On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 07:41 +1000, Res wrote: > I spend a lot of time on youtube, I also watch certain shows from the > US via CBS (I think it is) since the local networks stopped importing > and showing some of those shows, I stream the bbc many hours a day, I > do critical DB backups daily to my home desktop (just an extra part of > off-site backing up) and it'd be lucky to hit 50 gigs a month, and > thats a big effort, there is no way you can stream legal material that > uses 300G a month, and you and I both know it, to tink otherwise is to > be blind and nieve, and smells of " i'm not doing anything wrong no on > no not me ever" heard it a trillion times before, and SEEN it! Perhaps, and perhaps not. Certainly in the future, people will not find 300 x 200 pixel screens, at 10 frames per second, with heavy MPEG compression, to be an acceptable data format. It won't just be pirated DVDs that'll be transmitted in a high-resolution manner. At least one of our local ISPs is dabbling with the notion of on-line video libraries, at full or high definition video. That's going to be somewhere around 5-10 gigs for one movie. Presuming that a household might watch one or two movies (worth *) a night on television, as it is, particularly with kids watching TV in the bedroom while parents watch something less inane in the lounge, you could easily rack up 300 gigs a month. * Whether that really be a movie, or three television shows, the amount of likely data is what I'm referring to. At that stage, that's local traffic (customer to ISP), but the television stations will get into the act soon enough, when they realise that current television broadcasting is going the way of the dodo - with people sick of adverts, programs being on at the wrong time for them, and so on. So it'll be something like that many gigs a month and not all of it local traffic. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
