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Originally Posted by Dundasguy
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.
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It's very brave of you to make a statement like "[this will not happen] in 2020 or beyond". That's 11 years away, and "beyond" is infinite.
Cable can already handle on demand. But I was referring to a "keep at home" method, like a USB key.
And cinemas far surpass DVD quality.