North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 09:09:19AM -0600, Andrew Odlyzko wrote: > 2. The question I don't understand is, why stream? There are other good reasons, but fundamentally; because of live telivision. > In these days, when a terabyte disk for consumer PCs is about to be > introduced, why bother with streaming? It is so much simpler to > download (at faster than real-time rates, if possible), and play it > back. That might be worse for download operators, because people may download an hour of video, and only watch 5 minutes :/ -- Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: [email protected]
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