[IP] Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

A typical DVD is 4 gigabytes, not 4 gigabits (and many are double-layer, so
some fill up to a full 8.5 gigabytes). That's a big distinction.

Also, the size of a movie is completely dependent on the the quality of the
encoding. A full-length movie encoded as a low-res DivX file may only take
up a few hundred MB, while a native high-definition movie can eat up 25GB.

My point: Talking in terms of "how many movies" is this is always a slippery
subject as there's no real standard to go by.

CN

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:59 AM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

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From: ken [Ken@new-isp.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:51 AM
To: David Farber
Cc: rs9174@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

Ralph,

The average DVD holds roughly 4 Gigabits of data, making it possible to
download approximately 60 movies in a one month period while still leaving
plenty of bandwidth for surfing and email.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD

I hope this information helps to puts things into perspective for you.

Respectfully,

Ken DiPietro
NextGenCommunications

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 06:17 -0700, David Farber wrote:

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From: Ralph [rs9174@gmail.com]

Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 AM

To: David Farber

Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

250GB would give you the bandwidth to download how many movies per

month? 0? 1? 5? 25?

Ralph Sierra

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