| You know what's a hilarious subject on this topic is these companies try to downplay the effects of HDTV coming down the pipes on Internet performance. I've heard all kinds of crazy explanations such as the two are on different frequencies etc. Who cares, it's all coming down the same pipe and HDTV takes up huge bandwidth.
The other hilarious subject is some ISP's are starting to implement download quotas. Example your household gets 20 gigs per month of Internet. Go over, you pay XX dollars per gig in penalties.
Again, it's hilarious they can get away with this crap. TV and Internet comes down the same piece of cable. They're effectively saying family X can watch HDTV 24 hours per day, but if family Y uses too much Internet bandwidth they should be punished.
Any thoughts on this? |