None of them, though, can prove it.

This is an amazing story of con artistry ... You'd like to think people with so much discretionary income to invest would be willing to spend a few bucks on a knowledgable technical consultant. It wouldn't be expensive -- your average undergraduate EE student should have seen right through this guy's charade. Or you could just ask your friendly neighborhood lineman/plant engineer, who would tell you that POTS lines are digitized at the CO (or sooner) and couldn't possibly support DVD-quality streaming video.