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To: killybegs who wrote (5864)	2/26/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Michael Olds	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

That last leads me to ask of the technologically viable:What about a two sided approach to this buffering thing. What about an Ampex tape deck attached to the computer that has it's own special communications style with the Ampex VOD library? Or, how about a buffering system that took advantage of the huge disk drives that everyone is getting these days? I have 4 Gs and a Jaz 1G and it's half empty, and most of the new PCs out there are coming with 6 to 12 G hard drives. I guess one of the things I am asking is how big a file is a movie? Would an option as with a download as to where to download the buffer be all it would take to be able to view a movie herkless jerkless? If so, even a person with a small disk drive and a Jaz drive could make use of such a system. This leads to another question I have been asking myself. Why is it possible for me to transfer a 60+ Mb file from my hard disk to my Zip drive in zip seconds, and yet to download a 7Mb file off the Net takes me 20 minutes (I have a 56K modem). In both cases we are talking about digital information, yes? What is it exactly that makes one wire slower than another?