This article is awesome to me. Back in the early 90s, I was helping my dad's publishing shop produce multimedia CD-ROMs. Breaking the 320x240 vidoe size barrier was a dream for me, until one day I realized that pixel-doubling in Macromedia Director didn't make the video look too bad, and it was immersive to boot!
To help Jay explain the "bottleneck", if we look at production in the lens of video media literacy, the digital divide would look like this: [image: 4244864841_363a04f890_o_d.jpg] I've used this chart in my classes... it's from "Knowledge of Digital Video Manipulation Techniques and its Effect on the Preceived Credibility of Television News" by Arie Stavchansky (2006). The entire dissertation (PDF) is available at: http://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/samples/stavchansky.pdf Kevin Lim Cyberculturalist http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private email locator: ╔╗╔═╦╗ ║╚╣║║╚╗ ╚═╩═╩═╝ On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Joly MacFie <j...@punkcast.com> wrote: > > > I think what Jay was trying to say is that the development of free and > open video codecs is hamstrung by patented algorithms. > > joly > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Richard Amirault > <ramira...@verizon.net<ramirault%40verizon.net>> > wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jay dedman" > > (snip) > > > >> Video compression (especially proprietary) is a bottleneck > >> with online video. > > > > Just the opposite ... video compression is a boon to online video. If > there > > were no video compression there would not be any online video. > > > > Richard Amirault > > Boston, MA, USA > > http://n1jdu.org > > http://bostonfandom.org > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast > WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com > http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
