{"id":10,"date":"2005-12-29T23:10:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T04:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/battlemage.dyndns.org\/?p=10"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:50:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:50:46","slug":"we-dont-need-any-more-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/we-dont-need-any-more-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t need any more speed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2005\/12\/20\/need-for-speed\/\">this posting a quick read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will people find a use for (or at least will they pay for) faster internet service? This is the interesting table from that article (copied locally so as not to abuse that bloggers bandwidth: I didn&#8217;t make it):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"need-for-speed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/general\/needforspeed.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right now, assuming the average widely-available download speed is 1.5Mbps, people don&#8217;t mind sitting around and waiting for a MP3 to download so they can listen to it. Waiting 15 minutes for a 30 minute TV show is about as much time as I&#8217;d hang around for semi-immediate gratification. But, today, do people sit in front of their computers for an hour waiting for a 2 hour movie to download? Or almost 4 hours for a DVD image?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>That requires kicking off a download now and remembering to come back to view it later. Honestly that&#8217;s a bit much to ask for a person who could otherwise just turn on a TV, rent the the DVD, or even drive to the theatre&#8230; watch the movie&#8230; and come back before the download completes.<\/p>\n<p>But would they wait around 12 minutes for a DVD? Absolutely! It boggles my mind how people can think that excess capacity won&#8217;t be used: when there&#8217;s already a <strong>huge<\/strong> market for entertainment at the quality of a regular movie or DVD. Look at the market for higher megapixel cameras. Driving higher resolutions for games on computers. Big-screen and HDTV TV&#8217;s. Digital cable and satellite subscriptions. People will pay to put prettier pictures in front of their eyeballs&#8230; and that table shows that people can get higher quality entertainment with near-immediate gratification by paying for quicker internet access.<\/p>\n<p>I pay about $90\/month for Internet now. Which sounds like a lot, until you consider that connectivity replaces the costs I&#8217;d otherwise pay for news\/cableTV (web sites) and phone bills (Skype and webcam). Would I pay for faster access? Possibly: right now Toronto has excellent (for North America) speeds for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bell.ca\/shop\/PrsShpIntUtr_Landing.page\">DSL<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoprogers.com\/Store\/Cable\/InternetContent\/extreme.asp\">cable<\/a> ISP services&#8230; so I wouldn&#8217;t pay for extra download capacity. Though I would pay for extra upload capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give this posting a quick read. Will people find a use for (or at least will they pay for) faster internet service? This is the interesting table from that article (copied locally so as not to abuse that bloggers bandwidth: <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/we-dont-need-any-more-speed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  We don&#8217;t need any more speed?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}