JasonOD
@comcast.net
| As long as were talking about Comcast.....
They're not imposing caps to impede power users, they've got the 'DSL speed' throttling coming to take care of that. They're going to continue to do what they have done now for a while- lop off the top 1,000 users, which will likely be way over 250GB.
Eventually they may ease into enforcing the 250GB cap. But not until VOD, and especially HD VOD becomes a credible threat to their core business. |
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beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH
| Please demonstrate how many hd on demand movies one needs to watch in order to hit 250GB. Then, please cite the service that provides these movies and also the cost per moview to watch. after you are done doing that, please explain how much a customer saved by watching these movies through a third party service vs. the cable company's own service.
Until I see some actual #'s, I don't believe ANY of these caps have ANYTHING to do with competing video service. It's a move against p2p users, plain and simple. |
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NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| said by beaups  :Please demonstrate how many hd on demand movies one needs to watch in order to hit 250GB. Pocket calculators are your friend.
~111 - 2 hour HD movies at 2.5Mbps
250,000MB / (.3125MB * 3600 secs in an hour * 2 hours)
~55 - 2 hour HD movies at 5Mbps
250,000MB / (.625MB * 3600 * 2)
~28 - 2 hour HD movies at 10Mbps
250,000MB / (1.25MB * 3600 * 2)
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beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH
| where do these movies come from? let's go with your 5mbps calculation since we really don't see anything out there higher (actually I don't see 5 either, but we'll use this for arguments sake)
55 HD movies...seems like a lot. so, where would one get this content from and how much does it cost per movie? |
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NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| said by beaups :55 HD movies...seems like a lot. so, where would one get this content from and how much does it cost per movie? Right now, no one is offering 5Mbps quality HD video yet. Netflix streaming is the closest you get to that and that's between 800kbps - 2Mbps (depending on your connection).
However, what caps will do its create a barrier to content providers putting high quality HD content out there because subscribers would be discouraged from watching it by the caps.
As for what an online HD movie would cost, you would probably see Netflix offer them via streams first since they are already doing SD movies. You probably would be able to watch them as part of your monthly plan.
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