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Video SuperstoresFriday, November 18, 2005Listening to The Cure - Close To Me
Don't you hate it when the news make stupid comparisons to explain things (like a terrabyte).
"Earlier this year, the Motion Picture Association of America said users had swapped films amounting to 99 terabytes in a single day, the equivalent of an entire video rental store."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4438680.stm
If a film is compressed in mpeg4 it could be 700mb, that's a rental store with nearly 150,000 dvds in it! If a film is 8gig (a full dual layer dvd) that's still well over 12,000 films, I don't know what kind of video rental places the BBC go to but there's nothing like that round here!
"Earlier this year, the Motion Picture Association of America said users had swapped films amounting to 99 terabytes in a single day, the equivalent of an entire video rental store."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4438680.stm
If a film is compressed in mpeg4 it could be 700mb, that's a rental store with nearly 150,000 dvds in it! If a film is 8gig (a full dual layer dvd) that's still well over 12,000 films, I don't know what kind of video rental places the BBC go to but there's nothing like that round here!
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