Just an FYI...my neighbor in TX is a Verizon exec and he had 100MB running when we were invited to their Chistmas Party.
Haha.... too funny. This reminds me of the the Dish Network uplink reports for channels that never show up and then they just go away. You've got these guys over there saying they are personal channels for Charlie, the boss at Dish. I think it was TBS HD (before the common folk got it weeks or months later) that showed up in the uplink report and there have been RSNs. These channels sometimes go live for the actual customers but some time it is just Charlie's "testing."
We already know FIOS just needs to make live a couple circuits for Internet bandwidth and we'll be all set. I just don't understand why I didn't get 50 when I was a fresh install. My whole CO was a fresh install. Surely the ONT can candle the extra circuits. They probably have to keep everybody on the same page in each market.
Must be nice for this executive to have eggnog cocktails and caviar, along with really fast Internet that the people he is showing off to don't and won't get for a while. "Look at me, I am bad ass, I have a 100Mbps connection, that caviar you are eating, well it was delivered right across my Internet connection. Yep, we can do that now. We can deliver goods over the Internet it is so fast now. Margret, I'm sorry dear but it won't be available in this neighborhood until next year." "But Steve, you live next door and have it????" "I am an executive with FIOS, of course
I have it. " haha....
That will be nice if they do this upgrade. Even if we don't subscribe to the fast speed, we will benefit because the VOD in your house will be able to play multiple HD VODs at the same time with now problem. My math says six. You could have six DVRs watching six different HD-VODs at the same time if they hat 100Mbps. Much better than the limitation of 1 as it stands now in many markets. Bring it on!
I was at my father-in-law's house last night (new to FIOS) trying to explain to him the HD channels are the higher ones. They were watching Showtime west SD in the 300s on an HD TV via stretch-o-vision. I was sickened and had to wake them up. Well my mother in law doesn't get it but pops #2 cares and I showed him. I turned to the 800 version (HD) of the same channel and my beloved father in law could clearly see the light. FIOS could do a better job job telling novices where to find the HD channels. They thought their stretch-o-vision was HD and I meet so many people like this.
About a year ago we had our then 3 month old baby and my mother-in-law would come down to take care of him when I had to work for a few months and while my wife was on maternity leave to help her out. My mother in law is a lifetime move watcher and watches CNN and Fox News (as well as MSNBC, which doesn't yet have a live HD channel. I kept catching her watching channels like A&E and Lifetime in SD that had HD versions of the channels. She didn't know any better. I was just thankful she was helping out so I let her enjoy and didn't say anything after maybe once. She went on watching SD in strecth-o-vision of channels available on another channel in HD.
Gotta love competition...it's the driver of innovasion. With the competition catching up, I got the feeling we'll see Verizon roll-out more HD channels this summer. If nothing else, we should see the six (6) .tv channels go live pretty soon. Plus, they supposedly have inked deals to carry nine addition HD channels...just don't know when all 15 will be active.
Believe me, I do love competition. I just wish my providers DirecTV and FIOS would start adding content. If it takes the other providers to pass them up in channels, so be it, but it should have to get that far. It is like, if they didn't have competition they wouldn't have rolled out so much HD. They didn't do it for us, they did it to compete. Cost doesn't matter to me up until a certain point. I'd be willing to pay more to get all the HD channels. These companies will fight tooth and nail over pennies. If AMC wants $.50 per subscriber for HD and FIOS has been holding out for $.40, it just isn't worth it. FIOS, pay the extra ten cents and pass it along to me in my bill. I want the channel.
Maybe we would be better off in an a la carte system. I'd get the Premium movie channels of course, Fox News and Fox business, History, NatGeo, AMC, Fx, and a handful of others.
Heck, FIOS should have a HD and locals only package. Then if you add the premiums you'd also get the SD premiums that aren't available in HD yet, like a few of the Showtimes, Starz, Encore. . That would go over well since many of us pretty much only watch HD.
but I must say that I really appreciate having AMC HD in my channels lineup).
Must be nice. I hate watching Breaking Bad in SD because neither one of my providers will add AMC HD. Jerks.
