On Demand Programming

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@Case385 wrote:

What is happening with On Demand.  I used to be able to see prior weeks pictures for many of the regular series.  Then lately, they were not available on On Demand.  I was trying to catch up on Extant and Zoo and the prior weeks were not available.  Now that Extant is over, I cannot watch the previous episodes on On Demand.  Likewise, prior weeks of Zoo is not available.  Is this the result of the merge with Direct TV?  I was with them once and do not want to go with them again.

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Nothing is happening with (or wrong with) on Demand, @Case385.  It works as it always has.  U-Verse VoD, Comcast and so on, keep a limited amount of shows on their TV based VoD systems.  You can not do binge viewing on TV based VoD.  At some point, with the further development of cloud storage, they may keep more episodes.  You can use the U-Verse app or uverse.com to watch hundreds of shows.

Do you have a DVR?  I have only used U-Verse's VoD service  maybe 3 times since 2008, as I try to series record my shows on DVR.

AT*T's On-Demand offerings are easily the worst among the big 3 (AT*T, Comcast, Time Warner). In fact, it's not even close. While the others may offer full seasons of programming, AT*T's seem almost at random what will be offered at what is not. Many times, there will be a chunk of episodes with one or two missing. Sometimes, episodes won't be available for weeks after they air, if ever. It is a real weakness in their product. 

Fortunately, there are usually workarounds. Most programming can be found directly on Network Web sites and the Uverse login credential usually work even if AT*T doesn't have the same programming on demand. Showtime on Demand, for example, has a hundred movies if you access it through a Roku with your AT*T credential, whereas AT*T might only have 20. 

Many cable stations (TNT, TBS, FX etc..) have apps to access programming as well. 

It's frustrating, but you can usually find a way to watch what you missed.