makingmusic476 said:
Even in the US many places only have access to dial-up, and the places that have access to broadband are usually charged exorbitant prices. Japan gets over 10x our average internet speed and they pay less on average! It'll be years before broadband penetration is high enough for digital distribution to take over. Even if the speeds were available, they'd have to be at low enough prices for people to consider adoption. And even at current broadband speeds 720p films take hours to download, let alone 1080p films. |
The reason Japan is able to get faster internet for less is because it is so small and so highly populated. They can lay the fiber optics lines for everybody to connect into and not have to worry about expanding it so some remote region because no matter where you are you are a short drive away from a big city. Unlike say Colorado where you could have super fast internet in Denver, and then what other big city is there where it is feasible to lay those lines and get your money back? Lets not even talk about states like Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Minnesota has the twin cities and pretty much nothing else. Washington has Seattle and nothing else. Oregon has Portland. Nevada has Reno and Vegas. Utah has Salt Lake City. That is a lot of area to cover and only one big city in each state that it would be feasible for super high speed internet. Even California, as populated as it is, is a very big state and would only maybe be worth the lines for super high speed in the southern end in Los Angelos and San Diego. The only place where there is big populations in a small area for this kind of thing is in the north east, Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington DC, Philidelphia.
