What the article doesn't mention: 1.4 tbs down, 10mbs up

Yes, but their intelligence is outweighed by their deliciousness.

I haven't look at the commercial products since I wanted to set up something free. However the free solutions *will* require quite an investment in time to learn how everything works and set up your device profiles.

I'm using Serviio on my CentOS box, it took me weeks to get the profiles for all my devices working properly, but now it transcodes on the fly to my Panasonic and Samsung BueRay players (if you don't have a smart TV, get a BlueRay player that supports DLNA, should be around $100), and it works with our Android and iDevices as well.

DLNA seems to be a work in progress, it's not as seamless or as polished as I'd like it to be .. I haven't got sub-titles working (I don't have a need so I haven't spent any time on it), and the most annoying thing is that I can't fast forward or rewind playback, apparently this could be related to my version of ffmpeg, but it's something I need to look into.

Long story short, if you want to do it with free software, the technology is currently at a place where you will have to spend a lot of time getting everything working. I'm not sure how the commercial offerings compare, that might be a route to go if you don't have time to spend.

Because he had already invested $48 in his ticket and popcorn?

If I wanted to socialize, I would have gone to Twitter/SnapChat/Facebook/MySpace

There's the rub (from google's perspective)

Oops, bad analogy, but you get the point..

So you take your car in to the dealership for a warranty repair. The mechanic googles you and sees you're a fan of The Fast and The Furious .. therefor you're probably abusing your car and are denied the free repair. It's a slippery slope..

Wait 'till you have kids and your tinker time drops to zero.

It makes life more difficult for the competition, plus they can sell the data to the competition later.

No, that's my actual password, capital G and with spaces!

I quickly turned off that feature when I found my 4 year old playing with my phone. She was 2 attempts away from wiping it!

Ah yes, I remember playing Doom on a 386 with the view minimized as small as possible to make it playable. We had a 486 as well, the two machines cobbled together with Arcnet so we could play on the network. The guy on the 486 had a huge advantage in frame rate and larger viewing area, but only the 486 had a soundcard, so the guy on the 386 could get an advantage by listening to the sound from the other computer (you could guess how far away the opponent was based on the volume of your gunfire coming out of the other computer's speakers).

Wow, 20 years, I can't believe it.. thanks for making me feel old today, Slashdot!

Their network arteries are too congested..

All places with drive throughs put more priority on drive through customers.

That's nothing... The H/R department at my company lists experience with our internally developed business application as a requirement for outside hires. For real.