And all this is happening while the USPS is still trying to end Saturday delivery. If that ever happened, Netflix wouldn't receive any more discs to process.

Do you think that you are being throttled because of your usage or that your particular distribution center is overloaded? I know where I'm at, I mail it one day, they receive it the next, and the next movie goes out for the following day.

It might actually be a problem on the mail delivery side, but it could be your particular distribution center. I just wanted to say it's not the universal experience. But I rarely go through more than 1 disc a week because of my viewing habits.

Most people no longer have a local video store. My alternative is buying every movie I want to watch once.

How about keeping it on the queue, but listed at the bottom under "Saved Titles" - just like the movies that haven't come out on DVD yet.

An oddly strict definition of conservation....not using it at all would fit under the definition of conservation. Or saving it all for a global emergency to survive a volcanic winter when solar and hydro give out. That's what I was getting at. There's no reason we shouldn't know where it is and be ready to mine it just in case.

I said nothing against going to nuclear as a primary fuel source. It's perfectly feasible except for one small problem - no one will do it or approve it. With that standing as a major roadblock to this day, we still need to conserve what we're using.

I think it's great as long as they can keep the SNR in-margin. The problem is that at certain times of the year, my cable service is just plain unreliable - especially for VoIP - even when uncongested.

I don't subscribe to TV, because they really overcram. I wish they were just using better QAM, but they're also overcompressing the channels on top of that.

As long as you put a 6 on one of those four sides, I don't see a problem.

No...this means we'll have enough coal leftover if and when Yellowstone finally blows.

There's no doubt that nuclear fuel is useful, but that's completely off-topic to the point you started out making.

Yeah, it will. Is QAM-256 in that wide of usage? That might explain why my cable Internet has been so flaky at times. There's a good bit of line noise where I'm at. I'll admit to not looking at my modem to see what modulation it's using.

Car dealers are the worst. I once left a message asking for a quote on a repair. They never called me back....until they tried to sell me a car 6 months later.

If they know the bounds of IPv6 addressing, they'll be somewhat likely to know that IPv5 used the same addressing as IPv4.
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Yes - it wasn't that long ago that VHS-quality video streaming was an edge case.

I think it's worth restating. You will never get a better picture from cable than OTA. Cable uses the existing broadcast stream that already has compression artifacts - the best it can do is preserve that as-is, but that's not realistic.

Cable usually has a very good SNR, but VSB is not used by cable - at least not without a cable box. The link they posted clearly says everyone's using QAM. And QAM-64 is going to put them at around 26Mbps.

When I moved into my current apartment, I discovered that Charter forgot to install a TV filter. I compared two TV's side by side - one OTA and one cable. And the difference was like VHS vs. DVD. Even from 10 feet away you could easily see blurry macroblocking on the cable source, and virtually no artifacts on OTA. On top of that, the contrast was missing, so the signal probably went through some analog equipment before being re-compressed.

OTA is compressed too, but you typically get one "main" virtual channel per real channel. PBS is one exception to that, but with NBC I get probably 15Mbps of picture quality on the main channel, and 1Mbps on the weather subchannel.