Top > DaveNet archive > 2002 > Making friends with Hollywood > No click-wait
| 1. | What if, in the middle of the night, while I'm not using my computer, it downloads huge video and audio stuff to my local hard drive. Then when I arrive in the morning there are fresh bits, news clips, movie trailers, a song of the day, whatever, provided by all kinds of content providers, from big TV networks like CNN and MSNBC, to a Dutch school where kids are taking a film class using inexpensive video recorders and Macs. |
| 2. | Let's see what happens with 1, 2 and 3 in this scenario. |
| 3. | 1. When I click on a link to view some video, it starts playing immediately, because it is already on my local disk. |
| 4. | 2. The wait is zero. |
| 5. | 3. The quality is limited by the size of my local disk, not by the capacity of my connection. |
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