Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Jul 28 04:23:55 CDT 2012
You should try living in the third world. Both my Telco AND my primary ISP want about $200 for 2GB. I pay the same whether I am on Wifi in my home/office or on the road. And there is no way I can get 400MB downloaded in under an hour. :-( That said, you are possibly onto something there. If you can come up with something along those lines and patent it, you could make a killing. -- Stuart On 28 Jul 2012 at 3:54, William Benson (VBACreations. wrote: > OK, so this is OT but ... we're good at that. > > I let my wife use my new smart phone on 4G LTE data connection while she > streamed an episode of Miss Marple - and watched 400MB of my 2GB/month data > plan get used in under hour. And that was not even HD, and being displayed > on a small screen. The larger US Telecoms want $10 for every 2 GB (let's say > it's 5 hours, being conservative) of streaming. This rate is capped at $50 / > 20GB, at which point it becomes almost 3 x that. > > So let's say for argument sake this is 50 hours of digital entertainment, > consumed by 3 or 4 persons in a household, sharing a data plan. That can be > used in a week, let alone a month! And no, wireless is not always the > answer, suppose you want to watch the episode in a moving vehicle, or > waiting in a doctor's office, or in a park ... you name it. > > The solution, I think, is simple: download the shows ahead of time, and > watch them later. > > Ah, but this is not in accord with the content provider's licensing > arrangements with Hollywood. Agreed, but suppose this could be solved by > creating a new video format- which downloads MOST of the video content but > each frame requires supplementation with some additional (low-volume) bits > or a filter-based decoder... and the "key" bits are only available in > streaming format. The supplemental data could be delivered via a stable > connection and not consume much bandwidth, and the media player would just > have to "blend" the decoded (stored) data with the supplemental bits (or > unlock key, if that is another approach). Naturally, care needs to be taken > that these supplemental bits are regularly changing and are according to an > algorithm which makes them nearly impossible to emulate - but that is just a > little time and money to perfect, I am sure. > > Something has to be done to reduce stress on wireless spectrum, it cannot > support the needs of the wireless public. Wireless carriers claim that > phasing out unlimited data plans and these new exorbitant data charges are > the result of too much stress on their fragile networks, which just cannot > meet the demands. So, my idea is, cut back on the demand - and shift the > burden to the rest of the infrastructure - and do it smart, so that it > doesn't invite video piracy. > > Any thoughts? > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >