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15Feb
2013

Phoning It In

Are you getting the most from your home phone or are you just "phoning it in?" Who remembers when you had to have a separate little box for caller ID? Who remembers having an actual mini cassette tape in your answering machine? Those days are long gone. Caller ID on the phone and digital answering machines quickly came and replaced those emerging technologies. Now we are steps beyond that even. First of all, if you haven't set up Caller ID on TV yet, what are you waiting for? You hear ...
Netflix Super HD

Netflix Super HD

28 January 2013
Netflix recently announced that it would provide 3D and what it is calling "Super HD" content exclusively to their Open Connect partners.  Armstrong has been an Open Connect partner since November. What is Super...
Netflix recently announced that it would provide 3D and what it is calling "Super HD" content exclusively to their Open Connect partners.  Armstrong has been an Open Connect partner since November. What is Super HD? Netflix will offer 1080p content to the Sony PlayStation 3, WiiU, Windows 8, Roku, Apple TVs with 1080p, and select smart TVs and Blu-Ray players; with more devices being added soon. What is Open Connect?  In 2012 Netflix began enabling ISPs to receive Netflix video ...
This Isn't Your Father's Zoom Internet Anymore...

This Isn't Your Father's Zoom Internet Anymore...

21 January 2013
I sat down with Armstrong’s Chief Technical Officer Mike Giobbi to discuss recent improvements to the broadband network that our customers rely on. Giobbi remarked on how much the technology has changed and why...

I sat down with Armstrong’s Chief Technical Officer Mike Giobbi to discuss recent improvements to the broadband network that our customers rely on. Giobbi remarked on how much the technology has changed and why it has had to change. Giobbi remembers helping to install our very first Zoom customer in Connellsville, PA in 1997.  While we may laugh now at the “high speed” of 500 kbps Armstrong offered then, it was quite fast for the time. While the speed was more than enough for customers in ...

Snack Plates and Movies

Snack Plates and Movies

31 December 2012
As a kid, New Year's Eve was always a fun time in our family. We were 'allowed' to stay up past midnight. (Whether we made it that late or not was a different story.) We got to eat "snack plates" for a treat;...
As a kid, New Year's Eve was always a fun time in our family. We were 'allowed' to stay up past midnight. (Whether we made it that late or not was a different story.) We got to eat "snack plates" for a treat; consisting of chips, crackers, cheeses, pepperoni and other assorted junk food. But most importantly, we got to go to the video store and pick out movies to watch. Fast forward twenty some years. I am pretty sure I can get my kids on board with the staying up late and the eating junk ...
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