[opendtv] Re: Cable cord cutting: not ready for prime time
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:37:33 -0500
At 2:52 PM -0600 2/2/11, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Another thing: if this Internet TV becomes more prevalent, I can
guarantee you that the various TV web sites will see the need to not
make constant changes to their compression algorithm and so on,
exactly for the reason the one person talked about in the video. And
I also mentioned in the past. People don't want to spend time
updating their browsers or what have you, just to watch their
evening TV. Especially not if individual sites each have their own
special solutions that they keep modifying.
If the codec is software based with some help from a programmable
GPU, there should be no problem with improving the compression
algorithms.
We agree that we are not there yet, but may disagree on how to get
there. Truth is that the ability to deal with HDTV is now well within
the bandwidth of general purpose computing devices. At some point
additional quality is no longer a driving force, as we saw with the
evolution of digital audio.
Regards
Craig
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