Netflix Teases Comcast, FiOS Users With SuperHD They Can't Get Back in January Netflix started offering Super HD and 3D streams to customers -- but only if your ISP signed up to use Netflix's content deliver network (CDN), Netflix Open Connect. Netflix then implemented an ingenious if not slightly obnoxious way to name and shame ISPs who didn't partner up with them, ranking ISPs in a monthly streaming performance chart that heavily favors those ISPs that play ball.

Needless to say, many of the larger ISPs have refused to partner with Netflix, even though the partnership is free. That's in large part because, as we recently noted, there's a significant cash grab and network neutrality war bubbling just underneath your Netflix and YouTube streams, with incumbent ISPs and Netflix on opposing sides of the fight. Verizon and Comcast are both companies that have so far refused to partner with Netflix, though Netflix this week oddly teased many customers into thinking they suddenly were. Customers with both companies suddenly reported seeing Netflix Super HD buttons pop up mysteriously, only to have them disappear shortly thereafter. Netflix has yet to respond to my request to confirm whether this was a glitch (it seems like an inefficient and unlikely covert advertising attempt). I've confirmed with both Comcast and Verizon that there has been no new deals with Netflix in regards to joining Netflix Open Connect. Netflix has yet to respond to my request to confirm whether this was a glitch (it seems like an inefficient and unlikely covert advertising attempt). I've confirmed with both Comcast and Verizon that there has been no new deals with Netflix in regards to joining Netflix Open Connect.







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2 recommendations buzz_4_20 Member This is Why I get concerned about Network Neutrality The internet is supposed to level the playing field and make availability equal and provider agnostic...



This service should be available to all Netflix customers who have the bandwidth to support it.



Plain and Simple.



Again, Netflix pays for bandwidth on one side, Customer pays on the other.

That's supposed to cover all this peering BS as well.