DirtyP2002 said:
3-4 years maybe. It is possible right now, but you have to download quite a bit. I live in a small city in Germany, so I just got 3mb/s. I need like 2 hours to download / stream a HD movie (720p). I don't know how MS is doing it but the quality was great, even a movie like "No Country for old men" with 5.1 sound and 720p was 4.2 GB. But the quality was great. I have got like 40 HD-DVDs (bought them for 4-5€, after the death of HD-DVD) here and the difference is very small. In bigger cities like cologne they offer 100mb/s-connection. So you can watch HD-movies in no time, if you have such a connection. I don't know the price right now, but like every new technology it will be much cheaper in 3-4 years. I don't know about the connections in NA. There won't be big differences between UK / Germany / France / Belgium / Netherlands / Austria /Switzerland. Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway ... Iceland) is superb when it comes to connections. So it will be possible in the near future. It is possible right now. And as we have seen with music, the human preference is changing. Hi @ iTunes.
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They are doing it with a much lower bitrate.
| Source/service | CODEC | Resolution | Bit-rate |
| Blu-ray | H.264 or MPEG2 | 1920×1080 1080i/p | 40 |
| HD DVD | H.264 or VC-1 | 1920×1080 1080i/p | 28 |
| ATSC HDTV | MPEG2 | 1920×1080 1080i/p | 19.39 |
| Digital cable | MPEG2 | 1920×1080 1080i/p | ~ 16 |
| Verizon FiOS Video on demand |
MPEG2 | 1920×1080 1080i | 15 |
| DISH HD | MPEG2/MPEG4 | 1440×1080 | < 10 |
| DIRECTV HD | MPEG2/MPEG4 | 1280×1080 | < 10 |
| IPTV | H.264 | ? | < 10 |
| Xbox Live Video | VC-1 | 1280×720 720p | 6.8 |
| DVD | MPEG2 | 720×480 480i * | 8 |
| Apple iTunes | QuickTime/H.264 | 1280×720 720p | 4 |
| Web “HD” downloads | H.264 | 1280×720 720p | 1.5 |
Thanks for the input, Jeff.
