>> Consider, for example, that it took me 3 days to download Star Wreck,
>> which is only about an hour long. OK, that was only using a 2 Mbit
>> connection, but I don't suppose you can download almost 4GB of data over
>> an 8 Mbit connection in one hour flat either.
>
> Bad example. Assuming you downloaded it via bit-torrent from other
> users, you were constrained by their very limited upload speeds.

Except that you're downloading it from dozens of clients at once, should 
should counteract that problem.

>> Yes, the picture looks fine. I still don't understand how that can be
>> possible though. The Internet isn't fast enough. I don't see how you can
>> get the data from A to B fast enough for realtime playback.
>
> Which part of the Internet isn't fast enough?

The last mile, as always.

> Is HD tv available in the UK, from cable tv providers? Stop and think
> for a few nanoseconds how that signal is delivered to your cablebox.
> Netflix and co. are the same thing, except the source server is just a
> few 10Gbps hops further away on the Internet backbone.

I have no idea what "cable" is. I do know you can receive HD TV with an 
aerial; presumably this uses higher bandwidth than a normal Internet 
connection.

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