I own two twelve-year-old cars but I do like to watch late-release movies without advertising. And, big problem with downloaded movies, I really love the bonus features on DVDs.

I think it’s interesting that you’re willing to wait until movies run on regular TV with advertising and many edits yet then you want a PVR (hard drive) to skip the commercials. Somebody has to pay the freight. Do you work for free? They why to you expect film makers to?

Peace,

Rob:-]

Comcast (our tv and internet isp) has just imposed a 250gb/month limit for users… meaning that if you go over, you get warned, then cut off - for being a “bandwidth hog.” Their reasons are that they want to be able to provide claimed speeds with customers - and that over 250gb p/month usage suggests people pirating movies which must be curtailed.

Fine, but how come regular teevee watching - regardless of the # of sets on, 24/7) doesn’t hog bandwidth? Why is it that a company offering movies on demand, such as Comcast, now puts a bandwidth limit on users of other online movie streaming sources (Netflix, Apple TV, etc.). Sounds a little unfair to me. Especially as more and more HD streaming comes online, households with mutiple users will begin hitting that 250gb wall (and getting disconnected) rather than Comcast upgrading their service to meet expanding demand.

But this is how I really feel - TV’s show our favorite movies sooner or later, just as cable tv, blockbuster, netflix or rented movies… it’s all the same really. You just buy, rent or watch it when it’s there or when you’re willing to pay someone.

My point is, that all of this technology was made specifically to suck the money out of pockets… and it works for a lot of people!

History of most makers: Let’s make something that people will want, but not include all of the perks. We’ll spread out the perks for the 2nd version and the 3rd, 4th, etc. Let’s see how many fools buy upgrades over and over again and make us rich and richer. (Exactly why we don’t use WinVista, as we waited for XP to grow up)

Think about how many cars have you owned? Radios? DVD, VCR and MP3 players? - I don’t understand why some people buy a new car every year or two, and spend so much money enriching the car manufacturers. We’ve spent about an average of $1000 to $1,500 each year maintaining both a car and a van. Because of our traveling, we alternate buying tires for each vehicle every 3rd or 4th year. We average a car per decade (@ 10 yrs).

Sure, I get fed up when I see simple things over-rated and over-priced… there is so much eye-candy available everyday, so it’s not so hard to give into temptation. Unless you’re tight budgeted (and I know what it means to be stuck on tuna or hamburger helpers for months at dinnertime, as I did in the ’80’s) so it may be more like scraping to buy some toilet paper for some. So, we refrain sometimes from shallow pockets or morals. I get really upset when I see items double over in price (Walmart sold a firepit for $68 last year and it sells for $200 now!) I refuse to buy over-priced items (even lay-a-way just because my hubby wanted it) and I wish others would do the same, for the sake of lowering the price for all. Talk about economy. It’s not all of the governments fault how we spend our money.

I think most of us spend what we make,
and it’s still our choice how we spend it.

Also, I the coaxial cable IS virtually a comparably similar “size” as a phone line WHEN you consider the size of a vacuum hose. (i.e. Kids are kid size and adults are usually bigger.)

$99 is a one time purchase, and I’m a broke college student. Cut out the pot and Starbucks for a week or two.

The idea is great, but let’s get this thing working properly before we start selling it.

Piece of junk. It is not worth the $15 dollars in shipping you lose to try it out.

AND THE TECH SUPPORT is only available Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm. How the hell are they supposed to help me when I am at work? The internet support is also a waste of time.

Netflix needs to get with Apple. The product may be more expensive, but at least it will work as described.

While you are right that in practice DSL is usually faster than cable (mostly due to cable oversubscription), and has lower latency, I’m not sure where you were going on this last statement.

First, cable has 1-18 gauge conductor, a phone line has 2-24 gauge conductors, so they are not the same size. But conductor size has absolutely nothing to do with signal capacity (which is really what the parent is speaking about.) Telephone lines use electrical signaling, currently it maxes out in most US residential applications at one 24kbit/sec connection. Cable uses RF signaling and shares that bandwidth with TV. If you were to use it only for internet, you can get I believe 40-38mbit/sec connections. Cable therefore has about 63 times the data carrying capacity of a single telephone connection.

I switched over to comcast and got a better deal, and so far my movies have been in four dot quality!! I hope it maintains, cause I’m still paranoid waiting for things to go wrong.
I think a coaxial cable just does a better job than a little phone line. Now (for the time being) I can go back to singing the praises of this wonderful little box!! I love it, and I know the future will bring even more features, better quality and perhaps new release movies.

I switched over to comcast and got a better deal, and so far my movies have been in four dot quality!! I hope it maintains, cause I’m still paranoid waiting for things to go wrong.
I think a coaxial cable just does a better job than a little phone line. Now (for the time being) I can go back to singing the praises of this wonderful little box!! I love it, and I know the future will bring even more features, better quality and perhaps new release movies.

Not all of us can afford high speed internet. This is obviously targeted at the rich brats of the world. What else is new?

What is most nauseating, is seeing one of these elitists claim that $99 isn’t an unreasonable amount of money to spend for this contraption. It is to me! That would soak up two weeks worth of my grocery funds.

DIE RICH ASSHOLES!