Thread: My AT&T U-Verse experience (vs Dish)

I doubt it - though it could be. I'm in Austin where they do a lot of the testing (actually have a 3HD profile now, fwiw) so we sometimes have things different that elsewhere.

The limitation on streams is driven by the bandwidth available to your home. Most folks are on a 25mb/sec profile, which allows room for 2HD streams and2 SD streams while still leaving room for internet. They've been rolling out a new profile that's 32mb/sec, which opens up for faster internet and the promise of 3 HD streams.

Given the VOD is streamed the same as a 'live' channel, it's going to be impacted by the bandwidth constraint as well. Anything already recorded to the set-top box should not impact it. Funny thing is, I can use all my 'TV' stream from Uverse, then flip on my Roku box and my computer and stream HD content from Netflix and Hulu just fine. I don't know why ATT won't implement a more flexible approach that'd allow you to shift bandwidth to whatever device needs it at the time - need 4 HD right now - internet slows down to cover. No TVs on? Internet speed rises to the maximum size of the pipe. Would work well for me, anyway.