amungus
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| I still don't get it...
Really don't understand why telco's are still going with this approach to the TV market. IPTV can be cool and all, but it's still kind of a mystery to me why they even bother trying to pipe TV through telephone wires. Kind of like pumping gas with a hose the size of a straw.
Sure, it can be done, and I'm sure standard def stuff can look ok, but NTSC broadcast quality television it is not, let alone HD... |
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Maxo
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join:2002-11-04
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clubs: | Probably because they don't want to take the risks of FTTx. I hope they make it work, because we need more competition ASAP. |
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ninjatutle
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Because they can..
Mult viewing angles you get to choose during football games sounds good. Getting to program the shows you can record via the web is another nice option Comcast doesnt offer.
ATT and Verizon thinks they can deliver a better product then cable or satellite. Let them try. I don't get why the people here are such pessimist. Competition is good. |
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Maxo
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| said by ninjatutle  :I don't get why the people here are such pessimist. I think it's the idea is that those copper wires are only good for voice and broadband, but only broadband to a limit.
If you are a company people love to hate (AT&T, MS) no matter what you do people will call it stupid. If you are a company people love to love (Google) even when you mess up or do something evil you are praised.
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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Re: I still don't get it...
said by Maxo :Probably because they don't want to take the risks of FTTx. I hope they make it work, because we need more competition ASAP. Funny part is yes we need competition but, its not really competition when the service is horrible.
I said this before and was attacked by the at&t fans who love their iptv ( more like some one who probably worked for at&t ) and it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I had seen these issues in the labs but was told I was wrong.
I just wanna say in the words of the great Nelson Muntz "HAHA".
Their system is not mature enough to deliver on their promises at this point. They should have chosen a different carrier or a hybrid satellite and dsl that would have given them a superior system for VOD and would eliminate the need to carry the iptv content constantly.
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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26
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Re: Because they can..
Probably, the large part of it is the frikken Motorola boxes. Motorola has ALLWAYS been slow on their digital cable boxes and it seems this is no different. Then you throw buggy Microsoft crap swiss cheese, screen of death at the least little hiccup software into the mix and you have a prescription for disaster. |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
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Re: I still don't get it...
From what I saw of the outages it's a server authentication issue that hit them. Nothing to do with last mile bandwidth. |
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napilus
join:2006-03-26
Hillsboro, OR | reply to amungus
Because they are more concerned with short term profit, rather than long term feasibility, how do they expect to get symetrical 100mbps |
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