{"id":184538,"date":"2012-03-26T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/26\/and-we-are-supposed-to-trust-the-cable-companies-because\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:47:00","slug":"and-we-are-supposed-to-trust-the-cable-companies-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/26\/and-we-are-supposed-to-trust-the-cable-companies-because\/","title":{"rendered":"And We Are Supposed to Trust the Cable Companies Because?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, they are moving to the gated garden, where <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2012\/03\/comcast-xbox-360-on-demand-streams-wont-count-against-data-caps.ars\">favored vendors receive priority bandwidth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>It looks as if Comcast is preparing to move from a limited beta test to a wide release for its long-promised Xbox Live streaming video app, with some details appearing on the company&#8217;s support pages. Probably the biggest revelation about the service is that streaming Comcast&#8217;s On Demand videos through the Xbox 360 will not count towards customers&#8217; 250GB monthly data limit.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast says the Xbox app gets special treatment because the video is &#8220;being delivered over our private IP network and not the public Internet.&#8221; This gives the service a potentially large advantage over not just other video streaming apps like Netflix and Hulu Plus, but also over Comcast On Demand content streamed through the company&#8217;s website and mobile apps, both of which count against the data limits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy your 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party streaming while you can, because it is not going to work reliably much longer.<\/p>\n<p>I expect them to start f%$#ing with 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party IP telephony in the next few years as well, so buh-bye Skype.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/author\/harold\/\">Harold Feld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, they are moving to the gated garden, where favored vendors receive priority bandwidth: It looks as if Comcast is preparing to move from a limited beta test to a wide release for its long-promised Xbox Live streaming video app, with some details appearing on the company&#8217;s support pages. Probably the biggest revelation about the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,969,997,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-evil","category-internet","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}