Hmmm. I'm kind of thinking they're talking about steadicams because geeks kind of know what they are. I don't think that's really what they used.

The DP character looks a lot like one of the cops.

Rob Mack

You can get the best TV in the planet but it's still the same programming.

A very good point.

I am happy with the extensive HD content I get OTA for free, plus Netflix disks ($19.95 for unlimited with 3 disks at a time), plus Netflix instant streaming (free). The latter has a quality that is way amazing, at least at 3 Mbps.

OTA I get three PBS stations in HD (I like PBS content), and of course the four major networks in HD plus their subchannels, plus KDOC with classic TV series in digital, plus a bunch of independent stations (CW, KCOP, ...), plus a bunch of church and Spanish language channels.

For the money I save on cable/satellite, I could have a small glass of Dom Perignon with my breakfast every day...

(But I have better uses :O).

"dropping the cost of of providing Internet service by 10%, not per subscriber, but overall." CD, this is one my big complaints about cable and other internet providers. PLUS..........They have received $ billions, thru special assessments, for boosting internet speed and internet access during the 90's, and never performed to agreed standards and they still want more...................

16:9 was a peculiar choice anyway for screen ratio when the cinema had settled on 1.85:1 and 2.35:1; presumably an electronic compromise. So most cinema material we see on DVD/BluRay is either cropped or letterboxed. I've never been annoyed or felt cheated that some of my screen pixels are not working hard (ie black) but I do get quite peeved when images are cropped. Obviously more so when 1.85 is cropped to 1.33 and 2.33 is panned and scanned to 1.33, although thankfully that is now less common since it was discouraged under copyright. Maybe those who do feel cheated by side bars or letterboxing need a bigger screen?

"16:9 was a peculiar choice anyway . . ."

Yes, I agree, when 9:5 is wthin 1% of 16:9 "widescreen" and simple enough to compute in your head and with some extraordinarily extensible SAR dimensions that adapt perfectly to that ratio:

From a previous post of mine

"True 16:9 would be 853.333333x480."

864x480 is incredibly handy for sizing 16:9 Widescreen video for the web because both numbers are divisible by
2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 96:

1728x960
864x480
432x240
288x160
216x120
144x80
108x60
72x40
54x30
36x20
27x15
18x10
9x5 which is it's true aspect!

To confess, I haven't tackled the 22.xx:1 anamorphic format math yet, however I must say the OP's linked ad looks fantastic!

Just wondering how a set formatted this way will look pillarrboxed with conventionally formatted 16:9 programs? Personally, I abhor black sidebars on conventional widescreen sets . . .

With twisted pair bonding of phone lines you can get a lot more. I have uverse, which is the at&t version to Fios. The difference being it uses standard POTS telephone wiring from the residence to the VRAD (concentrator) where it switches to fiber. My connection is showing a limit of 41Mbps. However, the kicker being is that the available 4 TV streams are using multicast so that is how they can keep the actual bandwidth across the backbone to a minimum. They are selling a 18Mbps internet connection but they are also talking about capping it at 40GB per month. $1 per GB over the package cap. Kinda useless to have a monster pipe when they cap it. Yes you can have it and pay more for it but they really don't want you to use it!

It also not entirely true that you don't share a connection with DSL or ADSL as all DSL lines have to go into a concentrator to a backbone somewhere and it is still possible to overload the concentrator.

For those wondering, no I would not recommend uverse. It is ok but it is still buggy as hell. There is a lot macroblocking and compression artifacts (banding). Sometimes, depending on the station, youtube looks better. It is getting better but still not good if you are a videophile. It's cheap and not comcast or time warner though...