| reply to SlickEnW
Re: Caps like this Codecs can get more efficient, but there's a limit to what they can achieve. Meanwhile, bandwidth is cheap. These ISPs who are capping low and overcharging are 1) abusing monopoly positions and 2) trying to create artificial scarcity.
At the best case of 2600kbps, you'd be able to watch almost 13.5 hours of Netflix streaming content per month if you were a Rogers Lite user and nearly 71.7 hours of Netflix streaming content if you were an Extreme user.
This might sound like a lot, but that's without any other network activity. Plus, even absent any other network activity, that's only 2 hours per day on the Extreme plan or 27 minutes per day on the Lite plan.
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-Jason Levine |
| Regardless, in the video world, no matter how "good" a codec gets, it still lowers the quality of what it is distributing. You simply can't take a bunch of bits out and then mathematically calculate what it is that was there and put them all back with 100% accuracy. It simply has never happened and will never happen. This becomes a bigger problem as screens get bigger and resolutions get higher. |
