>> The BBC's iPlayer system "works". I mean, it's so horrifyingly blurry
>> that you sometimes can't see people's faces clearly enough to recognise
>> who's who, and often the end credits are unreadable. But technically
>> that still counts as "works", right?
>>
>> I just looked it up. The transfer rate of a DVD is 10.5 mbit/sec. The
>> maximum broadband speed you can get is 8 mbit/sec. So... does that mean
>> that people in America have something faster than ADSL or something?
>
> no, it simply means MP4 does a way better job at compressing than DVD codecs...
> they are watching non-blurry HD streams, real-time.

DVD is MPEG2. (?) I thought nobody had implemented MPEG4 yet.

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