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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:37PM (1 child)
i really have been happy with mp3 vbrs at 320kbps; it goes down to nothing in silence and whatever works in between for anything else. with sennheiser 650HD headphones, I have not found anyone that can notice the difference between a CD itself and the audio file when ripped this way.
I never got into ogg because I have a few older mp3 players that could not handle the computational complexity of ogg files, although the file size is superior and would be great to add more music to the same space -- old mp3 players... are too old.
(Flac is just like monster cables for audio from what I can tell. you know the difference only if you expect there to be one)
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday May 03 2018, @01:03PM
I had an iRiver music player years ago, and it played Oggs just fine.
The key is to do some research before you buy something, and make sure it supports open standards.