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www.comcast.com/digitalnow Not Great But You Have No Choice

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 [...]

Onlive Won’t Work, They are April Fools

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 [...]

Why NOT open Video, And Why $100k won’t go very far

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 [...]

Internet Outage In India Takes out Technical Support in the US

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 [...]

Limits on Unlimited Cable Modem Service

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 [...]

The Who One Ups Google Saying the Internet is not even good for Music

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 [...]