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A quick note about Rogers bandwidth restrictions. Here’s what you get:

Rogers bandwidth rates as of January 2010
		kbps down	kbps up	GB cap	effective kbps	cap as % of bandwidth
	Ultra-Lite	500	256	2	6.1	1.22%
	Lite	3000	256	25	76	2.53%
	Express	10000	512	60	182.4	1.82%
	Extreme	10000	1000	95	288.8	2.89%
	Extreme Plus	25000	1000	125	380	1.52%
	Ultimate	50000	2000	175	558.4	1.12%

Now if you’re using Tek Savvy, and use their unlimited package, you don’t quite get 100% in that last column, but you get a damned site more than you do with Rogers or Bell and their hellish bandwidth caps.

They say you get what you pay for. With Bell & Rogers you get a whole lot less than you do with other providers..

Media Prices for 2010

Media	¢/GB	/DVD
DVD-R	3.4¢	1.0 x
DVD+R DL	6.9¢	2.0 x
1.5 TB HD	7.5¢	2.2 x
BD-R	8.0¢	2.4 x
CD	19¢	5.6 x
BD-R DL	22¢	6.4 x
BD-RE DL	40¢	12.0 x

It’s plain to see that HD and Blu-ray are neck-and-neck, with Blu-ray changing price the most dramatically. It may be that Blu-ray will take the price/GB lead from hard drives by summer.