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I was surfing this morning and came across this bit of disturbing news from the good folks at Mashable (and also at Broadband DSL Reports).
AT&T will cap DSL users to 150GB (I assume Bytes…not bits) and Uverse users to 250GB per month. If you go over that cap more than 3 times you will be charged $10 for every 50GB over.
I sent an email to my favorites, VUDU, and they replied with some byte estimates for me. Thank you VUDU!
For SD (standard definition which is great for us) you can estimate (depending on the length of the movie but for a typical 2 hour movie) about 1.5GB. For HD the estimate doubles to about 3GB, and for HDX (which is awesome by the way) 8GB.
Soooo, if I watched nothing but HDX movies, I would burn through the 150GB cap after watching 18.75 HDX movies. Hmmmm, I would be happy with that, but, we use the Internet for sooo much more than movies…
I remember a year or two ago Comcast announcing the same kind of capping…what ever happened to that? Is that still in effect? Well, now, DSL users will be getting it.
What does this mean?
Well…..if you are like me, you are watching TV and Movies (all kinds….) via the Internet, or you are a heavy duty gamer or surfer, or you participate in video conferencing, web conferencing, video chat, etc. The Internet provides a great transport mechanism.
Maybe that will be changing….?
We watch VUDU movies in HDX, HD, or SD all the time (4 to 5 times a month…see ForCarol.com for my short movie reviews).
If I am subject to capping…will that limit the number of movies I watch? If so, I am not happy about that.
TechyMike: Technology Made Easy 