Bill Gates predicts Internet to revolutionize TV in 5 years

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  • StickyGreen
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    • Oct 2003
    • 13076
    #51
    fiddy...
    Refer Cam Girls and Take Home 10% of Everything They Make For Life

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      • Splum
        Confirmed User
        • May 2003
        • 6195
        #52
        Originally posted by Natural Cause
        Watch the Pirates trailer in my sig.
        See and this is entirely whats wrong with video now, I have to download another DRM player to even view your trailer?

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          • RawAlex
            So Fucking Banned
            • Oct 2003
            • 9465
            #53
            Okay, let's play a game.

            Last week, 14,801,000 sets were tuned to CSI.

            Let's say 15mb per minute. That would be 222,015,000 MB per hour... or 222,015 gigs.

            Now, further to make this intresting, assume that a like number of people were watching Grey's Anatomy (slightly more, but for argument) and that a similar number of people were watching "other things".

            666,045 gigs per hour required bandwith, just in the US, just for thursday night prime time.

            Now, further, let's assume that each routing has 10 jumps. Total required bandwidth becomes a staggering 6,660,450 gigs PER HOUR.

            I have a feeling we may be a little further away from the promised land that Bill thinks.

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              • Natural Cause
                Confirmed User
                • Oct 2006
                • 222
                #54
                Originally posted by Splum
                See and this is entirely whats wrong with video now, I have to download another DRM player to even view your trailer?
                Um, it's a 100k file used to decode the video, and doesn't require installation. It also has nothing to do with the DRM.

                Either way it supplys superior quality.

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                  • Natural Cause
                    Confirmed User
                    • Oct 2006
                    • 222
                    #55
                    Originally posted by RawAlex
                    Okay, let's play a game.

                    Last week, 14,801,000 sets were tuned to CSI.

                    Let's say 15mb per minute. That would be 222,015,000 MB per hour... or 222,015 gigs.

                    Now, further to make this intresting, assume that a like number of people were watching Grey's Anatomy (slightly more, but for argument) and that a similar number of people were watching "other things".

                    666,045 gigs per hour required bandwith, just in the US, just for thursday night prime time.

                    Now, further, let's assume that each routing has 10 jumps. Total required bandwidth becomes a staggering 6,660,450 gigs PER HOUR.

                    I have a feeling we may be a little further away from the promised land that Bill thinks.
                    10, wow, i get 8 from Auckland - New Zealand to Canada for the CDN i use. 6 of those are just getting out of NZ.

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                      • rowan
                        Too lazy to set a custom title
                        • Mar 2002
                        • 17393
                        #56
                        Originally posted by RawAlex
                        Okay, let's play a game.

                        Last week, 14,801,000 sets were tuned to CSI.

                        Let's say 15mb per minute. That would be 222,015,000 MB per hour... or 222,015 gigs.

                        Now, further to make this intresting, assume that a like number of people were watching Grey's Anatomy (slightly more, but for argument) and that a similar number of people were watching "other things".

                        666,045 gigs per hour required bandwith, just in the US, just for thursday night prime time.

                        Now, further, let's assume that each routing has 10 jumps. Total required bandwidth becomes a staggering 6,660,450 gigs PER HOUR.

                        I have a feeling we may be a little further away from the promised land that Bill thinks.
                        The problem with your analysis is that it assumes everyone will switch over instantly. Do you think that a typical medium sized host used multiple gigabit links 10 years ago?

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                          • RawAlex
                            So Fucking Banned
                            • Oct 2003
                            • 9465
                            #57
                            Rowan, go back and do a little study about what happened when kazaa and napster hit the net. Universities were crying because they had no bandwidth left. People on token ring network cable modems saw their connect speeds drop to about dialup levels... and that was for weenie little music files.

                            Let's be nice and say 10% of the people move. Still 600,000 - 700,000 gigs of bandwidth (just for the US). There isn't that much bandwidth lying around, especially not at the consumer ISP level. Plus, considering many people with high speed are on "cable modems", you can bet the cable companies won't be rushing to put enough bandwidth out there to compete with themselves.

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