Verizon now offering 300Mbps download Internet speeds (IN THE FUTURE 1,000Mbps)

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Verizon now offering 300Mbps download Internet speeds and could in the future offer 1,000Mbps download speeds

Modern high-end desktop computers can take advantage of the 300Mbps download speeds with 65Mbps upload that Verizon now offers. Desktop computers have 1Gbps (1,000Mbps) Ethernet networking connections. Future computer motherboards in a year or two might start offering 10Gbps networking jacks (10,000Mbps).

Starting back in 2006 Sony designed all Playstation 3's to accept 1Gbps networking speed. As far as I am aware, only the Sony Playstation 3 Blu-ray player has 1Gbps Ethernet capability. All standalone Blu-ray players max out at 100Mbps networking speed. For years I have been complaining in this forum that for an extra $10 standalone Blu-ray players should have been designed with 1Gbps networking jacks like the Sony Playstation 3 offers. But instead a slightly lower cost 100Mbps networking jacks were installed in all standalone Blu-ray players.

Here is why it’s important to have a minimum of 1Gbps networking jacks like the Playstation 3. Movie studios if they wanted too could start offering encrypted 50GB Blu-ray disc rentals and/or purchases to people that own a desktop computer or Playstation 3. On a Verizon network that offers 300Mbps download speeds 50GB Blu-ray images could be downloaded to an encrypted 3TB hard drive. Then consumers could watch a high quality Blu-ray image on their computer hard drive or Sony PS3 hard drive.

Hopefully VUDU and Netflix will start offering Blu-ray quality video streaming. When consumers start purchasing 300Mbps download Internet plans then VUDU could stream Blu-ray images at a bit rate of around 50Mbps. In the future if the studios allow it, it will be possible to get Blu-ray lossless audio with high bit rate video from services like VUDU, Netflix, and Amazon on demand.

I have always liked Blu-ray’s since the format has been the best quality for video and audio so far, but in the future download and streaming video services might be able match or beat the quality of Blu-ray. When we start hitting 300Mbps-1,000Mbps Internet speeds 4K video download and streaming services will be possible.

It would be awesome if Blu-ray players in the future received a software update that allowed them to stream or download from VUDU at up to 100Mbps. If VUDU starts offering Blu-ray quality streaming purchases with extra bonus features then I would consider purchasing VUDU movies. A virtual movie collection takes up no space compared to a big inventory of physical discs. Blu-ray players like the OPPO BDP-93 allow people to plug in up to 3 2TB hard drives at once (1 e-sata and 2 USB). That’s up to 6TB worth of storage that could be used for a future movie download service with a simple firmware update.

There are advantages to owning physical discs. If over a decade period someone purchases several thousands of dollars worth of movies from an online streaming provider and that online provider goes out of business then that consumer has lost 100% of their movie collection. With Blu-ray physical discs they can last a 1,000 years under ideal conditions (or at least one’s lifetime).

Verizon FIOS has 100% fiber optic between the central office and all the way to the customers network interface on the side of the house. Verizon is using around 20% of the Fiber optic network bandwidth capacity. If Verizon was smart they should start offering 1080P movies with lossless audio that matches the quality of the high bit rate Blu-ray discs. Then I would start renting from Verizon’s library of 35,000 video on demand movies. Right now Verizon channels and video on demand are limited at 1080i with lossy 5.1 Dolby Digital quality.

As Internet speeds increase and prices fall the day will come when it will be possible to get better than Blu-ray quality movie watching over the Internet using a movie download service or streaming service. Right now the 300Mbps download and 65Mbps upload service costs $209 a month which is a good price for that much bandwidth but it also is out of the reach of what most consumers are willing to pay for Internet service. The 150Mbps download package with 65Mbps upload can be purchased cheaper than $94.99 a month if consumers purchase the Triple play phone/cable bundling service. For customers that already have the 35Mbps download plan they can move all the way up to 150Mbps download with 65Mbps upload for only $40 more a month. Still more money than what the average consumer would be willing to pay for Internet. The good news is Verizon Internet speeds are doubling around every 1 to 2 years. If this continues then the middle lower cost Internet plans should be around 100Mbps. Speeds keep going up and prices on average keep going down.

Source
http://www.multichannel.com/article/486016-Verizon_Debuts_FiOS_Quantum_Internet_Hikes_Speeds_ And_Prices.php

“With certain network upgrades, Verizon could deliver 1 Gigabit per second to FiOS customers, according to Ritter.”