FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

Mon Jun 6 17:07:40 UTC 2022

On 6/6/22 6:06 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 5:47 AM Masataka Ohta
> <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
>> Dave Taht wrote:
>>
>>> Looking back 10 years, I was saying the same things, only then I felt
>>> it was 25Mbit circa mike belshe's paper. So real bandwidth
>>> requirements only doubling every decade might be a new equation to
>>> think about...
>> Required resolution of pictures is bounded by resolution of our
>> eyes, which is fixed.
>>
>> For TVs at homes, IMHO, baseband 2k should be enough, quality of
>> which may be better than highly compressed 4k.
>>
>>                                                  Masataka Ohta
> Yep. And despite our best efforts, nobody can hear the difference
> between 48khz/24 bit audio and 96khz/24 bit audio. The difference
> between 16 bit and 24 bit audio can be heard... but not so much on
> bluetooth earbuds! Attempts to make 10 channel audio more popular
> (like Atmos) appeal to a very narrow market.
>
> Belshe's paper on "more bandwidth doesn't matter (much) from 2008:
> https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=Y2hyb21pdW0ub3JnfGRldnxneDoxMzcyOWI1N2I4YzI3NzE2
>
One thing to be said is that you could use more real estate instead of 
upping the resolution. like, having a jumbotron in your living room. 
will that be the next big thing? probably not, but it is a possibility

Mike