MrGPAC;841898425 said:
Besides Comcasts business practices that I don't like, and their shoddy reliability...one thing that just bugs me about comcast is their old slow interface and hardware.
With Uverse, everything is updated and simple. The GUI looks like it may have actually been designed this century vs the Comcast one that looks like it was designed in the 80's.
Further, their on demand menu structure is terrible. You can find some shows by getting to them 5 different ways and each of those 5 different methods gives you different episodes of the show you want to watch.
I don't have too much experience with uverse since it's not offered in CO, but I have tried it out at a friend's places in the bay area. We both though the box was actually buggier than comcast (though the Uverse menus looked a lot better) and had a poorer picture quality - he can't do anything since the apt complex locked in service w/ ATT.
My big issue with comcast is the limited DVR space and the ever increasing price. They supposedly have a new black DVR box that has 500GB of service, but the local office never has them in stock. The old comcast DVR's were horrible and slow and buggy, but the newer, bigger silver one I have is snappy, though the menus are ugly.
If you have only used/seen this comcast DVR/cable box, you are definitely going to think their service sucks hard (the thing is pure garbage):
This one is much much better, though it fills up fast:
This is the new 500gb black box that essentially no one has, but it's possible to do multi room, though some reviews say it's pretty poor for multiroom.
MrGPAC;841898425 said:
That said...Comcast is faster (when it works). If you have more than 2 people living in your house uverse's stream limitations may be a concern as well...especially if you have multiple HD tv's. I also found that while both services suffer from slow downs when maximizing your upload streams (i.e. if you seed torrents), uverse can be crippled to the point of not even being usable.
If I had the choice, all else being equal, I would 100% go for uverse, which I had for a year when I lived in LA and loved. Sadly, I don't have a choice and have been stuck with shoddy overpriced service from comcast.
~MrGPAC
Comcast (cable) has far superior bandwidth to uverse (which is essentially a DSL - they can only stream so much through the phone line from ATT's substation box somewhere outside your house). Comcast definitely is NOT using their bandwith very efficiently because they broadcast almost every station to every house. Uverse can offers so many more stations because they have far superior technology and only send the stations you are watching from their substation to your house, but that's also why quality/speed can degrade under heavy use.
I'd think that uverse would be a perfect match for the P12 network because they could carry all regions and deliver them to
any subscriber. Comcast and satellite can't/won't do that because they aren't sending a unique stream to each viewer, so extra P12 stations mean less of something else.
I'm sure comcast knows that its bandwidth advantage means they can charge more and not innovate as much.... and still make a killing.
