NY Attorney General Investigating Comcast > Controlling P2P wasn't their aim

Controlling P2P wasn't their aim

Exactly.

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SBC Ed retired and took that silly idea with him. Comcast Brian, however, is still at the helm and hell-bent on keeping competition off his systems.
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reply to PowerBoosted
Double dipping wouldn't be the first idea ripped from the telco's "f the consumer" playbook.

Meanwhile I get to watch NCTA's Net neutrality is a scheme of the Silicon Valley Fat Cats commercials because cable is looking to protect me from the evil doers at Google and Amazon.

Those are by the NCTA, which pretty much shows how much the cable TV industry is scared shitless by the possibility we'll be easily bypassing their overpriced video on demand very soon.
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Edited after seeing the "paid for by" tag at the bottom. I've seen them on Cox, but I haven't yet seen them run on TWC.

But it's so ludicrous you would think it was one of those SNL parodies.

reply to Dogfather
At least that is better than that stupid (and horrid sounding) "God Save the Internet" song.

*puke*
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reply to Dogfather
Indeed. Of course they've pretty much been a parody of themselves for awhile.

I hooked up my laptop to our 42" Toshiba LCD HDTV last night and tested Netflix's movies-on-demand offering. It was every bit as good as standard digital cable quality-wise and started playing in less than 30 seconds on my 6 meg DSL connection. Not one single buffering incident for 100 minutes of the movie. And it is a "free" adjunct to our $15/mo 3 at a time account. Amazon's Unbox works great with our TiVo, too. Cable is becoming more and more irrelevant.
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I've been doing XBOX 360 downloads for quite a while and the movie is ready to play within 10-15 seconds and no buffering, even at 720P HD.

I have ATV 2.0 but haven't rented anything yet. I'd try Amazon unbox via TiVo but they don't offer HD and after seeing TiVo go in the direction they're going refuse to buy updated hardware from them.

All in all I'm fairly content with cable but couldn't be happier that Comcast traded the local cable system to Time Warner to immediately dropped prices, doubled speeds and increased content. But if it weren't for HowardTV I'd drop them for DirecTV in about 2 seconds, even with their high out of pocket equipment costs.

Comcast sucked serious ass in every way a cable company can suck ass.

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No, we watch HD. Was using the Netflix test as an example of what is coming, and what will soon kick cable companies asses. Apple TV already can access HD content and the rest are coming online. Best part? No crappy Comcast VoD selection limits or choppy, overcompressed picture. Consider yourself lucky that you are on an almost new system. In Chicagoland and a lot of other markets your experience is not experienced.
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reply to Dogfather
That's exactly right. This whole push towards capping/blocking/pay per byte etc are all means to the same end: Block competition from providing video services to consumers that could undermine Comcast's profits.

If they can filter/tamper/block (er, I mean "Manage the network") they can prevent their captive users from being able to use or afford a competitor's service--- and all the while tout the reliability of their own video services.
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I don't have to. We have competition here, and it kicks Comcast's ass.
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reply to Dogfather
Yes, I believe this is just a front for things to come. Capping traffic is not the answer though. That would limit anyone that would like IPTV. I think we should look at the number of connections to a single ip though. Or just cap Bit Torent specifically. In reality, there are those that do not bother with limiting the number of seeds they are hosting.
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Capping UPLOAD wouldn't limit people wanting to use IPTV. It kills the seeders who are saturating the upstream channels just 'cause they can.