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Maybe not, but it could ultimately meld with TV. After all, if you have a cable modem, you already get your Internet and TV through the same pipe. A decade from now, there could just be longer and shorter shows from the same companies (NBCUniversalYouTube, say) that you play on your HD video wall, telepathy phone or iPod contact lens. Or, at least, online and TV could well be separate but more equal. To advertisers, who still pay for most of TV, a picture is a picture. "We're not really calling it TV anymore--it's video," says Jeff...
...Although this is not a business phone - the Q lets you view Microsoft Office documents but not edit them and, unlike the new Treo 700p, can't be used as a wireless modem - it's not exactly an entertainment phone either. Verizon has yet to work out a pricing plan that allows the Q to work with its V Cast streaming videos and high-quality music downloads. Stuck in the middle, the Q is for sale at the $200 mark (provided you renew your contract, etc.), just above most V Cast phones and just below Verizon's duo of Treos...
...order to simulate being on the road, I connected a Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess card to my laptop, and dialed up to the carrier's highspeed mobile network. Connecting to the Internet via cellular modem, I was still able to pull up the cable box in my home, even though we could have been a continent apart. Connecting remotely did cost a lot of bandwidth however: at 300 Kbps, South Park and The Colbert Report were watchable, but game highlights from a Tino Martinez retrospective on the Yankees' YES network were wracked with digital blur...
...received “just a warning.”But Nygard continued illegally downloading, and was soon faced with repercussions. “The sec-ond time they caught me, they took away my network access for a year,” he says. “Any modem registered under my name I could not access the network with.” Nygard characterizes the whole process as impersonal. He was never asked to speak with any administration officials, in fact. “They just wrote me strongly-worded e-mails and cut off my internet...
...provides seems so obvious it's a wonder it's taken this long for anyone to offer it. You pay $10 per month, and can download as many movies as you want. Each feature-length film takes 20 minutes to a half hour to download via a typical cable-modem connection. Surprisingly, the video quality is as good as a DVD, crisp enough even when stretched across the full 15-in. screen of a laptop...