Posted on 06/15/2011 1:05:37 PM PDT by abb
Actually cable ISPs are perfectly happy with the customers dumping the TV part of cable, so long as they keep on the ISP part. The TV part of cable is quickly becoming the loss leader, with channels constantly increasing the price they’re charging the cable company which then either forces the cable company to increase what they charge which alienates customers or let the increase eat into their profit. The internet portion of their business is free of that, they just need to keep the throughput up, which is easier the more people that aren’t watching TV.
The problem with net neutrality is it puts the government in charge. ISPs are easier to replace than the government.
I suggest that Netflix already is “another traditional cable company” that allows on-demand viewing and simply uses broadband fiber as the carrier instead of 75 ohm coax.
On a conservative website? REALLY??
A ‘net neutral’ world? You mean a world where the government is brought in to regulate the internet? Of course, this is the benevolent version of the government who never oversteps its power and ALWAYS is out to HELP the consumer, right? Yeah, let’s totally let the government who told us that the income tax would never be more than 10% regulate the internet. Let’s let the government who promised us that Medicare would NEVER cost more than $9B regulate the internet. Let’s let the government who told us that they’d only withhold taxes from our paychecks until WW2 was over regulate the internet! That’s the ticket! YEAH!
Netflix is charging you for a service that is increasingly monopolizing the ISPs networks. Either the ISPs can work a deal with Netflix, which will cause Netflix users to pay more for Netflix, OR the government can step in with ‘neutrality’ and the ISPs shift the cost to the end users, so EVERYONE WITH AN INTERNET CONNECTION WILL PAY FOR YOUR DAMN NETFLIX!!!!!!!
You can shift it around any way you like, but that cost is going to have to be paid by someone. It would be a much wiser decision to let the private companies work it out rather than having Daddy Government come in and start ‘regulating’.
I don’t use Netflix. I don’t plan on using Netflix and I don’t feel I should have to pay for your Netflix.
If Papa John’s was pawning the cost of delivering a pizza onto the phone company, you can damn well bank on it that the phone company would want to charge them more for the effort. Then every idiot and his retarded cousin would be on forums demanding ‘Phone Neutrality’ because some leftist Soros funded group told them it was ‘necessary’.
The fiber lends itself well to delayed viewing, but the coax is designed for real time.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/14/us-google-idUSTRE75D5C920110614
Google hones search for mobile and speed
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-14/comcast-to-start-testing-remote-storage-video-recording-service.html
Comcast to Start Testing Remote-Storage Video Recording Service
http://www.videonuze.com/blogs/?2011-06-14/New-Research-Shows-Netflix-Is-A-Catalyst-for-Cord-Cutting-and-Cord-Shaving/&id=3101
New Research Shows Netflix Is A Catalyst for Cord-Cutting and Cord-Shaving
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20071138-266/cable-fights-to-stay-relevant-in-online-world/
Cable fights to stay relevant in online world
And oh woe, what if some phone company wants to partner with Netflix and arrange for an optional, extra cost feed that’s local so its infrastructure burden is minimal? Wouldn’t the neutralites’ heads explode?
Netflix has seriously screwed the pooch on their “New and Improved” UI. Announced on their blog; there are 5,000 comments (ALL NEGATIVE), and no more can be accepted.
Epic fail.
I’m about ready to call and cancel.
Dropped Dish Network last year for Netflix over the Wii console. Just this month, dropped my ATT landline for DSL only. Just configured it last night. Switched to Vonage VOIP for landline. Please note that when you drop your landline, if you have DSL as well on the account from ATT it drops too and is less likely to be expedited for reconnect. We had 13 days without DSL.
We use internet for news, it even comes across on the Wii, all except local and we get that from the internet.
So far, no regrets. I hope to get Vonage connected tonight.
I have seen a tip for saving money that says drop cable and use Netficks, so yeah, cable and dish buh bye, you can’t rip off people anymore.
I’m told that new models of cell phones have similar teething problems, even the technicians don’t have them down flat yet, and still the public is clamoring for them.
C’est la vie de technologie.
I think everyone should pay for all the bandwidth they use, at the same price per unit of bandwidth regardless of what's being served up at the other end.
If a customer gets to watch all the HBO he wants for a flat rate per month, then the same deal should apply to Netflix.
Here’s one family who cut the cord and went to Netflix. We’re saving a buttload of money going down the drain for 100s of channels of crap.
That’s a fair point and worth noting.
A netflix HD movie uses about 3 gB. If cable companies want they can decrease the BW limits. AT&T DSL started in May with a 150 gB limit. Not too much of a problem. I believe some ISPs limit at 60 gB which could be a problem.
In an ideal world, there would be ISP choices everywhere, but...
Don’t confuse burst rates of transfer with sustained rates of transfer or with gross quantity of downloaded data demanded by the customer. Optimizing each one calls for different strategies.
So how come so many of them are capping/throttling their ISP services rather than the TV services?
How come no cable company has said "from now on your monthly payment only entitles you to 120 hours of TV a month"?
I love Netflix and plan to downgrade cable.
I can watch boring old shows that I choose for $9/month; or I can watch boring old shows that someone else choses for me for $80/month.
What’s the question again?
I love Roku...
I too have had it for about 3 years. Last night I wanted to watch a streaming movie. When I fired up it would not let me on because my wife was watching one on another tv.
This is the first time this has happened. Has somthing changed?
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