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Wed, 10/28/2009 - 12:09pm
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We have had enough of the poor service and product from Comcast. Can someone that has Uverse explain it to me. Is it a AT&T product. What kind of services does it offer. Thank you all for your replies. Ballguy 
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Uverse
In short U-verse is cable TV service provided by AT&T in some areas.
Since I have been out on my own I have had no service, DirecTV, DirecTV with TiVo then U-verse, now no service and I am happy not to have a monthly fee. The reason why I got DirecTV was because I could get ABC, CBS, and NBC from different cities then they passed the law that I could not do that any more. Which I did not like, but I keep DirecTV. Then I got TiVo for my DirecTV. I really liked DirecTV with TiVo and thought it was great. I could come home and watch 2 programs in half the time. I did not miss many things, because the recorder was busy. Then the price on DirecTV went up and I switched to U-verse back in April 2008, it was simular to DirecTV with TiVo. You could get the normal stations (i.e. 6, 8, 13, and 59) the regular pay stations (EPSN, Speedchannel, MTV, VH1...), movie channels (HBO 1,2, ShowTime....), HD channels same thing as other channels just in High Def, you could record shows and play back with the Digital Recorder, get "On Demand" shows for free and some may have been pay per view. I just did not want to be like the Former Celtics star Antoine Walker is broke and in debt http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Former-Celtics-star-Antoine-Walker-is-broke-and-?urn=nba,198509 . I now have no service and love the price of only electricity usage to pay. I now have the converter box. Yes, I miss things that I used to watch, but I have gotten over the withdraw syndrome and I am happy.
My thought is did your great great great grand pappy want to pay a monthly fee for something or save money and paid for it? He saved and paid? Why does everyone want a warranty or pay monthly for things and get them into debt? I will step off my soap box now!
We have had enough of the poor service and product from Comcast. Can someone that has Uverse explain it to me. Is it a AT&T product. What kind of services does it offer. Thank you all for your replies.
Ballguy
We changed over to U-Verse earlier this year and it is fantastic. Yes, it's AT&T but separate from their phone service although we have that, too. Super DSL, 'God-knows-how-many-channels' television (5 sets in our house with their own boxes/remotes included in the price), DVR, thousands of movies to rent cheap, music of every genre, etc. Never a problem. No billing SNAFU's like Comcast is notorious for. $100 a month.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson
Nothing wrong with a monthly fee for something you can cancel at anytime you please. The problem isn't with bills like that, it is with indebtedness like your car payment that really messes you up.
A warranty provides protection against bad manufacturing or handling. I believe your beef is with extended warranties which are money losing ventures.