In Reply to: Your topic is where things are going in the future posted by Sordidman on January 23, 2015 at 12:45:10:
You have that right. Streaming uses more total bandwidth, unless the customers only listen to their downloads once on average. But worse, the bandwidth is required in real time, not the case with a download. I have sold CD quality downloads to a customer in Asia using a dial-up line. This worked and it was faster than mailing a disk. Starting a download service required little or no capital investment, whereas a streaming service would have been beyond the budget of this small operation.
Because of the wheeling and dealing involved (think Netflix vs. Comcast) streaming is much more likely to be the domain of big players, and if they can somehow kill off downloads, that will further their cause. This will not benefit musicians and music lovers.
People who are interested in the future of quality audio should not be going down the streaming service route.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: Your topic is where things are going in the future - Tony Lauck 01/23/1513:31:09 01/23/15 (10)
- Bandwidth is not required in real time as some services also allow downloads.... - AbeCollins 18:49:16 01/23/15 (0)
- Have you followed where the digital arena has been and is headed ?..... - Cut-Throat 13:49:57 01/23/15 (8)
- RE: Have you followed where the digital arena has been and is headed ?..... - Tony Lauck 14:19:24 01/23/15 (7)
- I am much more optimistic than you are........... - Cut-Throat 15:06:14 01/24/15 (6)
- RE: I am much more optimistic than you are........... - Tony Lauck 11:53:37 01/26/15 (3)
- We agree that it is about politics rather than technology......... - Cut-Throat 13:36:03 01/26/15 (2)
- Infrastructure: not sure if I'd call that politics or tech - Sordidman 16:11:38 01/26/15 (1)
- Be careful with predictions of the limitations of technology..................... - Cut-Throat 16:52:29 01/26/15 (0)
- This Luddite just signed up for 30 MBps from Comcast - Beetlemania 16:19:25 01/25/15 (1)
- Yup, and 500 Mbps is readily available in South Korea....... - Cut-Throat 06:56:35 01/26/15 (0)