Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would change?

Re:Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would c... by curiousthought on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:43PM (#41332376)

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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Re:Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would c... by dash2 on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:51PM (#41332483)

High definition video might actually really improve zoom calls: https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/

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Re:Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would c... by echoangle on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:23PM (#41333596)

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would c... by poikroequ on Friday August 23, 2024 @09:20PM (#41334729)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would c... by muzani on Saturday August 24, 2024 @03:32AM (#41336338)

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

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