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New users is one way to measure growth. Total content or bandwoth consume give a different picture :)
by swsieber 11y ago
New users is one way to measure growth. Total content or bandwoth consume give a different picture :)
- wpietri 11y agoSo you're saying that although user growth is slowing, bandwidth growth is accelerating? I'd like to see your figures for that; although I'm sure that bandwidth use is growing, I doubt it's growing faster than it was 15 years ago.
- chipsy 11y agoWe aren't streaming 4K video regularly yet, and 8K is coming up. Each time we double the dimensions, we increase the pixel data four times. We also have higher frame rates and bit depths. This is only going to stabilize after we've reached some extreme resolution with lossless encoding - we're only just now getting there with audio data.
- wpietri 11y agoAgain, I'd like to see some data. For most uses, people are perfectly fine with relatively low-res video, so although the technical capabilities of video keep increasing, I suspect the rate of growth in actual bandwidth draw is decreasing.