NatterJackToad Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 buy a TV with USB 2.0 technology. its never been easier. download Season 4 of Dexter in 10 minutes from torrentz.eu then stick on pen drive, stick pen drive in TV...WINNING HD, blu-ray, etc. £0. i havent bought a DVD (or a cd for that) since i was a teenager and never will again. more money for concerts and proper days out or funding cinema trips for movies i do wanna see on the big screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 download Season 4 of Dexter in 10 minutes from torrentz.eu LOL More like 10 hours. The average broadband speed in the country is about 4 to 6 meg and that's only dragged that far upwards by the existence of cable. In the non cabled half of the country - about half of them can't even get 4Mbps. For HD streaming, which is what I think it needs to take off as opposed to the "download first" model I think you need 12Mbps, which is largely cabled areas only (<3% of people can get > 15Mbps via ADSL2+) but with cable you can pick a movie or show on the STB and have it streamed to the TV anyway without having to do any tech yourself. As long as it's a movie or show you want to watch of course. Not sure why they've been so slow to exploit this opportunity. In this respect, this is the most potentially significant thing to happen to broadband in the last decade perhaps, if it comes together http://www.ispreview...ural-homes.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone baby gone Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 LOL More like 10 hours. Does it matter if it's 10 minutes or 10 hours? Doesn't take any effort once it's started. I stream stuff directly from the PC to the TV via a Windows media extender. Have the USB stick approach as a backup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Does it matter if it's 10 minutes or 10 hours? Doesn't take any effort once it's started. I stream stuff directly from the PC to the TV via a Windows media extender. Have the USB stick approach as a backup If it was something really rare that I wanted to see, then no it wouldn't matter to me. But I think it would matter to a lot of people in our "have it now" society. The BT Vision box seems to be an attempt at a hybrid download/streaming model designed to try and provide the service over slow broadband connections via phone lines but the take-up hasn't been great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erranta Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 They also forget the fact that people still like to congregate with strangers to watch a film, paying or not. VCD, LD, DVD, Internet HD, home cinemas, every step of the way there have been snake oil salesmen saying that this will replace the cinema. If the studio bosses are stupid enough to believe it, then more fool them. To save money, instead of paying full price at the usual cinema, people will move towards cheaper viewings at independents, free viewings of old films or outside viewings in parks etc. If they stopped paying the 'stars' $10.000,000 just to pick up a script and say offer $1 million max - they could worry less about ripping off populations to cover costs. More diverse 'b' movies could then be made again! But that sort of thing just won't occur to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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