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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the free-providing-you-pay-more dept.

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Comcast keeps losing TV subscribers, but it has a new way to fight cord cutting.

As streaming video continues to chip away at cable TV subscriber numbers, Comcast is making some of its Internet speed increases available only to customers that pay for both Internet and video service.

Last week, Comcast announced speed increases for customers in Houston and the Oregon/SW Washington areas. The announcement headlines were "Comcast increases Internet speeds for some video customers."

Customers with 60Mbps Internet download speeds are being upped to 150Mbps; 150Mbps subscribers are going to 250Mbps; and 250Mbps subscribers are getting a raise to 400Mbps or 1Gbps.

Comcast says speed increases will kick in automatically without raising the customers' monthly bills—but only if they subscribe to certain bundles that include both Internet and TV service.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/comcast-wont-give-new-speed-boost-to-internet-users-who-dont-buy-tv-service/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by dwilson on Wednesday May 02 2018, @05:11AM

    by dwilson (2599) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 02 2018, @05:11AM (#674460) Journal

    I can only tell the difference between loseless and lossy codecs on very high quality gear. I guess I don't have very good ears. I can still hear the hum from a CRT when it's on but displaying nothing, so I guess I have that going for me.

    But once I realized I could hear the difference under the right circumstances, I re-ripped my entire collection to FLAC, just to avoid ever having to rip it again (It still gets down-converted depending on what I'm loading it on to, back then it was to 128kps mp3 for my player, now it's generally ogg vorbis for my lineageOS phone). This was years ago, mind you. I can't help but chuckle when I buy a new album and rip it today, using abcde. I can remember when ripping the tracks to wav was the quick part, and encoding to flac took ages and ages, and ages. Now, the flac encoding goes faster than the rip itself. Technology is awesome.

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