So I just got done posting about how the porn industry is allowing full movie downloads before Hollywood, and then notice a BusinessWeek article on diggdot on how downloading HDTV is going to choke the Internet. If the average tv actually downloads all 8 hours of tv that they watch everday, the Internet is gonna choke. No kidding Sherlock.

But whats the possibility of that happening? Who needs to watch all their tv in high-def? Do I really need to watch The Sopranos in HDTV? Hell, cable companies can just charge more for those downloads. So how much will it cost to transmit all that data?

But if the customer starts watching Internet TV like the average household watches regular TV, 8 hours a day, BellSouth’s cost would go up to $112 a month, according to Kafka.

Yeah, sure…but this is unlikely to happen:

In fact, he said, Internet traffic has increased much more slowly than the prices of Internet-carrying equipment like switches and routers have fallen, and that trend is likely to continue.

The ISPs just need to get a machine with some gigantic hard drives that cache the tv shows. Hollywood uploads the movies to the ISPs a couple days before they are supposed to be shown…the ISPs propagate the files to file servers close to metro areas and let users download the files as needed.

I guess the ISPs would rather bitch and moan…like me
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