POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Baffling : Re: Baffling Server Time
4 Sep 2024 19:19:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Baffling  
From: Warp
Date: 26 Apr 2010 11:42:49
Message: <4bd5b478@news.povray.org>
Fredrik Eriksson <fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:15:28 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >
> > Ooo, here's a random thought: Do you think there will ever be a day when  
> > the Internet becomes fast enough to watch TV-quality video in realtime?
> >
> > When do you think that day will be?

> About five years ago.

  At what quality?

  Certainly if your bandwidth is enough to transfer a full double-layer
DVD (ie. about 8 gigabytes) in 2 hours, then it would be enough to *watch*
that DVD in real-time over the internet. Not many people have such huge
bandwidths, though.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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