blu ray presentation questions and help please

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by technewb

but will be heavily competing against other substitutes like digital downloading.

toss this statement out.

Digital downloads of HD movies is no where near realistic.

(or you could say digital downloading could pose a threat, but not for a long time to come)

[technewb]

Originally Posted by crackinhedz

toss this statement out.

Digital downloads of HD movies is no where near realistic.

(or you could say digital downloading could pose a threat, but not for a long time to come)

ya, good point bad wording on my part. I am looking at it as several years down the road.

What do you think about verizon fios though? The town my parents live in got wired for verizon fios and they get their basic internet speed which is still pretty damn fast. Their top speed is suppose to be incredibly fast but its very pricey still.

I think it was you that mentioned isp talks of capping download speeds, which would definetely set back digital downloads. I guess i have blinders on when it comes to technology timeframes. I dont know much about technology, so I apologize if i sound ignorant.

[Krandor]

Originally Posted by technewb

I think it was you that mentioned isp talks of capping download speeds, which would definetely set back digital downloads. I guess i have blinders on when it comes to technology timeframes. I dont know much about technology, so I apologize if i sound ignorant.

Digital downloads have a huge issue with the fact the infrastructure can't support that on a large scale right now which is where capping comes into play.

Ignore the speed that comes into your single house for a second. Here are numbers for the whole network that will show the issue.

On most cable networks right now, the MEDIAN user is around 3-4G a month. You won't get one HD movie in that bandwidth and that is the usage that the network is based on.

If we move out a level - a single cable node had a bandwidth of around 30-40mbps and servers around 300-400 households on average. So even if your house had 8mbps available, it is easy to see the system is not designed to everybody to be using that all the time. In fact, if 20 households out of 400 on the node try to download a movie on a Saturday night, you are down to only 2mbps available for each house and it only get worse if that increases.

That is the reasons they want to cap users - the current infrastructure is not setup to enable large-scale downloading. The system is setup for most people to use less then 3Gig a month.