I agree. I got U-Verse last week and I immediately noticed the difference from my Dish service. It does slow a bit if I have both the HD sets pointing to an HD channel though.
I have Cablevision iO digital and the changes are terribly slow. 1.9 seconds would be a dream. I have timed 5 and 6 second changes. I can get up and get a snack in the time it takes to change channels. I called Cablevision and they told me this is normal. Thats totally unacceptable if you ask me.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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UVerse is extremely fast.
U-Verse is powered by Microsoft's Mediaroom technology, the winner in the "channel off". Apparently they can do tv fast but not operating systems...
I agree. I got U-Verse last week and I immediately noticed the difference from my Dish service. It does slow a bit if I have both the HD sets pointing to an HD channel though.
I have Cablevision iO digital and the changes are terribly slow. 1.9 seconds would be a dream. I have timed 5 and 6 second changes. I can get up and get a snack in the time it takes to change channels. I called Cablevision and they told me this is normal. Thats totally unacceptable if you ask me.