No ceasefire in DVD format battle

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Originally Posted by MrVandelay

Actually Online Delivery of movies is quite possible when "internet 2" becomes available to main stream public. It has been out for about 10 years, but is limited to Higher education institutions and corporations (Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, etc..) for research.

The current speed records for Internet 2, is 2.98 terabytes of data across 30,000 kilometers of network over 45 minutes at an average rate of 8.80 gigabits per second. I think you could quite easily download your DVDs

see: http://www.internet2.edu/

so when will that be in your typical home?

we'd be looking at what, ten years before mainstream? and even then it will be another five before "everyone" has access.

think about it, it is ten+ years now since DSL came out and you still see people PC commercials for dial up.