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3 Replies Last post: Jul 1, 2008 10:54 AM by Jon Seff  
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Jun 30, 2008 8:48 AM

hd Movie File Size

I am thinking of getting the Apple TV. I looked up the terms of my ISP and found that I am limited to 10GB of data usage in a month.Likely I would only watch one movie (I'm a rental guy - I would never purchase a movie) per week this way. For the sake of argument, just so I have a rough idea of how much of my data usage I would reach, could someone let me know what the file size for a 90 minute HD movie would be?

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John
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Jon Seff
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1. Jun 30, 2008 3:01 PM in response to: ttibsen
Re: hd Movie File Size
An HD movie rental from the iTunes Store is probably 3-5GB.

Jon Seff - Senior News Editor, Macworld
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2. Jul 1, 2008 10:22 AM in response to: Jon Seff
Re: hd Movie File Size
Yikes!! I guess that if I'm going to get the Apple TV, I will have to upgrade to the HighSpeed Ultra package offered by my ISP which allows for 20GB of data usage. What if I get the plain vanilla version of the movie Jon - what would be the file size in that case? What are the terms of your ISP service in your neck of the woods? Is there a cap on downloading or is it unlimited?

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John
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Jon Seff
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3. Jul 1, 2008 10:54 AM in response to: ttibsen
Re: hd Movie File Size
You can see how large a movie file is from within iTunes and on the Apple TV. A standard def movie is 1GB-2GB depending on length.

I would never use an ISP that had a download limit. I download 20GB of data in a few days :)

Jon Seff - Senior News Editor, Macworld
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