{"id":1182,"date":"2002-09-23T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-23T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2002-09-23T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-23T22:37:00","slug":"netflixs-bandwidth-approaching-internet-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/09\/23\/18\/37\/netflixs-bandwidth-approaching-internet-total\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s Bandwidth Approaching Internet Total"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/\">Netflix<\/a>, one of the first of the DVD rental mailer companies, a long time ago and like it a lot. I was interested, then, to read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/09\/23\/technology\/23NECO.html\">rough calculation <\/a>that, in terms of 190,000 MPEG-2 format DVDs, <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Video%20On%20Demand\/Packaging%20of%20Video%20on%20Demand.html\">Netflix&#8217;s daily bandwidth totals 1.5 TB<\/a>. This is a sizable fraction of the current total estimated Internet daily bandwidth: somewhere between 2-4 TB. Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayner.org\/\">Peter Wayner&#8217;s<\/a> calculations do not allow for the online delivery of movies in more compression-efficient formats, such as the MPEG-4-derived DIVX, where a typical 4-7 GB DVD can be reduced to around 700 MB with minimal quality loss.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the CD manufacturers also thought they were safe, when a typical CD occupied 700MB of data in an era of mainly dialup connections. Then along came MP3 with its one-tenth compression ratio and so much for that idea.<\/p>\n<p>And I found out from some surfing that some Netflix competitors, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafedvd.com\/cgi-bin\/new\/index.html\">CafeDVD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwikfliks.com\/\">QwikFlicks<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdavenue.com\/\">DVD Avenue<\/a>, are cheaper and offer porn, something Netflix avoids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I joined Netflix, one of the first of the DVD rental mailer companies, a long time ago and like it a lot. I was interested, then, to read a rough calculation that, in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}