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rocketpig said:

WTF is a kps?

I assume you're talking about KBps (or Kilobyte per second, versus kbps, or kilobit per second).

Still, $40 for 6 KBps? Where on Earth do you live where you get bent over so hard for internet usage in a metropolitan area, kingofwale?

I get 5mbps (megabit per second) for $40 or $50 here in the Los Angeles area. 


The K is right above the M so I'm assuming its a simple slip of the finger.

In the past, the industry has followed porn. Porn isn't going blu-ray. The biggest growth has clearly been the internet, both legal and pirate. Convenience trumps quality.

But like 3 porn studios are starting to produce blu-ray.... the highest budget porn movie "Pirates" is going blu-ray.



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Don't misunderstand what I said. There will be porn on blu-ray, it just won't sell very much compared to what is sold on the internet.



HappySqurriel said:

I think I should make my point clearer ...

With how broadband internet useage has grown, and with how speeds have improved for the price you pay over the past 5 to 10 years how do you think it will grow over the next 5 to 10 years?

We could end up having 200,000,000 households will 25Mb/s (or better) internet access, and cable "video-on-demand" services with much higher bandwith, and with the proper download service video downloads can take off ...


 I think over the next 5-10 years speeds will continue to increase, in large, densly populated areas.  Believe it or not there are still areas where dial up is the only cheap option.  I don't live in a small town, about 70,000 people with a university, and the best I can get without getting screwed over by the cable company is 1.5 for $30.  There are dsl providers with the same speed for $40 and the cable people charge $60 for 8.



FishyJoe said:
I use netflix and hulu a lot now. Stage 6 was also very good before they shut it down. If netflix comes to a console, I would consider it a big plus.

 horray for another hulu.com user!!  i'm freaking in love with that site. xD



HappySqurriel said:

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With how broadband internet useage has grown, and with how speeds have improved for the price you pay over the past 5 to 10 years how do you think it will grow over the next 5 to 10 years?

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Not very much. Cable boardband speed hasn't increase here much in 5 years . In fact as more people around me get cable boardband I've noticed I have more slow downs. Again it comes down of how much infromation you can send down a cable line at once. Cables companies are already running out of room to add in all those HD channels. Direct TV has an advantage here since all they have to do it to put up more satellites plus they don't have analog channels like cable which eats up bandwidth.

I also doubt you see cable and phone companies in the next 5-10 tearing up the roads in big cities again like they did in the 90's to add more cables just so everyone can download HD movies faster. I personally have no need for anything faster than 5mps.

 



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Smidlee said:
HappySqurriel said:

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With how broadband internet useage has grown, and with how speeds have improved for the price you pay over the past 5 to 10 years how do you think it will grow over the next 5 to 10 years?

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Not very much. Cable boardband speed hasn't increase here much in 5 years . In fact as more people around me get cable boardband I've noticed I have more slow downs. Again it comes down of how much infromation you can send down a cable line at once. Cables companies are already running out of room to add in all those HD channels. Direct TV has an advantage here since all they have to do it to put up more satellites plus they don't have analog channels like cable which eats up bandwidth.

I also doubt you see cable and phone companies in the next 5-10 tearing up the roads in big cities again like they did in the 90's to add more cables just so everyone can download HD movies faster. I personally have no need for anything faster than 5mps.

 


Also, with a U.S. recession for the next 3-4 years, does anyone really see big spending going into network infrastructure.  Consumers will be cutting back their spending and states and counties don't have the excess resources to develop the infrastructure. 

 Also, on the porn comment, does anyone actually buy porn on the internet?  I was under the assumption that only the free sites received hits.



ssj12 said:
downloading will not silence Blu-ray sales as internet speeds wont be raised very quickly. Even broadband is only maxing 20mbps for the standard household with Verizon which the standard is at 10mbps with Brighthouse (the two leading ISPs at the moment).

Downloading an entire HD movie with all extras will be about 40 - 50GB or 70GB uncompressed. No matter what it will take forever to download.

I don't understand why MS thinks that they can start a media counter-revolution based on downloading, when movie downloads have been around for 17 years and to MS's credit while these probably have put a small dent in movie sales, the downloads just haven't show any sign of overtaking movies so if MS is thinking that this is going to be a big thing then they are overhyping their upcoming downoad service to a significant degree.