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| MrPorterhouse wrote:
With they way they are going to "open the pipe" for high speed capacity, you'll be able to download a full High Rez movie in 3 min. 56 sec. |
Sure, if it is highly compressed. No way would the bit rate be the same as a high definition disc if it could be downloaded in 4 minutes using residentially available high speed internet, even with rollout plans of 2008.
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| majorloser wrote:
How many DAYS do you wait for Blockbuster or Netflix to get you the movie you want? There are more ways than just wired internet connections to get media into your home. There's lots of unused cell phone bandwidth available at night. Pick you movie and it's available for you to watch the next day. Still faster than any Snail Mail service. |
Zero days, I don't use mail services. I'm talking about owning the actual movies - as in I can watch it whenever I want, as many times as I want. If I get bored or don't like the first half of a movie, take it out and put something else in....not wait another two days to get to the next movie. Plus, I like being able to actually own the music and movies in my collection - I don't want the movie studios charging me a fee to temporarily view "their" property. This would completely wipe out the used sales market too, which is how I purchase the bulk of my media.
But let's play devil's advocate and say 50% of high speed internet users (maybe 20% of Americans using internet altogether) start downloading high resolution movies and queing them up with the expectation of them being ready in two days. What happens to bandwidth for everybody else, including the people downloading movies, for other internet surfing and downloading purposes? Bandwith will be severly bogged down and surfing will reach a standstill. This has already taken place at numerous colleges before Napster and other music or movie file share programs were deemed illegal. Bandwidth was so bogged down on and around campuses that they actually started capping students to prevent them from downloading too much. This was a BIG event at Purdue University in the late 90's early 2000s. Even if you lived off campus in an apartment or house and used a different internet service provider like I did, there were so many college students living in the West Lafayette / Lafayette area that every service provider was seriously hampered.
Sorry, I'm not interested in going through that again. I have no problem thinking outside the box, but only when it makes sense.