Interesting Column: "The Value of HD In The Web 2.0 World"

[Specialist]

Interesting column entitled "The Value of HD in the Web 2.0 World."

January 3, 2007:

I've noticed a few trends that one must consider when going the HD route. For instance, the big buzz I'm hearing of late is all about content for portable media players. Many talk iPod, but most mean the cell phone. Studios and networks are spending time, resources, and considerable money on making content specifically for the small screen—320x240 and smaller. The biggest internet boom is heavily compressed and recompressed video of any variety—YouTube, MySpace, and the like. But when you see silly lip-syncing videos with tens of thousands of views, you really have to pay attention to the metrics that say this stuff is being viewed! Moreover, in recent months I've been hired to do more and more live internet video webcasts. So one must wonder about the value of HD in a highly compressed, shrinking-screen world.

Link to the full column on the EmediaLive.Com Web site: http://tinyurl.com/2abdxc

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[lordsmurf]

Indeed.

I've been saying this for a couple of years now.

The trend is for more video, more compression, more convenient storage. DVD-Video is good enough, very clear. HD material is just not all that appealing to a majority of folks out there. They want XVID downloads, 4-hour discs (minimum), fast web video streams, and iPod. A better endeavor would be to standardize those formats, improve the efficiency of compression codecs/algorithms, and quit wasting time/money or anal-retentive so-called"copyright protection" schemes and more fragile/problematic optical media (HD discs). My favorite quote right now is "HD: the answer to a question nobody asked."

The push for widescreen is also fairly asinine.

[mats.hogberg]

Tho interesting, not really news. Moving this.

/Mats

[Krispy Kritter]

There is a market for HD, but it isn't pc related. The idea/premise of HD, is for home theater.