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

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of David Boxall
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 November 2009 2:57 PM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Weekend Magazine - The Future of 
> Australian Television - Taxation, Licensing, Advertising or 
> Criminalization?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 at 20:42:38 +1030 Steven Clark wrote:
> > Tom Koltai wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: David Boxall
> >>>

> As others have gone to the trouble of responding, I'll add my bit.
> 
> To me, the issue isn't one of definition (HD vs SD), but of 
> quality. SD 
> encoded at a high bitrate can look better than HD encoded at 
> a low one. 
> SD being less data than HD to begin with, and the higher bitrate 
> requiring less compression to achieve, decompression takes 
> less effort, 
> so lower-power devices can handle it (given the necessary 
> storage, etc).
> 
> It depends on the market. Given the quality of video that Tom 
> advocates, 
> I'll take a book.

Ahhh David, good point, however I'm not advocating it.

The greater population understand a movie on the Internet as being about
700 MB.
They learn from experience that not all formats are playable on all
media players.

And that's about it.

As the CAPs grow, no doubt people will download the larger files e.g.:
Music that in 1997 was at 64 kbps today is at 320+,

For the moment I am merely suggesting that we get rid of this nasty ACTA
stuff and replace it with a workable solution that will benefit all
(plus). And I tried to explain it in a manner that most (without a law
degree) would understand.

I answered Steven's comments off list, not wanting to escalate a flame
war.

Tom


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