Verizon and their “Uncompressed HDTV” Ads… Yeesh

Verizon has started an ad campaign stating that they have “Pure Uncompressed High Definition” to basically kick Comcast around some more.
In one of the spots, a fictional cable customer excitedly plugs a coaxial cable into the back of a flat-panel HDTV set, saying, “This is going to look amazing!”—only to watch the TV spit the cable out. The hapless customer repeatedly tries to reconnect the cable, without success.
That’s the premise of one of their commercials. Afterwards, the “Pure Uncompressed High Definition” logo comes up, only to have techies snicker at them. Even in this day of high speeds, we still …read more