| iTunes and Unbox I wonder how this will be viewed by VOD/PPV competitors such as iTunes with the announcement that they're renting (SD/HD) movies on AppleTV and Amazon's Unbox and TiVo. |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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Jamestown, NC
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1 edit | said by Pictor Guy:I wonder how this will be viewed by VOD/PPV competitors such as iTunes with the announcement that they're renting (SD/HD) movies on AppleTV and Amazon's Unbox and TiVo. I'm sure one of the main underlying goals of this is to kill these services. These services are in direct competition with the MSO's On-Demand systems which generate a TON of revenue.
This is their way to triple dip so to speak. They save money by not upgrading infrastructure, they can hit users with overage charges which generates additional revenue, and they protect their on-demand video distribution revenue.
The jackass spokesman even said in one of the articles, "It's like a cell phone plan" as if that's going to make everything rosy. What does everyone think of when they think of their cell phone? Outrageous overage charges, being nickel and dimed to death and poor service. |
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join:2001-05-20
Fresh Meadows, NY
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Whoever is in charge of the TWC network is a moron. As most of you know, its not that hard to break 5GB a month. I mean with the amount of people with xbox360's and PS3's and multiple computer in the house, its not that hard.
In the last few months, well years, the RR network has been getting worse, especially at night. Look at all the complaints especially about NYC. I myself deal with that because I have a dedicated modem just for VoIP. Its sad that when I use it from 7pm until midnight, the downloads are no higher then 240KB/sec and the ping times range from 30-200ms. This has been going on for months. For me, I have noticed it now for years, its just getting worse.
I wouldnt doubt this will become a national standard for all RR devisions, especially in NYC since of course they dont increase network bandwidth, and just let customers suffer during prime time. |
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Orange, CA
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Re: iTunes and Unbox said by Pictor Guy:I wonder how this will be viewed by VOD/PPV competitors such as iTunes with the announcement that they're renting (SD/HD) movies on AppleTV and Amazon's Unbox and TiVo. You got a good point. And now NetFlix has announced unlimited downloads on their $17 a month package, which are a LOT of movies!
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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Re: Whoever is in charge of the TWC network is a moron. a single xbox live HD download already puts a user over the cap. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by tiger72:a single xbox live HD download already puts a user over the cap. I'm sure that's by design.
"Hey, you can pay $9.99 to upgrade to the 10GB tier, or did you know about our On-Demand movie rentals?" ... |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to tiger72
said by tiger72:a single xbox live HD download already puts a user over the cap. True but how many 768 kbps users are going to do that? A single HD movie from XBOX live would take 18 hours to download. 768 kbps is for people like my mother who is 61 and doesn't download anything. |
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| said by BF69:said by tiger72:a single xbox live HD download already puts a user over the cap. True but how many 768 kbps users are going to do that? A single HD movie from XBOX live would take 18 hours to download. 768 kbps is for people like my mother who is 61 and doesn't download anything. Then 8 HD movie rentals a month (a very realistic 2 per week) will put a user over... Or 6 rentals + typical internet usage.
Looks like a ploy to kill viop, streaming video, HD downloads, and Steam.
Quite sad too, because M$ now provides a 4GB download of Vista, and Steam offers gigs of games to download - both legitimately.
If TW goes through this this, they'll effectively revert the cost of internet access to that of 1991.
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BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | said by tiger72:said by BF69:said by tiger72:a single xbox live HD download already puts a user over the cap. True but how many 768 kbps users are going to do that? A single HD movie from XBOX live would take 18 hours to download. 768 kbps is for people like my mother who is 61 and doesn't download anything. Then 8 HD movie rentals a month (a very realistic 2 per week) will put a user over... Or 6 rentals + typical internet usage. Looks like a ploy to kill viop, streaming video, HD downloads, and Steam. Quite sad too, because M$ now provides a 4GB download of Vista, and Steam offers gigs of games to download - both legitimately. If TW goes through this this, they'll effectively revert the cost of internet access to that of 1991. So what you are saying is that someone with a 768 kbs connection is actually going to wait 18 hours for their movie to download? They aren't going to use their connection for 18 hours straight? 8 HD rentals would take 144 hours or 6 days to download. I don't see how anyone under 5 Mbps would even consider using their connection to download HD content. |
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Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | i meant on the "best" 40GB plan... |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to BF69
said by BF69:So what you are saying is that someone with a 768 kbs connection is actually going to wait 18 hours for their movie to download? They aren't going to use their connection for 18 hours straight? 8 HD rentals would take 144 hours or 6 days to download. I don't see how anyone under 5 Mbps would even consider using their connection to download HD content. Actually, yes. I have a friend on Time Warner's local 768 plan and he just starts the movie download through the XBL Marketplace and goes to bed.
I admit, he's likely a unique case, but he does do it. |
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