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   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   Jack Bohn wrote:   
   > SFTVratings wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Oct 26, 6:13 am, Jack Bohn  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> episode sent out each week.  That's got to add to the overhead.   
   >> No.  It costs virtually nothing to upload Star Trek via satellite, and   
   >> let the stations grab it.  No more costly than for you todownload a   
   >> vid off youtube.   
   >   
   > But still, it should be something like 80 times more expensive to   
   > do it each week than to have done it once at the beginning of the   
   > syndication cycle.   
      
   Eh -- Star Trek Remastered is, all told, about 40GB of data. Whether its   
   sent in one chunk all at once or in 80 500MB chunks at a   
   one-chunk-a-week rate, the same total bandwidth consumption occurs.   
      
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