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by curiousthought 660 days ago
16K porn becomes the new standard definition

I wish I was joking but take the current usage of the internet, and scale up each part. 1TB/s might enable new things, but it's more likely to enable more of old things.

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High definition video might actually really improve zoom calls: https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/
Is the problem with video streaming really bandwidth? I thought storage was the bigger problem, so before storage doesn’t come down in price, it won’t change much, right?
A high quality 4k stream is about 20mbit/sec. 16k resolution would only have 16x the amount of pixels. Assuming bitrates scale proportionally to resolution, that would only be 320mbit/sec.

So if you want to max out a 1tbit connection, you would need something closer to 900k resolution.

If there's anything we're seeing with the AI revolution, it's that we get more of the old things.