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    Verizon FiOS Hikes Up Its Rates

    Adobe Aggressively, Officially Promoting Flash For HDTVs, DVRs

    Sony in Talks to Offer Free, Full-Length Movies on YouTube

    Enhanced Boxee Browser and API Brings Hulu Back to Your TV (Along with Pandora)

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    AT&T Developing All-In-One U-Verse and Femtocell Box

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    Image of Morgan Breden Morgan Breden
    04/20/09

    In reply to Adobe Aggressively, Officially Promoting Flash For HDTVs, DVRs
    I honestly have nothing but disdain for flash. Not only is it so unsecure, but everything it does can be handled better by other programs. Games are done better with java, audio is handled better by client-side plugins and flash video streaming is a joke to anyone who doesn't have cable, or at least high-speed DSL, and client-side media players that can read from a stream are better at that anyways. Don't even get me started on asinine websites made entirely with flash. And let's not forget the most annoying and obtrusive ads on the internet are written in flash. The only good use I've ever seen for flash is an amateur animation platform. The less I see of flash, the better, and I certainly don't want the crap in my TV.
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    04/20/09

    @Morgan Breden: It is kind of a strange thing, isn't it. Flash video succeeded because the plugin was already ubiquitous on computers, but now it's being forced into ubiquity on TVs because so many services have been built around it.


    I'll agree that it's not the most technically satisfying solution for VOD service on TVs, but it'll do for now.

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    Image of Torley Torley
    04/09/09

    In reply to Sony in Talks to Offer Free, Full-Length Movies on YouTube
    VERY funny how a non-official YouTube knockoff logo is used for the post image (look closely at the fonts).


    Wish YouTube's interface was more elegant like Hulu's, and I imagine comments for these full-length flicks will be moderated or disabled entirely. :p

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/09/09

    In reply to Sony in Talks to Offer Free, Full-Length Movies on YouTube
    But will it be region-specific like hulu?


    (you thought I was gonna say "blend/play Crysis didn'tcha)

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    Image of Mayor McRib Mayor McRib
    02/03/09

    In reply to AT&T Developing All-In-One U-Verse and Femtocell Box
    At some point I am hoping that VOIP makes it imposssible for Embarq to keep voice lines in my area. A move to AT&T would break me from the Embarq/Comcrap circle jerk. Please AT&T, take over the Houston suburbs!
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    Image of ERIFNOMI ERIFNOMI
    01/11/09

    In reply to Xbox 360 IPTV Service Not Dead, Just Sleeping (and Testing)
    This looks no different than Media Center Extender
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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    01/11/09

    @ERIFNOMI: Except for the fact that it doesn't need a PC.
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    Image of Spilt_Milk Spilt_Milk
    01/11/09

    In reply to Xbox 360 IPTV Service Not Dead, Just Sleeping (and Testing)
    If it costs more than Netflix per month, it will fail.
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    Image of InvaderPhlegm InvaderPhlegm
    01/12/09

    @Spilt_Milk: Shows how much you don't know about IPTV.


    IPTV is a competing format against cable and satellite television services.


    IPTV will carry all of the same channels you now get with either your satellite or your cable provider: MTV, Showtime, Cinemax, HBO, Discovery, etc.


    IPTV is being deployed by your telephone company, over newly deployed fiber optic networks that bring fiber all the way up to your home


    IPTV is not being deployed by your cable broadband company as cable bandwidth is too narrow to take full advantage of IPTV


    IPTV will not work over a DSL line as DSL bandwidth is too narrow to take full advantage of IPTV


    IPTV signals will be comprised mostly of uncompressed digital video and audio; even 1080p HD content will be broadcast over IPTV in uncompressed form. Uncompressed video allows for much greater fidelity than compressed forms like those found on satellite and cable


    IPTV image and sound quality, because being broadcast uncompressed, in most cases, will look and sound significantly better than the same content over cable or satellite, both of which, greatly compress their signals . . . especially their HD content


    IPTV does not require the user to have a broadband connection. Since IPTV is being transmitted over fiber optic networks, those networks already have more than enough bandwidth on their own to adequately transmit the IPTV signal. Chances are, your IPTV carrier, will likely offer to sell you a broadband internet connection using their fiber optic network at a discount if you chose their IPTV service, in much the same way your local cable TV provider offers to sell broadband internet connection using their cable network. If you are particularly lucky, your IPTV carrier will be an especially competitive IPTV carrier, like Verizon's FiOS TV service, and will likely sell you broadband services that are much faster than cable broadband - up to 50Mbps/20Mbps worth of broadband speed.

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