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Posted by Bob on 02/25/06 14:02
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:42:38 GMT, Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:
>current broadband isn't good enough for video downloads
You are thinking of Internet access. But what about between the ISP to
home network? That runs on an internal network and does not access the
Internet. I am using Road Runner in Houston and can get 4Mb/s (400
KB/s) download speed between my cable box and their servers.
If AOL Time Warner Cable Co, owners of RR, put a bigmutha server farm
in Houston, then I could get a 400 MB XviD avi (a 45 minute episode
with adequate resolution for a 19" viewscreen) in 1000 seconds (17
min). That's a helluva lot easier than the NF or BB hassle.
I rounded the numbers to make the calculation easy, but you get the
idea.
Pay for view is nothing new, and putting the content on a VCR is
nothing new either. If the studios would not be greedy, then they
could make a huge shitpot of easy money. But they must not restrict
the content for the user who paid for it.
--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
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