said by srwargo:
Nobody can get DSL/ADSL/Cable to work right! 100mb, many people would be thrilled just to have more reliability with what they have (I have no complaints).
And... who needs to chat at 100mbs! (AOL Users)
Personally I'd like to have VOD (video on demand). Imagine having some sort of digital hub, where your pc is connected to your television, and every movie is encoded at DVD or HDTV quality (stored on some massive terabyte server) and you could pay a subscription fee to watch them in real time at your leisure. netflix.com is an interesting idea but still you have to wait for the DVD to ship to you. And with a regular video store they may not have the indie film you want, and then there's the late fee issues. And so on. If we all had speeds mentioned in this article we could have true VOD, and that's really the lure for me.
Also, instead of watching television programs at a set time, or buying a DVR (digital video recorder) to record them only to watch them back later.... why not have television on demand? You could have every episode of Seinfeld stored at a central location (run by the networks such as HBO, CBS, NBC, etc.) and pay a subscription fee to watch what you want to watch
when you want to watch it. If we had 100 megabit per second connections the above could very easily be a reality. In fact, DVD quality video/audio streams at around 5-10 megabits per second if I'm not mistaken. HDTV more so, but ideally you'd want more bandwidth to buffer the stream.
