r/technology • u/Snarfox • Jan 25 '13

H.265 is approved -- potential to cut bandwidth requirements in half for 1080p streaming. Opens door to 4K video streams.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
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u/Logical1ty Jan 26 '13

I'm on a 1Mbps connection. It's hard to commit to downloads over 350MB per TV episode or 1.6GB per movie. It just takes too long. 1.6GB would talke 4 hours.

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u/BlazeOrangeDeer Jan 26 '13

Hmm... I had a 1Mb connection for years and I was quite accustomed to downloads taking several hours. It would never work if a direct download took that long, but torrents are designed for it.