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Originally Posted by Kushan
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.
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A 5GB HD Movie would take 40 seconds on a 1Gb connection.
These speeds are available in certain countries.
Double that speed and its around 20 seconds.
This is what I am saying will be needed when files get bigger and larger.
My point is, you cannot simply say "faster speeds are not needed" as they clearly are.
I am also not saying I expect these speeds tomorrow.
They will take time some time but they will be here as they are needed.
I would IDEALLY want all downloads in 30 seconds - 1 minute.
That is my personal preference.
With Games and Movies growing in size, connection speeds need to keep up.
Understand?