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But logic is not a strong suit for the people who see the cable industry as evil. Confusingly, as evil and hateful as the industry is, they continue to purchase their products. Admittedly, there is the problem of legally-imposed monopolies. This is wrong, but no one ever argues against it.

McSlarrow points out a very salient argument for why the cable industry embraces broadband and streaming video. Yet, the conspiracy theorists will have none of it. “Oh, the cable companies only want you to get video through their video channels.”

TWC’s only source of income is delivering content made by other people. Why then would they want to limit the channels by which their customers could get this content? It would be like a retailer that doesn’t offer an online ordering system because they fear it would reduce sales at their stores. It might, but they’d still be making sales.

While mistakes are made by the cable companies, one should not assume that this means they are purely evil. They are dealing with a changing marketplace and because they have long been innovators rather than reactionaries they are taking steps to embrace change. Just because the RIAA tried to ostrich themselves to technology doesn’t mean cable will.

- Mike

There is nothing new about what is being done here. Don’t whine to us about how much is being spent to implement broadband or the next generation of squat. The US (as usual) pioneers the technology, and the rest of the planet with its newer Internet infrastructure implements the latest and best from the get-go, and enjoys the benefits cheaply.

Back home in the US, where most of the technology games and apps are developed, where the greatest bandwidth is demanded and needed, we have the lowest available bandwidth. Just ask the throngs of gamers who’ve stopped playing online due to the constant latency issues. We also get screwed harder than anyone except for maybe the Japanese.

US business, richer than it has ever been, whines about how hard it has they have it. I love clever wording like, “merely suggesting”, and “looking into new ideas and possibilities.” The Internet Ecosystem truly is healthy…with threat upon threat upon threat, the latest of which now comes from the Internet Providers themselves. Yes, unfair practice and stealing are threats. We won’t even touch dead, archaic ideals like fair-play, honesty or justice as your lobbyist dollars slaughtered all of those long ago.

Get it through your head…there can be only one ‘true, ultimately evil yet purely legal because it can buy its way into or out of anything’ criminal organization on the planet, and the position has already been filled by the petroleum industry (with the legal system leeched to its belly like a Remora).

The citizens of our country really cannot afford to bend over for you as well. But though no one could possibly believe the spew flowing from between your lips, all of this will come to pass because the US citizen is now powerless…though most of them don’t know if yet.

Your dollar will rule, and soon only businesses will be able to afford any more bandwidth than email requires…attachments will be extra. Tell the damned truth, that you want to monitor, to control, to rule, and to charge, charge, charge, because you’d sell your Auntie for an extra tenth of a point’s profit.

It is all going to happen and nothing can or will stop it. This is as pathetic as any modern political campaign. It’s just not as colorful or entertaining.

It’d also help if companies like Insight would quit claiming they charge ZERO to access HD, when in fact they charge a $5 premium for an HD STB and $11.95 for their only HD tier package. I’ve gotten so many flyers lately from them that scream “FREE” in massive letters all over them, yet last I checked another $16 on top of $90 is hardly free.

“Comparing current costs to future pricing – especially when everyone has already acknowledged the long term growth of Internet delivered applications – is precisely the problem. Declaring that today’s costs will meet tomorrow’s needs, while simultaneously accepting the fact that tomorrow’s needs will be significantly higher doesn’t ring true.”

While that may be the case it’s also true that given their record of climbing revenues, decreasing costs, and their claims for several years now that we’re up against a bandwidth wall which never seemed to materialize, asking us to take them at their word this time doesn’t ring true either. Sure, they can toss around some unrelated numbers about theoretical costs but they can’t manage to reflect that in their own bottom line and show a NEED rather than a want for more income.

To us they say we’re up against a wall and they’ve told us that for years, to their investors though things are going great and they’ve got plans for increased income, that increasing income and dropping costs reflected through the same years they cried “suffering company” to the public. One of them is being lied to. Care to place any best on if it’s the investors, or if it’s us? Try reading their most current yearly statement to the SEC (their 10-K) and see what you make of it.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/financials/secfilings.asp?symbol=TWC