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To: Z Analyzer who wrote (7611)	12/23/1999 5:38:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

<Mark, Where is the usual skeptic in you? The disparity between what you report and Mark Madden's post on digital VCR which uses video compression seems irreconcilable. Or think of the video quality which comes at abot 46 kbs over the phone lines and extrapoate that. -Z> Not sure what you mean? What I think I was saying is that streaming media doesn't use a drive, and the quality goes from quite good at 600kbps to really excellent over 1.5 Mbps. You might even say that picture quality gets better at 1.5+Mbps and this is not going to be unusual. Now, Mark says the recording quality of a PVR is less than normal TV and they use multiple gig, versus Sharp putting 2 hours video on 64 meg. I don't know why, but I'd say the new Sharp Cam is doing this because they use the new MPEG4 standard. Just takes less space to store the same thing, like CD and DVD. Why shouldn't Tivo use better compression? I don't know. But I do think it's important to distinguish between streaming and caching. Certainly if you are streaming, then you only need a fast connection and a process to decode the stream. Regards, Mark