Thursday, April 03, 2008

U-verse: Installed and Online...

I've been online with AT&T's U-verse internet TV and broadband service for a few days now and I'm very happy with it. If any of my readers have the chance to get it where they live, check it out! My installer was very professional and competent. It took about 4 hours to get everything wired and installed properly. The TV comes in through my existing co-axial cable so no new holes in the house! YAY! The picture seems brighter and clearer, somehow. I guess it's that digital signal coming in, huh? : ) I'm now using the co-axial cable that fed into my computer room but never got used. The broadband internet is as fast as promised as well.

I discovered a really cool feature the other night. I can browse my Flickr photos on my TV! Since my TV signal and broadband share the same connection, my TV and computer can interact. I switch to a certain channel, press a button on the remote, and in a few seconds, my pictures come up! This happens because my Flickr login is the same as my AT&T/Yahoo! login (Yahoo! owns Flickr and is partners with AT&T).

Now, being an incurable button-pusher, I have already managed to screw up a button or two on the remote, so I'll be calling tech support at some point.

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