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I could see with a 'wired in' family of 4, watching on average 1.5+ movies a day

Who the hell watches 1+ movies per day? Seriously?

Don't you people ever go outside?

I predict the usage of home media servers (and using bit torrent sites to acquire said media to fill up the servers) will rise considerably because of this. Why stream it from the internet if you can have your own copy locally?

Of course, OTA shows that are still airing new episodes won't be doable like that, without risking the wrath of MPAA or RIAA. I haven't sat down and watched OTA television in years, come to think of it. I can wait a day or two to download it...

1gb at 1am should be priced differently than 1gb at 7pm. There should be a way to queue up a movie download during optimal low usage times for viewing in less than 24 hours. If I set amazon unbox to download a movie as I go to bed at midnight or maybe as I leave for work, I'm using data when the network is wide open as opposed to dinnertime and right after, prsumably when the most video is streaming.

There's plenty of SLACK in their network, they are just failing t make proper use of it.

The entire point of "I want it now!!!!" precludes this.

If you are willing to wait a bit why not go grab the DVD from Redbox?

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Who the hell watches 1+ movies per day? Seriously?

Don't you people ever go outside?

4 person family... let's say, the parents watch a movie at night after the kids are in bed, kids watch a movie after dinner. There's 2 a day. Oh let's say the kids are teenagers and make enough cash babysitting or mowing laws or doing IT work under the table and have enough to buy their own media (or just download a copy off the pirate networks), and the two parents watch different movies - now you're looking at 4+ movies downloaded per day.

Nobody(5) in my house has the time to watch 30 minutes of tv a day, let alone multiple movies...

I play way more video games than I watch movies. Games use a fraction of the bandwidth of streaming video. I might watch 2 to 4 hours of streamed video per week, usually in HD, so that's anywhere from 3 to maybe 10GB/week. I don't have cable or watch OTA TV, so any video I watch is online.

Just came back from my kids, 3 people use business class and stream youtube and hulu pretty much 24 hours a day, just under one terabyte a month.

I run about a Terabyte here a month at the house; the Colo is scary.

Comcast has taken a page out of GS playbook, opaque product descriptions and pricing. There seems to be a tiered pricing charge for different levels of bandwidth/second, starting at 40 a month plus modem rental. Bandwidth per month will be on top of that.
Also been through the Comcast destroy your service, replace working modem for another modem exercise.
Those guys complaining about their iphones dropping video after 2 gigabytes a month are a real hoot.

I don't call comcast tech support until i can tell them for sure where the problem is..works much better..:) I'm going to be purchasing my own modem before too long..docis 3..however cablelabs is comign out with another docsis standard so i may hold off.

they do have tiers for different provisioned speeds..i've yet to see any internet vendor that doesn't.

genesis wrote..

The entire point of "I want it now!!!!" precludes this.

If you are willing to wait a bit why not go grab the DVD from Redbox?2012-05-20 14:41:16

"Now" of course means "when I'm ready to watch it". If you're following a tv show, you already know it's something you're going to want to watch. The first episode or two might be spontaneous, but after that, "I want it now" could easily translate to "have this downloaded & ready to play when I get home from work." I can easily list off a dozen shows I watched, dozens of episodes each, knowing I'd want to watch the whole season/series.

I'd be more than happy to click a "subscribe" button on Breaking Bad and have it download & queue up while I'm sleeping or at work. If you've ever had connection issues while streaming, you know the convenience of having the whole thing downloaded already.

And for movies, it's slower than instant, sure, but it's a lot faster than the mail. Redbox, it's another errand you have to run instead of a click on a computer or phone and it's ready for you when you want it. Some people might want to watch multiple Bond, Star Wars, Star Trek etc movies and might want to queue them up. (...and how many movies can you cram into that kiosk... selection will be bigger online)

Naturally, not every streaming video will be planned beforehand, but it would allow the internet providers to take not-negligible amount of pressure off the network at peak times.

If you could put a teleporter-reciever in your car, have it drive itself to your job at 1am, then just step into the teleporter unit in your home, appear in your car at work, and avoid the traffic, might that cut down on rush hour traffic volume? Would a lot of people - not freelance messengers, pizza deliverymen, etc of course, but a significant number of people - even prefer it to on-demand driving?

If the "dumb pipes" were smart, they'd partner with Amazon, Netflix, etc to set up off-peak subscription/download - it'd be the data world's version of free nights & weekends. One advantage would be being able to throttle down even below streaming-capable speed when neccessary, as the show or movie would still be available in time to watch..

...jeez I'm a lightweight. I might watch one streaming movie a month.

You guys crack me up.....a TERABYTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't find enough quality content that holds my interest.

the only reason we aren't cranking up half a terabyte or more is i am heavily throttling our usage right now. finances here are a bit weird but once they settle down we are going business class(i do run a business out of my house) and dropping tv altogether. 95% of all of out tv is available for free online..i can guarantee you even with the light tv we do we'll easily crank 500 gigs or more.