well we had the tech boys here for 11 hours installiing it, but its fantastic.The picture quality is all that and then some without HD.. No more cable and no more dish for us. Got three tvs installed and paying 74$ a month for all three tvs and got all the laptops 3 of them hooked up wireless to the internet pro. All movie packages are included in the price. Can record about 120 hours into the box. Can programme from the internet anywhere in the world. Great!!!!

sounds interesting. Unsurprisingly Time Warner have a monopoly in our area on cable based stuff (I presume this is cable based, as i guess it needs a fat connection), so its not available in NE Ohio. A good price to boot too. Like the program from anywhere on the planet due to internet connection (even though we've had for ages with Tivo)

But it's not HD

thats a big downer, football in anything but hd is a bit crap now

however hd encoders are supposed to be out next month


looks interesting and I may be able to get rid of comcast and use att for everything

my bad, (sorry for the stupid american comment) it seems that they have all the hd channels I watch...

not available in my area right now but could be pretty cool

dammit

it seems the earliest I can get is 2011

edited, to make sense for us who can't stand the game

its not cable.. its fiber optics.. wotever they might be.

wierd little concept but great. ok i am now going to go outside and paint the front door ... eliminating the previous skirt that lived here slowly but surely. : )

coo, fiber straight into the house, whatever next

Telewest in Scotland used to run fiber networks and then had street boxes/cabients from which they ran traditional coax cable into houses. I presumed that was how they did it here, but to be honest i've not bothered checking. I know its coax into our place and thats from the street, but I dunno if its a common fiber feed into a local node and then distributed onwards with cable.

But who cares, if its fiber its gonna be mucho bandwidth

No, it's fibre to the last mile and then still copper (twisted pair). Problem is, the distance from the copper to the fibre cannot be too far else quality deteriotes rapidly. I had Bellsouth "Fibre" to just outside my house but the "main" box was more than 6000 feet away and the max band-width that I could get was 1.5mbps. Despite the fact them calling me up every 30 days to see if I wanted to increase my speed... which the techs said I couldn't get

I switched to Cable for my internet and get 12mbs now.. minimum.

It NEVER ceases to AMAZE me, in my house. Coming into the house I have a co-ax cable (the same type we used to connect our ariels too but better quality). down this one friggen little cable, I get..

* High Speed (12mbs) Internet
* Digital Telephone - 2lines
* 4 Cable Boxes (3 are HDTV)

and ALL working at the same time (3 HD channels) with NO loss of speed or picture quality. WTF - and HTF does that work.... the same type of sh/tty ariel cable that would give static, hisses and snow

Funny progress...

who knows, who cares. It works

When I was working for a telecoms company in the UK we were working on test equipment for the next generation of optic comms. 40GB/s, transceiver modules in the test equipment alone were pushing half a million squid

trouble is no one really wanted to go there as the associated infrastructure costs were ridiculous

Time Warner. The "We take over your cable company, take down the service on a weekly basis without telling you, slow your internet connection, make sure on demand doesn't work right, make sure when you call to do anything you can't get through to somebody for ages and then charge you more for it" company. Bunch of tossers.

oh, you've heard of them then

so are there lots of folk in your house, or are you just a really good multi-tasker

Ha - we've just been switched from Time Warner to Comcast. Supposed to be "totally comcastic" but not noticed any difference yet...apart from our bills went up

We have Verizon FIOS, and really, genuinely have fiber running right into our garage. Neat little box there distributes all the content over gigabit ethernet.

Right now we have a 5Mbit data connection and our phone lines, but they're also offering a complete lineup of HD TV over the same connection. The total package (Broadband Internet, HD TV & Phone) is $99/mo for the first two years.

Oh, and if we want to pay more, we can have up to a 20Mbit broadband connection, and that's supposed to be increasing to 30Mbit any day now.

Downside is that if the electricity goes out for >6 hrs, we lose our phones. Better keep those cellphones charged!

She has teenage girls. nuff said.