[opendtv] Re: (No Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:30:37 -0400

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

> The principle you are basing your point on is
> ludicrous. Yes, you could send an NTSC raster with
> images in a "window." But EVERYTHING had to fit in
> the same containe up to the limits of that container.
> In a digital world the content and the transmission
> system are decoupled. The tranmission system knows
> only one thing...packet data.

By the way, I've heard you say this same thing time
and time again, but it completely misses the point
each time.

TV and cinema content is not like a PC desktop,
where the viewer gets to arrange the content any
which way.

TV and cinema content to a TV or movie screen, if you
must use computer analogies, is much more similar to
a web page viewed full screen (I mean, clicking on
the full screen button in your browser). TV and
cinema content has to be designed to look right full
screen because that's how it will be viewed 99.9
percent of the time. You don't want distractions
on the screen at the same time.

Do web page designers care how their page will look?
Yes, they do. They care very much about how much info
to include (i.e. resolution), what aspect ratio to
optimize for, and generally how the average viewer
will see the page.

So much for "decoupling." If this is true for web
pages, it is much more true for movies and TV shows.
I wouldn't be so awe-struck by this "decoupling" you
keep bringing up.

Bert
 
 
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