On 5/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Hahn</b> <<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Well, I didn't have any idea ten seconds ago, but now I know that one<br>> hour should be roughly 3 GB. (So a movie should be 5-6 GB.)<br><br>hmm, that's normal DVD, isn't it? the newfangled flavors (BD, etc)
<br>seem to be 5-10 higher capacity.</blockquote><div><br>So if Netflix isn't lying when they say they have shipped over a billion movies that means they have moved roughly 5 exabytes of data via the US mail. I wonder how that compares the amount moved over the internet during the same time period?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">compressed data rates appear to be 20-50 Mbps (lower than 20<br>probably doesn't count as HD.
<br><br>funny how all the HD stuff seems very fuzzy ;)<br>_______________________________________________<br>Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a><br>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
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