Showing posts with label TIME WARNER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TIME WARNER. Show all posts

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Does cable, satellite, or fiber provide more HD?


Particularly of late, cable television providers have been bullying each other on the air and proudly proclaiming superiority in the high-definition department. One would immediately assume that there's some black and white somewhere in this equation, but honestly, things are pretty gray. Hard though it may be to believe, there actually isn't a clear cut answer to this week's Ask Engadget HD question, which comes to us from the bewildered mind of Brian:"I want an unbiased opinion, and more importantly, the facts. DISH Network is looking more and more like the leading HD provider with its weekly HD additions this past fall. However, now my local cable provider, Comcast, is running ads stating that it has More, More, More HD. My question is simple: who has more HD channels including and not including HD VOD?"The inability to find a clear cut answer hasn't stopped us from forging ahead in the past, and it won't be slowing us down today, either. Ready to plunge deep into the increasingly murky waters of HD offerings?

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Time Warner To Set Bandwidth Caps In Texas


In another episode of “how we can screw everybody”, Time Warner has confirmed that they will roll out a new pricing plan in Texas that’s based on how much bandwidth you use. So instead of the all you can use one price that everyone enjoys, they’re now going to have “hard caps” on bandwidth. Pay $50 a month for 500GB, and if you consume more they’ll slap you with extra fees, most likely hefty ones. I’m sure that this aimed at BitTorrent users who do heavy downloading, and they say that this will improve network performance.

But I have to call BS on this!

While most people wouldn’t care that BitTorrent users will be hurt at the beginning of this, everyone will eventually suffer. People are using more bandwidth than ever, and that will only increase as time goes on. Don’t think so? Well just with Apple and Netflix announcement, people will start to consume more bandwidth. And with home networking becoming more popular and possibly with the elimination of physical media (Blu-Ray DVD), this country will use more and more bandwidth than ever. ISPs and telcos are lobbing hard against network neutrality so they can hit users with higher costs for more bandwidth usage. So not only will they charge you with their standard monthly fee, they’ll get you again if you go over your allotted cap.

Time Warner will only intro this only to new customers, but if people don’t get pissed about this and complain, you can be sure that the rest of the countries ISP providers will roll this out.

Start bitchin people!!!

[AP/Wired via Gizmodo]