40 Gigabits-Per-Second Fiber-Optic Connection

[Husar]

I think FATA drives will be required on home PCs to make this viable... that or solid state disks.

I don't think even SSDs are fast enough for that speed, I don't think they can store a full movie in 2 seconds, they're faster than current disks, but not that much. And even if they were, with current capacities, they'd be full in one or two minutes.

Concerning pay-per-use content, if they go overboard with that, it could bring about the end of the internet as stupid as that may sound. I'm certainly not willing(or able) to pay for my connection and several websites or whatever in addition to that. There is a point where things stop being worth the money.

[Papewaio]

I don't think faster speed will be an issue.

All it will mean is that convergence of TV and the internet. You could have every room running a different TV program live over the internet from any country in the world.

40 Gigs per second at max through put would fill a one tera byte drive in 25 seconds... so it would fill up a drive space in no time. However that is assuming you want to keep every item of information that you get. That paradigm of thinking is based on dial up speeds where it takes ages to down load something.

Why go to a store and buy a game when you can go on line and buy a license for it and download the DVD of 7 gigs in quarter of a second?

In fact with throughput at such a speed you could just keep a menu of license keys and install the games on the fly when you play them. Delete them off the harddrive when you feel like it, keep a save file on a key or on an online sharepoint. Heck instead of loading a game locally at the speeds offered you would buy harddrive capacity at another location... pay for use, login to your space from any other PC. Imagine MyGame... being a place that has all your favourite PC games on it that you can access from any PC... in this scenario things do a full circle, your PC becomes a access point much like a TV, but not only TV, games, internet, word processor, your PC becomes a smart workstation.