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Improvement of boring things leads to interesting things. When we went from 2G to 3G/4G, we went from images to videos. 10x improvement in data transmission may
by avindroth 6y ago
Improvement of boring things leads to interesting things. When we went from 2G to 3G/4G, we went from images to videos. 10x improvement in data transmission may lead to other forms of media becoming more readily accessible. If what is imagined is just “faster video loading”, that is an awful waste of data.
- sn_master 6y agoyup, 480p videos from 2010 look very dated now when everything is 1080p.
- capableweb 6y ago480p doesn't look bad now because you're used to 1080p, it looks bad now because you try to view it on a 4K monitor (or something else, but it's order of magnitude better than what you tried to use for 480p back in the day). Also, 480p vs 1080p is not a major game changer for society, at least in the society I live in.
- esrauch 6y agoWhat are these "other forms of media" though? Video streaming didn't suddenly come into existence when we got to 3g, it was already common on wired internet and only became accessible on cellular internet.
- MacsHeadroom 6y agoRealtime 3D video and virtual environments.
- capableweb 6y agoNot exactly sure what "Realtime 3D video" is referring to, maybe this? https://dm.octonus.com/features/realtime-3d-video-capture https://dm.octonus.com/features/realtime-3d-video-capture Seems the "Extra high-quality, large file size" ends up being 87-160 MB per minute, hardly impossible to do with 4G... Virtual environment been possible to stream on the fly for a long time. Only thing that will change with going from 4G to 5G is that the quality will be higher, hardly a "major game changer for society" as liquidify put it.