Sony 4K TV Internet Video Service Will Bump Into Bandwidth Caps

According to Sony, the 4K movie titles will each take up 45 to 60 gigabytes, allowing users download and store up to 50 movies on the company’s FMP-X1 4K set-top. Sony’s using an encoding system from startup Eye IO to compress the video, but has declined to specify the compression rate. - Todd Spangler

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