I just got Uverse, and experienced the same thing when trying to watch HD soccer games in a brand new Plasma HDTV - Panasonic at 600hz. The technician came in and he was not able to do anything to improve it, he changed boxes, replaced cables, I bought a High end HDMI cable, and nothing. He even agreed with what I was seeing and told me that was the most I could get from the ATT signal. I will call Directv tomorrow, anyone has experienced this blurr with HD sports with directv??
Had same issues on new uverse install. Tech came out and changed power supply to modem, extra twisted cable at outside box? and another connector from modem to dvr, picture was DRAMATICALLY better,easily as good as my cox cable was. Picture was blocky like excessive compression before, have not caught a glimpse of artifacts since.
THe problem is in fact that AT&T uses fixed bandwidth MPEG4 compression. Great quality for stills - but when the shop goes crazy at the end of, "Mr. Magoriums Wonder Emporium", it ends up looking like an Atari screen because the bandwidth/fixed compression doesn allow room to update all of the needed pixels.
I think it's insane that they sell this. Yet another reason for an HD standards company.
I have U-verse and this happens to me a especially during football games. It drives me nuts. And frankly, I don't think the picture clarity is as good with U-verse as I recall comcast was. I would love to know ho to rectify this. Thanks for posting this!!!!
I have AT&T Uverse, and I have exactly the same problem. The only way you're going to notice it is if you have a high end HD tv, if it's not an HD tv there's no problem and no way you'd see it. It's even worse when trying to watch sports. Watching football or baseball, if you look at the grass in the field it does those corrections all the time and it's very distracting/annoying. I had DirectTV before and I noticed the HD quality issues right away, had a technician come out - but no luck.
Using coax for onnection to box? I just found out that cat5 makes HD look better and it does when I switched. Don't know if this will help or not. And does it do this on all your HD tv's? Try one box with cat5 from RG to cable box and see if that is it.
@raymcc85 The problem isn't freezing - it's just poor quality in high-motion scenes. I paused the playback here to show some example frames more clearly and show particularly bad parts of it. Thanks.
I would guess the reason you have those artifacts is because you dont have "optimum reception" or "optimum coverage" in your area. AT&T has a horrible habit of saying you have perfect coverage, and then you get things like this where the TV has quality issues, and the internet goes out repeatedly. They often say you have great coverage when you really dont, mostly because they wont spend the hundred bucks to upgrade their equipment so it works better....
I just got Uverse, and experienced the same thing when trying to watch HD soccer games in a brand new Plasma HDTV - Panasonic at 600hz. The technician came in and he was not able to do anything to improve it, he changed boxes, replaced cables, I bought a High end HDMI cable, and nothing. He even agreed with what I was seeing and told me that was the most I could get from the ATT signal. I will call Directv tomorrow, anyone has experienced this blurr with HD sports with directv??
caloto29 6 months ago
Then switch to comcast they have better HD
james7301 7 months ago
comcast has the same problems
compwiz878 1 year ago
Had same issues on new uverse install. Tech came out and changed power supply to modem, extra twisted cable at outside box? and another connector from modem to dvr, picture was DRAMATICALLY better,easily as good as my cox cable was. Picture was blocky like excessive compression before, have not caught a glimpse of artifacts since.
anotherboringmovie 1 year ago
THe problem is in fact that AT&T uses fixed bandwidth MPEG4 compression. Great quality for stills - but when the shop goes crazy at the end of, "Mr. Magoriums Wonder Emporium", it ends up looking like an Atari screen because the bandwidth/fixed compression doesn allow room to update all of the needed pixels.
I think it's insane that they sell this. Yet another reason for an HD standards company.
tpot515 1 year ago 3
I have U-verse and this happens to me a especially during football games. It drives me nuts. And frankly, I don't think the picture clarity is as good with U-verse as I recall comcast was. I would love to know ho to rectify this. Thanks for posting this!!!!
N9JCQ 1 year ago
same problem with my install. internet works pretty well 18 down 1.5 up all the time but TV is so bad i've considered dropping it.
seadoo 1 year ago
I have AT&T Uverse, and I have exactly the same problem. The only way you're going to notice it is if you have a high end HD tv, if it's not an HD tv there's no problem and no way you'd see it. It's even worse when trying to watch sports. Watching football or baseball, if you look at the grass in the field it does those corrections all the time and it's very distracting/annoying. I had DirectTV before and I noticed the HD quality issues right away, had a technician come out - but no luck.
thatbschulte 1 year ago
Using coax for onnection to box? I just found out that cat5 makes HD look better and it does when I switched. Don't know if this will help or not. And does it do this on all your HD tv's? Try one box with cat5 from RG to cable box and see if that is it.
dtbrown1978 1 year ago
@dtbrown1978 Nope, I'm using cat5. I only have 1 TV.
CTho9305 1 year ago
@CTho9305 Also, CAT 5 doesn't carry as many frequencies as RG-6 coax
jerrytimes 7 months ago
I've had no such problems. Show this to tech support. They were very accommodating with I had freezing issues.
raymcc85 1 year ago
@raymcc85 The problem isn't freezing - it's just poor quality in high-motion scenes. I paused the playback here to show some example frames more clearly and show particularly bad parts of it. Thanks.
CTho9305 1 year ago
I would guess the reason you have those artifacts is because you dont have "optimum reception" or "optimum coverage" in your area. AT&T has a horrible habit of saying you have perfect coverage, and then you get things like this where the TV has quality issues, and the internet goes out repeatedly. They often say you have great coverage when you really dont, mostly because they wont spend the hundred bucks to upgrade their equipment so it works better....
tonzaton 1 year ago