http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/ Engadget Comments for AT&T gets official with U-verse Total Home DVR http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/
Still no word on Weather On Demand.



]]>Sep 9th 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/
Wow!

Thats so much better than 5 years ago...

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NOT!]]>Sep 9th 2008 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/So does that mean you could also make your own DVR box for IPTV? Seems that would be a nice option to increase storage and functionality. 30ish hours of HD storage capacity seems a little on the light side since my Dish VIP722 can do 60. However this might make UVerse a bit more of an option going forward.]]>Sep 9th 2008 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/]]>Sep 9th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/
Assuming your running at least 100mbps and an HD Stream supposedly takes about 10mbps, you should be able to get 8 or more HD Streams going in the house.
The average UVerse customer gets about 30mbps down from AT&T which is why your capped at 2 live HD Streams per household.

Even though they only support 4 streams total, you could, in theory, have like 6 UVerse STBs in your house if you had alot of TVs. You can only watch 4 live streams at once though. But with Whole Home DVR, there is nothing to say the other 2 boxes couldn't be watching recorded material during that time.


PS: I called them the other day about something else and in the Los Angeles area, they said approx Oct 4th is when this upgrade will be pushed out in my area.]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/
I have had it for 1.5 years and am only paying $85 a month for tv and internet. I feel that this is a great deal for what I get:
3 HD set top boxes, a dvr that can record 4 sd shows at once, every sports, movie and hd channel, able to setup dvr over the interent, a wireless router and 3Mb down/ 1Mb up dsl connection.

Before I switched Comcast was charging me 12 bucks a month just for a HD capable dvr that could only record 1 channel and you coudn't watch a diff. channel while it was recording, that was a rip off.]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/I called them the other day because I still cannot get 2 HD streams at once in Simi Valley
After escalating past Tier 2 all the way to the Network Engineers, they found out that someone dropped the ball and the "VHO" (Video Home Office) in Irvine was never upgraded to support 2 HD Streams per household.

So everyone served by that VHO is screwed even though your DVR and STBs all now say that you support 2/2 (HD/SD) rather than 1/3 like it used to say.

If your as happy as I am about this, call AT&T and complain. 1-800-ATT-2020]]>Sep 9th 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/-Taylor]]>Sep 9th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/
Can anyone comment on this?]]>Sep 9th 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/
My wife and I actually fought over who got to call Comcast to tell them to pound sand when we got U-Verse. :)

]]>Sep 9th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/I would LOVE to use my HD TiVo with U-Verse

And it is two streams, one watching one recording or two recording or two watching.... 2 Streams Total.
:-(
I have U-Verse in Dallas/ Fort Worth area and the sound gets off Very Often. And not being able to see multiple HD Channels isn't good at all.

I hope it gets better Very Soon!]]>Sep 10th 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 10th 2008 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/Sep 9th 2008 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/atandt-gets-official-with-u-verse-total-home-dvr/
I am eagerly awaiting this feature so I can tell TiVO to pound sand, with their monthly fees and extremely poor customer service.

The Uverse service in my area is a bit slower than Comcast's top speeds, the difference is that it is consistent (I always peg at 10mb down on Uverse, where with Comcast I was usually around 6mb, and often as low as 3mb down - much different than their claims of 16mb!)

However I did have a LOT of issues in getting it hooked up, and my house was built with Fiber to the premise. It was not issues with the Uverse installers, but with the construction division actually getting the signal to my house (something about vandals physically cutting the fiber at the junction - which I am not inclined to believe, I think it is more along the lines of one of their people screwed up).

All in all I am MUCH more satisfied with the service I get from AT&T than what I was getting from Comcast (and MAN does that say something about the crappy service Comcast offers!).]]>Sep 10th 2008 6:15PM