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To: Michael Olds who wrote (12665)	12/1/1999 2:34:00 PM
From: Terry W Weaver	Respond to of 17679

Mic....like looking at a newspaper picture with a magnifying glass...samo,samo... TW

To: Michael Olds who wrote (12665)	12/1/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: Hal Campbell	Respond to of 17679

<< Do you still have the first one I did? Several months back. The Picture? >> Mike, I remember your parable of "The Picture". Was there a literal one you did? If so, you did not send it my way. Pixelization eh? I will be Pix elated if AXC can banish it.

To: Michael Olds who wrote (12665)	12/1/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: Anthony G. Breuer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17679

Hi Hal and Michael: I'll come out of lurk mode for a bit. Actually the artifacts you see are not due to pixelation or a blow up of the picture (although the artifacts look almost the same). What you are seeing are compression artifacts. The digital compression samples a number of pixels (say 4 pixels by 4 pixels) and displays that as one big pixel. The heavier the compression, the blockier the picture. MPEG compression also causes motion artifacts that will blur or streak the picture if the camera is panning. By the way, I cannot access ther Inextv web site on either of my 2 Macs using Internet Explorer, but I can access it and play Hugh Downs using Netscape browser. I hope they get their act together. The viewer's experience had better be a good one from the get go or they won't return. It has to be VERY user friendly without a lot of configuring or most people will give up. I almost did and I'm a stock holder. On the positive side, once I did get it playing I got a freeze frame of Hugh Downs along with his audio for about the first 15 seconds (again I was really ready to call it quits and sell my stock). I guess there was a lot of net traffic and it was still buffering, but once it did start with the motion video I was really amazed at what I saw. The Realplayer said I was recieving at about 28kbs and I estimate that I was watching video running at at least 15 frames a second, maybe more. Remember I edit TV for a living on digital machines and I know that they must be doing something different (and better) to achieve a frame rate that high at that modem speed. I was truly amazed. Now if they can only make it easy for us Mac types..... :-) Tony