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Cord Cutting Is Hitting Comcast Harder Than Ever:
For a while there, everybody's least favorite cable company, Comcast, was weathering the cord cutting revolution fairly well. The company's losses on the cable TV side could simply be recouped over on its broadband side, where a monopoly protected it from having to actually, you know, try.
Things have shifted. Last year, Comcast saw a record 11 percent of its customer base cancel their Comcast cable service in favor of streaming video, over the air broadcasts, or free services like TikTok. And the company lost lost 440,000 traditional video customers in the fourth quarter of 2022 alone, a big bump over the 227,000 customers it lost in the last three months of 2021.
[...] At this rate Comcast may, someday in the not so distant future, be required to actually try.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by mcgrew on Saturday February 04, @05:24PM (3 children)
Obsolete, yet still used.
I first had cable in 1980. It was a really good deal; only ten bucks a month and its OTA channels had no snow, ghosts, or static in the sound, the number of channels went from five to twelve with one being HBO, and the new cable channels had no commercials, or only between shows. Most cable channels weren't censored.
Now the cable bill is higher than the water bill and its highest resolution is 720 with most channels standard, while an antenna gets you BluRay quality 1080, the cable channels now censor the vulgar dialogue, and they run advertising at the bottom of the screen while the content is showing! AND it now costs an arm and a leg, while Pluto TV has more channels and is FREE.
Obsolete unless you live in a valley.
Pistons? Obsolete Rube Goldberg devices with way too many moving parts and way too much needed maintenance, and you have to stand in the snow in below freezing weather to fill a tank with liquid carcinogens. Its only advantage over electric is the current infrastructure isn't quite there, but by 2024 there are slated to be charging stations at every interstate rest stop and every GM dealer (probably all dealers, but a Chevy dealer told me about Chevy and the interstate).
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04, @06:01PM
> Its only advantage over electric is the current infrastructure isn't quite there,
Think a little harder. For a few examples:
Gasoline is truly "good to the last drop" -- performance doesn't suffer as the tank is emptied (batteries are damaged by running down too far).
Power remains relatively independent of temperature (battery range suffers in cold--I woke up to 0F this morning).
If I run out of gas, I can get a gallon jug relatively easily (for a Tesla it usually means a flat bed ride).
In smoggy areas, some of the latest ultra-low emission cars actually clean more of the traditional pollutants (HC, CO & NOX) than they contribute.
And the bottom line at the present time--electric cars cost a *lot* more than comparable IC cars.
There will be IC and IC/electric-hybrids for a long time.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04, @06:54PM
ICE engines are far from obsolete. There are still plenty of improvements to be made and synthetic fuels can cut emission to near 0. They are still the best way to move. Not that you would notice when all you see is your own needs. The hell with the rest of the people and their needs, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06, @09:15PM
Says someone who is like a horse with those eye-thingies, that allows it to see only in front of it.
Try to look at a more wider perspective and you will see that E-cars are pretty lacking still and not just in the car itself, but infrastructure, recycling and usability also (batteries use resources that are needed elsewhere to rmuch more important stuff), and that there are other options, including ICE, which if not banned by cultish hive mind thinking, can still be advanced a lot.
As for cord cutting. I don't have a hardwired connection at the moment atleast. Not until the prices drop dramatically.