no one has to throttle netflix or anyone else since the outgoing pipes on most ISP's can't handle all the traffic the big money guys buy CDN and special private circuits into the ISP's network dedicated to their traffic the little guys cry network neutrality
you can pass NN, but until you force the ISP's to allow CDN's of their competition or force them into allowing private circuits its just a piece of paper
LTo-4 is 800gb uncompressed and 1.6TB compressed, but i have LTO-4 tapes with 5TB asked about it years ago and people with more experience said that its normal for some tapes to hold a lot more than what they are rated for. most of my tapes are closer to 2TB of data
compared to disk where the sales people quote raw unformatted numbers with no RAID and no server and no nothing
yep LTO-4 i'm buying for like $30 a tape these days and have some tapes hold 4TB or more of data
disk is good and fairly cheap but you need a server and/or JBOD to hold that disk which adds to the cost. and then you need a second DR server and another license for your backup software, etc.
had to take a lot of shit pushing LTO instead of D2D a few years back, but now i'm not the one having to justify $200,000 disk purchases to the CIO and my tape purchases are a blip on the budget
used SDLT for years with almost no problems used disk to disk backup for a year as well. very nice except the PHB gets a heart attack every time you ask for more disk. at least for database backups been on LTO-4 for 4 years. tapes are cheap. its fairly fast. and haven't had any problems with data corruption or tapes breaking
looking at LTO-6 but the tapes are still fairly expensive
this has always been this way CDN's and other companies who paid for access and special circuits always got better access
this net neutrality idea of ISP's carrying all their traffic through their internet pipes never existed. companies have always signed deals to prioritize some network traffic. google does it as well and has private circuits to most ISP's for youtube and all their other traffic
when cable first started the bundles were a good idea but starting in the 90's what happened was the 6 or so content companies would make a new channel with one good show and the rest crap syndication and infomercials. and force the TV providers to pay for it with higher rates as part of their channel bundle. that's why we have so many channels full of crap and maybe one good show some people like and why the bills are so high now.
since the TV providers were small and didn't have a big chunk of the market the content companies would pick the smallest one to raise prices and use that as a baseline for the rest of the market as contracts expired. small marketshare meant less revenue lost in a 2 week blackout and the customers always blamed the company they sent the checks to
a huge comcast means that your revenues and subscriber counts tank by 30% next time you want to raise prices
time warner cable is a separate company now. all they own are wires
disney could extort money from companies in the past because all the TV providers were small and had a small percentage of the total customer base. a huge comcast means a lot of revenue lost if there is a blackout.
yes, people want to get paid the money in TV is in syndication, not the new show
Comcast might be evil, but so are the content guys. they want a customer facing third party company to collect the money for them, take the blame, be considered evil, all while the content guys raise their prices every contract renewal and offer no choice to the end user to pay for specific programming
every time there is a blackout the customers cry that is filthy rich and should just pay what is asked so their shows come back. and when the bill goes up the same TV provider is evil and greedy for raising the bill. and the content guys are the ones who won't allow some TV providers to offer streaming options without extra cash going their way or on specific devices like no HBO Go for charter on apple TV
why should i care as long as the goal is to see content at the best quality and price? what difference does the transport medium make?
streaming kills it on selection and access to a huge catalog but its not a reason to pay more money per month for faster internet when i can just buy a physical copy. even then with itunes i can download a copy onto a hard drive and even then its not the best quality and over compressed
google play and amazon are not vendor neutral and worse than itunes/ultraviolet
i'm 40 and have been around since the very beginning of the internet i've seen lots of fads come and go that i thought were awesome at the time
if you read the business and financial press you will know digital sales are in the impulse buy category. same as the supermarket check out aisle stuff you see. same psychological concept they mastered selling women's magazines to housewives 40 years ago. huge margins for the maker and seller. digital sales has nothing to do with being more high tech than blu ray. since there is no credit card to take out most people don't realize they are buying something since there are 2-3 layers between the sale and real money. its a way to make it easy to buy something right there and then at high margins than lose a potential sale because you changed your mind.
networking and CDN issues have no effect on my blu ray collection. itunes is also good since you can download a local copy to a computer and stream locally vudu and ultraviolet i only buy ultra cheap when there is a sale
internet connection is not perfect i like physical disks because the quality is better. blu ray is up to 50Mbps my blu ray player will always work and there will always be blu ray compatible players out there for sale. at least the next 20 years
i kind of trust itunes and vudu but the content is DRM'd and i need the special equipment for that store to play the content on my TV unlike blu ray which is open
i don't buy a lot of movies but the ones i want to buy i only buy on blu ray because the quality is better. especially the sound on my TV with no home theater
even at a few $$$ like Gravity i'll still rather have the blu ray/dvd/digital combo since i can always play it OFFLINE.
the government will probably make them put a netflix CDN, but even then netflix isn't a saint either they have doubled their prices in the past they constantly lose content they changed their API to make themselves look good and not pass on the data when content is being removed
if comcast can get the content owners to blink and sell their channels in bundles they can work with netflix since netflix takes care of the crap channels with mostly old syndicated shows
the problem is that even in NYC there aren't enough customers for two companies to operate in the same area once you get past the huge capital costs of installing your own cable under the ground or on poles and paying the city rental fees
as a TV customer, cable cutter and back to TV there are two reasons to pay for TV today. Sports and quality kids' cartoons. Disney jr and Nick and some of the other cartoon networks.
otherwise as you said, the advertising ruins it. tried watching a movie and its horrible with all the commercials. Netflix is good for documentaries but they have gotten worse lately. got rid of some good episodes and series
there are very little new customers so your revenue base will stay flat meanwhile the costs like employees, support, equipment, bond payments for network upgrades, etc will increase
time warner is rewiring most of their buildings in NYC now. they just did mine a week ago and the word is the base internet tier will be 50/5 soon
and then health insurance costs per employees always go up, they rent stores for customer support, stocking up the cable boxes and modems. NYC I always see their installers. people are always moving and install TV when they move in
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no one has to throttle netflix or anyone else since the outgoing pipes on most ISP's can't handle all the traffic
the big money guys buy CDN and special private circuits into the ISP's network dedicated to their traffic
the little guys cry network neutrality
you can pass NN, but until you force the ISP's to allow CDN's of their competition or force them into allowing private circuits its just a piece of paper
LTo-4 is 800gb uncompressed and 1.6TB compressed, but i have LTO-4 tapes with 5TB
asked about it years ago and people with more experience said that its normal for some tapes to hold a lot more than what they are rated for. most of my tapes are closer to 2TB of data
compared to disk where the sales people quote raw unformatted numbers with no RAID and no server and no nothing
yep
LTO-4 i'm buying for like $30 a tape these days and have some tapes hold 4TB or more of data
disk is good and fairly cheap but you need a server and/or JBOD to hold that disk which adds to the cost. and then you need a second DR server and another license for your backup software, etc.
had to take a lot of shit pushing LTO instead of D2D a few years back, but now i'm not the one having to justify $200,000 disk purchases to the CIO and my tape purchases are a blip on the budget
it can when you store it in the cloud
ever see a hard drive or tape in the cloud?
used SDLT for years with almost no problems
used disk to disk backup for a year as well. very nice except the PHB gets a heart attack every time you ask for more disk. at least for database backups
been on LTO-4 for 4 years. tapes are cheap. its fairly fast. and haven't had any problems with data corruption or tapes breaking
looking at LTO-6 but the tapes are still fairly expensive
kids + cartoons
if netflix had a consumer CDN it would save a lot of bandwidth
this has always been this way
CDN's and other companies who paid for access and special circuits always got better access
this net neutrality idea of ISP's carrying all their traffic through their internet pipes never existed. companies have always signed deals to prioritize some network traffic. google does it as well and has private circuits to most ISP's for youtube and all their other traffic
the whole point is that TWC can't do that
Disney and others sell their channels in one bundle take it or leave it. you don't pay, there is a blackout
when cable first started the bundles were a good idea but starting in the 90's what happened was the 6 or so content companies would make a new channel with one good show and the rest crap syndication and infomercials. and force the TV providers to pay for it with higher rates as part of their channel bundle. that's why we have so many channels full of crap and maybe one good show some people like and why the bills are so high now.
since the TV providers were small and didn't have a big chunk of the market the content companies would pick the smallest one to raise prices and use that as a baseline for the rest of the market as contracts expired. small marketshare meant less revenue lost in a 2 week blackout and the customers always blamed the company they sent the checks to
a huge comcast means that your revenues and subscriber counts tank by 30% next time you want to raise prices
time warner cable is a separate company now. all they own are wires
disney could extort money from companies in the past because all the TV providers were small and had a small percentage of the total customer base. a huge comcast means a lot of revenue lost if there is a blackout.
yes, people want to get paid
the money in TV is in syndication, not the new show
Comcast might be evil, but so are the content guys. they want a customer facing third party company to collect the money for them, take the blame, be considered evil, all while the content guys raise their prices every contract renewal and offer no choice to the end user to pay for specific programming
every time there is a blackout the customers cry that is filthy rich and should just pay what is asked so their shows come back. and when the bill goes up the same TV provider is evil and greedy for raising the bill. and the content guys are the ones who won't allow some TV providers to offer streaming options without extra cash going their way or on specific devices like no HBO Go for charter on apple TV
why should i care as long as the goal is to see content at the best quality and price?
what difference does the transport medium make?
streaming kills it on selection and access to a huge catalog but its not a reason to pay more money per month for faster internet when i can just buy a physical copy. even then with itunes i can download a copy onto a hard drive and even then its not the best quality and over compressed
google play and amazon are not vendor neutral and worse than itunes/ultraviolet
i'm 40 and have been around since the very beginning of the internet
i've seen lots of fads come and go that i thought were awesome at the time
if you read the business and financial press you will know digital sales are in the impulse buy category. same as the supermarket check out aisle stuff you see. same psychological concept they mastered selling women's magazines to housewives 40 years ago. huge margins for the maker and seller. digital sales has nothing to do with being more high tech than blu ray. since there is no credit card to take out most people don't realize they are buying something since there are 2-3 layers between the sale and real money. its a way to make it easy to buy something right there and then at high margins than lose a potential sale because you changed your mind.
a lot of people get married and have kids so the average household size is around 3
313 million people you figure around 100 million households
networking and CDN issues have no effect on my blu ray collection.
itunes is also good since you can download a local copy to a computer and stream locally
vudu and ultraviolet i only buy ultra cheap when there is a sale
internet connection is not perfect
i like physical disks because the quality is better. blu ray is up to 50Mbps
my blu ray player will always work and there will always be blu ray compatible players out there for sale. at least the next 20 years
i kind of trust itunes and vudu but the content is DRM'd and i need the special equipment for that store to play the content on my TV
unlike blu ray which is open
and why would i care since there is no 4K content and no decent affordable 4K TV's now
in 10 years it will be affordable
i don't buy a lot of movies but the ones i want to buy i only buy on blu ray because the quality is better. especially the sound on my TV with no home theater
even at a few $$$ like Gravity i'll still rather have the blu ray/dvd/digital combo since i can always play it OFFLINE.
the government will probably make them put a netflix CDN, but even then netflix isn't a saint either
they have doubled their prices in the past
they constantly lose content
they changed their API to make themselves look good and not pass on the data when content is being removed
if comcast can get the content owners to blink and sell their channels in bundles they can work with netflix since netflix takes care of the crap channels with mostly old syndicated shows
that's only in some tiny hick towns
the problem is that even in NYC there aren't enough customers for two companies to operate in the same area once you get past the huge capital costs of installing your own cable under the ground or on poles and paying the city rental fees
i'm at 15/1 now
50/5 would be nice for uploading photos to icloud or flickr
what's the point of gig-e? if i want a movie i'll buy a blu ray and my itunes and vudu rentals already look good.
DSL can be had for $15
as a TV customer, cable cutter and back to TV there are two reasons to pay for TV today. Sports and quality kids' cartoons. Disney jr and Nick and some of the other cartoon networks.
otherwise as you said, the advertising ruins it. tried watching a movie and its horrible with all the commercials. Netflix is good for documentaries but they have gotten worse lately. got rid of some good episodes and series
there are very little new customers so your revenue base will stay flat
meanwhile the costs like employees, support, equipment, bond payments for network upgrades, etc will increase
its like your electric bill, its always going up
time warner is rewiring most of their buildings in NYC now. they just did mine a week ago and the word is the base internet tier will be 50/5 soon
and then health insurance costs per employees always go up, they rent stores for customer support, stocking up the cable boxes and modems. NYC I always see their installers. people are always moving and install TV when they move in