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- KewlerKid3, on 12/28/2007, -2/+68You can already do this. It's called torrents and the flat fee is free!
- scooterbaga, on 12/28/2007, -1/+44... ushering in a wonderful new era in which the cable companies force you to get a TV cable package... Just like the phone companies can force you to have a land line when all you want is the DSL...
- gronne, on 12/28/2007, -0/+35I hate cable. $50/month for 5 channels I actually watch. Sattelite companies have some great inexpensive options but I have a giant tree right in the way of the signal from Dish and DirecTV so this is my next best hope.
- JasonCox, on 12/28/2007, -1/+24My cable company isnt scared at all. Why? Because I still have to pay them for cable and they can just jack up the price.
- seraph582, on 12/28/2007, -2/+19you know you could have just gotten a ***** 5$ video cable to attach a PC to your TV and done the same thing? (A Mac is a PC too, ya know)
- lukas88, on 12/28/2007, -0/+16Cable popularity will stop declining as soon as they cut back on ads. If youtube has told us anything, it is not the quality of the entertainment that is important, it is how long you have to wait for it.
- heilig, on 12/28/2007, -1/+16http://www.usa.husqvarna.com/products_product_deta ...
- dumpyhumpy, on 12/28/2007, -0/+15Good riddance. And please take commercial radio along with you.
- Spanq, on 12/28/2007, -0/+10I don't see why my cable company would be scared since they provide my broadband connection, too.
- StealthMonkey, on 12/28/2007, -1/+11Fiber.
AT&T U-verse: https://uverse1.att.com/un/launchAMSS.do
Verizon FIOS: http://www22.verizon.com/content/ConsumerFios - redxxx, on 12/28/2007, -0/+8get a $10 cable that is long enough to reach?
- macattacks10, on 12/28/2007, -0/+8If only fiber was actually available in most areas.
- joaob, on 12/28/2007, -1/+8isn't this giving the big cable companies ammo to shoot down net neutrality once and for all since they provide us with our broadband connections?
i dont know... i might be a retard for thinking that - sdigroup, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6broadband is cable or fiber or phone, so if they broadcast over the net, you still need a isp...........ohhh so clever.....
- lehmon, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6Well, at least we're one step closer to hyper-distribution.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-172006821 ...
The lecture is lengthy, but has some good points. - Littlemrsnow, on 12/28/2007, -1/+7Unfortunately you have to take in mind the cable companies are the most likely to make more money if such a thing happened, Cable internet prices would most likely increase to insane amounts.. Although we would all love to screw the cable companies, I really don't see a faster, affordable alternative to cable internet at the time. Leaving our money to them for a long time to come it would seem..
- jonshipman, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6not all phone companies offer naked DSL.
- kbull, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6The 2009 switch to digital has nothing to do with HDTV. All it is, is the target date for ending over-the-air analog broadcasts. Anyone who has an analog TV set and uses an antenna to receive channels will need a digital converter box.
- linksus, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6I cant see them being scared.
They can offer greater speeds than ADSL & ADSL2 can ever dream of. So if people offer TV etc over the net, they can offer better.
If they actually try. - redxxx, on 12/28/2007, -2/+7Ron Paul '08?
- AriaStar, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5Well have you looked at the price of cable lately? I watch one show on Sci-Fi,a few on Comedy Central, Discovery, History, and Fox (not Fox News), but to get those five channels, the lowest package is $85 in my area. No thanks. Bring down prices to compete or shut up about competition.
- mercano, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5Ushering in? I think this is standard operating procedure for some cable companies already.
- scoottie, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5FIOS is sexy
- sublimemm, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5Welcome back from under that extremely large rock
- VeganG, on 12/29/2007, -0/+4Someone needs to offer channel packages a la carte. Of course, they would never do that in a million years. They love the $100-and-up cable packages we all need to buy in order to get anything good.
- shredswithpiks, on 12/28/2007, -0/+4I grew up without cable. I always wanted cable. In high school, my family finally got cable. Then the only shows I watched were on ABC/Fox/NBC (channels you get over the air). I don't have cable anymore.
- secleinteer, on 12/29/2007, -0/+4The best thing is to pay a flat monthly fee of $0 and download your TV off of torrents.
- dezertrat, on 12/28/2007, -0/+4unless granny gets her tv from rabbit ears...all will be fine, even then you can get a credit to buy a converter box.
- k3vinmartian, on 12/29/2007, -0/+4Actually, the fed passed a law some time ago that said they had to sell the services unbundled. This article will explain how to get dsl from AT&T without a phone line. http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9822662-46.html
- MacEnvy, on 12/28/2007, -0/+4I have a 5-LNB DirecTV dish, and the middle satellite (they are strung out in an arc across the sky) is blocked by a tree. Every channel except the ones pulled from the middle satellite work great, and it is perfectly aligned.
It does happen, depending on exactly how you're set up. - Judacious, on 12/28/2007, -1/+4lol
- gotamd, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3I think it's great that the networks are now streaming a lot of their shows online. What they should realize is that if they were to stop doing so, people would still get them online through illegal methods which will deprive them of any advertising revenue. They'll realize one way or another that they can either facilitate online viewing or lose out on large amounts of revenue as more and more people ditch their traditional TV's for their computers/HTPCs.
- scoottie, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3Cant wait for FIOS to be available where I live. 15/15 speeds for the same price I pay now
- rishid, on 12/28/2007, -1/+4Yep Torrents + RSS + Xbox 360 works wonders for me.
Now that the 360 has xvid support, I use it so much more now. - CowboyBebop, on 12/29/2007, -0/+3I know that this is something that I've been hoping for a long time. I would definitely be willing to pay 10 or 20 dollars a month for on demand TV via the internet. Of course, the quality would have to be excellent and I'd also want live TV as well. I haven't had cable TV for over 7 months and don't really miss it. I know I don't miss the expense because frankly, cable TV is just too damn expensive these days. I've been bittorrenting all the shows that I want or I watch it via streaming on the networks' web sites.
- thcobbs, on 12/28/2007, -1/+4Actually, AT&T doesn't require you to have a landline for DSL anymore. I've got no landline, AT&T Cellphone, and DSL. They add on like a $5/month surcharge, and then give it back in a $5 credit on my DirecTV bill.
- Error601, on 12/28/2007, -3/+6Of course that will also require a magical drop in the cost of content. You can't just depress the cash flow of and industry and have everything stay the same.
- looksliketrent, on 12/29/2007, -0/+2Who said they respect us?
- rtgordon, on 12/28/2007, -2/+4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0GijX9SSjU
still waiting - javaroast, on 12/29/2007, -0/+2If only U-verse was faster than cable. From everything I've seen it tops out at 6Mbits/s down
- skyteria, on 12/28/2007, -1/+3Miro FTW!
- itsbob, on 12/28/2007, -2/+4evolution
- SpaceRibs, on 12/28/2007, -1/+3It's about time they get scared, they raised my monthly fee AGAIN this year and I'm about ready to dump it all for fiber.
Screw cable companies, if they really respected us they would allow us to select the channels we want instead of choosing for us in crappy bundles. Common Google, we're waiting for all that fiber you bought up to decimate these *****. - Toast1185, on 12/28/2007, -3/+5Torrents are alright, but I'd rather pay for content that is supposed to be paid for. Be on the up and up and support quality programming that I want to watch.
- RckmRobot, on 12/28/2007, -1/+3Same goes for Qwest. They gave us a landline with a number, but since it's only for data we don't get charged extra for it at all.
- albrad84, on 12/28/2007, -1/+3If it weren't for sports, I'd cancel my cable today.
- JJCDAD, on 12/28/2007, -2/+4Miro FTW!
- radink360, on 12/28/2007, -1/+3I agree this would be nice, but cable companies will just force a tv package with their internet packages.
- aussieNickuss, on 12/29/2007, -0/+2No dumbass......he wants to ditch cable for satellite ....but the tree is in the way of the dish.
- BEloftyIRONS, on 12/29/2007, -0/+2will it be 1seg like japan has? Will the digital signal picture be better than analog signals over the air?
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