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by ivankirigin 6910 days ago
"enough bandwidth to make it no longer a factor"

You need to do an order-of-magnitude idea check. Wireless video broadcast is extremely intensive, and radio technology is expanding at a sub-linear rate.

There is a problem with Moore's law vs. 2D images: making more transistors on an imager will only be half as effective as the extra cpu power needed to crunch it. A doubling of density turns a 320x240 into 640x480. This means twice the computation for four times the image size.

The point is that bandwidth will always matter. Video is the kind of application that will make it matter.