"Mr.T" MrT@home writes:
[...]
And as for on-line delivery, It may well be ten years or more before most
people can regularly download a single 20GB+ movie!
I don't have any facts to refute you, but my "gut" tells me this is way
off-base. I would guess that "most" folks (in the U.S.) have the ability
to download 20 GB more or less overnight right now [1], and that the
internet pipes are only going to grow bigger over time.
Is overnight, or even a couple of days, too long to wait? I don't think
so - many folks wait two to four days to exchange a movie from Netflix
these days.
--Randy
[1] The average cable modem download speed is around 4 Mb/s == 500 kB/s.
Then
(20 GB) * (1 s / 500 kB) * (1E6 kB / GB) * (1 hour / 3600 s) = 11.1 hours
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