So I just had AT&T U-verse installed today. First of all, the installer showed up really promptly and within the window of the appointment. He then went out to the junction box on the street to check the signal level from the fiber junction, it was all good. He was very good, ran new cables and didn’t touch any of my existing cables because I made it clear to him that I was not turning off any other service. He did a good job wiring up my two TV’s. The system consists of one Motorola IPTV DVR and another IPTV receiver and then their IP gateway device.
Let’s talk about the shortcomings first. The Motorola units do not do Dolby encoding out of HDMI, only PCM, but that’s easily solved with a TOSLINK from the Motorola. Make sure your receiver can set multi-input for a single source and you are good, my Onkyo can so I’m fine. Since it is IP based TV, fast motion is slightly “soft” at 1080i. The Dolby sound signal tends to drop out sometimes for just a split second, maybe 1/2 second sometimes.
The good stuff. The Motorola units are WAY faster than the Motorola cable boxes based on Java, menus come up almost immediately. Single DVR can stream to all other IPTV receivers in the house, this is a really cool feature. The number of channels… wow… I did not realize that their was this many HD channels in existence, like CMT and Nickelodeon… I have been missing out with HD as far as cable for sure.
So these are my impressions from just the first day, more to come.
What up Dino! Welcome to the HD world. When I got my first HD TV, I watched 3 hours Nascar. I couldn’t believe how you could see the rocks in the road. But Cartoon Network in HD? Kinda overkill if ya ask me.
Whatsup Rubes… are you on Facebook?
Had my HDTV for a while, just got sick of cable!