Another 4 months, still no FCC Video Competition Report (1)
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Well, another four months have passed since I last asked this question, but let me pose it again: Where exactly is the FCC’s Video Competition Report and why is it taking so long to get it out the door? It wouldn’t have anything to do with a certain Chairman Ahab still trying to get his cable whale, would it? No, of course not. I’m sure there’s a perfectly rational reason that this 13th Annual report ...
No satellite or cable TV? No problem. (1)
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Our DirecTV works great until a heavy rain rolls in and blocks the signal. It's called "rain fade" and you lose your signal a couple of minutes before the rain actually reaches earth. That happened last night while we were watching the Democratic National Convention. It wa getting close to time for Obama to speak and, since we didn't know how long it would last, I grabbed the MacBook and started streaming CNN's live feed. ...
Castigados sin fútbol (1)
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Cuentan las últimas noticias que el G30, la asociación que reune a muchos de los clubes de fútbol de primera y segunda división, quiere romper con Sogecable porque, según dicen, aun no han cumplido con sus obligaciones económicas de la pasada temporada. Parece evidente que tras este malestar de los clubs y su intención de romper con la cadena que durante años ha retransmitido los partidos de estas dos categorías, tanto en Canal +, como ...
On WoW's bandwidth consumption (1)
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Filed under: Tips, Odds and endsSome of you may have heard about the ISP Comcast's new 250 GB per month bandwidth caps. We've even gotten a few emails asking how this is going to affect WoW players. You can set your minds at ease: this will not affect us in any significant way. The highest bandwidth I've ever heard of WoW using at a time is 30 KBps; this is in situations like raid fights ...
Comcast announces 250GB bandwidth cap (5)
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Filed under: newsToday, Comcast updated their Acceptable Use Policy to cover exactly what they feel is "excessive use". When the Comcast cap starts October 1st, they will contact people breaking the 250GB per month transfer limit and ask them to curb their usage. While it'll be hard for most people to hit this limit, we still wonder if policing 0.1% of the customer base is worth the effort. At least Comcast has bothered to state ...
Man On Wire - La mejor película del 2008 (si no has visto Wall - E) (2)
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Sin haberla visto digo irresponsablemente que Man On Wire es la película del año. Actualmente tiene 100% de ranking en Rotten Tomatoes, 8.5 en imdb, ganó varios premios en el Sundance Film Festival y las reseñas que he visto incluyen más signos de exclamación que frases, por ejemplo: ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Alucinante!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! El documental, thriller pero a la vez poético-inspirador (así lo venden), cuenta la historia real de la preparación durante 7 años de Philippe Petit, el equilibrista ...
A Definitive Guide To Cable Feuds [Field Guide] (1)
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Cable news is a hyper-competitive environment full of huge egos fighting with each other for every scrap of a ratings point. And at this time of year, with all the shouting heads descending upon the political convention like a gang of ferrets into a small sack, conflict is inevitable. Plus it's hot, and there's not too much real news anyhow, so everyone is grumpy. After the jump, an illustrated guide to the most vicious feuds ...
Time Warner Adds Big Ten Network, College Football Fans Rejoice [Time Warner Cable] (1)
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Time Warner Cable has reached a deal to offer the Big Ten Network on expanded basic cable in Big Ten states, says the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. From JS Online: The agreement came only days before the start of the Big Ten football season. The Big Ten Network has the broadcast rights to this Saturday’s game between the University of Wisconsin and the University of Akron at Camp Randall. If not for the agreement-in-principle, the game would ...
Anheuser-Busch Goes All Out as Sponsor of Final Season of FX’s ‘Shield’ (1)
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The final season of “The Shield”—a show almost no major advertiser would touch when it debuted on FX in 2002—is being sponsored by Anheuser-Busch. THE THIN BREW LINE Anheuser-Busch is sponsoring the final season of FX's "The Shield," starring Michael Chiklis. The King of Beers was among the first marketers to embrace the police drama, which set the standard for the kind of edgy original programming now attracting viewers and ad dollars to basic cable. ...
Make a stretchy fabric USB cable (1)
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Filed under: misc hacks, peripherals hacksIf you've been puzzled over a discreet, durable way to sew wiring into your clothing, then puzzle no more: [Plusea] has put together a writeup detailing how to make a USB cable partly out of stretchy cotton fabric. Although the design as detailed doesn't give much practical use for the invention, we can think of several very effective ways of exploiting this toy. Imagine, for example, placing a USB battery ...
US Median Broadband Speed 30 Times Slower than Japan's While Market Softens (1)
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Man Files Antitrust Suit Against Time Warner Over Forced Cable Box Rentals [Twc] (5)
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Matthew Meeds of Fairway, Kansas, doesn't want to pay Time Warner Cable a monthly rental fee for his cable box—he'd rather own one outright. He's filed suit against the cable provider and its parent company, Time Warner, Inc., accusing them of establishing an illegal tying arrangement by making the box rental a condition of the subscription agreement. He's seeking class-action status for all TWC premium customers in Kansas. “Time Warner’s improper tying and bundling harms ...
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Meeds' attorney says that the situation is similar to the days when AT&T forced customers to rent telephones, before lawsuits helped break open the market: “I think it’s very similar to the cases brought back in those days, where slowly but surely, the courts whittled away at that kind of protectionist activity by AT&T,” he said. “I think the same thing is present here. You have a lot of companies out there manufacturing these boxes, and there’s nothing necessarily proprietary about them. … They only cost about $30 or $40 at most, and they’re charging around $15 a month for them.”
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I've always thought this was a scam.
Cablevision and Charter gear up for DOCSIS 3.0 rollouts (2)
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Filed under: Misc, Cable, Internet Comcast nabbed the first US DOCSIS 3.0 deployment award by pushing the technology out to select Minnesota residents in April, but both Charter and Cablevision are making sure to not fall too far behind. During its most recent quarter earnings call, Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge noted that DOCSIS 3.0 would be "operational this year," with around 20% of its footprint going live in 2008 and 100% to be covered by ...
USB: Lisco USB Snake Combines Jewelry, USB Cable in One Wearable Device (3)
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Designer Laurent Hongisto has crafted the Lisco USB Snake as an attempt to solve that age-old (ok... decade-old) dilemma of never having a USB cable handy when you need one to charge/connect-up your device. So the design combines elements of those '90s "slap bracelets" with a USB A to mini-USB cable, wrapped up in colorful polyurethane and designed to be carried around on your wrist. Hmmm. Ok... so it looks kinda odd, and do you ...
Mpaa: MPAA Want to Bung-Up "Analog Hole," Disable Piracy-Enabling Cable Box Outputs (3)
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Movies movies movies... we all love a good show, but the lovely MPAA is up to some pretty strange shenanigans to ensure that you get to see some shows just once—until they're out on DVD at least. The fab guys at the Motion Picture Association of America are petitioning the FCC on behalf of some major movie studios to close the "analog hole" that may allow people to record movies broadcast on cable before they ...
Last night on Sci-Fi (1)
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[Compubabble] I was watching an episode of the 1980s/'90s version of The Outer Limits last night--which was often quite good, I think. Unfortunately, last night's was not one of the better episodes, except for the fact that it was a goldmine of fake compubabble, which is always entertaining. (Also the fist-head woman in the opening credits is a personal favorite. I mean, a woman with a head that's a fist? She is the limit!)At one ...
HDTV Broadcast Quality - What are you really watching? (1)
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Ever wonder why one HD channel looks so much better than another HD channel? Well, basically its because they are operation at different bitrates. One channel may be pumping in a 720p signal at 12 Mbps and another might be pushing a 1080i signal at 7 Mbps. So your 720p channel is probably going to look better with less artifacting and more overall pop. According to ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) president Mark Richer, the ...
Curse-Drenched Masterpiece Gets Cable Fixed [Funny] (1)
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This NSFW recording is an expletive-drenched masterpiece. It's a series of messages a customer left on a cable company's answering machine after his cable went out and every number they had listed in the phonebook was busy... Our tipster says this recording used to get passed around at Canadian high schools during the 80's and 90's. You know, they say you shouldn't curse because you can communicate better by using specific, and clean, language. I ...
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DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News in particular as "an appendage of the Republican Party."Shared by cmwaugh (7) Jon (14)Contribute commentscans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2003 (19) permalink
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eWeek brings two pieces of sobering news on the broadband front to our attention this week: much slower median speeds than other advanced nations, and a big shortfall in new customers. read moreShared by Tyler (3)Contribute comment
