How much would "Monthly Unlimited Everything" cost?

Re:How much would "Monthly Unlimited Everything" cost? by javajosh on Friday August 10, 2012 @07:47PM (#4368868)

Alright. Let's say a song is $1, a movie is $10 and a book is $10, and a song takes 3 minutes, a movie 200 minutes, and a book is 700 minutes (350 pages at 2 minutes a page). So the per minute cost is $.30, $.50, $.15. The average is (30+50+15/3) $.31. Not really sure how to factor games in there. $60 for 20 hours - that's $.05 a minute, which pulls the average way down.

I think a person will max out at 40 hours per week. That's 2400 minutes, which at $.30 is $80. The average is probably going to be closer to 10-20 hours - $20-40 per week.

So we're talking $80-240 a month by this calculation.

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Re:How much would "Monthly Unlimited Everything" cost? by electrichead on Friday August 10, 2012 @10:40PM (#4369224)

Yeah I agree that 40 hours seems to be a good number for a week's consumption. On weekdays, the max I can think it taking is 2 hours for commuting, and 3-5 hours of TV. I am nowhere near this number myself, but I can see it being the norm for a lot of people. That's about 7 hours a day for 5 days. Weekends are completely random for me. On most summer weekends I didn't think I consume anything at all, but I can see how it could be quite high for some people. Overall, I think a hard cap of 40 hours is probably sufficient for most people.

I am sure that the MPAA would try and argue that internet access should be included in this, which is probably where the whole problem starts.

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