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So, what is happening faster: 1) Deployment of AFFORDABLE highspeed broadband or 2) Decreasing local storage costs Why do I need to stream something if I ca

So, what is happening faster: 1) Deployment of AFFORDABLE highspeed broadband or 2) Decreasing local storage costs Why do I need to stream something if I can store 6TB of data locally for less than $150 (and decreasing daily). How much storage space will $200 buy you in 10 years? And how many decades of video and audio could one store on such a device?

SG- 12y ago
How much do you want to pay to purchase and store all that video? That's where Netflix's value comes in.
- r00fus 12y ago
  > How much do you want to pay to purchase and store all that video? That's where Netflix's value comes in. It's not clear to me that mr. throwaway was planning on purchasing any of that content.
tempestn 12y ago
You still have to get that content from somewhere. Storage space isn't really the limitation there. Plus, even if you could, what would be the motivationto store eeverything locally, when 1) you rarely watch a show more than once, and 2) you can stream it instantaneously anyway?
- DennisP 12y ago
  Maybe you have better internet than me, but my streaming quality isn't always HD, and if I fastforward/rewind I generally have to wait a while to rebuffer. Do an advance download of everything in my watchlist, and the next episodes of the series I'm watching, and everything will by high quality, no wait, all the time. Besides that, just because something's available on streaming doesn't mean it'll stay there forever.
ctdonath 12y ago
This was kicked around on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507566 TL;DR - rough-guess numbers say the entire Netflix library can fit on 24TB, and would cost (content + hardware pricing) around $2500 per copy.
- ascorbic 12y ago
  If you're an isp they'll give you a server full of it for free. https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/hardware/index.html https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/hardware/index.html

SG- 12y ago

How much do you want to pay to purchase and store all that video? That's where Netflix's value comes in.

r00fus 12y ago
> How much do you want to pay to purchase and store all that video? That's where Netflix's value comes in. It's not clear to me that mr. throwaway was planning on purchasing any of that content.

tempestn 12y ago

You still have to get that content from somewhere. Storage space isn't really the limitation there. Plus, even if you could, what would be the motivationto store eeverything locally, when 1) you rarely watch a show more than once, and 2) you can stream it instantaneously anyway?

DennisP 12y ago
Maybe you have better internet than me, but my streaming quality isn't always HD, and if I fastforward/rewind I generally have to wait a while to rebuffer. Do an advance download of everything in my watchlist, and the next episodes of the series I'm watching, and everything will by high quality, no wait, all the time. Besides that, just because something's available on streaming doesn't mean it'll stay there forever.

ctdonath 12y ago

This was kicked around on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507566 TL;DR - rough-guess numbers say the entire Netflix library can fit on 24TB, and would cost (content + hardware pricing) around $2500 per copy.

ascorbic 12y ago
If you're an isp they'll give you a server full of it for free. https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/hardware/index.html https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/hardware/index.html