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In article <3llna5$si9@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>,
Bill Schultz <guru@kaiwan.com> wrote:
>>(oh, and compare the amount of bandwidth used by text versus that used
>>by video some time!)  
>
>YES!  A decent compressed video channel for a standard cable television feed
>(such as appears on the 18" dishes) runs about 6Mb/s!  That drowns most
>Internet stuff.  So, how would the Internet support video on demand?  The
>same way it supports news now.  You have a local video on demand server
>that gets loaded once over the net with the video signal, using TCPIP because
>it does not have to be loaded in real-time (i.e., basically an FTP situation).  The
>users access the video off of their local servers, just as they do news.  Its the
>only practical solution at the present time.

I wonder how long the national video store chains will take to catch on 
to this. Imagine, you order up your video (something NOBODY has in stock) 
and the video store downloads it and makes a tape on a high speed 
replicator. 20 minutes later you pick up the video and then stop next 
door to pick up the pizza.

Of course, the high speed replicators will be useful when everybody and 
his brother wants to rent the latest and greates all-hyped hit movie. 
Just make more copies. This is the way it should be.

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