I just started a download of a kids movie for the girls to watch on our way home from Washington next Tuesday.  It is a good thing I started the download today because its going to take the next six hours over this DSL connection to download the movie.  Granted its nearly one gigabyte in size, but great googly-moogly that’s a long download time.

I’ll try it again at home once we get there and see what the download speed looks like on my slightly faster connection.  I predict that unless people plan on renting in the morning and watching in the evening this service, too, will flounder and movie rentals will still be free from other file sharing networks because the quality may be lower, but the speed will potentially be faster.  Of course I could be wrong and this will be the next big thing in digital media.

Update: after an hours time the process has climbed to an estimated eleven hours.  11, ten plus one, or longer – however you prefer it.