ssj12 said:
Blu-ray is scalable remember, 4-layer Blu-ray discs do hold 100GBs so it will be a while before anything goes above what Blu-ray can hold at an affordable price. For streaming video its a matter of the site/service your streaming from as its a matter of their limitations on speed. If you stream from a site that maxes out at 200KBps your not going to have to let a movie buffer for at least 20 - 30 minutes before you even want to try to hit play and hope it buffers fast enough that you dont watch 40 minutes of the movie and hit the buffer which could cause you to either A. have to re-watch the entire movie from the start again or B. wait another 20 or so minutes to watch the rest of the movie. This is the reason why On-Demand services in HD suck. You buy a link to the streaming content but if the connection to the movie takes a moment to connect successfully then if the stream for the movie is being watched by over a hundred people the transfer is slowed does which can create artifacts through out the movie due to errors in the buffer or worse cause an error which will make you have to restart the movie where you left off if the current media stream is back up functioning correctly. |
Yes, I meant that I don't see file sizes over 50GB for a normal movie for a lot of years. So that is a pretty stationary target.
I know the theory...but 200KBps?!? And there are ways to better use bandwidth when more people are using the same stream. For example Joost uses a smarter scheme.
