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Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 11:55:45 -0400
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From: Christopher Null <cnull () yahoo com> Date: May 7, 2008 11:47:38 AM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, 'ip' <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: RE: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees
A typical DVD is 4 gigabytes, not 4 gigabits (and many are double- layer, sosome fill up to a full 8.5 gigabytes). That's a big distinction.Also, the size of a movie is completely dependent on the the quality of the encoding. A full-length movie encoded as a low-res DivX file may only take up a few hundred MB, while a native high-definition movie can eat up 25GB.My point: Talking in terms of "how many movies" is this is always a slipperysubject as there's no real standard to go by. CN --- Christopher Null / cnull () yahoo com www.filmcritic.com / www.chrisnull.com / www.drinkhacker.com http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:59 AM To: ip Subject: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees ________________________________________ From: ken [Ken () new-isp net] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:51 AM To: David Farber Cc: rs9174 () gmail com Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees Ralph,The average DVD holds roughly 4 Gigabits of data, making it possible to download approximately 60 movies in a one month period while still leavingplenty of bandwidth for surfing and email. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD I hope this information helps to puts things into perspective for you. Respectfully, Ken DiPietro NextGenCommunications On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 06:17 -0700, David Farber wrote:________________________________________ From: Ralph [rs9174 () gmail com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees 250GB would give you the bandwidth to download how many movies per month? 0? 1? 5? 25? Ralph Sierra ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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