Are they supposed to make the popcorn in the bathroom?
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof via Af" <af@afmug.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:20:33 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Well there goes all our bandwidth. Amazon streaming 4K now. At least satellite TV on-demand can be downloaded to the DVR to view later, although many people don’t seem to understand that on-demand comes over their Internet connection. Anyway, I had a customer call yesterday saying she used to be able to live stream on-demand (I forget if she said Direct TV or DISH) but now it told her that her Internet connection was not fast enough and she would have to download it to her DVR and then watch it. She was upset because the movie then took 15 minutes to download. Question: if she can download it in 15 minutes, why does the box think her connection is not fast enough to stream? Bigger question: why is it such a big deal to wait 15 minutes? We used to wait days for the Netflix DVD to come in the mail. Then we had to drive an hour to the Redbox kiosk. Now 15 minutes is unacceptable? Go to the bathroom and make popcorn. Sheesh. From: Bill Prince via Af Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 8:00 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Well there goes all our bandwidth. Amazon streaming 4K now. That 187MB translates to only about 11.25 GB per hour. Why not stick in a 32GB memory and be done? That would be almost 3 hours of buffer. -- bp <part {dash} 15 {at} SkylineBroadbandService {dot} com> On 12/9/2014 4:50 PM, Travis Johnson via Af wrote: It's really too bad that the devices that support all these streaming services can't have a larger buffer. I'm sure it's part of their licensing deals, but if they could buffer 60 seconds of stream (at any quality), they would have much fewer support calls for streaming issues, etc. Using Netflix's 25Mbps for 4k, that works out to 187.5MB of storage space. At current RAM prices, you can buy a 256MB module for $15 full retail... so places like Samsung can probably buy them in quantity for less than $2. Seems like it would be worth it to pay an extra $10 for a TV/DVD/PS4/Wii-U device that could handle 60 seconds of video. Travis On 12/9/2014 5:34 PM, Sterling Jacobson via Af wrote: <blockquote> That’s pretty cool. You can do 4k direct from Youtube. Several of the ones I’ve tested are sustained around 20-30Mbps. But on my network it tends to burst to 90Mbps then sit around for a while, then burst back to 90Mbps. I think the 4k will require a lot of optimizations before it works on the built in TV’s. From: Af [ mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com ] On Behalf Of Jerry Richardson via Af Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 5:12 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Well there goes all our bandwidth. Amazon streaming 4K now. Lovely From: Af [ mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com ] On Behalf Of Ryan Ghering via Af Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 3:38 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Well there goes all our bandwidth. Amazon streaming 4K now. http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-starts-4k-uhd-streams/ -- Ryan Ghering Network Operations - Plains.Net Office: 970-848-0475 - Cell: 970-630-1879 </blockquote>
