SquireSCA
Silver Member
Well, I wonder if anyone else has considered the Netflix thing... Just as a mental excercise...
What if VZW started charging to use your HDMI port for streaming any kind of video that was not physically stored on the SD card?
Take the tethering argument, so the people that claim that simply paying for 5 plates of food at the buffet doesn't mean you can eat it any way that you want... That taking the phone and using that to provide data to other devices is "not the same data that you paid for in your standard data plan"....
Apply that to HDMI and Netflix, or YouTube, etc... Where I plug my phone in to my 50" flat panel and watch a Netflix movie... I am using bandwidth from my phone in order to provide data and functionality to a secondary device.
How is pumping Netflix from my phone to my TV, any different than pumping it to my laptop via tethering? Other than the fact that Verizon hasn't figured out a way to charge us for plugging our TV into the HDMI port, what's the difference?
Sharing data with a second device either way, no?
What if VZW started charging to use your HDMI port for streaming any kind of video that was not physically stored on the SD card?
Take the tethering argument, so the people that claim that simply paying for 5 plates of food at the buffet doesn't mean you can eat it any way that you want... That taking the phone and using that to provide data to other devices is "not the same data that you paid for in your standard data plan"....
Apply that to HDMI and Netflix, or YouTube, etc... Where I plug my phone in to my 50" flat panel and watch a Netflix movie... I am using bandwidth from my phone in order to provide data and functionality to a secondary device.
How is pumping Netflix from my phone to my TV, any different than pumping it to my laptop via tethering? Other than the fact that Verizon hasn't figured out a way to charge us for plugging our TV into the HDMI port, what's the difference?
Sharing data with a second device either way, no?