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They're catering to the stupidity of the average person. It works wonders to use gross misrepresentation.]]>Apr 10th 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
Btw, forgive me for my ignorance, but doesn't cable service imply fibre-optic connections?]]>Apr 10th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
what is it with the unwritten rule that 2/3 of all male actors in TV ads must humiliate themselves? honor is dead]]>Apr 10th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_Blackman]]>Apr 10th 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
I too now heart the term 'corporate wedgie'.

And to r3loaded:
Time Warner uses fibre-optic cables no more than my old Dial-Up provider did. Their regional switching office is connected to the internet backbone via fibre-optic cables, but from their local office to my cable modem, its all copper.]]>Apr 10th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
Not false advertising...just misleading information, gets the consumer every time. Just look at the DL/UL speed differential.]]>Apr 10th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
But does it really matter? that is one of those commercials that reminds me to pick up the remote and hit fast forward. ;)]]>Apr 10th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
In fact, much of CV's network *is* "last mile" fiber, just not from the street into your house (it's converted to coax at the box on a telephone pole outside). My neighborhood is 100% fiber on Cablevision. I can't speak for Time Warner, but if they're doing the same, then these ads aren't really inaccurate.

Cablevision in my area also has the same internet speeds as FIOS, and TV that until recently at least was just as good... though quality seems to be slipping lately. I had FIOS for a while and was not very impressed, though, and their goddamn network router that they literally force you to use went down on me at least once per day. That was enough to send me back to Cablevision.
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i really hope i didn't turn this post into a mac vs. windows bash, just saying thats what I thought of when i saw the clip above.]]>Apr 10th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
Yes, Apple can say "Macs are more secure than PCs." There is no single, well-accepted metric of computer security, so their claims cannot be proven false. (Microsoft could easily rebut with "PCs are actually more secure" and Apple couldn't do a thing about it.) Although, most people would cry foul considering Microsoft's track record.

Most everything else in those ads are the same way.]]>Apr 10th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/...ubuntu was the only one who stayed alive after all the hacking...]]>Apr 11th 2008 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
All the companies can say they have the fastest, but depending on where you are and which plan you pick, that varies.]]>Apr 10th 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
right, i forgot, they weren;t talking about microsoft when they said "vista still doesn't work right, ... it has caused so many problems" ok, so they didn't say "use osx" but they did say "should have gotten a mac"]]>Apr 10th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
Yeah, it sure sucks that competition exists to drive down prices. The horror!!!!]]>Apr 10th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
How many PCs do you think out there come with Home edition, and therefore crippled backup?

Time Machine comes with every version of Mac OS X (easy since there is only one), and every Mac. ]]>Apr 10th 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
And that's completely besides the point. In the ad, Apple is trying to portray the Windows PC as missing these features completely. The problem is the user has a choice in the Windows PC as to whether their system has this feature or not. And that's the problem with nearly all the Mac vs. PC ads: Apple tries to spin choice into something bad. Sure, some Windows PCs don't have Backup and Restore Center; some Windows PCs don't have built-in webcams. But others do have those features, which defeats the argument Apple is trying to spin completely.]]>Apr 10th 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
Someone above said that one commercial implies that PCs don't come with webcams built in... but I saw the commercial as saying that almost all Macs come with Webcams built in rather than a few PCs.

Rarely do you see any downright lies in these ads (like the TWC vs. Verizon one here), but you see truth painted in a certain way to give a certain impression that helps the cause of the commercial you're watching every single day.

Besides Apple's marketing team knows exactly what they're doing by calling out the kinds of problems windows users experience everyday to make some kind of emotional connection with them and try and convince them that a Mac won't let them down (and I am a Mac user and Fanboy and even I can't say that my Mac has never crashed). The commercials wouldn't keep airing if they weren't WILDLY successful.]]>Apr 10th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
I have to side with Verizon here but the courts might not.

Full disclosure. I work for a company that sells equipment to both Time Warner and Verizon.]]>Apr 10th 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
"...You should see his twuck"

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Fail]]>Apr 10th 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/Apr 10th 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
Someone needs to check their facts. I've had RR in Central Ohio since 1995. When they started rolling it out, they were also replacing the lines to houses with fiber. I was without cable for 2 days when the first truck took out all the lines down the alley on my street and before they ran the fiber along the poles.

Even when I moved to just north of columbus, TW had fiber run to the switch used by 20 homes.]]>Apr 10th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/
that's the point, they didn't run the last mile with fiber; fios does.]]>Apr 10th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/verizon-sues-time-warner-cable-over-some-dumb-ads/]]>Apr 10th 2008 2:34PM