Comcast has pretty good looking HD, but their Digital SD is uglier than Analog Cable was.  As Comcast moves people to the “DigitalNow” ( www.comcast.com/digitalnow ) you won’t be able to just plug a cable in to the back of your old tv and watch stations, you’ll need a Cablebox, cable tuner card, or digital [...]

Filed under : How To

Despite spending time to talk to the BBC and Engadet, Onlive’s Math doesn’t hold up, and that’s before we get to cost.
Steve Perlman is whining that people like me haven’t used the system and are already saying it won’t work, but Onlive is one of those technologies that if they have solved the theoretical problems [...]

Filed under : Industry News

So Mozilla wants an Open Video format for the web.  Yeah well, I want cheap health care for every person on the planet, a pony, and a Red Rider BB gun.  Did these people even talk to Acacia?
Let’s start with a clarification, VC1, H.264, and Mpeg2 are all Open. You can go out to SMPTE [...]

Filed under : Industry News

If you happen to be a fan of Level 70 Elite Tauren Cheiftan… you can enter the Rogues Do It From Behind Level 70 Elite Tauren Cheiftan contest sponsored by Comcast.
That is a really long name for a contest in which you make a music video featuring the song, and submit it for a chance [...]

Filed under : Gaming

Many of the companies that outsource Technical support, and Phone Telemarketing are going to be hindered over the weekend, and possibly for the next 2 weeks as the result of an Internet outage over much of India, Asia, and the Middle East.
According to reports, a ship anchoring off Egypt's Alexandria coast cut through the Indian-owned [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Comcast is imposing limits on its higher bandwidth users…  I am Seriously concerned I will get a notice.  You see I gave up "live" TV, and have been getting all of my TV via Amazon, Xbox Live Market Place, and other various online place.  No P2P, this has all been legit.  This has partly been [...]

Filed under : Technical

Google said something very right the other day. “The web infrastructure – and even Google’s – doesn’t scale, It’s not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect.”  In short.  TV is going to ruin the Internet.  They are right.  We don't have the fat pipes we need for everyone to get their TV [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents, Technical

It is partially my fault.  I did let the installer "Drive" rather than watching everything he did.  Which was dumb.  The first rule of securing your PC is don't let people you don't trust use it.  And people you do trust watch what they do.  This is security 101, but he was working on a machine [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents, Technical