On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Ben Butler <ben.butler@c2internet.net> wrote:
Ok, you have a point with SD vs HD which is encoded at 8 rather than 2 on our digital terrestrial and satellite broadcasters in the UK.
So why 24mb or 50mb access speeds, what is it actually being used for, I do not believe that streamed video is the culprit here with most codecs doing about ~700 kbits.
why NOT 24mb or 50mb or 500mb? what applications/innovations/ideas are being left on the table because folk can't do them in a reasonable period of time with <2mbps and longer queue times on their home network? If you could provision, cheaply, more bandwidth to the end-users in a community (or really several communities) do you think there would be new applications or new services provided to these folks? Video HD or SD is just one application/service... they get lots of hype today, but tomorrow what things may be possible? -chris