Re: HD format war over bar the shouting?

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> > + a bunch of other reports coming out of the recent CES show. > > > > Looks like the HD format war is over bar the shouting. Blu-Ray is > > going to be the winner. > > And here I was thinking HD-DVD would take it out for quite some time > > there. > > > > Dave. > > Yep many articles are reporting the same thing. Guess it's time to > start pricing a blueray unit. Many also say DIsks are on the way out > any way, in favor of movies over cable. Not that I believe it, cause > my cable TV reception is carp. Using BrightHouse cable tv, the pixels > freeze up all the time watching TV or down loading a movie ~ I hear > it's common place with this cable system. > >
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Sure, they want you to get so fed up with their service that you'll switch to digital service, at a lot higher price.

It's still the same old Time-Warner business model of crappy quality on the lower service tiers. I first ran into it in 1982, when they built their 72 channel dual trunk system in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was amazing that 'Trunk A' would suck, yet 'Trunk B' was MUCH better. They were built at the same time, with exactly the same equipment. I worked for United Video Cablevision at the time, but several of our techs lived in their service area.

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The bean counters have completely taken over. My cable and internet went out one night, around 3:00 AM. They informed me that there was no problem, since I was the only person to report it, so they weren't going to dispatch a tech, even though it was cycling on and off, every three seconds. I was 'informed' that both my TV and cable modem were bad, or someone else would have called in to report problems. Later, in the afternoon a service tech called me to let me know that a fiber to coaxial hub had a failed power supply, and that was causing it to attempt to reset every three seconds.

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Sounds like something fishy is going on.

John

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Buzz off, dimbulb, and stay out off your mommies pantyhose drawer.

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You're a pussy.

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Only in your dreams, asshole.

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