Master_AMD
join:2003-12-16
Dowagiac, MI
clubs: | Too Much To Worry About Right NOW!
I'm first!! |
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barqsdrinker
What Can I Photograph Today?
Premium
join:2001-02-26
Apo, AE
clubs: | If it don't work...
don't use it. If it is too costly, find a cheaper solution. Seems simple to me.
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | FIOS
Stuck using D-Link and Microsoft. Wow. |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | Yes, what could possibly go wrong. |
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Kfedka
Premium
join:2005-05-06
Spokane, WA | reply to Master_AMD
competition
The more compitition the better, before you know it comcast and other cable tv providers will end up lowering prices if everyone starts to more to iptv. Give it a few years to mature though. |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
 ·Qwest.net
| Bill Gates
Was upset the FCC did not mandate the Microsoft standard for HDTV. So Bill and his minions have moved into cable, and now VDSL. Comparing Microsoft based digital cable with Direct TV, and Dish Network is like comparing a turd and a black truffle. They both look about the same but while the Truffle is worth it's weight in gold, the turd just stinks. Thankfully people are starting to see this.
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Low voltage Tech's are wimps, Real tech's use 45 pound filament transformers, plate voltages no less then 2400 volts with at least 10 amp's lighting 8877 triodes...BPL I'm coming to get you. |
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CPM
join:2001-08-24
Miami, FL | Super Bowl Microsoft Style.
He is at the 50 the 40 the 30 he is going all the way he is at the 10..... Blue Screen of death.. thanks microsoft. |
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ArchAngel21x
MacFan Pro
Premium
join:2001-10-28
Lincoln, NE
·Internet Nebraska
| Or better yet, you are watching the naughty channel late at night when you hear the wife walking down the stairs. You try to switch channels, and the picture freezes. BUSTED! 
Thanks Microsoft. 
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HardwareGeek
join:2003-11-15
Brooklyn, NY | reply to CPM
I haven't seen a bsod since 98. However I see gsod on my mac all the time. Gray Screen of Death
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
Premium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
 ·Cox HSI
·Speakeasy
| reply to Master_AMD
Re: Too Much To Worry About Right NOW!
said by Master_AMD  :I'm first!! You're first what?
First recipient of garbage IPTV software?
First to post a completely pointless in this discussion?
Tell us. We're just DYING to hear what you could be so excited about.
-tom
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·Qwest.net
| reply to ArchAngel21x
Re: Super Bowl Microsoft Style.
said by ArchAngel21x :Or better yet, you are watching the naughty channel late at night when you hear the wife walking down the stairs. You try to switch channels, and the picture freezes. BUSTED! Thanks Microsoft. LMFAO!:D:D:)
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Low voltage Tech's are wimps, Real tech's use 45 pound filament transformers, plate voltages no less then 2400 volts with at least 10 amp's lighting 8877 triodes...BPL I'm coming to get you. |
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX | reply to Master_AMD
Re: Too Much To Worry About Right NOW!
I'M (lets see... 1,2,3...) Fourth!! |
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ross
join:2000-08-16
·Digizip
| Every bit will be DRM'ed as well...
Can't wait for universal DRM'ed pay to view (no content saving, no copying, no sharing) bit by each and every copy-protected bit/byte in each and every TV-equiped room. Maybe they will be licensing the individual seating as well...or by the seated individual...Great googly-moogly, would that mean some folks might have to pay double on account of their fat-assed, four-eye'd couch-potato condition? Will there be ATM slots on the television sets? Will I have to accept EULA as my personal "Guide and ad-visor"? Will the TVs have a "reset" button for the inevitable BSOD? Will my on-screen guide get hijacked by CWS? Will there be "Pop-up" commercials when I least expect them? Will there ever come a time when I won't have to constantly patch or upgrade my TV-OS? If I can't afford to upgrade the TV-OS, will I be stuck in syndicated re-run land? Who do I call for service and support; SBC, or M$? |
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| FIOS != IPTV (at least not yet)
Verizon: Fios fiber to the home in select neighborhoods. Between 5 and 30MBps will be data bandwidth, the rest going toward video services. Microsoft has been signed as the software provider for their set-top boxes, and the IPTV service should start springing up in Fios wired markets mid-year.Huh? Verizon IS NOT doing IPTV, at least initially. From this article:
quote:
With five towns – Beaumont, CA and four in the Greater Dallas area – now having granted the company cable franchises and fiber construction underway in 12 states, the company says it is well positioned to begin delivering TV services later this year. As described in its Beaumont franchise application, Verizon’s plan calls for use of terrestrial OC-48 Sonet rings on long-haul and regional networks to carry all but local programming from a national super headend out to metro video hub offices, where local broadcast and PEG programming along with ad insertion and IPG are to be added to the video stream. The local fare along with some of the nationally distributed content will be delivered in analog as well as digital format, with all content modulated to RF at 50 to 870 MHz onto 256 QAM carriers and sent out at the 1550 nanometer wavelength to video serving offices at interfaces with local franchises.
Basically it's just like digital cable, just some of the back-end hardware is different. The fiber just gets modulated onto the coax at the ONT, not up some telephone pole at the front of your addition.
Video is sent down the fiber at a different lambda then what voice or data traffic is sent, so there isn't any bandwidth sharing going on. Well, technically it is sharing bandwidth of the actual fiber cable itself, but it's not sharing the same bandwidth within the same lambda. Increasing the resolution or picture quality of the video isn't going to slow down your data or voice speeds.
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"What gives them the right to come in and do this?" she said. - Lady complaining that she was getting FIOS in her backyard. |
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cbs228
Geeks Of The World, Unite
join:2000-09-04
Saint Louis, MO
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Re: Super Bowl Microsoft Style.
said by HardwareGeek :I see gsod on my mac all the time. Gray Screen of Death That shouldn't be happening. You probably have bad RAM or another hardware failure of some sort. Run the RAM diagnostics included on your Apple Hardware Test CD, and try swapping out your RAM chips until you find the problem.
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"If you stare too long into the abyss the abyss stares back at you." -Nietzsche
GENERAL FAILURE READING ©: DRIVE
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)rivolous Lawsuits, (B)ribe Congress? |
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bmn
? ? ?
Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
hiatus
1 edit | Good for Bellsouth...
The report also claims BellSouth/Micrsosoft IPTV trials have disappointed the bell, so they may decide to look at other solutions.
Its good to see Bellsouth realizing that just following the Microsoft name doesn't alway pan out... There are plethora of other IPTV vendors who are probably much more focused on their IPTV products than Microsoft is now.
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Since the dawn of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun. -CM Burns |
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rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY | Microsoft
Look at the bright side of it. If it's a Microsoft box eventually someone will hack it and figure out a way to pop open up the box meaning free premium cable channels for everyone. |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | reply to cdru
Re: FIOS != IPTV (at least not yet)
Yes, correct, thanks. Changed "IPTV" to "TV". Still using Microsoft software, however.
»www.microsoft.com/tv/content/Pre···_05.mspx |
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Newegg
Supreme Ideology
join:2004-11-14
Atlanta, GA | MS and DRM
Software from MS means DRM comes bundled at no extra charge. |
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | in general the TV producers want DRM. |
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