[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Worse than that, when this was published in March, I was working with a start-up doing video streaming and video compression. Although "there can never be enough bandwidth" may still hold true, why go to the expense and effort of compressing video if it may not be necessary soon?

[BellStar]

Every thing I have, 2 LT's, 2 DT's, all wired for my Cable Modem and Nextel wireless Modem (slow) to take on the road. Plus I have a wireless network in my house. I welcome the high-speed Internet access via focused beams to my computer, from a local source.

[adam_az]

why go to the expense and effort of compressing video if it may not be necessary soon?

Server computers can serve more customers if they stream compressed files, because each individual transmission uses less i/o.