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One Second Film Downloads: BD's Worst Nightmare?March 4, 2008 IBM is touting the ability to digitally deliver a high-def film in one second. Seriously. This prototype technology named 'green optical link' allows for hyper-high speed data transfer by utilizing light photons. IBM explains the nitty gritty details here. If you don't want to slog through the specifications, the main gist of what IBM is promising is server bandwith will greatly expand, allowing people access to millions of high-def movies and video clips in seconds. If this does really get off the ground, green optical link could prove stiff competition for Blu-ray. Getting a high-def movie in a second sure beats searching for a parking spot at my local Best Buy/Wal-Mart/Target etc. And getting a high-def movie in a second sounds better than waiting for it to be shipped out by Amazon.com.However, one thing I couldn't find explained is whether IBM has also solved the problem of high-def data storage on computers. Downloading something quick is great, but where am I supposed to put it? I only have so much hard disc capacity. And I can't keep buying new back-up drives to hold a fattenting high-def library. It's way cheaper to just buy a new bookcase to store BD titles. But that's just me! Posted by Susanne Ault on March 4, 2008 | Comments (2) 
March 5, 2008
In response to: One Second Film Downloads: BD's Worst Nightmare? TheDaddy commented: IBM & any other company can invest all they want into servers but until the RBOCs, Telcos, Cable Operators & ISPs all invest BILLIONs in the last mile [the connection between the content provider & the retail end user] none of this will make any difference what so ever. The last mile will not give more than a few MBPS max over copper / analog networking. A 1 second 50GB download would require a 50GBPS connection at the last mile....not even FIOS has this and FIOS is available to all of 3% of Verizon's network. Maybe in 15 years....MAYBE
March 6, 2008
In response to: One Second Film Downloads: BD's Worst Nightmare? Wishtar commented: I completely agree with you about the storage issue. A few HD movies would take up more space that most people entire mp3 library. At some point your going to have to off load them onto discs anyway. Might as well purchase them on a professionally packaged disc in the first place. Unless of course you want to pay for a movie everytime you want to watch it. I'm sure the studio's wouldn't mind that a bit.
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