I still fail to see the controversity here. I wish my cell company did this so we didn't burn through data every month.
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T-Mobile CEO Responds to 'Binge On’ Controversy, Announces 14 New Partners
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Gota love this guy as a CEO... could you imagine him as CEO of Apple? Imagine what product introductions would be like?
For Retina HD displays, it's not the physical size of the screen that matters, it's the pixel count.
For those who bought the 6S Plus, you're stretching 853×480 pixels across 1920x1080. For the iPad Air 2, you're stretching 853x480 across 2048×1536.
It'd be great if T-Mobile actually did some "optimization" to reduce artifacts and improve sharpness for the 2.25x enlargement, but that'd be a technological marvel. An innovation worth writing home about.
Choking the pipe video runs through is hardly revolutionary. I wouldn't care since I don't stream outside my home, but it'd definitely be a noticeable difference. At least it's optional, although most people aren't sharp enough to figure out why their screen suddenly looks less sharp than when they bought it or what exactly to do about it.
For those who bought the 6S Plus, you're stretching 853×480 pixels across 1920x1080. For the iPad Air 2, you're stretching 853x480 across 2048×1536.
It'd be great if T-Mobile actually did some "optimization" to reduce artifacts and improve sharpness for the 2.25x enlargement, but that'd be a technological marvel. An innovation worth writing home about.
Choking the pipe video runs through is hardly revolutionary. I wouldn't care since I don't stream outside my home, but it'd definitely be a noticeable difference. At least it's optional, although most people aren't sharp enough to figure out why their screen suddenly looks less sharp than when they bought it or what exactly to do about it.
I think that's exactly what I said, partner content is free, the rest of the internet requires payment.
Well, I suppose that's your legal opinion. We'll have to wait and see what the FCC and/or courts say. Personally, I hope it gets quashed quickly, because it's a bad precedent that undermines Net Neutrality.
T-Mobile should have uploaded this video in 480p if it's so great.
Just like he's giving TMobile customers more, as Apple CEO he'd be giving us more.... more storage on iPhone (no more 16GB as base), more RAM standard (no more 4GB RAM on base), more performance (no more 5,400 rpm HDD on iMac), more ports (more than 1 USB-C connector on MacBook),....
What fee are you talking about? Binge-On partners don't have to pay anything. From a customer perspective its opt out and your in a no worse position then before Bjnge-On, it does nothing but bring benefit to the customer if they so choose.
I haven't watched the article video...but why does John Legere always look like someone trying to raise cash for United Way or ASPCA?
I agree. I'm calling crap on that. I just loaded up a netflix video on my 6s which utilizes T-Mobile and it looks nothing like that.. On a 5" screen it looks relatively close to his 720p picture.
If they want this thing to go away, just give users controls over which services use this and don't lower the quality of all video by default.
I love this country! Where else can you complain about getting free stuff?!
Actually Im fairly impressed with T-Mobile lately. Their coverage is expanding vastly just in one year and John seems to be on his A game. If they keep it up, when I move to my own line soon they very well have a new customer coming!
I think the controversy with this is that nobody knew what was going on. If it was opt in people would complain their data was being eaten and if it was opt out, they would complain because their video quality was poor. I think it was handled well and theres no pleasing everyone, but this letter clarified it up.
Well I just watched it in 480p on my laptop, and ya know what? It looked just fine.
So what exactly is being "prioritized" here? Resolution and data use has nothing to do with prioritization.
The thing is, 480p from a dvd looks fine on a big tv, but on a 5inch screen it looks like it was recorded with a potato
Awesome! They 'invented' this technology that streams a blurry 480p video!
I love how TMo is getting a pass from people on here when no other company would.
not even in the slightest true when watching on a 4" screen.Yeah, no....
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I can't even display 1080 on a 4.7" iphone 6!!!
480p is visibly lower res than 720p.
but then again... it's FREE DATA
Thats not great quality, its barely acceptable, nothing in that image is sharp.
no other company is giving away unlimited streaming...of any kind
Whether 480P is good enough on a phone screen is neither here nor there. The issue is that T-Mobile have not properly implemented this.
If a content provider hasn't signed up to be part of binge-on then their content shouldn't be downgraded.
It smacks of T-Mobile coming up with a way to reduce the load on their network, rather than upgrading the network to handle the load!
If a content provider hasn't signed up to be part of binge-on then their content shouldn't be downgraded.
It smacks of T-Mobile coming up with a way to reduce the load on their network, rather than upgrading the network to handle the load!
You're right. Most companies out there are not so blatant as to do something so obviously against NN. Don't know why the FCC hasn't kicked their teeth in yet.