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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7013)5/19/2000 3:37:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio   of 12823
 
Ray,

re: "I believe that Frank brought up the issue that BER, Bit Error Rate is something that is easily masked in visual testing, where the eye is very forgiving about missing signal. I always wondered where the term "vivid imagination" came from.."

That precise angle _did_ occur to me, too, because they don't (from what I can tell) make any claims about the integrity of data in terms of BER (bit-error rate), like you said, only their ability to pass video. And yes, like the Terabeam HDTV "pilot," the instantaneous loss of coded blocks of visual information, even the entire screen on an instantaneous basis, may never be "noticed" by the naked eye. FAC
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