directv:
satellite, it used to cut out when a cloud passed a lot a few years ago, its gotten better tho.
the boxes they give you suck, they fuck up and they only have coax outputs. my 37" tv looks like colecovision and the shits all fuzzy.
the menus suck, the dvrs dont record shit you tell them to. and they dont have G4 and are about to drop my local FOX channel.
the dvr is big and heavy and ugly
u-verse:
fiber optic. never cuts out
all the boxes were the same size and shape and you could watch from and record to the DVR from any box. the menus were nice, you could record like 4 things at once.
hdmi outputs on all boxes.
my internet went like 100kbps faster on the same connection than it did with dsl.
there was unlimited on-demand movies and tv shows from all the premium channels (you obviously had to pay to have those) and from channels like cartoon network, g4, nick, and a bunch of others.
it just sucks going from U-verse back to directv.