Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Hard drive manufacturer Seagate reckons it could be shipping 2.5 terabyte hard drives by 2009. Capacities like that could change the way people buy movies.
Seagate announced this week that it had set a world record in magnetic encoding of information of 421 Gbits per square inch using magnetic media created with currently available production equipment and said that it expected this technology would enable it to deliver hard drives with storage capacities in 40GB to 275GB for 1-and 1.8-inch consumer electronics drives, 500GB for 2.5-inch notebook drives, and nearly 2.5TB for 3.5-inch desktop and enterprise class drives by 2009.
The company said that a 2.5TB hard drive would be capable of storing 41,650 hours of music, 800,000 digital photographs, 4,000 hours of digital video or 1,250 video games.
With capacities like that it would likely make for sense for providers of 'static' bandwidth-intensive content such as movies an games to encode large collections onto a hard drive and provide an interactive interface enabling consumers to select, pay for and then access the content of their choice rather than downloading it on-demand over the Internet.
Such a solution could be particularly attractive in developing nations where broadband services with the bandwidth needed to deliver video are both scarce and expensive. The up-front cost of the hard drive could be minimised by requiring the customer to commit, for example, to a certain monthly spend buying access to movies.
David Bass
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