A Full Length Movie Is How Many Gigs
I notice that Amazon is going to online movies and that they're going to be less expensive than NetFlix. I am using Millenicom and get 20 gigs per month. My question is: how much of that does the av...
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kcny wrote:
If you are concerned with bandwidth, go with NetFlix, as unlike Amazon they let you manually set your quality (bandwidth). Neither Netflix or Amazon "take as much bandwidth as they can get to get you a good picture" They take what they need and adjust if necessary based on what bandwidth you have available.
The topic of "dynamic compression" is a very hot one right now; I have a son who is a computer scientist who works for one of the major players in the game. He is involved in developing improved algorithms so that the compression can be varied seamlessly as your available bandwidth changes.
At present it's pretty easy to see when Netflix (or the other providers) changes your bandwidth since the quality of the picture changes pretty significantly. What he's working on are methods to make the changes very gradual so you might never know that they's slightly reduced your picture quality to compensate for slightly reduced bandwidth.
