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"I just don’t see any other application for that other than piracy," one senior-level cable industry exec stated after last week's demo

Some of us don't want our data throttled to suit Hollywood's agendas.

Weird, because they just showed off their new fiber offering.

http://www.telecoms.com/29393/comcast-b ... broadband/

paulbarwick wrote:http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Only ... xec-114798

"I just don’t see any other application for that other than piracy," one senior-level cable industry exec stated after last week's demo

The reasons that people 20 years from now will have problems remembering how they got by with under 80mbps either haven't been invented yet or have been the province of a very small minority of people. Back when I owned a 2400baud modem, upgrading to 14.4kbps struck me as ludicrous; only a couple of local BBSes supported it and what the heck was I going to be transferring at those rates, anyway?

One immediate application that springs to mind is making server-stored content nearly as accessible as what's locally-stored. IIRC a typical cheapo 7200rpm HDD will transfer data at just about that speed. "Cloud computing" and such makes much more sense to me at 1gbps than at 6mbps.

augie wrote:Weird, because they just showed off their new fiber offering.

http://www.telecoms.com/29393/comcast-b ... broadband/

That's not fiber, it's channel bonded DOCSIS. And, they didn't show 1Gbps for Internet access, they showed how you could buy a whole season for 30 Rock for $40 and download it all in a few minutes.

-Dane

paulbarwick wrote:"I just don’t see any other application for that other than piracy," one senior-level cable industry exec stated after last week's demo

Wow. What a fscking jerk.

Oh, I beg your pardon... What a fscking unimaginative jerk.