[LINK] Weekend Magazine - The Future of Australian Television - Taxation, Licensing, Advertising or Criminalization?

[andrew clarke]

On Mon 2009-11-16 20:42:38 UTC+1030, Steven Clark (steven.clark at internode.on.net) wrote:

> Tom Koltai wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: David Boxall 
> >>
> >> On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 at 14:18:59 +1100 Tom Koltai wrote:
> >>     
> >>> ...
> >>> Standard Definition TV picture @ 400 MB per hour.
> >>>       
> >> In my experience, H.264 video encoded at much less than 1800 
> >> kilobytes/sec (with AAC audio at 160 kilobytes/sec: a little 
> >> less than 1 gigabyte/hour) yields poor quality. Perceptions differ, of 
> >> course, but adopting too low a standard risks alienating the market.
> >>     
> >
> > Actually David, the market (most file sharing users) still prefer the
> > lower SD resolution versions.
>
> this would most likely be because (a) HD/widescreen is still relatively 
> new, but probably more importantly (b) smaller files are quicker to DL 
> *and* take smaller chunks out of data quotas.

There's also the issue of many devices (older desktop PCs, low power
notebooks or other portable devices) being unsuitable for playing HD
content reliably, ie. without audio stuttering or dropped video frames.

Regards
Andrew