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On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 09:09:19AM -0600, Andrew Odlyzko wrote:
> 2. The question I don't understand is, why stream?
There are other good reasons, but fundamentally; because of live
telivision.
> In these days, when a terabyte disk for consumer PCs is about to be
> introduced, why bother with streaming? It is so much simpler to
> download (at faster than real-time rates, if possible), and play it
> back.
That might be worse for download operators, because people may download
an hour of video, and only watch 5 minutes :/
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