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

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Re: Controlling P2P wasn't their aim

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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Toolmaster of La Grange.

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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This isn't fair! I was only supposed to hate just ONE presidential candidate!

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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Toolmaster of La Grange.

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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Toolmaster of La Grange.

I don't have to. We have competition here, and it kicks Comcast's ass.
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Toolmaster of La Grange.