Netflix has confirmed they have begun testing 4K streaming, hoping to become a major provider by the end of 2014.
The company has added a handful of 4K UltraHD videos to its streaming library this week, with a much wider rollout expected in the next few months. Additionally, the company says it "hopes to launch Ultra HD next year."
For now, the titles are really just reference footage, ... [ read the full article ]
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No, it means ISPs should give us fair value for what we pay. Once the actual physical connection is made to the consumer, costs to supply bandwidth are actually rather low. It's a cash cow.
ISPs (at least in the US) don't even come close to spending what they should on expansion and upgrading of their systems, either, which is exactly why a 20-50+ Mbit connection is limited to something silly like 250 GB (in the case of Comcast); they're counting on no one actually USING that bandwidth.
I went over my 400 GB cap recently because of Netflix. HDstreaming can add up to at least 20 to 30 GB per day. The only way to pay for extra bandwidth is to upgrade to a business account with slower speeds.
