Recent content by Capm

You have to remember that, when they were looking at alacart back then, it just wasn't possible to do that with an analog cable system, beyond 4 or 5 channels (premiums) because the cost and form of traps made it prohibitive to do so. The switchover to digital over the last decade or so has...

There were technical hurdles regarding ala cart previously, on analog cable systems. But these days, with many cable systems either Digital or heading that way, those hurdles are gone. The problem with ala cart now is not the Cable companies (who would love to do alacart), it is the...

You don't realize how much all this stuff really costs. Cable companies ARE in business to make a profit, if they weren't, there would be no point to offering service of any kind - but they get nickle-and-dimed before you ever do. Everything costs money. You have to pay for each channel per...

No, The beginnings of the internet may have been government and research based, but today, the internet backbone segments are owned by Tier 1 ISP's, which are large multi-national conglomerations, They sell access to Tier 2 ISP's, which in turn service the Tier 3 ISP's that you know of as TWC...

You have no idea what you're talking about. I'm sure its easy to build out fiber everywhere when your entire country is about the size of Michigan. The simple fact is, its not as cheap to upgrade things as you like to tell yourself. And just because you can run a cat5 jumper from your wall...

raidenfox123I realize that, running it to the house is another animal, and ya sure current DOCSIS could do gigabit connections but the amount of bonded channels needed would wither at the limited capacity of there coaxial network. Under the current 6Mhz wide 256 QAM modulation per channel...