amungus
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join:2004-11-26
America
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| lowly schmoe
It's always a great way to convince uninformed people by using an actor who's appearance is that of a less-informed person. This is a new low though.
"Hey, if dumbo here has something I don't, I want it too, and he must be right; he's on mah screen!"
Borderline false advertising here - yes, the cable companies have been upgrading many lines to fiber over the years, but none that I've heard of will actually deliver an actual strand of fiber to your residence. It all gets converted to coax somewhere along the way... |
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Rightous
@verizon.com
| actually Verizon does have Fiber all the way to the house but stops outside as maybe 1-2% of homes are wired with fiber optic lines. look at where they said free HD programming and claimed that Verizon requires a HD box for viewing and you pay extra for that...Well Guess what it also says in fine print HD programming not available in all areas and requires you to lease a HD or HD DVR unit for viewing. How is that not false advertisement? |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs:
 ·Comcast
| reply to amungus
I seen itz on mah internetz. it muzt be truz !
I hated that guy in his tv show and I hate the web site already , there is some funny stuff in the kool aid over there in the TW Ivory Tower.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!" |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
| said by BosstonesOwn  :I hated that guy in his tv show I thought he looked familiar:
»www.imdb.com/name/nm0005282/ |
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VideoGuy
@verizon.net
| reply to amungus
"It all gets converted to coax somewhere along the way..."
That's true of FiOS TV too, right? Light to coax to TV. Both use QAM based digital and analog. Same channels, same Motorola set top box, similar price. One goes from light to coax down the street and the other outside your house. Meh. What's the diff?
Now, internet on the other hand, that's a different story... |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | 10x less analog channels, and no DOCSIS or VOD streams to eat up bandwidth. Tell cable to do that. |
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rahvin112
join:2002-05-24
Sandy, UT
| reply to VideoGuy
The difference is the fiber is at the house, terminated into a box attached to the side. That fiber has nearly infinate bandwidth in comparison to that chunk of copper that you share with 1500 people. You know there is a difference, you're just being a fanboi. For the record I'm in Comcast and Qwest territory and use DirecTV for my TV and Qwest for my internet.
Anyone with a brain knows there is a major difference in long term use of having a fiber right to your house and having a piece of copper running to your home. Verzion has nearly limitless options in future upgradeability with minimal cost. They could in theory deliver 10 independent full cable systems with 200+ channels each on that fiber along with gigabit ethernet without breaking a sweat, if equipment to utilize it and the actual content existed. That future proofing allows Verizon to react quicker to newer technology and delivery methods and because of nearly limitless bandwidth they likely won't get in the habit of over compressing signals like some cable operators or the previous actions of some satellite providers. |
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ashworth
join:2001-10-06
Pittsburgh, PA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to amungus
Key word you used "uninformed"...I think that says it all.. To compare a fiber optic line to the side of your home(CAT5e or better to computer), compared to fiber used for back haul(cable)...hmmm...and their bonded cable DOCSIS 3.x, 4x...whatever will never be able to compete with FTTP. Isn't PR & marketing great !! |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·PHONE POWER
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
| It won't be able to "compete"? Are you really sure about that?
It's certianly not as future proof as full FTTH, but with a variety of new things coming out for cable (1ghz, DOCSIS 3, MPEG 4, deprecation of analog), cable will be able to hold its own for a really long time. Its pretty amazing to see how far the cablecos have been able to push the old DOCSIS 1.1 standard when provoked by Verizon. There is really a tremendous amount of bandwidth potential on coax. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| reply to amungus
AT&T sales 'kids' have been selling Uverse as 'fiber optics' as well. Sure there's fiber optics in their system...it isn't to your house though, unless you happen to be a rare new build area.
I could just as well state that ADSL has fiber optics...but its 10,000' away at the CO, and not ~2,000' at the VRAD.
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
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join:2001-05-25
Limbo
·Skype
| reply to amungus
said by amungus :It's always a great way to convince uninformed people by using an actor who's appearance is that of a less-informed person. This is a new low though. "Hey, if dumbo here has something I don't, I want it too, and he must be right; he's on mah screen!" I guess you could call that the "Geico Effect". . .Even a Caveman can do it!
or modified for this situation:
"Even this dumbass has it".
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kba4
join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to TKJunkMail
the only reason they picked him is because 'Larry' is so busy with his movies and career 
maybe TW should've picked jim carrey's version instead, considering the way they're acting.
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