Posted by Kill Bill on 11/27/07 21:13

Jacques E. Bouchard wrote:
> Kill Bill <killbill@goblowme.com> wrote in
> news:2tY2j.65931$RX.32115@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net:
>
>> Richard Crowley wrote:
>>> "Jacques E. Bouchard" wrote ...
>>>> Kill Bill wrote:
>>>>> Actually, you're wrong. Critical mass, which is the determining
>>>>> factor for a technology, for broadband was something like 58% last
>>>>> time I looked.. Which basically means that it is the accepted
>>>>> standard now.
>>>> I'd like to see those statistics.
>>> Including the demographics and geography.
>> Pretty easy to google this, don't you think?
>>
>> http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/4060.asp
>
> That 58% is users per age group. The number of actual households is still
> at about 51%, meaning that, statistically, half your relatives might not
> be able to watch your HD streamed greetings - and among the other half,
> many won't bother for the sake of convenience.

51% in 2004 if you noticed that particular article. There's been a lot
of upgrading since over 3 years. So, it's more like 70% now. But
either way.. critical mass is pass 50% now.


> The article also includes ISDN (128-144kbps) as "broadband", which, if
> you ask me, is like calling a digital still camera with movire mode a
> "video camera".

Huh? ISDN is considered broadband because it's over the 56K mark.
Simple as that.


> Heck, I have 5 mbps and there's Hd content I can't watch because of
> latency. If I were to send streamed greetings, I'd go for simplicity and
> use Youtube or something similar.

I only have 600-700MB download, and I have no trouble watching sites
like DivX.com in full screen mode as well as Hula, or ABC.com too.

-bill

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