |
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sirchief
Premium
join:2001-12-14
Cromwell, CT | Available in CT I just checked our non-DVR boxes. We can now see the recordings on all boxes!
Nice job AT&T! | |
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Shad0wlore
Premium
join:2004-06-15
USA
·AT&T Midwest
| St Louis, huh? I love the blanket statements that AT&T pushes out.
I'm currently with Charter, and I'd gladly switch to U-Verse in my 'market'...
Oh wait.. that's right.. just because it says 'St Louis' doesn't mean 75% of St Louis, and it means 0% of the Illinois side of the river across from StLouis (even though, from what I understand, the IL infrastructure is in better shape)..
Great work AT&T!!
/saracasm
For the record, I can't get DTV where I'm at, can't get Dish.. (idiot neighbors have allowed their trees to become overgrown, and won't allow me to even PAY them to get them trimmed) so I am 100% stuck with Charter and I'm looking for a way out.. so yes, I'm irritated about announcements like this. Based on what several of AT&T's folks around our area have said, we HAVE the infrastructure and capability to get Uverse, just that no one seems to care about the IL side of things.
*sigh*
All in all, it's nice to see them getting technology advanced to a nice point, but it's pretty useless when they still have such a very select marketbase. Once they deploy it so the majority of their customers can get it, then it'll really be something to tout. | |
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Samus82
Radly
join:2002-01-29
Chicago, IL
clubs: | Re: St Louis, huh? i worked a whole month on the Illinois side of the river for uverse. So i know its there. Give it time. It wont happen overnight. | |
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AT&T Expands Whole Home DVR Markets
