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I live in an AT&T neighborhood. I reside 30-40 miles outside of Atlanta, Georgia in a county with 750,000 residents. I live in a middle income neighborhood within walking distances of neighborhoods from starter homes to luxury homes.

No U-verse for us, not now nor anytime soon. Not even when several company employees reside here, too. Makes not a bit of difference that we have Ma Bell fiber running up and down our streets (IFITL platform). AT&T (ahem, SBC) just doesn't care one bit.

Now add to the fact that they are over-compressing their h.264 video streams for HD and you have to ask yourself why would you ever bother with them? Not even if you work for them.]]>Dec 10th 2009 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/atandt-u-verse-now-serving-2-million/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/atandt-u-verse-now-serving-2-million/Because it beats the hell out of cable providers. Especially Time Warner which is a PoS that hasn't innovated in a decade and leaves us without NFL Network/Redzone or a cavalcade of HD channels unlike Uverse. As soon as it hits my building I'm signing up even if it's more expensive. ]]>Dec 10th 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/atandt-u-verse-now-serving-2-million/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/atandt-u-verse-now-serving-2-million/
I also have not been able to figure out how to get a button on that remote to put my name-brand TV into "sleep mode". But maybe that's just me being a moron...

I also see frequent blips similar to what one would see on a YouTube video when the bandwidth is barely sufficient. I wonder what that's all about...

The multi-room DVR feature is FANTASTIC! Can even watch HD movies on the SD TV (it must refactor the images).

From a technology stand point, I like the way they have this set up. It's a LAN that can be extended over existing twisted pair, existing coax, plus wireless. The installer replaced my LinkSYS router with this fancy new modem/router that has several connections of various types on the back. He connected my existing coax runs to each TV, my existing Cat-5 runs to my computers and I was set in about an hour. Slick... And that's why that multi-room DVR thing works so well...

I do have a nice fat 6MB internet connection too. Wow...

I was a DirecTV subscriber for 10 years and am a huge fan of this company and their technology. But in order to hook up my new HD TV, I had to buy a new box and a new dish. The box was included with U-verse signup. And when I asked them about multi-room DVR, they said it was too confusing. I'm guessing it's because they don't have the network setup that U-Verse does... no LAN, just raw signal to the back of the TV converter box. And the real deal breaker was that DirecTV Internet service is a lousy value for an urban-dweller. Oh well, so long DirecTV... it was great while it lasted.]]>Dec 13th 2009 12:42PM