>> Again, that's all very nice. But unless you have insane levels of
>> bandwidth available, it's not going to work.
>>
>> There's nothing theoretically difficult about sending video data over
>> the Internet. The problem is the bandwidth.
> 
> 
> Meh, I had a 1Mbit DSL connection for a long time, and my wife could be 
> watching Youtube videos of kids playing with cats, and I could watch a 
> netflix film at very decent quality w/o interruption for buffering. Of 
> course now, with my cable internet bandwidth is no longer an issue... ;)

It is utterly baffling to me that this is possible. In my experience, 
YouTube on its own is very unreliable. At certain times of day it's just 
unusuable, while at other times it's just about stable. (I guess this is 
probably due more to server load than end-user bandwidth though.)

Even when it works properly, the quality is nowhere near TV quality. 
Same for BBC iPlayer, 4 on demand and all those others. As soon as you 
make it go fullscreen, it looks horrifyingly blurry and covered in 
compression artifacts. You certainly wouldn't bother paying money to 
watch a *movie* at such low quality...

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