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Had another "glitch" in my Internets this AM.

Posted by Sordidman (A) on January 30, 2015 at 09:32:45

In Reply to: 2015: The Year of Streaming - The death of physical media & downloads? posted by AbeCollins on January 28, 2015 at 18:12:42:

Anyone with Squeezeboxes knows that a temporary 5 second loss takes down your squeezeboxes for a bit. Even the best of home networks, and ISPs, - lose their connections here in the USA. Internet Access is just low value. Streaming quality files REQUIRES more bandwidth, and bandwidth historically has been outrageously more expensive in the USA than the rest of the "industrialized" world. Plus, - with the more attacks on the poor and the middle class, and the new pay to play rules coming: access and needed bandwidth is going to be even more expensive.

In Europe, - people get a much better deal, and streaming higher quality files works better.

In the USA streaming services will cost more even for MP3 quality. As it is, people don't care about high rez. This will not kill streaming, it will just be more expensive, and it will not include hi-rez options. Hi-rez streaming in the USA is a non-starter.

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