Cablevision

Suck It, Fiber: America’s Fastest Internet 101Mbps Delivered by Cablevision

Holy. I knew the fruits of cable’s fiber-fast DOCSIS 3.0 standard would be delicious, but this is incredible: Cablevision’s going to sell the fastest internet in the US next month: 101 blazing megabits per second. https://gizmodo.com/100mbps-cable-modem-certification-testing-starts-showd-325990 The package includes 15Mbps upstream, and it’s $100 a month. And everyone in Cablevision’s service area—suburban New York—will be…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 28

Cablevision Scamming People Into Getting Converter Box With Basic Service

A Consumerist reader looking to hook up basic service to a cable-ready TV was told by Cablevision that a converter box would be needed “no matter what.” He was also accused of being “disrespectful.” I have never been so appalled as when I called Cablevision to activate BASIC cables service for an apartment in Brooklyn.…

Television Sean Fallon Feb 23

FCC Fines Big Cable for Ditching TiVo Owners

Ars reports that the FCC has bitch slapped cable companies that adopted the new switched digital video (SDV) CableCard protocol because, as we discussed in the spring, it totally left TiVo owners hanging. Cable companies say they should be free to do whatever they want with hardware; the FCC says, well, you still need to…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Oct 17

Court Rejects Studios and Networks’ Copyright Beef With Cloud-Storage DVRs

Waaay back in 2006, Cablevision planned to roll out a DVR which stored shows on Cablevision’s servers rather than on hard disk inside your set-top box. As they are wont to do, the studios and networks saw an opportunity to suck more revenue out of the system, citing obscure copyright conditions which call for fees…

Tech News John Mahoney Aug 4

Cablevision Launching Wireless Broadband Network

I guess Cablevision was feeling a little left out after the WiMaxMegaZord became official with Comcast and Time on board, because they’re planning to drop $350 million on a wireless broadband network for New York. It’ll basically be a big Wi-Fi network initially (free for customers), though Cablevision says “ultimately it will be a mobile…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan May 8

CableLabs Responds to CableCard Screwjob Allegation

The good folks at CableLabs replied to today’s piece about CableCard customers getting screwed out of HD channels. To their credit, they did not ask for a correction, because we didn’t print anything inaccurate (though they do claim the HD Guru may have). They just wanted us to consider some “clarifications,” arguments that go far…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Apr 17

CableCard Users Are Getting Screwed Out of HD Channels

Our friend Gary Merson, the HD Guru, has uncovered an issue that may soon piss you off. Cable customers who use the current CableCard to decode signal directly in their TV, a TiVo or Windows Media Center PC may soon start losing HD channels because of a change in technology. To conserve bandwidth, cable carriers…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Apr 17

Cablevision’s Crazy New VOD Scheme: Send You the DVD Too

Same-day movies on demand isn’t a new offering from cable providers. But Cablevision’s new setup is entirely different, and just a little weird. You pay 10 or 16 or 20 bucks (depending on freshness) to watch the flick the same day it hits DVD, and then Cablevision sends the DVD to you in the mail.…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Feb 4

Cablevision Offers TiVo To Mexico City, But Not To Me

Fulfilling a promise they made last November, TiVo and Cablevision are rolling out the first-ever Spanish-language TiVo, for cable customers in Mexico City. Mexico city? Who does a news release based on Mexico City? If this doesn’t demonstrate the bizarre relationship TiVo has with cable companies, I don’t know what would. The TiVos will have…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 13

500 HD Channels on Cablevision? No More Programming Until CableCard Is Easy!

Reuters today said that Cablevision would have “the capability” to carry over 500 high-definition channels. This would include the 15 channels that Lazarus-like startup Voom HD Networks (now owned by Cablevision) plans to introduce next Tuesday, along with the 20-some HD channels that are allegedly in the lineup now plus, I suppose, 460 more channels…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 22

Cablevision to Roll Out Network DVR

Strange things afoot at Cablevision. They’re apparently working on a DVR without a hard drive—the content is stored remotely on Cablevision servers and then pulled down when needed. Customers “record” by pressing a button, ensuring that the cable company’s server’s don’t get bogged down by simply recording everything that goes over the customer’s tuner. The…

Tech News Johnb Mar 27

Suck It, Fiber: America’s Fastest Internet 101Mbps Delivered by Cablevision

Cablevision Scamming People Into Getting Converter Box With Basic Service

FCC Fines Big Cable for Ditching TiVo Owners

Court Rejects Studios and Networks’ Copyright Beef With Cloud-Storage DVRs

Cablevision Launching Wireless Broadband Network

CableLabs Responds to CableCard Screwjob Allegation

CableCard Users Are Getting Screwed Out of HD Channels

Cablevision’s Crazy New VOD Scheme: Send You the DVD Too

Cablevision Offers TiVo To Mexico City, But Not To Me

500 HD Channels on Cablevision? No More Programming Until CableCard Is Easy!

Cablevision to Roll Out Network DVR

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