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tschmidt
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I agree Cable provider's real concern is customers doing an end run around their offerings by using the Internet to access content.

Using caps to control congestion is a pretty weak argument as congestion is result of peak data transfer not something averaged over the month.

To put caps into perspective a 90 minute HD movie or TV program is about 14 GB.

/tom


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said by tschmidt:

To put caps into perspective a 90 minute HD movie or TV program is about 14 GB.
From what service? Netflix HD streams are not even anywhere close to that size. I think it really has to do with what they are being encoded with. I watch many movies streamed to my TV via Netflix and they are all right around 800 MB..Of course these are standard definition. HD pushes roughly 1.5-2 Gigs.
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DTV VOD HD for one hour can be 4+ GB.


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