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join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY | in other words... The 2007 budget for deployment got shifted from NY to NJ.. no wonder-- that's what that rotten egg smell was coming into Manhattan the other day.. well you could have said so sooner! | |
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ninjatutle
You can keep the "change"
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | . I guess the head of Verizon got a visit from Tony Soprano. Give us fiber or else... | |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
 ·Optimum Online
| Re: . said by ninjatutle  :I guess the head of Verizon got a visit from Tony Soprano. Give us fiber or else... Nah, Tony and his friends live in Essex county, which isn't on the list.  | |
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ninjatutle
You can keep the "change"
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | Re: . Ok fugettaboutit. | |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
·Optimum Online
| Re: Add a grain of salt to this, please.... "For live TV, FIOS bitrate and the resulting artifacts are marginally better than DirecTV. The bit rate seems somewhat higher, although it varies from channel to channel, and the artifacts are diminished to a small degree. Nonetheless, MPEG artifacts are very clearly seen on any decent composite monitor with FIOS TV. The improvement over DirecTV can only be discerned if you have a video A/B switch to go back and forth between the same show on both systems. It takes a minute or so to notice the subtle improvement."
Nice! You'd think with all this bandwidth gushing out they'd be able to at least do a bit better than DTV. It seems odd that if they're starting from scratch and they're looking to save bandwidth they'd use MPEG-2. It's not exactly the most modern nor efficient choice. DTV I can understand - they're locked in (although doing MPEG-4, what variation of it I don't know, for some new HD stuff).
Interesting review though. I assume that the picture of either service greatly exceeds your local analog cable choices. | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| Re: Add a grain of salt to this, please.... Marginally better than DTV? WOW that would keep me from getting their television product. fibre has much bandwidth, why is VZ going cheap here? they could totally own cable but they choose to go this compressed crap. bleh.
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N3OGH
Will it all be Obama's fault now?
Premium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs | On a stick.... "FiOS-on-a-stick"
Now is that like "corn-dog-on-a-stick"?
mmmmmmmmmmm Corn dog....... | |
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DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey | I will let my neighbor test first I decided that when my neighbors get broken into fios, then i will consider it. Fios is too new, to rush into it. Plus they charge for cable card. | |
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T_Wrecks
The Truth Doesn't Make A Noise
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join:2003-08-21
Garden State | Signed up today They're coming next week to hook me up. Both TV and internet. | |
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Bobcat
Volvo sucks
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join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ | Yea! Now only if they would install service in my area, I could drop Cablevision once and for all! | |
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NyQuil Kid
8f The Nyquil Kid
join:2001-01-06
Brick, NJ | I'd be happy.... with just FiOS internet service in Brick, NJ but apparently we won't see that until 2009 - Please VZ, come to Brick so we can tell Comcast to stick it...
[8F] The NyQuil Kid | |
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marigolds
Gainfully employed, finally
Premium,MVM
join:2002-05-13
Saint Louis, MO | 250,000 households? That's less than 2500 households per community.
I don't have a gazetteer handy, but just how many communities that small exist in New Jersey?
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Sc0tt
Kneedragger
Premium
join:2000-11-13
Stockholm, NJ
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| Re: 250,000 households? my community is about 100 houses in the middle of the woods (yes, there are more than factories here in NJ!!)
..........which is why verizon is IGNORING us!!!!!! i doubt we'll ever see FIOS up here.
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join:2005-06-24
Englishtown, NJ | Re: 250,000 households? Yeah I won't see FiOS for a long time because my development has buried cable. They won't be touching my street for quite a while. | |
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GeekNJ
Premium
join:2000-09-23
Waldwick, NJ | Moving too fast.. They ought to slow down until they can meet the demands of the current customers. Two many missed appointment threads popping up. Here's mine... »Missed Day #1 | |
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TomC
@verizon.net
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106 NJ Communities Get FiOS TV
