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< Tour Bus Talk ~ The Death of Portable Media |
| RockJunkie |
 Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:51 pm |
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Cisco Systems announced today it will start selling a router that will accelerate the speed of data and video downloads on the Internet. The new product triples the capacity of its predecessor with up to 322 terabits per second, enabling “every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.” It is roughly 10,000 times faster than the average household cable or DSL connection and has been tested by AT&T.
Goodbye DVD's, CD's. Hello streaming.  |
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| David Scott |
| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:51 pm |
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I have Netflix streaming via my Samsung Bluray DVD player, but they don't stream anything other than 2.0 sound yet.
Until they stream comparable audio and video to mirror Bluray DVD's, portable media will be around for quite some time. |
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| RockJunkie |
| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:03 pm |
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| Based on that news blurp it's coming. But for now I'll still buy my BluRay DVD's for the movies I really love. |
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| Ralph |
| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:29 pm |
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That is amazing!
I wonder how long before we get it here. |
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| RockJunkie |
| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:55 pm |
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I know companies like cablevision offer a higher speed cable connection today at a premium price. i think it's mostly geared toward business users. I would imagine that when this does become available it will cost big $$$.
But who would have guessed 10 years ago I would be paying $49 a month for internet service. Remember dial up and modems? Oh the speed. |
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| allvettesarered |
| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:36 pm |
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Ralph wrote: That is amazing!
I wonder how long before we get it here.
Kirk: "Nomad, please don't extract the information from our ship's computer faster than it can supply"  |
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| RockJunkie |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:38 pm |
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| trekman |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:00 pm |
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I dont think that there are any ISP's that are capable of handling those speeds is there?  |
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| allvettesarered |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:09 pm |
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RockJunkie wrote: allvettesarered wrote:
Kirk: "Nomad, please don't extract the information from our ship's computer faster than it can supply"
Geek!
Takes on eto know one.
From Star Trek - the episode was called "The Changeling".  |
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| trekman |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:21 pm |
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I remember that one too. Pretty sure I saw the wires making that thing float around. LOL
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| allvettesarered |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:08 pm |
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Trek, that's friggin' great!
Now that I think more about it, was it Spock who said what I quoted?
Today's technology is amazing.
This is just another example of how way ahead of it's time, now 44+ years, "Star Trek" was and is. |
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| RockJunkie |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:42 pm |
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allvettesarered wrote: Trek, that's friggin' great!
Now that I think more about it, was it Spock who said what I quoted?
Today's technology is amazing.
This is just another example of how way ahead of it's time, now 44+ years, "Star Trek" was and is.
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| trekman |
| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:10 pm |
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| allvettesarered |
| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:33 pm |
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funny. thanks, I own the full dvd set. |
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