ATT U-Verse

Back on Fathers Day I received a wii game, Transformers, and I was getting pretty good at it but then after having it for only a few days, the game dissappeared and I could not find it anywhere.

Yesterday ATT came buy to install my new cable and internet - we are lowering our phone and cable bill by switching to ATT. In order for the installer to hook up my house for the new system, I had to dismantle my entertainment center so I could move some of it out of the way.

This meant moving my tv and placing it on the ground so I could slide the cabinet the tv sits on out of the way.

After moving the tv I found my game - it somehow slid under the tv stand. I don't know how the game got under the tv but since fathers day I have moved the tv at least 6 times and never saw the game there before. This is the first time I actually pulled the tv off of the cabinet that it sits on.

Now I have to figure out if there is a way to repair the disk since it has some scratches on it and it will no longer play.

Now that the new cable is installed and I have had a chance to use it for a little while there are a few things that I am not crazy about but I should be able to live with them.

The nice things are:

I can schedule a recording from the internet - this can be a one time recording or a series recording.

I am getting more channels but the entire package will save me money.

The picture seems clearer than the Dish and I should not loose my cable when it rains or snows. Although with the Dish we only lost reception a few times.

I now have the boys tv hooked up in the loft so they can watch cartoons up there.

I can configure each tv and block out different content on each one of them. That way when the boys are upstairs I know exactly what they are watching.

I can record up to 3 things on the DVR and watch something else - this has a price though.

Now for the items that I'm not 100% crazy about:

I can not pause live tv on the tv in the loft or my bedroom.

I have to set up all of my DVR's again.

I can watch up to 4 items on the different tv's in the house but if I am recording one item I can only watch 3 channels on the different tv's. If I am recording 2 items then only 2 tv's can watch something. The ATT tech said that they are working on providing 8 streams but they were not there yet. Right now this is not an a major issue since when we were recording something on the Dish I either had to watch a DVR or watch what I was recording.

The DVR controller is a little slow and you have to point the controller in the right direction or it does not work.

I'm sure most of these items will take some getting used to and eventually ATT should be able to enhance some of these functions but for now we will see how well it works.