Yikes: Time Warner moves forward with tiered bandwidth pricing. I actually don't mind paying by the bit if they would charge anywhere close to market bandwidth prices. But $1 per GB when you go over your (very limited) cap? Are they serious? And the cap on the biggest tier is 40 GB per month?
Of course, if there is no price collusion, this means that the telecos should be able to wipe them out of the game with DSL. But we'll see how that works. Depending on AT&T to save us seems like a risky bet.
It cheeses me off when telcom companies talk about how many bajillion emails are in a Gigabyte.
Sorry, my unit of measure is a Blu-ray Disk. 40 GB is less than two movies. A dollar per gig would mean $25 to download one single-layer BD.
Hell, I can easily acquire 10 GB of video in one day at the track. With a frickin handy cam.
I wonder why the cable companies would want to stifle video over the internet?
Having actually read the article ... I'm glad the "movies are huge files" meme is getting injected into the conversation. But 8 GB won't provide near-transparent video compression equivalent to BD. It will provide good video compression, similar to satellite TV. In the grand scheme of things, I suppose 8 GB is a reasonable figure to use in the argument.
> I wonder why the cable companies would want to stifle video over the internet?
Yeah, that's a brain teaser.
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Of course, if there is no price collusion, this means that the telecos should be able to wipe them out of the game with DSL. But we'll see how that works. Depending on AT&T to save us seems like a risky bet.
- jim 4-02-2009 5:25 pm
It cheeses me off when telcom companies talk about how many bajillion emails are in a Gigabyte.
Sorry, my unit of measure is a Blu-ray Disk. 40 GB is less than two movies. A dollar per gig would mean $25 to download one single-layer BD.
Hell, I can easily acquire 10 GB of video in one day at the track. With a frickin handy cam.
- mark 4-02-2009 7:27 pm
I wonder why the cable companies would want to stifle video over the internet?
- jim 4-02-2009 7:32 pm
Having actually read the article ... I'm glad the "movies are huge files" meme is getting injected into the conversation. But 8 GB won't provide near-transparent video compression equivalent to BD. It will provide good video compression, similar to satellite TV. In the grand scheme of things, I suppose 8 GB is a reasonable figure to use in the argument.
- mark 4-02-2009 7:35 pm
> I wonder why the cable companies would want to stifle video over the internet?
Yeah, that's a brain teaser.
- mark 4-02-2009 7:36 pm