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Watching TV on the Net May Finally Be Going 21st Century

The other day @theAutty, Always_Inspired and I were talking about how hot it would be to access channels like HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc on the net rather than on the flat , but we knew that big brother cable conglomerate would not allow that to happen. Well I guess we can say jokes on us...lol.

Today Time Warner Cable announced at test project that will allow their customers to access the following channels in real time on the net. According to a Reuters report, the following channels that confirmed or are tentatively participating are:

• GE's SyFy
• Time Warner Inc's TNT
• Cablevision Systems Corp's AMC
• BBC's BBC America
• CBS Corp
• Discovery Communications (tentative)
• Viacom, Inc (tentative)

I am surprised that the cable operators waited so long to roll out an online strategy, but I guess it's a sign of what happens when we change from innovation to greed. Hopefully they will offer the service for free...I'm saying can the customers get more value for the $175+ a month they are currently paying? LOL ...Well I hope it has a successful outcome...but I'm bias...I love anything tech, media, and finance.

Welcome the United States of Tortoise Internet Speed

On Tuesday August 28th, 2009, the Communications Workers of America released a report that ranked World's Internet speed and let's just say, the U.S. got their butt handed to them.

(*drumroll please*)The #1 country with the best download speed is - SOUTH KOREA - say what!!!!! Yes folk South Koreans can download at speeds of 20.4 mbps [megabits per second]. The US came in 28th place with a speed of 5.1 mbps; yea straight turtle speed. This is completely unacceptable. How is it that the US created the internet [before it was called the World Wide Web it was a tool for the Department of Defense] but yet we lag behind the world in Internet Technology? Have we all just accepted mediocrity as commonplace and try to milk every dollar out of it? I assume so...

On OURBLOC we believe in creating solutions not perpetuating the problem, so today let's start up a petition to get Congress to work with the FCC to lift regulations that will allow greater bandwidth speed to flow. Included in this petition we will request that caps are put in place on the cost of this technology; I mean why have download speeds of 20+ megs and have to pay $300 a month for it? There comes a point in time when one says enoughs enough. Are we going to be a super power or are we just going to be a customer? It's our time to decide and in the words of the late Michael Jackson "...make a change...".


Written by: Ran
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