VERIZON SMALL BUSINESS BUNDLE After being very unhappy with my business internet and phone services, I switched to Verizon. Not only was the process easy, but I got far more than I expected. Verizon worked with me to make the…Continue Reading →
VERIZON FiOS CUSTOM TV The customary pay TV bundle may soon be tossed onto the ash heap of history. Smaller and more flexible channel packages are gaining ground in the multichannel TV market, as cable and satellite system operators scramble…Continue Reading →
COMCAST 2 GIGABIT INTERNET Comcast has just raised the stakes in the high-speed residential internet market. On Thursday, April 2, the nation’s largest cable system operator announced that it would offer a 2 gigabit-per-second (2 GB/S) internet service to 1.5…Continue Reading →
NEW TV TECHNOLOGY: WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? Are you in the market for a new TV set? You may want to look into some of the new TV technology becoming available now and in the near future. Organic Light-Emitting…Continue Reading →
XFINITY X1: COMCAST’S MOST ADVANCED INTERNET, TV, AND PHONE SERVICE XFinity X1 platform is Comcast’s most advanced vehicle for HD video, digital phone, and broadband internet service. The X1 platform offers a TV service with more than 260 channels available,…Continue Reading →
HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE TV: WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? As you consider getting a more advanced TV set, you face a bewildering array of options for improved picture and sound. The most obvious change in standards is the move from…Continue Reading →
VIRTUAL REALITY: SUSPENSION OF BELIEF? You’re watching a movie starring Hugh Jackman as a special forces officer. He is walking alone through a desert. The officer sits on a rock, lays down his rifle, and drinks from his canteen. Then…Continue Reading →
YOUR INTERNET FUTURE, PART ONE: COMMERCE Sharon is shopping at the Nieman Marcus store in Dallas. She is interested in a certain blue dress, so she takes it to a corner with an interactive mirror. Without changing clothes, she scans…Continue Reading →
BANDWIDTH: WHY WE’LL ALWAYS NEED MORE No matter how much internet bandwidth is available to us, we’ll always want more. As the telephone industry grew, the average amount of data per user didn’t change much. Advances in voice transmission increased…Continue Reading →
SLING TV: DISH NETWORK’S MOBILE STREAMING PLATFORM The multichannel TV market is getting steadily more complicated. New recording and time-shifting technologies, the 4K resolution standard, High Dynamic Range color standards, the streaming of video to mobile devices, and other advances…Continue Reading →