2. Bandwidth is getting cheaper while high-speed internet is becoming more accessible.

Read the below this morning on ComputerWorld.

Computerworld - DreamWorks Animation SKG is releasing all of its films in stereoscopic 3D, more than doubling the amount of data storage capacity required to store its movies.

The move to 3D animation also requires the company's IT shop to migrate away from tape-based storage systems to disk systems in order to keep archived films online for animators to use as references for future sequels, which is the company's mainstay.

DreamWorks recently released its first 3D animated moviem Monsters vs. Aliens, which packed its newly installed disk array from Hewlett-Packard Co. with 93TB worth of images. The company plans to release five feature films every two years. In the past, each animated film averaged less than 25TB, according to Derek Chan, head of digital operations for DreamWorks Animation.

The creation of three-dimensional movies means for every film frame there will be two images instead of one: one image for the left eye and one for the right eye of a viewer. Those cheap plastic or cardboard bi-colored glasses handed out at the theater polarize the images on the screen and combine in order to give the perception of depth.

DreamWorks' philosophy on feature-length animated films is to build franchises. There are three Shrek movies, for example, Madagascar has two and Kung Fu Panda will also have a sequel, Chan said.

In order to compete with bootleggers, high-definition television, the internet, cell-phones, and a host of new threats to their profits movie studios will HAVE to embrace 3-D and make it work this time. This will push streaming video out of the reach of most US customers for a LOOOOONG time.

Yes, I know, the above storage requirements are for the studio not for streaming the movie. Regardless, the bandwidth requirements will need a significant increase.

Conclusion, most average comcast consumers don't get to experience HD on a regular basis.

Not just Comcast customers. I have U-Verse and I experience it as well. In fact a lot of times I will record a movie on my DVR from an "HD" channel, where I assume everything is "HD" only to discover that it was not in "HD". What is there is always better than standard definition, but it is not "HD", so I think you are safe in assuming most people don't know what "HD" really looks like.

Conclusion: there is not enough "HD" content available for the "HD" channels to provide it 24/7, so people don't know when they are getting it or what it really looks like.

Stupidly, the movie studios are trying to slow that down by putting additional copy protection on DVDs, but that's not much of an obstacle either, so far.

I disagree. I don't remember the last (legal) DVD I bought because I have grown tired of their antics*.

I am a great fan of DVDs and bought many between 2001 and 2007 until I got tired of the many barriers between me watching MY DVD. This also stopped me from buying a PS3, which I would have done otherwise.

*I have to buy X-Men: Origins because I have the bootleg. If I buy the bootleg I take it upon myself to buy the studio disk even if I don't like the movie, which I did not. The only good thing about buying the studio release is that I can compare the two. Wish I had bought the bootleg of Attack Of The Clones so I would have a record of the way Jango Fett actually died. :)

Don't waste mod-points this way! Somebody please meta-moderate this appropriately.

This is one of the reasons I stopped reading anandtech. The small amount of info you get on each page surrounded by ads. I know they have to make a living, don't we all, but I rarely have that much spare time at work (where I do all my research). But since I am planning on building two new boxes this Summer and considering the use of SSDs in them this is a gold mine. Thanks again.

Do you know the title of the article, the author or the approximate date of publication to shorten my search?

Deletion is a part of the problem. Block sizes also matter. Wear-leveling and write-combining algorithms also matter. There is a lot more to this issue then just "deletes", with or without quotes.

The recent revelation that Intel Corp.'s consumer-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives suffer from fragmentation that can cause a significant performance degradation raises the question: Do all SSDs slow down with use over time?

The answer is yes - and every drive manufacturer knows it.

This is a very interesting article if you are considering SSDs versus HDs for your next computer.

*I copied this from a print-out. No I don't have a link. I am at work and I don't have the time to provide it.

1. Why as an investor would I pay a 30% premium to purchase physical gold?

Because in this instance you are buying small lots of gold. If you were to buy gold in larger quantities then you could pay the spot price.

2. Assuming I would I then have to worry about keeping the gold physically secure once I take possession of it.

When was the last time your house was broken into? Would you tell ANYONE that you kept gold in your house? If not, you probably have little to worry about.

Also, you probably have one or more guns in your home loaded and ready. As the old sign says: Forget about the dog. Beware of owner!

3. I run into issues when trying to sell the gold after I've taken possession because how can anyone be sure that I haven't tampered with the gold? How do they know that 1oz is still 1oz? What if I drilled and filled it?

EUREKA!

My dog! It's full of rats!

2001: A Dyslexic Odyssey

No, I don't know the name. I almost never look at names, just sigs.

Make no mistake, though. I am against it.

What concerns me are people who are genetically deficient who "want what other people have." If it would just effect them, I would not care. The problem comes in when their genetically deficient children weaken the gene-pool.

*I never went to Vietnam. I was stationed at 8th & I, and from there went to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That's why I wrote Vietnam era. I was available to be sent to Vietnam, but I was stationed elsewhere.

I know all too many couples who have left off breeding until the female is in her 40s and therefore less likely to bring a sprog to term

Or worse having a child that suffers from trisomy-21.

We need science in the classrooms so bad it hurts. So many people don't understand that girls are born with all the ovum they will ever make. During their lives those ovum are bombarded by radiation and just plain get old. Boys are different. We just make what we need, over and over and over and over. And then we just spray the stuff all over the place. :)

Look at it this way, I have spent many years raising my son. I don't want him falling in love with some deficient girl, marrying her, then discovering they can't have children. That takes my son out of the gene-pool unless he cheats on the girl and produces a child elsewhere. I don't know about how you would feel about that, but I don't want any grandchild of mine raised by a single mother. I was in the house for him. He needs to be in the house for his children.

This is not rocket science.