| Cobretti2 said:
You are missing the point. Most people in the world don't have your speed. Also as other have mentioned data caps. When broadband first come out they existed. Then they vanished and now they are returning as ISPs can see extra value in selling you more blocks of data if you need them. It is to weed out the pirates and also so they can establish their own streaming services or via partnerships that offer free data (as in does not count towards your cap) from those sites, again to make more moeny from you. Also a BlueRay disc video bitrate is 40.0Mbps MAX (with data transfer of 54Mbps, if at 1.5x read speed, otherwise 36Mbps). However this is for crappy BluRays that are still encoded in MPEG2 (which has been around since dvd days). MPEG4 1080p compressed streams can be achieved with a bitrate of 4-8Mbps and still look great. If anyone is going to stream things to you it will most likely be in MPEG4 and not MPEG2. |
Maybe not now, but definitely later.
Where I live, only data caps that I have ever seen was with early 3g connections.
40mbps video max and 24.5mbps audio max, 54mbps total max.
And here is a thing which you don't know, unless you have a magic crystal ball. 8mbps is not great by any means.
