Seems that everyone is going after pirates when a situation like this comes up. It is true that most people that are renting & returning the same day could be making copies of the DVDs, that sure would be a large DVD collection. However, couple of things to think about.
What if I am a very ill person that is stuck at home with no where to go, what if I am handicap & can not go anywhere & TV is my way of entertainment, what if I am a criminal that can not walk to the video store because I am on a house arrest. Each one of this time (& there is MANY people like that in USA) will turn me into a "pirate"? because I am renting and watching the movie as soon as it gets to my home and then send it back the next day? I do not find that fair on Netflix part, to make me suffer because they automatically assume that everyone that is renting & returning movies the same day is a "pirate".
What about this, what if I was to come into Blockbusters Video or Hollywood Video & rent a movie every day, return it next day, would they tell me "Sorry sir, you need to wait couple of days
My two cents.
Personally I do hope someone decides to take care of this matter with a small claims court. I know I would sign up for it, since I have been a netflix user since 2001 I have noticed this "throttling" for last almost a year.
It is time to try out Blockbusters Online Rental.
If anyone knows, is there a way to load the drivers for any Third Party Drivers without using the floppy drive, please let me know .
My email is spooky617@yahoo.com
thank you for your help
Well looks like whatever Toms Hardware did it caused this place to shot down, at least the website is off like. It is good to see that some scammers dont get away with it.
I just want to drop my two cents in, I think that ATI needs to first hire some good programmers to get their drivers written correctly before they get into the HDTV market. Their bad drivers is what forced me to switch from Radeon to GeForce (even though I had the first Radeon AIW card when they first came out), almost anyone I speak with has some type of a problem with the Catalyst drivers. So if they are having problems with drivers for their main line of cards how can they make a good HDTV card & charge ALOT of money for it?
There is no way to give you a realistic time frame for any repairs until you get out to the problem location, locate the problem, estimate the repair time. Since first off you have no way of knowing right a way if it is a fiber cut, pole down, simple transformer died etc. how in a world could anyone give you a time frame? If that would be the case we would never have any problems.
Just a quick note.
Keep in mind also that cable company gets a different feed then the sat provider, it is also possible that the feed from Texas was bad, I am not saying that it was the case but it could be. We see that alot.
( Yes I work for the cable company )
I work for Comcast cable here in CA, but not in any way am I trying to pump up my company.
The service here has for the most part any channel I could ask for, from Tech TV to G4TV, Discovery Sci, Food Network etc. Almost every one of them is on a Digital tier which will give you pretty good video quality, I do alot of PVR stuff on my PC & it comes out almost a DVD quality ( the recording, using my Leadtek TV card ).
Now, DVR boxes, we are in a trial mode at the moment, the biggest problem is the converter provider, the issues they are having is being worked out, I am hoping we will be able to get them out to the customers in next couple of weeks. But when it comes to testing it, I really liked it, in my opinion it is easier to use then my TiVO. Pause, Rewind etc. with the 2 hr buffer you can pause your TV for up to 2 hrs ( which I do often ).
At this moment we provide around 10 HD channels, however there is more coming.
Now, I do have alot of friends that have DirectTV or Dish Network ( keep in mind I am not trying to dog their service in any way, because I work for a cable company ), their biggest complain is that they get alot of pixeling on their sets, alot of freezes, they had couple of techs out there & each time they were told that there is not much they can do about it. From what I have seen DirectTV is over compressing their signal which will cause the pixeling.
Now, onto the DSL service, now with the 3M down & 256K up on a cable modem I would never trade it for a DSL, here locally some of the DSL providers charge $45/month for a 128K up & 384K down, that is a rip off, especially that cable modem costs $50 per month & your get nice speeds.
Even if I would not be working for a cable company I would go with the cable modem with out any questions in mind.
Working for the cable here I wear their shirts with the logo, from time to time being at a grocery store I get some comments from people I dont know that our cable modem service kicks butt over DSL service ( this is not a joke ).
Anyhow, it is up to you, you are the consumer, choose the one you want to go with, above are just my two cents.
Mark
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Seems that everyone is going after pirates when a situation like this comes up. It is true that most people that are renting & returning the same day could be making copies of the DVDs, that sure would be a large DVD collection. However, couple of things to think about. What if I am a very ill person that is stuck at home with no where to go, what if I am handicap & can not go anywhere & TV is my way of entertainment, what if I am a criminal that can not walk to the video store because I am on a house arrest. Each one of this time (& there is MANY people like that in USA) will turn me into a "pirate"? because I am renting and watching the movie as soon as it gets to my home and then send it back the next day? I do not find that fair on Netflix part, to make me suffer because they automatically assume that everyone that is renting & returning movies the same day is a "pirate". What about this, what if I was to come into Blockbusters Video or Hollywood Video & rent a movie every day, return it next day, would they tell me "Sorry sir, you need to wait couple of days My two cents. Personally I do hope someone decides to take care of this matter with a small claims court. I know I would sign up for it, since I have been a netflix user since 2001 I have noticed this "throttling" for last almost a year. It is time to try out Blockbusters Online Rental.
If anyone knows, is there a way to load the drivers for any Third Party Drivers without using the floppy drive, please let me know . My email is spooky617@yahoo.com thank you for your help
Well looks like whatever Toms Hardware did it caused this place to shot down, at least the website is off like. It is good to see that some scammers dont get away with it.
I just want to drop my two cents in, I think that ATI needs to first hire some good programmers to get their drivers written correctly before they get into the HDTV market. Their bad drivers is what forced me to switch from Radeon to GeForce (even though I had the first Radeon AIW card when they first came out), almost anyone I speak with has some type of a problem with the Catalyst drivers. So if they are having problems with drivers for their main line of cards how can they make a good HDTV card & charge ALOT of money for it?
There is no way to give you a realistic time frame for any repairs until you get out to the problem location, locate the problem, estimate the repair time. Since first off you have no way of knowing right a way if it is a fiber cut, pole down, simple transformer died etc. how in a world could anyone give you a time frame? If that would be the case we would never have any problems. Just a quick note. Keep in mind also that cable company gets a different feed then the sat provider, it is also possible that the feed from Texas was bad, I am not saying that it was the case but it could be. We see that alot. ( Yes I work for the cable company )
I work for Comcast cable here in CA, but not in any way am I trying to pump up my company. The service here has for the most part any channel I could ask for, from Tech TV to G4TV, Discovery Sci, Food Network etc. Almost every one of them is on a Digital tier which will give you pretty good video quality, I do alot of PVR stuff on my PC & it comes out almost a DVD quality ( the recording, using my Leadtek TV card ). Now, DVR boxes, we are in a trial mode at the moment, the biggest problem is the converter provider, the issues they are having is being worked out, I am hoping we will be able to get them out to the customers in next couple of weeks. But when it comes to testing it, I really liked it, in my opinion it is easier to use then my TiVO. Pause, Rewind etc. with the 2 hr buffer you can pause your TV for up to 2 hrs ( which I do often ). At this moment we provide around 10 HD channels, however there is more coming. Now, I do have alot of friends that have DirectTV or Dish Network ( keep in mind I am not trying to dog their service in any way, because I work for a cable company ), their biggest complain is that they get alot of pixeling on their sets, alot of freezes, they had couple of techs out there & each time they were told that there is not much they can do about it. From what I have seen DirectTV is over compressing their signal which will cause the pixeling. Now, onto the DSL service, now with the 3M down & 256K up on a cable modem I would never trade it for a DSL, here locally some of the DSL providers charge $45/month for a 128K up & 384K down, that is a rip off, especially that cable modem costs $50 per month & your get nice speeds. Even if I would not be working for a cable company I would go with the cable modem with out any questions in mind. Working for the cable here I wear their shirts with the logo, from time to time being at a grocery store I get some comments from people I dont know that our cable modem service kicks butt over DSL service ( this is not a joke ). Anyhow, it is up to you, you are the consumer, choose the one you want to go with, above are just my two cents. Mark