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Earlier this week Australian ISP iiNet released information about their new plans going live in a few hours from now, contained in said plans, are Australia’s first 1TB of Quota plans, then iPrimus yesterday released their 1.1TB plans as they followed suit.
This is a nice and needed step forward for the cyber life of Australia, as High Definition content is becoming the standard, and online distribution is blooming faster than a Sunflower on Speed, besides the speed to get and receive, we need the quota/allowance to actually finish the getting and receiving.
But there is always Naysayers to the needed Chicken Littles. Today I will speak of The Naysayer Paul Budde.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/357587/1tb_plans_huge_who_going_use_it_/
See the above link for all of it, but in quick summery, he says there is no need for it, and barely anyone would even reach it, with legal/legitimate means or illegal/illegitimate means.
I wholeheartedly disagree.
As I said above, HD content is becoming standard, and in more demand for what is produced and available for people, as well as the internet is slipstreaming into everyday life at a speedy rate, with iPhones and iPads, to fridges and radios (media players) to Blu-Ray players and your favourite gaming console, such as the Sony Playstation 3 AKA PS3
*plugplugplugsonyftwliektollygorightnowandbuysomesonystuffcozitsthepwnplugplugplug*
As more and more things use and require the internet to function to it’s fullest, or even to just function at all (Assassins Creed II Ubisoft’s way of piracy protection, internet connection required while you are playing, loss of internet, game stops, internet reconnects, game resumes) now add the HD thing, and BAM the MB’s start turning into GB’s quite quickly and start to amass an army.
Now lets do some numbers so you can get the idea. I’ll be using rough average sizes as well, as 1000MB=1GB, the way HDD’s do it, because it’s easier.
Ye ol’ Standard Definition content:
Movie: 700MB
1TB quota/700MB Movie=1428~ Movies a Month
Hour Long TV Show: 350MB (Without the ad’s they are actually only around 40mins long)
1TB quota/350MB Show=2857~ Episodes a Month
Nice New High Definition content that is fastly becoming the standard:
Movie(1080p): 8GB
1TB quota/8GB Movie=125 Movies a Month
Hour Long TV Show(720p): 1.12GB
1TB quota/1.12GB Show=892~ Episodes a Month
A pretty big difference huh?
Now lets lay it all down in actual proper use numbers style, because people aren’t going to just be watching movies or tv shows, and every house will obviously be different and do somethings or not do some things that others will or will not, so we will try do a fairly normal that that is a bit average and uses bits of as many things as possible.
Lets say we have a common house of 4, Papa, Mamma, Son & Daughter.
In the house, there are 3 computers and 1 laptop, so for ease, we’ll just say 4 computers, one to each person in the household.
Let’s say they are fairly well equip with some of the newer things in life.
So there is the Playstation 3, the Sony Bravia TV, the Sony Blu-Ray Player, and the Sony Media Player.
Papa likes the ol’ war movies and war documentaries as well as those old time rock and roll tv hits, so each month lets say he gets at most 5 movies a month, and 3 TV episodes.
Mamma likes all her soaps, musicals, crime/mysteries and the such, so each month Mamma gets 9 movies and 27 TV episodes.
Son likes his action, comedy, hip-hop street smart wise white cracker guy skatering sporty for the hood stuff, so lets say he does 16 movies a month and 34 episodes of TV.
Lastly Daughter likes the romance, drama, music stuff, so a month she does 15 movies a month and 26 episodes.
Lets add it all up so far.
Movies: 45
TV: 90
Movies=360GB+TV=100~GB=460GB a Month
That’s nearly half way already, and that’s on just movies and TV shows alone. Now lets say Son likes to game, so he has the Sony Playstation 3, with the Sony Bravia TV. Games have updates, patches, Downloadable Content, trailers, demos and all sorts of stuff on top of the online gaming…oh and all the Playstation Network games and Playstation Classic games. I cannot give much of an example because I do not own one sadly :( but lets give him a fair easy 15GB at most a month. Now onto his PC gaming, so obviously, Steam, constant updates and patches, continual new games being released, Son being a pretty normal Son Gamer, buys say 5 games maybe a month at most, games going from these days, on average, new releases, 3GB to 15GB, so lets give him for his new games plus updates and all that for the month 40GB. Now lets add in a standard 5GB for website viewing, movie trailer watching, email reading, webcam ogling, and all other stuff.
Son Total: 60GB
Now the Daughter…not too sure on what Daughter does and gets up to, so lets say just the general amount for her with some bonus, so mass youtube watching, myspace/facebook, band websites, internet radio, music video streaming, email, websites, emails and all that stuff, 15GB
Daughter Total: 15GB
Mamma roughly the same as Daughter, but much less, so she can just go with the standard normal use amount for websites, emails, general youtube and social networks and such, maybe some food website podcasts and what not, which we give her 5GB for.
Mamma Total 5GB
Papa, he has work at home stuff, maybe has to connect to his business computer at the office, do various other things, plus all the general stuff, so lets give him a nice standard with a little extra for all his extra stuff…you know…there might be…that kind of stuff…that we didn’t add in for Son…because he’s too busy playing with his Playstation’s controllers joysticks, but maybe not, still, all the business stuff, youtube, emails, lots of emails due to business as well, and all that, so he can get 10GB for that.
Papa Total 10GB
Now, everyone’s personal amount added up:
90GB+Movies and TV Shows=550GB
Now lets add all the 4 computers system and software updates, such as Windows updates and what not, lets say, a month, for all of them, 10GB at most. Now lets say they all each have an iPod or iPhone or various other iApple device or portable media playing device, with all the itune use for getting the music, movies, and tv shows for them all, lets say 60GB to be fair (60GB=Papa=5GB+Mamma=10GB+Son=15GB+Daughter=30GB) That’s for all the music, music videos, episodes, movies, and whatever else people get for their ipods, this number however I am not really sure on, as I don’t have an iDevice, but many people do so it has to be included.
Now lets add say 10GB for visitors, when friends, or relatives come to stay, maybe they bring a laptop, maybe they use one of the four, they do some business stuff? they play some games? they click on a pop up ad that says the computer has a virus, thus actually then giving the computer a virus and then the computer need to be reformatted and all windows updates and everything else needs to be re downloaded? stuff like that, plus bonus tv shows and movies.
And lastly lets just say a general 20GB for everything and anything else.
Last Addings Totals:
100GB
Total Monthly Usage:
650GB
650GB is over half way, which isn’t too bad at all, now, lets add in two last things. One, you’re not meant to hit and use up all of your quota, hence why you get shaped, as a penalty when you exceed your limit, much like a car and petrol, you don’t use it all up before you refill. And Two, the 1TB plans are the highest high end plans, so they are of course not designed for the common most household, they are designed for the larger houses, the more tech/internet savvy people.
Well there we go, I used up some hours of late night/early morning boredom, plus got in a nice long post…kind of maybe pretty pointless really, but ehh, oh well, I needed to start somewhere on getting back into writing, so I started with this.
Salem.
P.S. Sony is Cool…That is all.