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Comment Re:Cognitive dissonance... (Score 5, Informative) 647

Actually the article had an anti-net neutrality bent which would put it against many slashdotters.

The House bill also calls for "open access." This phrase can include hugely controversial topics such as net neutrality, which in its most radical version would bar providers from charging different amounts for different kinds of broadband content. Now that video, conferencing and other heavy-bandwidth applications are growing in popularity, price needs to be one tool for allocating scarce resources. Analysts at Medley Global Advisors warn that if these provisions remain in the bill, "it will keep most broadband providers out of the applicant pool" for the funds intended specifically for them.

Television

CBS Hosts Ad-Funded TV Series, Incl. Original Star Trek 276

eldavojohn writes "On Friday, CBS launched a TV Classics section to their ad based online service. Which means that Trekkies can now watch all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series online at the expense of a few commercials. Alongside this CBS is offering all of MacGyver, Twin Peaks and even three seasons of the original Twilight Zone. A side note, they seem to work perfectly fine in Linux. "

Comment Re:How about plasma displays? (Score 5, Informative) 225

No, plasmas have near instantaneous response times that are pretty much identical to what you get on a CRT. The issues you get with a plasma is called "phosphor lag" which has to do with the three colors not quite lining up perfectly and it gives you a trailing image of the colors. It's especially noticeable on high contrast edges or if things are moving really quickly. It can be especially noticeable in gaming, but at least IMO it's much less annoying an artifact than the ghosting, smearing, and horrible motion resolution you get with LCDs (and yes they are present even on 120hz LCDs before someone brings that up).

Comment Re:Net Neutrality (Score 1) 355

No, I never said such a notion was a good thing. I was just explaining the reason why Hulu doesn't allow content to be streamed outside of the US. It's because they don't want to have to file for bankruptcy after getting sued into oblivion by companies like Fox.

Comment Re:Net Neutrality (Score 1) 355

Hulu is the exact same as the espn you despise. Instead of blocking people based on ISP they block based on country.

That's because they only have licenses to distribute that content within the US. To distribute it to people outside the US would be copyright infringement and would get their asses sued into the ground by the big media companies. That would definitely be a brilliant plan on their part.

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