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ThePope

4:08 PM on 30 June, 2008

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But who is going to pay for all the bandwidth??

Case in point: surfing around iPlayer last night and I noticed they had a stream for Jay-Z at Glastonbury. The HQ Download version was 1.2GB! While that might not sound like much to people who torrent US TV each week, in reality you are only a relative minority. If Joe Public Sun reader starts downloading / streaming IPTV as if it was no different from Sky, then ISPs everywhere will melt!

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SK

6:26 PM on 30 June, 2008

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If those rubbish ISPs melt, then it's their own fault. There are plenty of ISPs who give a decent service at a good price. If anything, services like the BBCs iPlayer force ISP's to admit their services are not as good as they claimed them to be.

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