On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:52:53 -0700, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Michael J McCafferty wrote:
I gotta go do some work, but the conversation eventually did cover TV
quality and how 1080p over Fiber is better than 1080p over Copper and
how 720p is also better over Fiber, especially if you don't have a HD
TV.
Surprisingly, this appears to be true. There is apparently some pretty
significant angst going on right now because the cable companies are at
their bandwidth limits on copper with the way things are configured.
Consequently, they are compressing HD signals to the point that they are
starting to suck.
Of course, the issue isn't really fiber vs. copper. It's the fact that
the fiber folks provisioned more bandwidth on the backhaul.
-a
I can vouch for the craposity of Time Warner's HD offerings (at least in
the greater Los Angeles area.) The Motorola PVR they give you can barely
handle one HD stream at a time, either, much less two. They don't have
many national HD channels due to the capacity issue and channels you think
they'd focus some quality on (NBC) routinely skip, pixelate, sound drops
out for a second, etc.
Nobody offers fiber in my area so I went with Dish. I have no idea what
their capacity is but I've recorded three HD streams at once (two through
the dish, one over the air) and they all came in perfectly. Hockey in HD
is awesome when it doesn't >blip< every 30 seconds.
The 'retention specialist' at Time Warner didn't put up much of a fight
when I called to cancel. His idea of offering me 'more HD channels' was a
discount on HBO and other movie channels that they are forced to hold
bandwidth for, and which I don't want or else I would have ordered them in
the first place.
-Matt
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