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 a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY
 ·Cingular Wireless
3 edits | reply to BF69
Re: FAP -Reply to Bf69
Yes, and then, the NEXT top 1% get booted... repeat as needed until you have only people on social security using the service and getting shutdown because they can't afford the bills. Convenient, innit, for cablecos? People like you are going to be next in line, you don't seem to understand, do you?
BTW, ever streamed high-quality video by any chance? Downloaded Fedora Core 8? I bet not, but those are only a few of future uses on teh interwebs... new times, new needs. Cablecos are about to learn the hard way that treating customers like $hit just doesn't cut it. When you piss off a few geeks, the effect goes much farther than that. They in turn will badmouth the company when asked for their opinions, and trust me, many people DO turn to the geeks when it comes to THEIR internet choices.
BTW, you know perfectly well that it's not BitTorrent they hate, it's IPTV-style streaming of competing video products. It's clearly a direct threat to their business. Why should Comcast spend money to enhance the delivery pipe of a competing service? Instead, they choose to start putting caps and throttling on their service, conveniently enough blaming it on "illegal" file sharing aka BitTorrent. Amazing, and the most ironic part is that people like BF69 actually support them and stick up for 'em.
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2
·Clear Wireless
| said by a333:Yes, and then, the NEXT top 1% get booted... repeat as needed until you have only people on social security using the service and getting shutdown because they can't afford the bills. Convenient, innit, for cablecos? People like you are going to be next in line, you don't seem to understand, do you? It doesn't quite work that way. People die every day and yet the world population continues to increase. Comcast adds more new subs every year than they cut off due to abuse. Right now it works out that the top 0.1% of folks that Comcast is contacting are using more than 100 times more than the average user. When that stops being the case I'm sure they'll adjust the strategy.
said by a333:BTW, you know perfectly well that it's not BitTorrent they hate, it's IPTV-style streaming of competing video products. It's clearly a direct threat to their business. IPTV isn't a significant threat to the broadcast/cable/satellite TV business. The limitations of the technology will prevent any Internet-based IPTV solution from scaling large enough to make a significant dent in TV content delivery. | |
a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY Reviews:
·Cingular Wireless
| IPTV is just one of cable/satellite's problems. Do you HONESTLY think that IP-based content delivery will always remain at bay? You might as well have said iTunes would never work back in 2003 when it first was introduced.
As to the 1% idea, I don't think you understand my point. Once Comcast shaves off the "top 1%" aka "abusers", they'll repeat the cycle with the next "top 1%". This has nothing to do with the ratio of subs they add, as it doesn't change the fact that, a few years into the future, you no longer will have to be a BBR user to download gigagobs of data. Why do you think Comcast touts speed as its advantage? Why do you think most cablecos and Verizon FiOS offer 30 Mbit speeds, with FiOS even offering SYMMETRIC 20 Mbit speeds TODAY? (besides a 50/20 Mbit package)
They ALL know that IP-based content is the future. You can't go against the tide, but rather have to adjust to your customers' changing needs. The days of the occasional file download are gone. Streaming media's the rage now, so poke your head out the portfolio and smell the coffee beans, buddy. | | |
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espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Clear Wireless
| said by a333:IPTV is just one of cable/satellite's problems. Do you HONESTLY think that IP-based content delivery will always remain at bay? For the foreseeable future, absolutely. Assuming a modest 1mbps stream for IPTV, that means that to broadcast a show like American Idol would require 37,000,000mbps (37 TERAbit!) of bandwidth at the headend. That's only for a single show!
Unicast IP streams will never scale to replace standard broadcast/satellite/cable TV. | |
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