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Msh1082
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« Reply #15 on: July 23, 2008, 09:22:47 PM »

Do you plan on keeping Uverse for football and basketball season?  Others may not be having this problem, but the picture quality is absolutely horrible during any kind of fast motion on the screen.  Basketball games are the absolute worst.  The Big Ten Network I've noticed has the worst picture of all the channels.   I currently have a 32" Sony Wega HD ready TV.  I've already had my place wired with CAT5e and have had technicians out three different times now to try and resolve the picture quality issue.  I think it might be due to the fact that ATT compresses the picture too much.  Anyone know if this will get better?  Has anyone else had the same issue and been able to resolve it?  I don't want to go back to comcrap, but being able to have a decent picture for football and basketball games is at the top of my list for TV service. 

You will never be happy with the HD until Uverse gets serious about it when enough customers begin to cancel. Actually, you are the first that I know of on this forum to say Comcast had a better picture. WOW! Shocked Shocked Shocked Timewarner kills Uverse in the HD dept. That is fact. You can have 100 techs come out and it will make no difference. AT&T has to stop compressing the hell out of the signal and improve the codec (the way the signal is encoded and decoded). Until they resolve these things, your HD experience will suck with Uverse. Don't listen to the Uverse lovers on here that claim they are getting this OTA quality HD. They will drive you nuts. Try to get a good deal out of it before cancelling though. I had to REALLY think hard before deciding on $50 a month (with internet) for dismal HD service or $80 a month (with internet) and excellent HD with Timewarner. I chose the former for now...

I don't have the HD package, although my TV is HD ready so I'm more concerned about the SD picture.  The other channels are good enough for my standards, but something has to be done about the way sports looks.  I don't care how much cheaper ATT is if football games look like a mess.  I'm actually paying 75/month for U100 and 1.5 meg internet so for that price I at least expect football and basketball games to be sharp in SD.  Doesn't have to be perfect, but when the person running looks like a mess of little squares, there's a problem.
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« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2008, 09:24:44 PM »

Yep, sure does, but you can imagine my frustration

I can understand.  My girlfriend has Mondays off so she's been the one that's had to wait around all the times for the technicians to come out.  I think she's at her limit with this mess as well.
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« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2008, 09:25:37 PM »

if your tv has the option, I've found that interlaced is a noticeably better than progressive
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« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2008, 01:56:39 PM »

When I first got Uverse, I really noticed the picture problems with fast action.  You're right, basketball was pretty bad - Jason Kidd is pretty quick, but I don't think he breaks down at the molecular level when he drives the lane.  Smiley
It has improved quite a bit since then.  I don't have HD, but noticed the other day I had the 2/2 profile with the higher bandwidth cap.  Maybe that helped?  I was originally on the 3/1 profile.

I also noticed a post in the employee forum that said if you have a electonic component too close to the RG, it would cause picture problems.  The TV in my daughters room is only about a foot away from the RG (but separated by a hollow wall).  I'm going to try moving the RG a few feet away, but I can't seem to remember to bring my patch cables home. 


Is it the tv or the uverse.   unless the display has 8milisecond response or better, you will see sucky blur on fast motion.   Also the mp4 comression can also add to this problem.  However if you have "slow" glass on your big screen, it will suck big time on fast motion.. and yes,, the basketball games are the ones that show it the most.. other programing keeps the subjects centered in the picture so there is not the fast motion.
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« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2008, 07:24:13 PM »

This is the model TV I'm using.  I don't know what the response time is, however.  http://www.amazon.com/Sony-KV-32HS500-Flat-Screen-HDTV-Monitor/dp/tech-data/B00006AMAN/ref=de_a_smtd
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« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2008, 07:24:40 PM »

if your tv has the option, I've found that interlaced is a noticeably better than progressive

I've tried this and haven't noticed any difference.
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