Posted by Bob on 01/13/06 14:15

On 12 Jan 2006 14:07:16 -0800, "wunnuy" <wunnuy@netzero.net> wrote:

>Well we know they throttle, they admit it.

You are right, but that is still a bit strange since NF lost that
class action lawsuit for throttling.

>Sadly, BB is worse.

I would rate it about the same. After this month is over I will have
the statistics to compare to NF.

>I'd love to see some responsible
>company start up and blow both of them out of the water.

I believe the direction this is going is to stream content to your
hard drive and then network it to a player connected to the TV, like
GoVideo.

>They'd have a
>built in campaign too: "We won't throttle. We will send you your next
>disk teh day we received your last one."

"... if available."

Remember that NF picked up all those WalMart DVD renters.

It is interesting to note that this latest round of throttling, the
one that is the worst ever, came right after NF began offering larger
allotments for more money. IOW, if throttling causes you pain, just
cough up more money and NF will ship you more discs.

Damn nice of them, isn't it.



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