Yes, and then you have your phones, internet, email etc ALL on one cable! It gets cut and the whole system comes crashing to a halt and is WORTHLESS. You...
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Otto
scottc6666
Mar 23, 2010 7:47 pm
I agree. I may be old school(I am old), but I'll never give up my landline. My kids roll their eyes and say "oh dad" but at least I can always make, and get, a...
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jwpottberg
Mar 24, 2010 5:46 am
I am with you on all of that (including being old). Also I do have cable, but there are plenty of stations that they don't carry that I like to watch. I doubt...
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Swank, Richard (NBC U...
Richard.Swank@...
Mar 25, 2010 5:43 pm
Heck with the mindset in Washington today they probably will just make it mandatory that all citizens of America, probably illegals too, subscribe to cable or...
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ctmooregottapee
Mar 25, 2010 9:45 pm
i guess it depends on who you want to see subsidized.... local OTA stations and nets right now are subsidized with near free (less license fees and mandate...
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Bob Weissman
bweissman1
Mar 25, 2010 11:27 pm
Do us all a favor, folks, and PLEASE don't respond to Richard Swank's right-wing rants. Can you say "bait"? Or "troll"? I respect Richard's TV knowledge and...
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kb1we6r
Mar 26, 2010 6:09 pm
Hee Hee! Amen Richard!! Thanks Bob for inticing me to back him up! I would not have backed him up if it were not for you! There are just TOO MANY low-life...
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Jim Peters
jim-peters...
Mar 27, 2010 1:12 am
Amen Richard ... -- Jim Peters +1-415-608-0851 New email address: jim@... (the old ones should continue to work)...
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neutrino78x
Mar 27, 2010 2:12 am
... What we are talking about -- IPTV -- is also point to multipoint. The only difference is that it is a two-way connection, hence the advertisers would know...
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neutrino78x
Mar 27, 2010 2:18 am
... Indeed; I doubt many TV channels would be used for this, since you want higher frequency, usually in the gigahertz range, and TV is usually in the...
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Jon Johnsen
JonJohnsen
Mar 27, 2010 2:19 am
Perhaps someone can enlighten me? Almost all I seen on broadcast TV is crap, except for some sports, some news, and PBS. When we travel or visit friends, most...
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neutrino78x
Mar 27, 2010 2:39 am
... Agreed. I still support IPTV though. Like I said in another post, WiMAX and WiFi generally use the Ghz range, so I would be surprised if they wanted to try...
28841
neutrino78x
Mar 27, 2010 2:43 am
... Well, one wireless connection. Or you could use a cable connection, that would be the choice of the consumer. All that stuff can be in packet format, going...
28842
neutrino78x
Mar 27, 2010 2:56 am
btw here is one list of companies in the 408 area code (Silicon Valley) offering wireless internet access. http://www.thelist.com/areacode/408/wireless/ (note...
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Richard Swank
rswank631
Mar 29, 2010 3:18 am
Yea but it takes the spectrum from broadcast television to do that. It'll probably happen since the concept is being pushed by the FCC Chairman. From:...
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neutrino78x
Mar 29, 2010 6:22 pm
... I don't know, man, if you're some kind of cultural snob, I guess. But I like Lost, FlashForward, Grey's Anatomy, Chuck, Heroes...a lot of stuff on...
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Richard Swank
rswank631
Mar 29, 2010 10:10 pm
The difference is you will have to pay for all programming you watch and then you will have commercials anyway. There just isn't any quote cable channels that...
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kb1we6r
Mar 30, 2010 8:37 pm
Stumbled across this in the garage. They said one HDTV was going to take up FIVE regular channels. http://www.we6r.com/hdtv0001.pdf Keith...
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neutrino78x
Mar 31, 2010 3:29 am
Interesting, digital technology allowed the stream to be highly compressed, eh? MPEG-2 --Brian...
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neutrino78x
Mar 31, 2010 3:55 am
... Well, you would pay for the internet connection. They could give you free content, advertiser supported, or you could pay for an advertisement free stream....
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Don Hackler
donhackler
Mar 31, 2010 7:36 am
... NBC only has the content available on hulu.com, NBC.com, or iTunes because the production was funded by the advertisements in the over the air broadcast....
I am hoping that my issue was just lost among the much more interesting "Dark" thread, as a reason for no one to respond. So, in the interest of capturing the...
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Bob Weissman
bweissman1
Mar 31, 2010 5:59 pm
... Comcast seems to shuffle its channels around from time to time. If you have one of their cable boxes or DVRs, the remapping is handled automatically. If...
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toychinook
Mar 31, 2010 7:16 pm
... I realize this discussion has gone way off topic, but I must try to disabuse you of your concept of what "Free Enterprise" really consists of in this...
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Frank Nemec
fanemec
Mar 31, 2010 7:47 pm
I apreciate the last two thoughtful posts by Brian and Don. The networks are struggling. But the networks are paid by the advertisers, and the advertisers...
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neutrino78x
Apr 1, 2010 2:44 am
... Yeah, but if free TV went away, TV shows would be funded by subscriptions, just as movies are funded by ticket sales. If it all goes to IPTV, that doesn't...
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neutrino78x
Apr 1, 2010 2:51 am
... I didn't leave that out. I was talking about the perspective of someone who wants to make a new company. If you want to make a new railroad, you have to be...
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neutrino78x
Apr 1, 2010 2:57 am
... Exactly!!!! I agree. ... Yep. There's the POTS wires, the cable TV wires, some of this new fiber optic that's being laid, and of course wireless. ... ...
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Richard Swank
rswank631
Apr 1, 2010 3:08 am
Have any of you actually looked at the streamed video on a 63" HD display. These streamed formats are for content only and in no way compete quality wise to...
