I am a long-time DirecTV customer and regularly (monthly) get glossy mailings from AT&T promoting U-Verse with various discounts and enticing promises of high-b

I am a long-time DirecTV customer and regularly (monthly) get glossy mailings from AT&T promoting U-Verse with various discounts and enticing promises of high-bandwidth internet and an advanced DVR. But when I specifically explored it, I found that it wasn't available "in my area." Apparently my neighborhood in one of the most affluent zipcodes in the nation (a few blocks from the Jobs's place) is not one where AT&T has run fiber. But still, month after month, the U-Verse brochures come through the mail slot... Tantalized beyond measure, I went to an a physical AT&T office/showroom to get f2f human verification of what att.com was telling me. Yup, true. Plus, while there, I took a few moments to flip some channels on a U-Verse monitor. Not impressed. I generously showed the salesman how on the supposedly hi-def ESPN channel, there was clear posterization of the colors of the presenter's tie and little fine detail in hair or beards -- as compared to the consistent 720p that comes down from DTV. I was convinced by this demo that AT&T had absolutely nothing to offer in the realm of TV either; after all, if they can't get a decent picture in their own showroom...