Comcast opens up Super-speedy Internet

sonarus - 631 days 9 hours ago

Woohoo $150 a month nice. I can't wait to pay through my nose just to download movies in 10mins.

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gta_cb - 631 days 3 hours ago

in time the price will go down. i have a 20MB connection on cable broadband and for this this is great, i personally dont mind having to wait 20mins to download a HD movie as it would take that amount of time to go and rent it, also fuel money etc. but then i prefer to have the disc to keep... anyway yeah the price will go down =)

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Close_Second - 631 days 6 hours ago

...give it a few years and the price will have come drown dramatically. Soon it will become more cost effective to download HD movies directly to your central media HDD. Mind you, solid state memory prices are falling you you may be downloading to muli-terrabyte flash drives or something...who knows.

A 50mb connection will download 20Gb in about an hour. Won't be long and you'll be able to access a media site using your cellphone to download the latest blockbuster release to your media centre at home. By the time you get home its done and waiting for you to watch.

Faster internet speeds and the cost on the environment of manufacturing and shipping discs around the world will mean that digital distribution will be the primary means of buying media in the years to come. Its only the current generation of people buying discs who are finding this so hard to accept. Hell, my kids are never going to go into a store and buy music on disc just like I never pruchased music on LPs or Tape.

I own a PS3 but to date do not own one blu-ray movie. Why? well, regardless if its on disc or downloaded I just don't see the point of buying movies anymore. I use to own over 300 DVDs but sold them all off when I came to the realisation that:

a. When the hell do you ever get the time to watch them all.
b. I would only watch most them once or twice anyway (very few movies are actually worth or need repeat viewings)
c. When they're on TV you find yourself watching them again anyway, even if they are littered with commercials...strange but true.
d. My house was looking more like a Blockbuster video store than it was a home.

So, when people say I'd rather pay $30-$50 for a movie on Blu-Ray, I say I could rent it more times than I would ever watch it for the same amount of money.

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sonarus - 631 days 8 hours ago

yea a friend of mine has comcast and he says it is trash. I have $hitty yahoo sbc and the connection is almost always lag free even on wireless.

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Amp - 631 days 6 hours ago

gr8 price

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