"5Ways Comcast Takeover could ruin TV and the Internet"

[Armstead]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/13/comcast-time-warner-deal_n_4783598.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp


From Huffington Post - This ought to be read by all of the "why should I care, doesnt affect me" types ib the nation

EXcerpt.....

1. The End Of Unlimited Data At Home:

As Gigaom notes, Time Warner Cable broadband customers don't have monthly data caps -- they can stream as much video, download as much content and surf the web as much as they like without worrying about going over any sort of monthly allotment. Comcast, however, is testing out data caps in cities in at least six states.

Customers in these areas who pay for Comcast's Xfinity service are limited to 300 gigabytes of data per month, meaning they can only use 300 GB worth of Netflix, YouTube, Facebook and iTunes. For many people, that's enough. But considering that an hour of HD video on Netflix uses about 2.8 GB, or an Xbox One game download can be a whopping 44GB, the allotment can go pretty quickly for some people. If they go over that, they are charged a fee of $10 for every 50 gigabytes used. With control of even more markets through the Time Warner Cable acquisition, data caps for Time Warner Cable customers could be on the horizon.

"The era of abundance in the broadband market is over," said Derek Turner, the research director for Free Press, a nonpartisan advocacy group. "The era of artificial scarcity is now upon us."


Much more at link.

[Bennyboy]

1. Will American Idol still come on?

Who gives a flying crap. Tomorrow, if not this thread right here, the subject will die and we will move on to the next celebrity something.

57 channels and nothin's on.

[RebelOne]

2. I have over 100 channels

through Comcast, and there are only about 10 channels worth watching.

[Bennyboy]

4. If that.

The only ones I NEED to have is ESPN and sports locals.

TNT< TBS< NICK and the broadcasts? nah don't need that.

[Politicalboi]

3. It's too bad we just can't pay for

The channels we watch. I only use around 5, mostly for my mother, and we use Roku. I don't need reality TV shit, or infomercials. Just give me Antenna TV and METV AMC for Walking Dead, and Comedy Central and MSNBC.

[Armstead]

5. Imagine those kinds of limits on steroids.

That's what the article is about

[Armstead]

6. A kick for some sunlight on the implications of this

[G_j]

7. K&R

[rustydog]

8. Ruin TV? really? RUIN TV???

Kardashians, Honey fucking boo boo, Lizard lick, swamp shit, Duck dienasty, FOX, living dead, storage wars, container wars,
etcetra, etcetra, etcetra, wow.

If it isn't ruined now, I'd sure hate to see your version of ruined TV.

[Armstead]

10. Multiply that out, and then apply it to the Internet too

Oen of the resons that cable TV sucks so bad is that all of the many channels are owned by a tiny handful of media monopolies, who also own the cable pipes and Internet backbone.

So all there is available on cable is the crap they spoon out.

Now, extend that to the Internet, where you combine the loss of "net neutrality" with an even more concentrated ownership of Internet service providers.

They start jacking up the price to websites for reasonable speed (unless they want to be slowed down to where a image takes five minutes to view) combined with their ownership of the same cable channels that crank out so much shit -- and you get a witches brew where the Intenet becomes just like cable TV.

[me b zola]

9. k/r