Posts by Andrew Torrance 3 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jan 2008
It's the price of the discs thats a joke.
While DVDs come on at £20 (£12.99 in your favourite local supermarket), and quickly drop, the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD still costs £25 several months later when the DVD is a bargain bin £7.
Four times the detail may be swell, but not at four times the price.
Paris cos her movie is surely coming out in Hi-Def soon (and many *would* consider paying four times the price for it)
It can't be much worse than the old (NTL) system from a student point of view. From my experience there a few years ago, NTL routinely forgot to connect/bill/disconnect, and their customer service was as one would expect. In 2005 (just after I left) the DDIs in students' rooms were replaced with a single incoming 0845 number and (I believe) calling cards. This meant NTL didn't have to remember to bill, and trousered extra money every time someone called in!
Agree with the comments re: skype, although such P2P services are technically banned by the university, or rather JANET, on the grounds that they only get cheap bandwidth because they're benefitting educational users, and the P2P packets contain everyone else's data too. Computers with direct 100MBit connections have a tendency to become supernodes :-)
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