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Originally Posted by bicker
Wireless IEEE 802.11n, certainly is fast enough. (It is much faster than Ethernet @100 Mbit/s.) Even wireless IEEE 802.11g is fast enough for the low bitrate HD that Amazon Unbox provides -- I'm not sure if Netflix goes much higher.
I'm personally opposed to the propagation of streaming television until after the FCC imposes requirements to support closed captioning for the hearing impaired on such services. There is no excuse for our society to allow services to engage in this cynical end-run around society's standards for accommodations for the disabled that it has determined to be in the public interest. |
With watching on PCs and voice recognition software available, I'm not sure why companies like Hulu or TVShack haven't "grabbed the bull by the horns" with close captioning. It shouldn't add that much more cost. I wonder if it would be more efficient for the actual movie player like Window Media Player to do the captioning on the user end, than the company broadcasting the streaming video.
