I used to have Cablevision, but happily switched to Verizon FIOS when they suddenly hit me with a much higher bill one month (an increase from about $120/month up to $180/month - apparently because my promotional year was over). I remember when I called them to cancel, they offered me another "deal" that would keep my bill the same, but I had already ordered FIOS and was really starting to look forward to it. I switched to Verizon and have paid around $120 ever since.
Having been a Cablevision customer, I can't say I ever had any artifacts while watching HD, but I really don't know how it is now.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Cablevision strives for quantity over quality. I've seen YouTube videos with less compression artifacts.
I used to have Cablevision, but happily switched to Verizon FIOS when they suddenly hit me with a much higher bill one month (an increase from about $120/month up to $180/month - apparently because my promotional year was over). I remember when I called them to cancel, they offered me another "deal" that would keep my bill the same, but I had already ordered FIOS and was really starting to look forward to it. I switched to Verizon and have paid around $120 ever since.
Having been a Cablevision customer, I can't say I ever had any artifacts while watching HD, but I really don't know how it is now.