Otherwise, what's the deal? Like at this time period, they claim Comcast has 93% HD streams and Cox has 90%. Unless there's clearer definitions as to what it means to be 'HD Verified' I'm wondering if this isn't more of a 'pay us and/or do what we want to get verified' kind of thing. Heck even Century Link, which is fairly crap service as phone companies often are, has many more HD than SD views and still qualifies as an 'SD' provider. Anywhere you can get their service in town you can get those two or anything in between so people's experience can vary greatly. Cox has everything from a 'ultimate suck cheapy' service which maxes out at 5mbps, and thus might have poor streaming, up to a 150mbps service that I have for which Youtube streams are less than 10% of available bandwidth.

I find way more people who hate Comcast than Cox.Īnd of course it highly depends on package. Also my informal surveys of people seem to support that Cox does a better job around here. Cox is listed as SD.īut then you look at the results and you see that Cox's graph looks basically the same as Comcasts in terms of HD/SD video plays. However Comcast Xfinity is the only 'HD Verified' ISP. Sounds like 'Do what we like to get official cred or else.'Īlso seems to be what is happening in my area. The reason is the categories, specifically the 'YouTube(tm) HD Verified' one.

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