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Originally Posted by ethan103
I use LoveFilm so I have films queued and I know when they will arrive and what days I will have a film to watch, so this in some ways is "planned" as they send out 3 discs at a time. So whenever I have time to watch a film, usually once every couple of days, I can watch it and by the time I have sent it back and have time to watch another, the next one is sent so I have 3 again to choose from.
If i download a film, its usually because someone recommended it or like I said friends/family come round and want to watch a film.
Then, a ~5GB would require a wait.
Also, even with programs/games/drivers/software.
These can easily be 200MB - GB's.
And you forget that with 4K and 8K in the near future, as well as console game downloads and so on, files are only ever getting bigger.
e.g.
Uncompressed 4K trailer of "The Amazing Spiderman" = 500GB.
A trailer. 500GB.
Try downloading that even with 120Mb & STM kicking in too.
Doubt you would even see the trailer that afternoon.
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Of course the trailer is 500Gb, it's uncompressed. An uncompressed SD film uses over 100GB of space - for Standard Definition, yet ****** MPEG2 compression can knock that down to fit on a DVD. Uncompressed HD films would take up nearly 1TB of space, depending on the length of the film (Some even going over that) yet the majority fit just fine on a 25GB disk and most downloads are under 15GB for 1080p. The size of uncompressed video is completely and utterly irrelevant. This is why we have compression like h.264 and the new h.265, which has twice the compression ratio at the same quality as h.264 - this means that 4k films will work out to be about twice the size of 1080p (So what, 30GB or less?), not several TB's.
Either way, you're still going to be in the same boat if your connection doubles or triples, you'll still have to wait for the files to download if you're not going to stream it. You have to make a tradeoff, you can have the best quality or instant acccess - you cannot have both. That's just how it is. You will always have to decide what you want to watch in advance if downloading. What I don't understand is why you seem unable to do this, you can do it with Blu-rays, so why not downloads?
If your friends come over and recommend a film to watch, they won't expect you to have it there, or they'll accept that quality won't necessarily be 1080p because it has to be streamed.