In order for media to use audio and video over the 'net I assume that it has to get much faster. I have dsl, and friends have cable connections, but it still sucks to use video feeds from cnn.com, etc.
Will home connections and technology get faster anytime in the next few years? If so, how? Or what’s on the horizon.
Yes it will. There are several technologies currently under development that run from better compression to faster pipes. There is some new form of TCP/IP (the protocol the internet uses)in the works, that will make the fastest cable connection of today seem like it’s standing still.
Somethings will never change though, like my Quake skills no matter how fast my connection is.
You’re just lucky that speed and latency aren’t the same thing. So no matter how fast the 'Net gets, you can still let out the battlecry of fragged n00bs everywhere:
“OMG!!!1 LAG!!!”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0318_030318_internet.html
You will be able to download a full DVD in about 5 secs, I’m sure the RIAA is thrilled with this. 
Remarkably, this uses the same hardware that exists now. This means it could be implemented pretty cheaply and quickly.
Thats right, fast TCP/IP. I can’t believe I forgot the name.
The question now is, how much more are we going to be charged for this super duper service 
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It’d be the MPAA that’d be ticked if you were pirating movies, wouldn’t it?
I had only thought about this in terms of the backbones and such, but I suppose they’d also implement this on the pipes to the home too.
This sounds like the type of thing where they’d want to upgrade everything as quickly as possible, since it would reduce their hardware costs (because they’d need less for more users). It would be nice if they just upgraded everyone for free, but I doubt that.
I suppose you’d have to upgrade the TCP software on your PC too, which would have be developed somewhere. An MS Windows update, perhaps.