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| Thread ID: 125063 | 2012-06-04 20:17:00 | TV On Demand - bandwidth | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 1279628 | 2012-06-04 20:17:00 | I'm staying temporarily at a backpackers, and the stingy baskets don't have Sky. I have a free daily allocation of wireless Internet of just 80 megs. How much bandwidth would an average half hour TV programme use? Thx |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1279629 | 2012-06-04 21:30:00 | Lets presume that it uses roughly 400kbps (Which is bugger all really) for a standard non-HD stream. 400kbps * 60 seconds * 20 minutes (Half hour show is that long without ads) = 480000. Divide by 8 bits in a byte, then divide by 1024 to get megabytes and you're left with: 58.59375, or 60MB. That's of course expecting it not to play any ads before / after, and not allowing for a variable bitrate in the video / audio stream, also presuming the audio stream is something like a meager 64 / 96kbps in that 400kbps stream and not additional to it. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1279630 | 2012-06-04 21:37:00 | Here. (www.actrix.co.nz) :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1279631 | 2012-06-04 21:45:00 | Thanks guys. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1279632 | 2012-06-04 22:07:00 | The ads say 1% of 5GB which i think is 50MB | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1279633 | 2012-06-04 22:18:00 | Here. (www.actrix.co.nz) :) Not bad, I was close! :D The ads say 1% of 5GB which i think is 50MB Huh!?! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1279634 | 2012-06-04 22:37:00 | The tvnz on demand ads say that on a 5GB plan, one show would use 1% which is 50MB | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1279635 | 2012-06-04 22:47:00 | I'm staying temporarily at a backpackers, and the stingy baskets don't have Sky. I have a free daily allocation of wireless Internet of just 80 megs. How much bandwidth would an average half hour TV programme use? Thx Be easier to just go sit at a pub. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1279636 | 2012-06-04 22:53:00 | Or maccas | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1279637 | 2012-06-05 00:32:00 | Or if there is a suitable aerial connection available a USB DVB-T tuner for <$100 gives you portable freeview. If you compress an average non HD 1 hour TV show with the adds removed (so 45 mins approx) to .avi/divx format it uses around 350MB, the streaming services must use better codecs. |
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