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Originally Posted by marcop
Who cares? Everything's going to be distributed over the Internet in a few years... these "DVD Wars" are irrelevant.
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In a few years you'll be saying
"Who cares? Everything's going to be distributed over the Internet in a few years... these "DVD Wars" are irrelevant"
In a few years after that you'll still be saying
"Who cares? Everything's going to be distributed over the Internet in a few years... these "DVD Wars" are irrelevant"
And in a few years after that you may be right.
32% of American do not have any internet. 17% still use dial up. Of the 51% that have broadband half get 2 Mbps or less speed. Unlike other countries where it's kind of important that everyone has broadband in the US business will only invest in areas where they can make money. And making sure the millions of dial-up users have access to broadband is not economically feasible to them so don't expect any changes soon in that 17% number.
For HD downloads or streaming to be viable you really need at least 10 Mbps. Maybe 5% get that much speed. Even if 100% got that speed who streams at that rate? No one. Not even close.