On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 08:46:36 -0600, artisticforge . wrote: >> Whether it was 50fps is irrelevant, one day we'll be downloading >> 1920x1080 or hopefully 4K and then 6GB will be an average file size. > > I will be long dead before that happens.
Unless you intend to pop off very shortly and "long" is > 5 years I wouldn't like to be on it. TV Production is moving to UHD, a facilities company building someting now will be UHD if they have any sense. 4k services are available online from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, BT (in the UK). > I personally think downloading 4k media files the height of stupidity. Over a V42bis connection would be a bit silly and take a while but it's not that long ago that I'd start a download at bedtime and it might have completed by the next evening over such a connection. And *that* is the problem. To shift gigabytes of data in a sensible amount of time you need a fast connection, that is a few 10's of Mbps. That sort of speed just isn't available in many places, this place included with < 5 MBps ADSL+. The new 50fps iPlayer downloads at not much quicker than realtime... > It was the humour in the error message that is refreshing. Agreed and it also gave pertinent and useful information about the error. -- Cheers Dave. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
