Re: Shonky speed illustrations
>> "The Department for Culture, Media and Sport illustrated the point by comparing it to downloading an
>> entire series of Game of Thrones in less than a minute."
> Given that I am not convinced I could shift that much data (although unquantified) across my wired
> Gigabit network in less than a minute.
He didn't say what resolution they were recorded at... 16bit colour, 640x480?
In all seriousness, some encoding of tv shows plop them out at 200-300 MB for an hour's (aka 42mins show + 18 mins stripped adverts) show at a half-decent resolution (or so I've heard). There are 10 episodes per season, so 2-3GB, or 16-24Gb. I've got 100Mbps, so that's 2:30 minimum, excluding protocol overheads - unless the lumps of video are delivered in jumbo-frames.
Is downloading it the best way of obtaining it? Or instead subscribing to a Sky package that includes Sky Atlantic? Enquiring minds want to know....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
