New "superior" disc format to compete with Blu-ray coming Q1 09

[arsenicazure]

 

 

Bboid said:

arsenicazure said:

Bboid said:

arsenicazure said:
Japan and south korea already have amazingly fast and high broadband penetration-- you can find 1Gbps lines in japan for under 60 bucks:>

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/27/1757211&from=rss

Thats around 100MB/sec which means a 10Gb game should take approx 3-5 mins tops to download.

 

 

Localized regions of geographically small countries is not a convincing argument. These countries also happen to hard the largest tech infrastructure budgets in the world since they are also home to a few of the largest tech companies in the world.  Find me cheap broadband in Swaziland.

sure.. if you can list how many blu ray players swaziland has...

 

BTW, JAPAN is the 2nd largest economy in the world. SKorea is 14th..above australia, just below India and Mexico. So these are not small localised regions.

 

swaziland is 147... pick better examples next time to state ur point

 

 

The speeds you are citing are not widespread in availability across Japan and South Korea.  The available regionS for these transfer speeds WITHIN THESE COUNTRIES  ARE SMALL AND LOCALIZED.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/

Japanese Broadband World's Fastest

Japan, France, Korea, Sweden, and New Zealand led all countries surveyed in advertised broadband download speeds (see Figure 1). Japan led all countries with an advertised 93,693 Mbits per second speed, followed by France at 44,157 Mb/s, Korea at 43,301 Mb/s, Sweden 21,423 Mb/s, and New Zealand at 13,595 Mb/s broadband speed. The UK came in 12th at 10,624 Mb/s while the US came in at 14th at 8,860 Mb/sec.

 

yes japan is doing "horribly slow"..

here is another its from july 2007:

http://uk.gizmodo.com/2007/07/17/japanese_have_the_best_broadba.html

Not content with getting most of the cool gadgets first, Japanese folk are also getting the best broadband.

According to the new Communications Outlook 2007 report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Japanese broadband users are getting 100Mbps lines – for both uploads and downloads – thanks to its fibre optic network infrastructure. That’s 10 times faster than the average global broadband speed, the OECD claimed.

Even more annoying is that Japanese surfers are also paying the cheapest ‘per megabit’ rate too at around 11p. In contrast, Turkey has the most expensive per megabit rate at a staggering £40. The cheapest UK rate is £1.80, while the cheapest US rate is a smidgen lower at £1.60. Whatever about speed, UK broadband still continues to annoy lots of customers.

Other countries experiencing the benefits of super-fast fibre optic-based broadband are Sweden, Finland and Korea. The fastest broadband you can get here – and only from a few players – is ADSL2+, which has a theoretical top speed of 24Mbps. Theoretical, ok?

or even the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7098992.stm