TopherM wrote:
Give me reliable gigabit wifi, and I'll pay for a streaming service all day long!
Have you ever heard that stat that countries like Iran, Qatar, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Iceland have faster, more reliable Internet than the US? It's also ridiculously faster, and treated like a public utility, in most Scandinavian countries.
And as a public (aka GOVERMENT) utility, you are bound by the regulations (aka wims) of the Public (aka goverment)
Where is my foil hat???
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That's what you get when the major US Internet providers are basically exempt from antitrust regulation, have pretty much no competition, and hold back technology.
I work for the 5th largest cable MSO in the US, and we have had 100Mb+ internet service for over 2 years now, and they are opening it up to 160Mb.
Really don't see why you need a gigabit connection to stream a video.
I would assume that you qould buffer the video to ram first before playing from a cloud service?
And cloud is bad, untill all places have a good quality, reasonably priced internet connection.
Just last week the wifi router died at the bar I gig at, so no connection. What would a cloud KJ do then?
If a generation is 25 years then piracy will still be a problem at least for awhile. How many KJ's have signed up for Cloud currently? Do they even have a 1,000 subscribers? How reliable is it? Cloud was supposed to be the last best hope for the industry, that was way back during the summits, remember them? I still think there could be pirates even after 25 years with all the disc material that has been transferred to HD's. With the drop in production of new karaoke tracks for various reasons, a pirate host could run a show with just old discontinued material for at least the next 15 to 20 years.
