tiger72
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Re: Whoever is in charge of the TWC network is a moron.
said by BF69  :said by tiger72 :a single xbox live HD download already puts a user over the cap. True but how many 768 kbps users are going to do that? A single HD movie from XBOX live would take 18 hours to download. 768 kbps is for people like my mother who is 61 and doesn't download anything. Then 8 HD movie rentals a month (a very realistic 2 per week) will put a user over... Or 6 rentals + typical internet usage.
Looks like a ploy to kill viop, streaming video, HD downloads, and Steam.
Quite sad too, because M$ now provides a 4GB download of Vista, and Steam offers gigs of games to download - both legitimately.
If TW goes through this this, they'll effectively revert the cost of internet access to that of 1991.
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BF69
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| said by tiger72 :said by BF69 :said by tiger72 :a single xbox live HD download already puts a user over the cap. True but how many 768 kbps users are going to do that? A single HD movie from XBOX live would take 18 hours to download. 768 kbps is for people like my mother who is 61 and doesn't download anything. Then 8 HD movie rentals a month (a very realistic 2 per week) will put a user over... Or 6 rentals + typical internet usage. Looks like a ploy to kill viop, streaming video, HD downloads, and Steam. Quite sad too, because M$ now provides a 4GB download of Vista, and Steam offers gigs of games to download - both legitimately. If TW goes through this this, they'll effectively revert the cost of internet access to that of 1991. So what you are saying is that someone with a 768 kbs connection is actually going to wait 18 hours for their movie to download? They aren't going to use their connection for 18 hours straight? 8 HD rentals would take 144 hours or 6 days to download. I don't see how anyone under 5 Mbps would even consider using their connection to download HD content. |
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tiger72
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Matt
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said by BF69 :So what you are saying is that someone with a 768 kbs connection is actually going to wait 18 hours for their movie to download? They aren't going to use their connection for 18 hours straight? 8 HD rentals would take 144 hours or 6 days to download. I don't see how anyone under 5 Mbps would even consider using their connection to download HD content. Actually, yes. I have a friend on Time Warner's local 768 plan and he just starts the movie download through the XBL Marketplace and goes to bed.
I admit, he's likely a unique case, but he does do it. |
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