On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Nathan Ward <nznog@daork.net> wrote:

Let's say we do the following bitrate streams: 64, 128, 192, 256, 384,
512, 768, 1024, 1536, 2048, 3072, 4096, 6144, 8192 (kbit/s).

What about my grandma who's still on 56k dialup? People in Zambia would kill for 64k intergoogletube - I know I would have when I was there!

I know this was just a top of the head example but it's interesting how people's expectations of what the minimum standard is changes over time.

=P