1 posted on
04/21/2008 8:09:48 PM PDT by
george76
To: Las Vegas Dave; SunkenCiv
2 posted on
04/21/2008 8:10:35 PM PDT by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
I’ve noticed that DVD manufacturing quality is often a little iffy. Haven’t tried BluRay yet. What mystifies me is how anyone in the video industry can express surprise and indignation over piracy.
3 posted on
04/21/2008 8:14:21 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
To: george76
Well, at least the cable companies are getting top dollar for ripping people off, and sticking it to the old folks, too...
4 posted on
04/21/2008 8:14:30 PM PDT by
an amused spectator
(Spitzer would have used the Mann Act against an enemy in a New York minute.)
To: george76
As cable TV companies pack ever more HD channels into limited bandwidth
Time to get more bandwidth, then. Fiber, anyone?
5 posted on
04/21/2008 8:16:20 PM PDT by
Terpfen
(Romney's loss in Florida is STILL a catastrophe. Hello, McCandidate!)
To: george76
I had HD cable on in my house for 5 minutes before I called the cable company to come get their crap and credit my account.
To: george76
Philadelphia-based Comcast wouldn't identify specific signals that are 3-to-1 compressed... Bring me the spectrum analyzer.
9 posted on
04/21/2008 8:32:26 PM PDT by
HAL9000
("No one made you run for president, girl"- Bill Clinton)
To: george76
Cable gets away with it because the satellite companies do it too, and on some HD channels, do it to an even greater level. There are a number of HD channels on satellite that look no better than a full-quality standard definition digital cable channel.
10 posted on
04/21/2008 8:33:17 PM PDT by
July 4th
To: george76
HD enthusiasts crying foul over cable TV's crunched signals
A Difference of Day and Night, if you take a Sony XBR4 LCD connected to a Blueray Player,......
compared to HD TV.
You guess who is the looser.
18 posted on
04/21/2008 8:48:52 PM PDT by
modican
To: george76
Philadelphia-based Comcast wouldn't identify specific signals that are 3-to-1 compressed...not surprising - Comcast is worse than useless - they recently reassigned the analogue signals in our area to new channels and in the process dropped four channels from the lineup - their fees have doubled in four years and they keep reducing the number of channels provided - time to go fulltime satellite......
To: george76
I’m thinking of switching to DirecTV from Brighthouse cable (used to be TWC in Central Florida).
They are very slow in bringing in HD content and the DVR they give us is 3yo technology with a 160gb hard drive, which records about 20hrs of HD programming. The box even has an expansion port on the back for an external drive but it is not activated. A call or email to Brighthouse gets a reply that they have no intention in the near future to support that external port or ship the DVRs with larger hard drives.
They’ve just gotten too cocky. For what I pay per month for their crappy cable and 10Mb broadband I should have access to, or be able to supply my own, bleeding edge stuff.
34 posted on
04/21/2008 11:27:53 PM PDT by
VeniVidiVici
(Democrats - Stupid is as stupid does)
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