Posted by Telstar on 07/04/07 07:42

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote in message
news:5f0divF39ejo1U1@mid.individual.net...
> "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.
>

I do not disagree and therefore withdraw my previous comment with apology.

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