[LINK] Freeview Launches In Australia

[David Boxall]

At 2:46 AM Michael Still wrote:
> Netflix streaming video -- $99 for a hardware player, HD content like 
> you'd find on a DVD (assuming you have enough bandwidth to stream at 
> that quality). Subscription $9 a month, if you're not already a customer 
> (which many people in the US are).
>
> Mikal
And 1Mb/s downloads priced at close to $50 per gigabyte: 
<http://www.bluemaxx.com.au/satellite/plans.html>.  In Australia, at 
least, the cost structure doesn't support the market.  My best landline 
option is 128kb/s ISDN (too slow for streaming): on that, $11 will buy 
me 30 hours.

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David Boxall                    |  The more that wise people learn
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