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Originally Posted by Millstone
First of all, no. Secondly, the Internet as a content delivery system will take optical media out of the picture once and for all by about 2015-2020.
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A standard HD signal can display a resolution of 1080p maximum. In order to stream a movie on demand, you would require a reliable guranteed internet connection of about 30 Mb/s if your using heavy compression, 350Mb/s or so uncompressed. Streaming video transmission is clocked and cannot tolerate any delay or jitter and it cannot be buffered. It would be annoying to be watching a movie with errors blotting the screen every few minutes.
I can guarantee you that Bell or the cable companies cannot and will not be offering anything close to those speeds in 2020 or beyond. Most of the twisted pair copper infrastructure in the ground is ancient and is suseptible to everything from EM, radio, to water. Fibre to the home would be the only possibility and even that would be a stretch. It would require you download first and then view.