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dlr5288
dlr5288
6/28/2016 11:22:56 PM
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Re: Video Quailty Bigger Issue
Yes good points. I hate the buffering. I think since video is becoming so big and popular that video buffering should be fixed asap. Or at least made better so it can buffer quicker.

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freehe
freehe
6/28/2016 10:23:06 PM
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Video Quailty Bigger Issue
Consumers may be watching more OTT video but that does not mean they watch or need higher quality or hi-def.

Buffering delays are still a hugh problem. It would be great if companies solved the buffering delays problem versus focusing on providing hi-def. I prefer to watch an average quality video without buffering delays than a hi-def one with delays.

Since consumers want a la carte prices give it to them. Customers are no longer loyal so why not give them want they want to keep them as customers versus giving them what some exective believes they want.

 

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freehe
freehe
6/28/2016 10:20:07 PM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
JohnBarnes, I want to know where the higher quality demand is coming from also. I don't believe consumers demand high quality as much as companies profess they do. Companies use advertising to convince consumers they high quality is needed or required and it is not. Many companies produce decent quality content without having to pay for Hi-Def.

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freehe
freehe
6/28/2016 10:17:45 PM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
dcawrey, I agree.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
6/28/2016 8:07:56 AM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
ElizabethV, you make an interesting point about vinyl-clinging Millennials. Wonder if there are any substantial number insisting on film rather than digital images? I know some visual artists who prefer film but that's mostly a matter of the different manipulations and hand-skills needed to make it work, not its precision/resolution.

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dcawrey
dcawrey
6/27/2016 11:00:47 AM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
In terms of which device I like use, I think laptops are still the best right now. Smartphones are too small for meaningful viewing. Tablets are simply a waste of money when a laptop can do so much more. Remember when we all were saying tablets would replace laptops? I don't think that's going to happen. 

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elizabethv
elizabethv
6/27/2016 9:24:15 AM
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Re: Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
A hidden group of Millenials wanting the quality of which you speak do exist. (I know a couple, with vinyls taking up entire walls in their houses.) I'm not actually one of them. -Sorry. For me, I have way too much going on to demand quality. Though constant and seemingly never-ending buffering will get me to jump ship like a sailor on fire. With two kids who need to watch their own shows (Can we say "Yo Gabba Gabba" on endless repeat) or being at work and having other things to do but still having this desire for background noise, because it's the middle of the night and everything else creeps me out. (Can we say run-on sentence.) :-) I want to be able to watch things, but I don't typically have the time to sit down and enjoy anything I want to watch in any kind of quality, unless I've specifically scheduled myself to get to a movie theater. So if I have to sacrifice quality in all of that - so be it. 

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
6/26/2016 7:54:38 PM
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Oddly, though, quality is often a secondary feature or side-story
Notoriously, though the Millennials manage to listen to even more music than their parents did (which is a lot), high fidelity has virtually disappeared as a feature; turntable rumble and stray hiss were a nuisance that was hard to avoid, but sound quality was much richer and fuller and more accurate in a good vintage-1985 stereo playing a well-produced and well-cared for vinyl disk than it is coming out of the earbuds of a modern tablet. Similarly, you're just not going to see the picture as well from digital-to-phone-screen as  you would from fine-grained film emulsion projected onto a Cinerama screen in the dark.  And of course people are listening and watching in noisier and more distracting environments all the time. (I gave up on watching movies with my stepkids because they insisted on having the closed captions turned on (goodbye, lower part of screen; goodbye, distinction between soft and loud) so that they could read what was going on, since they were constantly making noise and moving around). 

So where is the drive for higher quality, high def/high res streaming signal coming from? Nostalgic old people who were trained to want it? Some hidden group of Milliennials?

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
6/26/2016 7:31:45 PM
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Re: OTT
 

dlr5288,

Some folk in the education/communications research fields are just beginning to look at what makes a "good viewer", i.e. the equivalent of a person who can do close reading. (A skill that maybe 10% of college students now graduate with --- but the great majority were never any good as close readers anyway).

As the kinds of literacies multiply rapidly, the number of ways for people to be poor at getting information out of communication is unfortunately keeping pace. Yesterday's kids did a poor job of extracting information from books; today's do a poor job of getting information from books, videos, browsable hypertexts, and tutorials; by 2050 just imagine how many different things the students won't be able to learn from!

Such is progress, I guess.

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dcawrey
dcawrey
6/25/2016 1:48:30 PM
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Re: OTT
OTT benefits both the provider and the customer. 

On the provider side, there is less infrastructure and equipment cost since video runs through internet and existing consumer devices. From the consumer perspective, there is less cost than traditional cable. 

Everyone wins!

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