Posted on 07/30/2014 4:27:45 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
ideo streaming service Netflix has agreed to pay U.S. broadband provider AT&T Inc to ensure smooth delivery of Netflix content to Internet users, the companies said on Tuesday.
The announcement of the deal, struck in May, comes as Netflix has been waging a public campaign against such fees, which they present as tolls, and calling on the Federal Communications Commission to review the market.
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No laptop here.
You also need a regular hdmi cable but you can buy those in any length you need.
You said 50 ft. With one of these and the converter I posted you can mirror your desktop onto your tv in the other room. It does audio too so all you need is the one cable running.
OK thanks. I’ll see if I can get one of those rigged up.
Now I realize that it was all because At&T was trying to suck more money out of Netflix? Great. Expect those “fees and tolls” to be passed on to the customer....as always.
If you have a smart TV, run out and buy a ROKU box for $80. It is allows you to watch not just Netflix but Amazon streaming and Youtube (Youtube has movies and shows that you will not find anywhere else) They also allow Fox news and many other movie and TV channels. We have ROKU on two TVs and Google on another. Google allows me to use my iphone or ipad to bring up HBO GO (for current episodes of Game of Thrones) and send it directly to my TV. (cost $39)
I'm love both of these gadgets so much that we dropped DirecTV and our $110 bill every month. I can't say enough about ROKU or Google TV.
They are really easy. The converter plugs into your usb port on the computer then the hdmi cable plugs into the end of the converter then the hdmi port on your tv. That’s it. Your tv will mirror whatever is on your computer. I watch everything this way. I stream shows and movies from my computer to my tv every day using it.
Great little gadget.
You really don’t need any roku box or google chromecast or to pay for any premium channels. That stuff is free to stream all over the net. Hook your computer to the tv with a digital converter and you are home free. And you can watch anything you want. Not just what the roku or chromecast tells you you can watch.
I have a dumb TV. I get youtube channel on the direct TV channels, but it don’t work on my TV.
It is a newer VIZIO, but dumb as a stump.
I don’t know for certain.
As I understand it the chrome cast ap teaches/allows the computer wireless to communicate with the chromecast device plugged into the TV
I use a 25 footer from my laptop HDMI output directly to my TV and it works fine.
Meritline is a good place for all kinds of neat stuff like this. There are many cable choices there, but here’s a good place to start..
http://www.meritline.com/50-60-ft-HDMI-Cables-—c-14000.aspx
Note that some items are shipped from USA, and some from China. Please note that shipping from China takes considerably longer, but shipping is mostly free, or very low cost.
They (Netflix) did the same thing with past seasons of 24. I was catching up on them and then Netflix got rid of all of them about a month before the new season of 24. Really? What does one have to do with the other? Now that the new 24 season is over, where are the old episodes?
Every time I see this bandwidth argument, I wonder what’s the difference between me doing on demand video, or watching what the providers choose to show me over their on air/cable channels through their cable box.
It all gets to my home over the same wires.
I think the real issue is that they’re not happy that I can choose what to watch, rather than what they want to show me, and I don’t have to watch their commercials.
A desktop with windows 7 or better works.
this “net neutrality” is a misnamed law.
It would be akin to paying extra taxes to be able to ignore red lights and stop signs.
slow speed is for poor people and slaves (aka low info voters).
“A desktop with windows 7 or better works.”
That is exactly what I have...Win 7 pro.
I’m not sure.
If you don’t mind taking a chance of having to return the thing to Walmart, it would be the cheaper option.
The other way around, I’m not referring to any specific legislation, but rather the notion of net neutrality. Net neutrality is the concept that every bit is treated the same whether coming from a big vendor or a private party.
Paying for priority of data is the opposite of net neutrality.
TCP/IP is a very inefficient protocol for transmitting video.
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