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AT&T also offers faster than 1 Gbps speeds. Their 1 Gbps plan is actually over provisioned by 25%. It's not 1 / 1 Gbps; it's 1.25 / 1.25 Gbps. The new 2 Gbps and 5 Gbps speed tiers that they're testing in Raleigh right now will likely be the same so you'll actually see 2.5 Gbps / 2.5 Gbps & 5 /...

AT&T sounds pretty based.

I know for a fact that Charter and Verizon FiOS TV still mostly transcode the channels they receive to MPEG-2 on their systems. I'm sure a lot of the smaller crappier cable companies do it too. Cox, Suddenlink, and CableOne don't strike me as the kinds of companies to pay to upgrade every MPEG-2...

I get HBO Max for free included with my AT&T Fiber 1 Gbps connection that I only pay $50 a month for. It's on demand 1080p H.264 video with bitrates of ~8 Mbps, which is pretty good. That is definitely a lot better than channels from cable/DirecTV/Dish Network. The audio quality of HBO Max is...

That's because Dish Network/DirecTV's garbage over-compressed channels aren't worth pirating. They're not worth paying for and they're also not even worth watching even if you can get them for free. You can pirate all of that content from superior sources elsewhere. Certainly any scripted...

How is it that such a large company can have such an incompetent marketing department? Why are there going to be so many different HBO brand names now delivering the same content? HBO, HBO Go, HBO Now, HBO Max. It's DirecTV, DirecTV Now, AT&T TV all over again. What a mess. Just call the...

If only we could be so lucky. It's really difficult to immigrate there. I already looked. Then again I suppose the small number of migrants is why Japan is still such a nice culturally homogeneous place with strong social cohesion and a miniscule crime rate. Unless you can find a Japanese waifu...

Meh. I am not really interested in further resolution increases until they bring back stereoscopic 3D. It needs to be implemented as a video quality improvement standard just like color was. High resolution, high framerate, HDR video with 3D. Now that's what I'm talking about. Right now I have a...

Cover the whole country with a dying technology that no one wants anymore vs. covering at least half the country with a technology that everyone desires and will continue to desire for the foreseeable future. Brilliant business strategy! I know that whenever I look for a new place to live, the...

Apparently that $67 billion AT&T wasted on DirecTV could've been used to roll out fiber-to-the-home to 90% of all households in the United States -- not just territories AT&T currently operates wired services in! Report: For an Extra $70 Billion, FTTH Could be Available to 90% of U.S. Homes by...

Netflix's original programs / licensed foreign content acquisitions are really great. I spend most of my scripted TV viewing time on something that originated from Netflix or a foreign show they acquired the license to. They have tons of great Spanish shows! The other streaming services neglect...

Which one of these is the plan where they have 4K HDR streams and starting using x264 to encode their 1080p videos instead of that sh!tty Zencoder platform? Because they should drop all the other services and go with that one. Zencoder based streaming services are absolute garbage. Also, that...

My PC can play back 8K HEVC video @ 60 FPS, stereoscopic 3D and has 10GbE direct access to a 400 terabyte NAS server in my basement. This box will be inferior in every conceivable way. I'm shooting down this "service" for requiring hardware instead of being purely a software service like all of...

Why do you have to pay for yet another obnoxious, inferior proprietary box to use this service? This defeats the entire purpose of "streaming" There is nothing that that crappy AT&T box they're launching for this service can do that my PC can't do 100x better. No Windows 10 app to access the...

Ground mount seems like a pointless waste of space when you're dealing with a stationary pizza pan sized antenna that does not require regular maintenance. I'd have my C-band dish mounted on a roof if it didn't require so much babysitting due to its size and motorized nature.

I was talking more about the scents they produce in their fur coats than the ones produced from urination/defecation. Walk into any dog owner's house and you will smell them. They naturally emit a pretty strong smell. I've never noticed cats emitting a smell. I guess if you got in real close...

Depends on the pet. Dogs stink, cats don't.

I can't believe they deploy those wimpy little dishes even on commercial buildings serving many customers. Bet all the guests will be thrilled when they lose TV every time it rains.

And none of the manners, apparently. The funny thing about living in a populated area is you actually have to learn how to get along with people.

Not a fan of rural areas myself. Fresh air and scenery is a great way to die alone. Rural areas are no good unless you've already found a life partner. I'd rather get laid than stare at a tree LMAO

:p:p:p:p to you too. Given your lack of comebacks to my last post, I'll go ahead and accept your admission of defeat then. GG, better luck next time fren

Scientific Atlanta 9000 series dishes manufacture date back to the early 1980's and they are all metal, not fiberglass. My dish is almost 40 years old and still works good as new. It's been in use for most of those 40 years. My dish could survive a hurricane. Could yours? There's a reason why TV...

Am I supposed to be impressed by those hideously shaped consumer grade mesh C-band dishes that look like they'll lose half their panels the first time a storm blows through and all the tiny little DirecTV pizza pan peasant dishes surrounding them? There's nothing at all impressive about that...