cute error message

[Dave Liquorice]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 08:46:36 -0600, artisticforge . wrote:

>> Whether it was 50fps is irrelevant, one day we'll be downloading 
>> 1920x1080 or hopefully 4K and then 6GB will be an average file size.
>
> I will be long dead before that happens.

Unless you intend to pop off very shortly and "long" is > 5 years I wouldn't 
like to be on it. TV Production is moving to UHD, a facilities company 
building someting now will be UHD if they have any sense. 4k services are 
available online from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, BT (in the UK).

> I personally think downloading 4k media files the height of stupidity.

Over a V42bis connection would be a bit silly and take a while but it's not 
that long ago that I'd start a download at bedtime and it might have 
completed by the next evening over such a connection.

And *that* is the problem. To shift gigabytes of data in a sensible amount 
of time you need a fast connection, that is a few 10's of Mbps. That sort of 
speed just isn't available in many places, this place included with < 5 MBps 
ADSL+. The new 50fps iPlayer downloads at not much quicker than realtime...

> It was the humour in the error message that is refreshing.

Agreed and it also gave pertinent and useful information about the error.

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Cheers
Dave.