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Posted by kim on 05/20/07 13:31
"guv" <guv69@msn.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:27:42 +0100, "Dr Zoidberg"
> <alexNOOOOOO!!!!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>> I at first I thought that HD-DVD would win but after reading more and
>>> more
>>> about 'the war' it did look like the tide's were turning against HD-DVD
>>> in
>>> favour of Blu-Ray. Whether either get the 'critical mass' to make them
>>> main stream I think remains to be seen. I personally can see one of
>>> them
>>> becoming the next laser disc of the film media world. Downloading is
>>> where the future is IMHO.
>>>
>>Video on demand certainly looks to have potential through cable.
>>More so than downloading conventionally as more and more ISPs introduce
>>caps
>>and restrictions on what you can get with extra usage charges potentially
>>coming as they have in Aus and NZ.
>>
>>If you have to pay once for the content and again for the bandwidth it
>>will
>>be very pricey.
>
> True, which is why your choice of ISP is important. I'm now with BE,
> which claims to be unlimited, though there is a soft 350GB cap. Thats
> an awful lot of downloads - which I never get anywhere near. And with
> my D/L speed of 1.3MBps, a full DVD5 can be got in about an hour.
>
> Its all good ATM - but I can see the time coming when big D/L ers are
> hit by silly caps or content analysed. That said, with on demand how
> thats going to work with this in mind is anyones guess.
Easy, they'll just increase the compression and degrade the picture quality
till it's no longer worth watching.
(kim)
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