| kingofwale said: >"Xbox Live high definition movie downloads should take between 15 minutes and half an hour to download by the end of the year on some broadband services, according to Virgin Media and Microsoft today. keyword: SOME... wake me up when I can do over 100kb/s download via my $40+ monthly cable internet with 25GB quota. |
I can remember owning a 2400bps modem and then everyone drooling over the 3Khz voice-band saturating 9600bps modems. There wasn't going to be anything faster until about 2 years later companies began to release 56Kbps modems. And then *that* was the ceiling. Now I have EVDO wireless, tend to average about 1.3 mbps while other guys at work have 6mbps connections and are talking about upgrading to 12 mpbs connections.
So... the moral of the story is, don't get trapped by the buggy-whips-will-always-be-important thinking. My brother works for AT&T and they're installing FIOS like mad. Talk about a huge jump in bandwidth. Also, network-edge-cache companies are growing as other companies such as Apple, MS, etc. decide that they need to get the files cached closer to the user instead of having a bazillion servers to deliver content.
