[94016] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colm MacCarthaigh)
Sat Jan 6 10:22:44 2007
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:19:00 +0000
From: Colm MacCarthaigh <colm@stdlib.net>
To: Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@dtc.umn.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: colm@stdlib.net
In-Reply-To: <20070106150919.9C13D3C0D9@dl1.dtc.umn.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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 :/
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Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: colm+pgp@stdlib.net
