Posted by Eeyore on 11/29/07 13:07

Jack wrote:

> Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtri@dslextreme.com> wrote
>
> > Audio compression will stay around for some uses. CPUs and algorithms
> > will always be much cheaper than long distance bandwidth and wireless
> > bandwidth. Regardless of how fast the internet gets, 10x compression
> > still means 10x customer capacity. 10x compression on your mobile
> > player means 10x the room for music.
>
> Also, there are now warnings of Internet bottlenecks by 2010 due to
> multimedia content and increased population/usership.

The usual scaremongering. Journalists are clueless about technology.

The pipes will simply get bigger to take the load.

Graham

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