Possible dvd/blue ray discontinued?

[cardinal biggles]

You can see... the present? Uncanny!

I feel your pain on the fibre. I'm still waiting for fibre to be available in my neighbourhood, and I live in a large city (by Canadian standards, anyway). Neighbourhoods less than five minutes travel from me have it, yet it's not available here, and they can't give me any estimate on when it will be available here.

I've seen it where they don't even want to run service if you're too far back from the road. Years ago when broadband service was starting to become common in the U.S., the house my parents lived in was at the back corner of the property belonging to the church my dad was pastor of. The cable company said they'd run cable TV and broadband internet to the church, which was about 15-20 yards back from the road, but not to the house, which was around 100 yards back from the road, nevermind that both buildings were on the same parcel of land and the church was already paying for it anyway.

edit: I should clarify that we weren't even in the sticks, we were in a densely populated suburban area, they just didn't feel like running a cable back that far.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I feel your pain on the fibre. I'm still waiting for fibre to be available in my neighbourhood, and I live in a large city (by Canadian standards, anyway). Neighbourhoods less than five minutes travel from me have it, yet it's not available here, and they can't give me any estimate on when it will be available here.

It's sort of become a joke, in that neighbours have it, but for some reason they can't seem to give good reason not to install it beyond an unknown perimeter.

And that's what happens when cable companies have too much power. They'll sit on it and give obscure reasons that benefit nobody but themselves and their bottomline, and as long as they're the only ones making decisions, everyone misses out.