Short Nerd Chief

You may have wondered how Comcast planned to get the bandwidth to add all that new HD content they keep promising. Throttling BitTorrent use? Apparently not, given their agreement to work with BT.  Adding capacity? You’ve got to be kidding.  No, they are apparently just going to compress their already compressed signals even more.  The image above show the difference between Verizon’s fiber-to-the-premises system, which doesn’t compress video signals, and Comcast’s coax network, which does.  That sucks. Big time.

Unfortunately, if you are like me, your only HD options are Comcast or an over-the-air HD antenna.  There’s no FiOS in my neighborhood, even though I had the service more than a year ago but a couple of miles away.  Verizon’s March construction schedule doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, either. The neighbor’s trees block the view of the sky, so no satellite.

None of this is likely to change, so I’m resigned to making rude gestures in the general direction of Philadelphia:

[via BB Gadgets]