AT&T activates 2HD / 2SD U-verse service in St. Louis, more cities to come?
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Filed under: Industry, DVRs, Set-top boxes, Fiber
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bluemanrule @ May 1st 2008 2:02PM
When the U-verse squad canvassed my neighborhood they informed me that this was on its way to Oklahoma City in 9-12 months. This was about 5 months ago. It's coming to everyone. Just give it time. I'll switch b/c Cox is killin' me.
Rodimus @ May 1st 2008 2:05PM
FINALLY!!!
Now where's WHDVR?!!
andrewgreene @ May 1st 2008 3:26PM
Whole Home DVR and more HD programming.
Waiting on WHDVR is torturous, it's always "a couple of weeks away". And they're still saying 100 HD feeds by the end of 2008: http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/04/well_connected_atts_dan_york.php
Frank Furter @ May 1st 2008 2:55PM
Yeah, I had AT&T out to fix my phone last week, he told me that he was told "this summer" for Wichita, KS. Bye-bye Cox. I hope.
mnemonicj @ May 1st 2008 3:37PM
I was told by an AT&T rep that this should be happening to the Indianapolis area Uverse users by late summer.
Andy @ May 1st 2008 3:38PM
So if there is a 2/2 now, can you watch a recorded HD show while recording 2 HD channels? This happens a lot in my house.
kcmurphy88 @ May 1st 2008 5:04PM
Now only a decade obsolete.
Andrew @ May 1st 2008 5:30PM
You were watching/recording on 2 HD streams 10 years ago?
kcmurphy88 @ May 1st 2008 11:08PM
Well, I had DirecTV HD service in 2001 -- not a decade, no, but certainly two channels at a time. I would really like to see SBC, oops AT&T, offer a proper service, since I am stuck with them, but this still isn't it. They aren't going to get me to drop my DirecTV for this obsolete stuff. What part of FIBER TO THE DOOR did they not get? Verizon understands. Of course, I'm not in Verizon territory, so I'm SOL there.
mnemonicj @ May 2nd 2008 10:34AM
AT&T service is Fiber to the Node. It is easier to roll out to more people, more quickly. That is the reason why Uverse is available in more areas and is growing more rapidly. Supposedly, Verizon FiOS HD channels are the worst in the industry, not for quality, but availability of channels in HD. I am sure that even if you had FiOS you would still be unhappy, because some people you just can't please.
kcmurphy88 @ May 2nd 2008 11:32AM
FiOS has had an oddly obsolete analog TV system, limited to the same bandwidth as cable, which they are hurriedly replacing with a fully digital one. Once they do that, their available bandwidth will explode. Hopefully this will coincide with a better DVR.
AT&T is going to the node in order to keep using its ancient copper network as long as possible. But it imposes such bandwidth degradation on the last quarter mile that it is uncompetitive with satellite. Cable systems in my area have been fiber to the node for a few years already, and they're looking to more that point closer. AT&T is still playing catchup.
As for being unhappy with anything, I've been with DirecTV since 1994, so they've found some way to please me,at least a bit. Fiber should offer more than satellite can, but AT&T's stingy system doesn't even come close.
Andrew @ May 1st 2008 5:30PM
Watching a recorded show isn't using any bandwidth, so i don't see why not.
Tyson @ May 1st 2008 5:44PM
I go to school here in St. Louis, (at least for for another 2 weeks before I'm out of this dump) and St. Louis deserves it this place has nothing else going for it. Charter communications sucks. If my apartment wasn't prewired I would get it. I wish they had this when I was here.
Jim Mallory @ May 1st 2008 5:57PM
Give me a total of 5 HD streams and a Media Center solution and I can start to think of replacing them with Cable.
Tom E @ May 12th 2008 1:38PM
I'm in St. Louis and the 2 streams isn't here yet as of 5-12-08. I hope you are right because only having 1 hd channel to record at once sucks. I think Charter is better until AT&T gets this.