Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to AstroBoy
Re: 1 NetFlix movie is 2.68GB
The streams are 500, 1000, or 1500 Kb/s as far as I've ever seen (Silverlight player).
At high quality, a 2 hour movie is 1.3GB or so:
»www.google.com/search?q=1500+Kb%···rs+in+GB |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| So in other words you could watch 2 movies a day and still have 400 MB left over. Even going over you could still technically watch your 1500 Kbps stream only your throttled 1.5 Mbps connection. That being said, I think 5 GB a day should be the bare minimum. Though I suspect that 97% of their customewrs at this point won't notice a difference. In 2 years who knows. |
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AstroBoy
join:2008-08-08
Parkville, MD
| reply to Ark
Nope, I have the Roku player. It goes up to 3.2 or 3.3 Mb/sec. Came with the HD update. Press home, home, home, home, home, rw, rw, rw, ff, ff to select a speed. Or does that give extra health?  |
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Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI
·AT&T Midwest
| Roku might use the version of the movies that require IE+Windows to use on a computer. The "old" 3.2Mb/s stream is supposedly lower quality than the "new" silverlight/VC-1 1.5Mb/s stream.
I imagine Netflix will eventually ditch the old player so they don't have to maintain two of everything. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to AstroBoy
said by AstroBoy  :Nope, I have the Roku player. It goes up to 3.2 or 3.3 Mb/sec. Came with the HD update. Press home, home, home, home, home, rw, rw, rw, ff, ff to select a speed. Or does that give extra health? My car's speedometer goes up to 140 Mph. Doesn't mean it'll ever go that fast. |
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L4FAIRNESS9
@cox.net
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My car's speedometer goes up to 140 Mph. Doesn't mean it'll ever go that fast.
Not a very good analogy at all.
Did you purchase that car with the promise it would go up to 140mph? No you did't. Its like saying I purchased my computer with a Gig-E ethernet jack, so I expect it to go that fast all the time. The analogy just doesn't work. More than likely your car won't even go that fast, due to a limit of the tires - that will be limited by the computer.
Did folks enter into an agreement for unlimited internet at "speeds up to 10 meg down / 5 up" (or for the nazis, insert your speeds you were led to believe to be 24/7 and unlimited here), yes. |
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