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On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
One HD movie takes up something like 20 GB. I wouldn't want to have to
download that. Even at 1 MB/s, which is unrealistically fast for an
internet connection, it would take about 5.5 hours to download one
movie. Maybe they have faster ways of moving data using satellite
dishes or somesuch.
All you have to be able to do is to download the movie fast enough so
that you can play it while you are watching it.
Sure, but I'm saying that current internet speeds are not good enough for
that. If it's 20 GB for a 2 hour movie, that's 1 GB every 6 minutes, 167
MB every minute, or about 23 Mbps (megabits).
Maybe your point is that for a 2-hour movie, if it takes 5.5 hours to
download it, you really only have to wait 3.5 hours to start watching it.
I agree with that.
Mike
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