dan jenkins

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since September 8, 2009

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September 8, 2009, on Verizon FiOS Versus Comcast:
Nice job in researching all of this. In regards to a couple of things about what Verizon does. First of all the reason that there dvr cannot hold as much as Comcast is because Verizon does not compress any of their video and by doing this it takes up more space on the recorder (similar to the way Comcast t.v. works. The reason that they cannot offer as many hd channels as Verizon is because they do not have enough space on their system to accomadate the hd channels. In regards to the leasing of the box Comcast does the same thing and now they are charging per month for their N-Router and G-router, Verizon does not charge for the router. In regards to the fact that Verizon does not go right to the back of the t.v. with the fiber is because of the fact that they do not own any of the cables in the home. The great part about this is the fact that Coax will not lose any resolution or speed for up to about 500 feet. THis is the reason that cable is now telling everybody that they use fiber ...