qx> 18 HD movies to be downloaded in a single second

yeah.

that'll work.

unless you want to move to the fine little town of Olds, Alberta, you might as well just hand your whole bank account over to the phone company and get it over with.

let's see.

the LPCM (video) & DTSHDMA (audio) data on a high-end Bluray disc eats a bit over 52Mbps plus a bit of overhead when it's going full-tilt. not counting the upteen forced trailers, advertising, and menu junk, you wind up with a movie that's 12GB or thereabouts, for something that's shot at 24p

let's say your Friendly Neighbourhood Pirate gets that down to a paltry 6GB when ripped as x264 and let loose on TPB (pretend that the torrent seeders are infinite, instantaneous and there's no inherent extra overhead to the protocol).

18 movies x 6 gigabytes x 8 bits/byte +3% TCPIP payload overhead = 890 Gbits / 224 Lifi, or a whopping 4 seconds.

upcoming UHD 4k Bluray (10-bit-per-colour 3840x2160@60fps) more than doubles the 52Mbps rate, to roughly 128Mbits/sec before the transport stream gets fed to HEVC (a 2.5-fold increase; the raw 890Gbits from above becomes about 2.2Tbits).

so.

they're telling us that this new thing's biggest feature is that it helps you use up your ISP monthly cap in 4 seconds*?

bravo!

result?

the phone company now gets to drain even more of your wallet for a higher cap -- if you can get it (laughable).

oh, and since they help save your cap, don't wait until September 19th ...

be thankful for pirates, today!

arrrrrrrrr!

:-)

GLAL,

R.

* -- or, 1.6 sec, once you've "upgraded" to 4k video content.
I bet the salesman at Best Buy didn't tell you that.