Sat companies offer big HD expansions, cmon Uverse

rfitzek · ‎04-28-2008

I know it was already mentioned that Directv is clamiing 130 HD by year end. Now dish is saying 150 by year end and both companies are touting some 1080p services. Cmon uverse, you technically have no capcaity limitations and somehow the capacity challenged sat companies are adding like crazy.

nesto1 · ‎10-01-2007

rfitzek wrote:
I know it was already mentioned that Directv is clamiing 130 HD by year end. Now dish is saying 150 by year end and both companies are touting some 1080p services. Cmon uverse, you technically have no capcaity limitations and somehow the capacity challenged sat companies are adding like crazy.

They will NEVER have 1080p on Sat or Dish. Their bandwidth is just not there for it. They already had to downsample current 1080i offerings to 1440 x 1080 or even 1280 x 1080 to save on bandwidth.

Pip_2 · ‎09-30-2007

More over at UU.

RCSMG · ‎12-10-2007

Why are people posting on the same things in this forum and UU when they are getting the answers on one of the sites? If you see or hear about an article don't take it as face value and then post in these forums saying UV needs to step up. 1080p is blu-ray as I understand it. And there is no real-time recording of blu-ray (that has been made available to the public). Up to now blu-ray has been authored on dvds that is why you can see 1080p when you watch a blu-ray dvd. I understand you want the hd channels but when you get more you will complain because all of them are not something you want to watch. Or you will call them stretch tv, or whatever you won't be happy with. Right now we have Uverse with all of it's benefits and problems. There are no contracts and dish, directv, and comcast will welcome you back with open arms. And for those of you who feel this is a "deal breaker", I saw no such deal in Uverse's ads saying that they would rollout more hd channels than all of the other service providers. And for those of you who like to post the same issues here and on UU, feel free to copy this one and post it on UU.

spd2demun · ‎07-28-2007

You took the words right out of my mouth! I read those on UU this morning as well.

Maybe satellite is starting to feel the scare from UV, like Cable? Houston's cable is now offering a free Wii with a 2-year-contract; a few months ago, they were giving away HDTVs...guess that didn't win enough people over.

I noticed 4 new 2Wires on my wireless, and have seen 2 neighbors get installed recently. They've been here a while, so probably coming from cable (no dish on South side).

All I can say is if Uverse doesn't have what you want, stay where you are. You're not going to scare them by comparisions.

RCSMG · ‎12-10-2007

And on top of what you said Spd, we don't know what features they are working on for the near and far future. They rolled out 2hd streams and that pacified most of the masses here for about a week or so. They wanted more hd channels they got them and that pacified most of the masses here for about 3 days. The main purpose for this forum is to offer assistance to problems other users are having. That is the way it was. We help people on this site, and the AT&T employees read to see what are the major issues people seem to be experiencing more often. They also read and see what new features we would like them release, but whining and complaining, and comparing is not going to speed AT&T up at all. There is an order they are working and they will not deviate from it. If people leave they will come back because the other providers aren't coming close to what Uverse is and will be.

rfitzek · ‎04-28-2008

Wow, well bite my head off for just posting what was released by the companies themselves. yes, there will 1080p services and honeslty Dish/Directv is better quality than Uverse IMHO. But I like uverse better for what I want, all I was saying was that the sat companies are making investments and I am hoping ATT has some stuff planned too. But based your guys responses, you want to remain closed off from the world, so I will bid Utalk Goodbye as this is not the type of friendly forum that it shoud be. Thanks for the limited info and narrow scopes of vision. I never bashed Uverse, I tout it to everyone that it is right for (not everyone) and still can expain to people how much better it is and how much better it can be in the future. -my final post and visit here due to being attacked for just posting info and the responses were not even accurately thought out. Do your research again on the offerings and technical specs by the sat co's before attacking someone who just wants to give out info.

spd2demun · ‎07-28-2007

I don't think anyone was attacking you...we just see this over and over again about Dish/DirectTV/Cable.

I'm sure ATT is well-aware of what the competitors are doing, and as RC stated, they have their own rollout schedule for HD, and none of us here knows what that is.

It's different technology than satellite, and I don't know what is involved in getting new HD channels. Might even just be tied up in negotiations? Don't cable and satellite companies OWN certain channels?

Message Edited by spd2demun on 07-31-2008 12:02 PM

RCSMG · ‎12-10-2007

I didn't attack him either. I have seen posts like that and I was just making an observation. This is a free forum where we can express our views, and I don't bash anyone for expressing their views. Too bad he won't be here to read this. I apologize for the misunderstanding. Too bad you can't hear the intentions of written responses.

spd2demun · ‎07-28-2007

Pip's link to UU shows the topic is alive and well there.

RCSMG · ‎12-10-2007

Oh well, life goes on.

cameronsmith142 · ‎11-17-2007

Maybe that AT&T are in agreement with other National Broadcast affiliates and waiting for them to say yes to give U-verse more HD.

awhited74 · ‎08-25-2007

RCSMG wrote:
Why are people posting on the same things in this forum and UU when they are getting the answers on one of the sites? If you see or hear about an article don't take it as face value and then post in these forums saying UV needs to step up. 1080p is blu-ray as I understand it. And there is no real-time recording of blu-ray (that has been made available to the public). Up to now blu-ray has been authored on dvds that is why you can see 1080p when you watch a blu-ray dvd. I understand you want the hd channels but when you get more you will complain because all of them are not something you want to watch. Or you will call them stretch tv, or whatever you won't be happy with. Right now we have Uverse with all of it's benefits and problems. There are no contracts and dish, directv, and comcast will welcome you back with open arms. And for those of you who feel this is a "deal breaker", I saw no such deal in Uverse's ads saying that they would rollout more hd channels than all of the other service providers. And for those of you who like to post the same issues here and on UU, feel free to copy this one and post it on UU.

I am not sure what you mean by this but there are other 1080p sources that are not just blu-ray. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p

As for the blu-ray recording, BR recorders/burners and software have been available for sometime in laptops/desktops, BR add-on burners and stand-alone units.

http://www.engadgethd.com/search/?q=blu-ray+burners

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2060350376&Configurator=&Subcategory=376...