Tutor

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5 Messages

Saturday, July 20th, 2013 3:04 PM

Program Reminder

I use to be on Time Warner Cable and one thing I liked was that they had Program Reminder where you can be reminded of a program you want to watch. I used it all the time. Now I find myself forgetting a program I want to watch. Will Uverse be coming up with something like that?

 

Expert

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4.3K Messages

9 years ago

@thagger409   We did not forget what the question was, a program reminder that's on cable systems.  Uverse is IPTV, cable is constant RF.  Cable has 2 channel selectors, Uverse has none, the reminder works on the other channel selector you are not watching.

 

Uverse works on unicasting/multicasting, unicasting (for abt 5 sec) to select the channel, then it joins the multicast of that channel local system wide.  Then if you go to another channel, it instantly unicasts it, then joins the multicast, giving instant channel changes.  The multicast is somewhat similar to the constant RF on Cable.

 

Check the little boxes on right side of this wikipedia page, cable is broadcast and it shows unicasting and multicasting:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicast

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Contributor

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2 Messages

8 years ago

I know right??
How about a reminder that I recorded a show?? Lol. No reminders = very annoyed with ATT new service.

Contributor

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3 Messages

8 years ago

A reminder and automatically switching to the show is better

Contributor

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3 Messages

8 years ago

I agree a reminder it's not as good as automatically switching to the show

Contributor

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1 Message

8 years ago

I feel like the experts are missing the point and trying to hype up the recording option more than actually attempting to even consider what the reminder brings to the table. For live shows like America's Got Talent where you have a vote during the specific time period. Recording is not ideal for this.

Tutor

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8 Messages

7 years ago

I NEED THE REMINDER BUTTON!!!!

 

ACE - Expert

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28.3K Messages

7 years ago

Uverse has never had a 'reminder' option but hope springs eternal.

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