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Most people watch a few minutes of low-res YouTube videos a day maybe, versus 2 hours per movie of HD + 5.1 Surround at night on netflix. Netflix HD is ~2 GB/hour. So I can easily see Netflix driving more BW than youtube.

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We don't even need to make the comparison so bold. the world could consume twice(I do not have statistics) as many hours of youtube as it does netflix, but still netflix would demand higher bandwidth...

Netflix HD is 2gb/hour...what is the bandwidth taken by youtube?

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