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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>
  • To: Open Studios <Open_Studios AT yahoogroups.com>
  • Cc: Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] The Future is Now . . . .
  • Date: 09 Mar 2005 18:36:16 -0800

This is becoming a current events, thingy. I picked up this message,
earlier, and wanted to share it:
[start quote]
I think one of the things that a lot of people in the media industry
simply do not understand about Internet video is that as it happens it
is going to simply be a better, higher quality user experience than
normal video.

A good friend of mine (who will remain nameless) watched the entire
10-episode third season of “Spooks”, a great BBC hourly TV drama, via
BitTorrent. The format was compressed high-definition—a ~350-megabyte
file for every hour-long episode. Recorded from a high-definition
source in the UK, placed on BitTorrent, downloaded in the US, and played
on a PC hooked through to a 60” plasma TV and a surround sound stereo.
It looked and sounded SPECTACULAR. Better than DVD, easily.

(The original uncompressed high-def would look and sound even better,
but that’s more like 9 gigabytes per hour. Even over 6 megabit DSL,
that is still too big. But 350 megabytes per hour of video is a snap to
download. My friend would VPN into his house from work, use Windows
Remote Desktop Connection to kick off the download on his home PC in the
mid-afternoon, and it would be completely downloaded and ready to be
watched by the time he got home that night.)

A lot of people in the media industry still think of Internet video as
choppy, unreliable little postage stamp sized shorts. That ain’t what
it’s really like.

Marc
Posted by Marc Andreessen on 03/01 at 01:15 PM
[end quote]

My eyes popped, and the realization that some energetic community-based
recording studios are going to begin to offer digital video productions
on a grand scale, worldwide, and with huge, and I mean huge, audiences.
What do you think? After all, all the state-of-the-art software is
sitting on that humble computer on a kitchen table, just waiting to be
utilized to its maximum potential.
Tom




  • [Community_studios] The Future is Now . . . ., tom poe, 03/09/2005

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