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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1096)2/9/2000 7:50:00 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 1782
 
Hi Raymond...

Slightly OT, how would you rate the video quality on the MPEG-2 encoded channels?

I don't know how fussy you are, or how bad the analog video is
on your cable (usually it's pretty bad...), but the real selling point
of digital video on cable is that many more channels can be fit
on the support medium.

The downside is that MPEG lets you dial in any rate of compression you
want, and from what I see on satellite digital video I
receive (TV5, a french language channel) the image quality
can be pretty crummy if they allocate only a meager data rate.

But it could be as good as DVD, which I feel is quite good,
at least the PAL/SECAM ones I have from France.

The sound is potentially excellent also - Dolby 5.1 for films. But again,
the cable operator has to decide to allocate the bits.

As far as TV5 is concerned - they treat their subscribers like
they live in the third world. Sound mixed to mono.
I had *far* better video and sound near Paris off the air.

If ever the digital bandwidth to deliver streaming HDTV
or even DVD video were made available, then in principle
the rest of the "smart" stuff would be a piece of cake.
I'm thinking of the audio CD... look how long it took for
this to appear on every computer. It was the entertainment
medium that drove the standard, and then it finally got used for data.
And then, wasn't it games that really drove the inclusion on PCs?

I've heard that "couch potato" activities won't fuel the
delivery of bandwidth to everyman, but don't buy it.
It's the *only* thing that'll finance widespread delivery
everywhere. Remember, by Shannon's measure 99.7% of the library of
congress is films
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