Posts by pt123

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  Customer relationship - come on, you guys have monopolies not relationships. Customer relationship means the cable company would need to make as much money as before or no...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  Sounds like a reasonable possibility. Essentially an Apple TV with cable tuner inside that is customized for each Cable company but which still allows access to the Apple store for...

Quote: Originally Posted by DeeGee48  Ooooh, devices like a pocket HD full of our DVD's?! Apple (and shareholders) would prefer you pay more to get an iDevice with more storage. Phone company would prefer you use the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    Oh, that's just because of mismanagement of welfare funds. Can't pay the bills, but they buy $150 sneakers and iPhones for the kids.   I knew...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    Oh, I'm not even talking about any hardware or R&D, I'm just talking about breaking the 60 years of ZERO change to television and how it's done. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  Even so, I think the easiest solution would be for Apple to team with one or more cable companies and replace those humongous Motorola cable boxes with Apple TVs that have been...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  That's why my cable charge has been increasing by an average of about 20% per year for the past 3 years. You can't blame it all on monopoly. Content providers have been raising...

Quote: Originally Posted by geoadm  Wonder if google are going to patent the opposite I think someone already has a patent that prevents skipping commercials.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  Remember that PC tablets used to have optical drives. They called themselves tablets. Now Apple is working up the scale, removing the ODD as they go, because it has served its...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    Ownership isn't the issue here. Increase of (physical) storage space, increase in seek times, no need to physically mess with discs, and availability on any...