A 40min episode of Heroes or Lost takes around 300MB (in pretty good quality DIVX). A two hour movie should take between 1Gig-2Gig - anything over this is overkill for digital distribution. Its just a waste.
In Australia, ALL broadband services have capped plans. But you never usually pay extra for exceeding the cap - rather your speed just gets cut down to slow speed (some providers allow you to then pay top-up costs).
I'm paying $120/m (AU) for a 40gig service. If I was in a ADSL 2+ area, this would drop to around $80AU for 50-60gig.
Its still enough for an easy 15-30 movies per month (or one movie per day, every day) - much more than my household would ever watch.
...
For the average person, the Time Warner cap just isn't an issue. I think its perfectly reasonable to charge people who 'abuse' the service additional fees - especially on a unlimited connection.
Also remember that connection speeds, bandwidth usage & cost are all significantly improving - and at a rapid rate. Within 3-5 years, people won't even notice the bandwidth usage of movie watching.
Gesta Non Verba
Nocturnal is helping companies get cheaper game ratings in Australia:
Wii code: 2263 4706 2910 1099
