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Cable - too few HD channels, or too many stuffed into too little bandwidth
Sony - BD is too freaking expensive

The only media avenue I feel totally comfortable with is DVD via Netflix. I'm thinking of dropping my Cox digital and going only Netflix for DVD's and streaming via Xbox 360.]]>Mar 30th 2009 6:32PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/30/cable-hd-compression-gets-turned-up-a-notch-in-the-electra-8000/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/30/cable-hd-compression-gets-turned-up-a-notch-in-the-electra-8000/
If this is what they want to do, they need to start using STBs that can handle h.264 video, which can certainly do this and with good quality too. But MPEG-2 compression at this rate, sorry, no...

They're going to drive people back to OTA... That OTA signal at what 18-20Mbps? is starting to look pretty good... and hey, the price is right for these troubled times.]]>Mar 31st 2009 1:15AM