JordanWethey Cruise Review on Ruby Princess on Jun 22, 2019

Your a Dick.

Looks like this was your first cruise and hopefully your last. Too angry to cruise. Stay home and watch your stick. Don’t need angry people on a cruise.

After filtering out the coarse language it becomes clear that this individual didn't perform due diligence and research his project before boarding ship. The limited amount of checking I did left me convinced that satellite access is limited and any movies I wanted to watch would have to be downloaded ahead of time. Same with new books on my tablet. U nless I want to waste port time finding free wifi to do some quick connections. I just don't think it's realistic to expect the same service connections in the middle of the ocean. Or that one would be able to keep up with their "shows" while on this type of vacation. Nothing unusual about the cruise line's arrangements.

Hey Jordan, I will do my best to explain it to you, and hopefully understand why the HDMI ports are turned-off. I’ll start with an example: If you travel to a hotel in the US. These hotels are connected to a locally provided network that provides a pre-set number of channels. They are also connected to an “Internet” provider who provides them with a certain level of internet “bandwidth” to support the expected number of guests staying their hotel. If I had to guess, that fee for one hotel would likely cost around $500 monthly. But a “ship” is constantly moving in some part of the “world”. I imagine that you can appreciate the vastness of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The question that you have to ask yourself is “how does a boat / ship communicate with the rest of the world stuck out in the middle of the ocean”. There is no “cable”, no telephone wires, no repeaters, so how does it communicate. Well, ships communicate via satellites which bounce them back into what we call a “landing grid” somewhere on earth. The problem is that the satellite is very very expensive, and satellite bandwidth is a much more confined set of signals than “cox cable” or “Netflix streaming movies”. The average cost for one 25 kilohertz channel off of a satellite orbiting 11 miles above earth is around $150,000 a month. Now I used 25kz only because it would take one 25kz channel for “one” ship to provide superb service for streaming video. However......because “ships” are always on the move, the Cruise Lines are forced to used what is called “Wideband Earth Beam Coverage” which the satellites can over a large circle of area on the earth and “any” ship in that circle can then be services with parceled out 5Kz and 10Kz channels so the passengers can at least have a “satisfactory” internet and the shop can broadcast a “small” number of TV channels. I hope this at least clears up a few things for you. The bottomline, is there is simply not enough bandwidth to stream video channels. If there were, the cruise lines could not afford it.

I get what your saying. A lot of people will say your on vacation, why do you care but I get ya. There is not much to watch on the ship tv system and why would they care if you watch your collection. But I guess it boils down to a money thing. Pay per view. You would think they could just charge you a flat fee to unlock the HDMI port for your cruise so they get their cut and you get to watch what you choose. IDK.

Why would you go on a cruise to Alaska if you don't care at all about sightseeing?

Who goes on a cruise to watch tv, movies or streaming content?