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Re:Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Des... by yefim on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @11:52PM (#10592824)
Pretty sure that's what he or she meant by "too long." Not many people want to wait 30 minutes to watch something for 30 minutes.
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Re:Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Des... by scott_karana on Friday November 20, 2015 @01:43PM (#10602968)
For anyone currently downloading non-4K media, with pipes fast enough to stream live 4K, it's likely a non-issue.

For people not currently downloading media, the discussion is irrelevant:

> downloading 40GB takes too long; whereas streaming is popular.

Streaming the media would take (at best) just as long as downloading it.

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