Blu Ray wings getting clipped?? 15 Minute HD Movie Downloads

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BMaker11 said:
wow....50 meg internet? Yeah...blu ray isn't being clipped, because I have 30 meg ResNet here at Purdue, other than DC++, my downloads from a site with a GOOD SERVER top out at about 1 mbps. Now considering that HD movies are about 5 GB.....that would take 5000 minutes.....which translates to about 3.5 days.

Now, take into consideration that my internet was relatively cheap ($65 a year) because MY SCHOOL pays for part of it. If this were a home service, then you're talking about $1000 a month. Now increase the speed to 50 meg.....yeah, I doubt Blu-ray is gonna be effected by this, especially since you're talking about Xbox live, and the PS3 has been outselling the 360

Wait a minute, you have a 30 meg connection and you only download at 1? ...

Regarding prices, here you have what you can typically get in Portugal:

- ADSL internet up to 24 Mbps (speed dependant on the distance to your central)
- phone service with unlimited phone calls to EU / USA / Canada 24h a day
- 25 TV channels

You can get all of that for 40 € a month. After two years you get some traffic caps, at which point you change operator if you want to. If you threaten you'll change operator, they'll usually give you a better contract to keep you (yes, some operators work like that).