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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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Re: Easy to navigate you'd need 10mbps+, to watch the 9GB movie unbuffered in its entirety, i believe.
Here's the thing:
If Sony pushes their video at higher bitrates you may just see ISPs be forced to openly address bandwidth for once.
When people (in this case their target market, and not just power-users like us here) start complaining that the movies that they're renting are taking FOREVER to download, have buffering problems, and that it's their ISP's fault, the ISP will either have to offer better speeds, or they'll have to come clean on data caps.
Either way, I see it as a win. ISPs can afford data caps when the people who are hurt are the unprofitable power-users like most of us here, but ISPs canNOT afford to lose the mainstream customers who just want to rent movies from XBL, netflix streaming, or Sony Video Store.
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kudos:21 | 10Mbps plus enough bandwidth left over to handle some light network load if anything, and some overhead included. More like 12Mbps would be needed on the download. | |
tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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| said by Smith6612:10Mbps plus enough bandwidth left over to handle some light network load if anything, and some overhead included. More like 12Mbps would be needed on the download. That depends... Powerboost would play quite a positive role in this type of environment. Lower sustained speeds later on in the download, but a nice big chunk at the beginning.
said by MrMoody:No kidding, that approaches 10 Mb continuous. Imagine everyone all doing 10 Mb for 2 hours straight during prime time. The bandwidth apocalypse is now. Not if Cable companies are actually upgrading to Docsis 3 like they say they are...
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