Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > I'm not sure I understand how this is so difficult to comprehend.  Netflix
> > has servers in their data centres that stream data to clients running the
> > NetFlix software on them.  You pick a movie you want to watch, and you
> > instantly start watching it.
> >
> > And before you say it, yes, it actually works.
>
> 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.

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