*Sigh*
Once the sound quits on the video, the video smooths out into real motion. It's not the content providers, it's my enormous sow of a computer.
Now that all websites, including news sites, seem to relish filling themselves with HD video, moving ads, and all kinds of amazing bandwidth bombs, it's getting to be a pain surfing the web. It's like what happened to printed matter after the first graphic Mac was invented--you couldn't find a newsletter that didn't have fifty different fonts and twenty bits of clip art on it.