Posted by Richard Crowley on 07/04/07 02:05

"Telstar" wrote ...
> Richard:
> The problem you have had, still have, and will always have is an
> intellectual disconnect: People cannot and do not perceive isomorphically
> all information in the physically analyzable world. Lossy is a terrible,
> biased terms, since it incorrectly presumes that physical measurements
> define relaity.
>
> Lossy physically CAN BE lossless perceptually. Get used to it.

I have no problem with lossy compression. I use it all the time.
(DV uses 5:1 lossy spatial compression, for example.)

My objection is the massively lossy compression used by the
low-end crowd. If they can live with it, good for them. It drives
the rest of us batty. Even the mild 5:1 spatial compression of
DV fails on some program material. But overall, it is worth the
cost/benefit tradeoff.

Mine is a purely technical issue. You can take your psychological
and philosophical babble over to some metaphysical newsgroup.

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