I'm certainly not paying the ludicrous prices Time Warner charges for VOD services. And as much as I love my TiVO HD, Netflix streaming through it is pretty drab most of the time. It's a rare time (mostly around 5-6 a.m.) when it actually streams at full bandwidth and gives me a 16:9 picture. Most of the time it's much smaller and looks like it's been through a mis-calibrated anamorphic filter or something. The proportion is off, and resolution is worse than VHS.
No competition for a nice Blu-ray dics at all. And I doubt, with all the ISPs pushing for ludicrously small bandwidth caps (and no, TW, I don't need to be "edumicated" about it, I know exactly what you're up to - monopolistic anti-competitive behavior), or considering caps with few exceptions, discs are the future. And if the state of broadband and cellular service is any indicator, there ain't anything going to happen any time soon to change it.
It's time to set Blu-ray on stun and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum.
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Eric @ May 13th 2009 4:46PM
I'm certainly not paying the ludicrous prices Time Warner charges for VOD services. And as much as I love my TiVO HD, Netflix streaming through it is pretty drab most of the time. It's a rare time (mostly around 5-6 a.m.) when it actually streams at full bandwidth and gives me a 16:9 picture. Most of the time it's much smaller and looks like it's been through a mis-calibrated anamorphic filter or something. The proportion is off, and resolution is worse than VHS.
No competition for a nice Blu-ray dics at all. And I doubt, with all the ISPs pushing for ludicrously small bandwidth caps (and no, TW, I don't need to be "edumicated" about it, I know exactly what you're up to - monopolistic anti-competitive behavior), or considering caps with few exceptions, discs are the future. And if the state of broadband and cellular service is any indicator, there ain't anything going to happen any time soon to change it.
It's time to set Blu-ray on stun and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum.