Oh, and I forgot to add, Cablevision plays the misinformation game too. They run these commercials talking about how much faster their internet offerings are than the "phone company." The intentional misinformation is, of course, that by saying "phone company," they are not comparing FIOS internet speeds, but rather Verizon's old DSL connection, which, as far as I know, they only push in areas that don't get FIOS. It would be as if Verizon based their comparison of internet speeds on FIOS vs. someone dialing in on a modem through Cablevision's phone services....it wouldn't be completely false, but you're not comparing Fiber to Cable internet speeds.
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Joshua @ Dec 12th 2008 2:04PM
Oh, and I forgot to add, Cablevision plays the misinformation game too. They run these commercials talking about how much faster their internet offerings are than the "phone company." The intentional misinformation is, of course, that by saying "phone company," they are not comparing FIOS internet speeds, but rather Verizon's old DSL connection, which, as far as I know, they only push in areas that don't get FIOS. It would be as if Verizon based their comparison of internet speeds on FIOS vs. someone dialing in on a modem through Cablevision's phone services....it wouldn't be completely false, but you're not comparing Fiber to Cable internet speeds.
And I should have included this link before: http://policyblog.verizon.com/policyblog/blogs/policyblog/ericrabe9/515/why-verizon-doesn-t-offer-msg-in-hd.aspx
That's Verizon's stance on the no MSG-HD issue.