[rescue] Hello?

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> >
> > Many of my friends in the TV biz say that "if the public knew what broadcast
> > quality analog video looked like, they wouldn't want any of this compressed,
> > digital sh1t..."
>
> If the public saw broadcast quality, most of them wouldn't be able to tell
> the difference.  Just like most people insist that MP3s are just as good.
> Frankly, with current prices, I think it is getting to be near time for
> a computer juke box.  Just slap a pair of 60 gig drives in a machine, then
> leave everything uncompressed.

With MP3's it depends on the bitrate.  At 320, I have trouble *measuring*
the difference.  If you feel the need, you can go up to 384.  A 60GB drive
wouldn't be enough for some of us.  There are people like me, who have
several hundred GB of MP3 at 320.

> > Granted, there's a lot of cool manipulations that one can do with digital
> > video, but his point is well put.  The public just doesn't know any better.
>
> Of course there are lots of cool manipulations.  The problem isn't the digital
> (well, it is, but that is a very small part), it is the compression.

You can lose some quality with digitization, but as long as you use a fast
enough sampling rate, and big enough samples, you're fine.

Peace...  Sridhar