UVerse?
- Thread starter MKS
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A couple of UVerse sales reps came to our house about two months ago or so. Offered like $300 as two $150 Visa gift cards, one of which would be used to pay the contract termination fee with Time-Warner Cable, the remaining $150 was the bonus. We were able to get the entire channel package with everything, plus fiber optic internet and home telephone all for less $ per-month than with TWC.
That being said, the programming is generally the same. The internet, I really don't notice a difference in speed compared to the cable connection we had before it. The ability to access the DVR in any room is really cool, we have the DVR in the living room, then 4 bedrooms with the regular boxes (just a warning, you cannot pause live TV with any box other than the DVR one, they do not really explain this to you and make it seem like you can - however, you can pause live TV in the room with the DVR and resume in any other room). The sport package is really nice during the NBA playoffs and during the NFL season, I can see any/all games playing on a single convenient screen. Not sure if TWC has this now but they didn't when we had their service. I do believe other services like Dish have this feature too.
My only gripe - with TWC they had HBO/Showtime/Cinemax/Starz/(other movie channels) available as On Demand channels. Basically, on these O.D. channels for each station you could watch any movie they were airing that month on demand for free. This was convenient since I didn't want to stuff the DVR with a few movies to watch when I could, nor did I have to wait for the next showtime for it. Just find it and it would start the movie. Now, TWC had this in conjunction with the regular Pay-Per-View movie channels. With UVerse you DO NOT get anything like that at all. All you have are On Demand channels, but they are Pay-Per-View format, nothing is free. I only watch movies, I do not ever really watch regular shows, so this was a big let down to me as now I am always at the mercy of whatever HBO et al decide to air whenever I'm looking for something to watch.
Other than that I dig it.
Oh, just remembered one other thing... with TWC the boxes they used all had volume buttons on the box itself on the front, and with the box turned up all the way, the amount of volume up or down on a TV was plenty, I never had to turn my TV up ALL THE WAY. With UVerse, the TV in my "control" room, I have the volume on the TV cranked all the way up and it still isn't very loud. Some stations are fine, the BULK of channels though, are not. I often have to resort to closed-captioning up here in the mix room anyway but even still the volume is all fucked. My XBox hooked up to it I have to turn the TV nearly all the way down so it's not melting my face off - so I know it's not the TV. The other TVs in the house I have similar issues with the volume thing but we have surround sound in the living room, etc. so there is more volume to pump with them. Just sucks in here though
That being said, the programming is generally the same. The internet, I really don't notice a difference in speed compared to the cable connection we had before it. The ability to access the DVR in any room is really cool, we have the DVR in the living room, then 4 bedrooms with the regular boxes (just a warning, you cannot pause live TV with any box other than the DVR one, they do not really explain this to you and make it seem like you can - however, you can pause live TV in the room with the DVR and resume in any other room). The sport package is really nice during the NBA playoffs and during the NFL season, I can see any/all games playing on a single convenient screen. Not sure if TWC has this now but they didn't when we had their service. I do believe other services like Dish have this feature too.
My only gripe - with TWC they had HBO/Showtime/Cinemax/Starz/(other movie channels) available as On Demand channels. Basically, on these O.D. channels for each station you could watch any movie they were airing that month on demand for free. This was convenient since I didn't want to stuff the DVR with a few movies to watch when I could, nor did I have to wait for the next showtime for it. Just find it and it would start the movie. Now, TWC had this in conjunction with the regular Pay-Per-View movie channels. With UVerse you DO NOT get anything like that at all. All you have are On Demand channels, but they are Pay-Per-View format, nothing is free. I only watch movies, I do not ever really watch regular shows, so this was a big let down to me as now I am always at the mercy of whatever HBO et al decide to air whenever I'm looking for something to watch.
Other than that I dig it.
Oh, just remembered one other thing... with TWC the boxes they used all had volume buttons on the box itself on the front, and with the box turned up all the way, the amount of volume up or down on a TV was plenty, I never had to turn my TV up ALL THE WAY. With UVerse, the TV in my "control" room, I have the volume on the TV cranked all the way up and it still isn't very loud. Some stations are fine, the BULK of channels though, are not. I often have to resort to closed-captioning up here in the mix room anyway but even still the volume is all fucked. My XBox hooked up to it I have to turn the TV nearly all the way down so it's not melting my face off - so I know it's not the TV. The other TVs in the house I have similar issues with the volume thing but we have surround sound in the living room, etc. so there is more volume to pump with them. Just sucks in here though
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