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Originally Posted by peanutkp
Are they thinking they'll be making money from the fact there there will be no STM or the speed of 50mb? What can 50mb do in a normal (realistic) household than a 20mb (with no STM) can't do.
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Well for one you can watch two HD TV channels at a time. iPlayer is coming out in HD for example. In an average student flat around here, with 5-12 people, most time spent in front of the TV is spent arguing about which channel somebody else wants to watch. With VOD I can just watch it on my PC instead.
Yet with the STM on the 20meg as it is now, I can watch it for about an hour before I become throttled. God forbid, two people streaming at the same time and you'll be throttled in 30 minutes, and at the 75% throttle it'll be too slow for concurrent use. One person wants to watch iPlayer? Another on Youtube? Third person uploading to Facebook? Fourth wants to download some stuff of iTunes? At 5 meg, you're screwed. God forbid if the other 4 people in the flat want to do anything on the internet like, er, study...