Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/11/58 11:36

"Wondering_1" wrote ...
> To shoot and edit and create, digital is great, but as an end consumer
> product, I have to say, I'm disappointed.
>
> lately, as I wander through all the best Buy and Circuit City and Sears
> stores and look at the 42" Plasma or LCD or DLP monitors, each pre-viewing
> the latest hollywood blockbuster, I begin to cringe as I take a close look
> at the images on these screens.
>
> Compression artifacts, giant square pixels that dance around, strobe-like
> shimmering static backgrounds, all makes me long for the days of analog.

On Jan 1, I was playing "around the world" with my remote
and came across a live broadcast of the Rose Parade in
Pasadena, CA. At first, it looked like a very small and heavily
compressed MPEG blown up to full-screen. We've all seen
the effect.

Then I realized that it was apparently raining buckets down
there (first time in 54 years, at least for the Parade! :-) and
what I was seeing was large rain drops hitting the front glass
of the camera lens (or likely a protective filter in front of the
lens). It was surprising how much like compressed MPEG
it looked like. :-)

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