Just as Internet video is starting to take off, one of the nation’s largest broadband providers is experimenting with a pricing plan that could make it very expensive. Last week Time Warner Cable started testing a $29.99 a month plan in Beaumont, Texas that gives users only 5 gigabytes of data to download or upload. Users who pay $54.90 a month have their service capped at 40 gigabytes. Trouble is, a single standard definition movie takes up between one and two gigabytes and a high-definition movie could eat up as much as eight gigabytes. That means that users who pay about $30 a month could be restricted to two or three movies a month and those willing to pay about $55 would be limited to just a few high-definition movies such as the ones you can now download to Apple TV. Users who go over their limit will pay $1 for each additional gigabyte which could amount to between $1 and $8 for each movie you watch in addition to whatever you’re paying to rent or buy the movie itself. For my new weekly Tech Talk radio feature Time-Warner Cable spokesperson Alex Dudley told me that ‘the […]