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To: Anthony G. Breuer who wrote (12693)	12/3/1999 1:01:00 AM
From: WAI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

Anthony, You have mentioned that you deal with digital video (professionally even?). Much is being made by some of the quality of the video on EXBTV. I was hoping to get a professional opinion on what, if anything, is different about those streams. Some keep trying to suggest that these are evidence of "the new technology" at work. I can't picture that, since we're still using RealPlayer to play it. If it was encoded differently, how could the same decoder understand it? Not to mention the fact that Ampex told us that IStyletv would debut the new stuff. So I'm curious about the Hugh Downs videos. Do these just look good because there's not much going on? If the frame to frame difference is small, there's not much information to describe, right? How many different "knobs" are there to fiddle with when you're encoding video? Is it possible that whoever encoded these did a very good job of finding an optimal set of parameters? I feel like I'm rambling now, so I'll stop. I hope there was an intelligent question buried in there somewhere. Thanks, and cheers, William