I’ve been a happy subscriber to AT&T’s U-verse service ever since it became available to me in my neighborhood. There have been loads of advantages I’ve enjoyed with U-verse over my previous cable TV service.
Sadlly, there are a few things that I wish U-verse would add to their feature list that currently doesn’t exist. A couple of them are being done by other TV services, yet some are suited perfectly to AT&T U-verse’s IPTV delivery system.
Feature Request 1
This one exists already, but U-verse doesn’t have it working on their system. I have a number of series recordings that we like to keep up with. The challenge is that in the event of a conflict, I’d like to rank the series in order of importance. So, if one of our shows that we like but we don’t have to watch would conflict with a higher priority program, the higher priority program would win. If it can’t work like that, an email notification letting me know when a conflict exists would be very helpful.
Feature Request 2
I’m not a baseball fan, at least not on TV unless it’s the last couple of games of the World Series. The other night the baseball game ended up going into extra-innings, and that caused my recording of House, MD to only record the last 15 minutes before it shut-off. We were watching TV, but just not that channel. You’d think it would be possible for the U-verse system to be aware of this overrun on time for live events and display an alert message on screen that says the scheduled recording may be impacted.
Continue reading for my last upgrade request
Feature Request 3
I’m a big fan of fantasy football. When I’m watching the Sunday games, it would be nice to have a little fantasy football ticker that would highlight what’s happening with my players. Since U-verse already integrates with a few other Yahoo! properties, I’d think this would be another easy integration.
Television entertainment delivered via the Internet provides so many options for integrating information with entertainment, or perhaps we could now call Inter-tainment.