Comments on: Agreeing With Reynolds http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/06/30/agreeing-with-reynolds/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:02:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Zappatero http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/06/30/agreeing-with-reynolds/#comment-1140 Zappatero Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:06:38 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=126#comment-1140 <i>MSNBC s boneheaded decision</i> - your naivate is showing. MSNBC s boneheaded decision – your naivate is showing.

]]> By: philj http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/06/30/agreeing-with-reynolds/#comment-1139 philj Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:06:06 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=126#comment-1139 I am in absolute agreement with you. As a video compressionist in my spare time, I always wondered why these guys never managed to put up some high quality feeds. I even subscribed to Real's RealPass just to see what CNN's "premiere" content looked like. For $15 a month, you can see 320x240 video compressed with an outdated codec (RealVideo 8) at 15 frames/second. Not only that, but their highest bandwidth level is a 300kilobit stream. Not impressive at all. I promptly cancelled. Fox is slightly ahead of the game right now--with a very well designed (free) playback page and RealVideo 9 for the majority of their content. CNN just recently changed from their premiere/RV content to free Windows Media content. Naturally, it is quite broken in Firefox, which sucks. But then again, so does Windows Media Video. I am in absolute agreement with you. As a video compressionist in my spare time, I always wondered why these guys never managed to put up some high quality feeds.

I even subscribed to Real’s RealPass just to see what CNN’s “premiere” content looked like. For $15 a month, you can see 320×240 video compressed with an outdated codec (RealVideo 8) at 15 frames/second. Not only that, but their highest bandwidth level is a 300kilobit stream. Not impressive at all. I promptly cancelled.

Fox is slightly ahead of the game right now–with a very well designed (free) playback page and RealVideo 9 for the majority of their content.

CNN just recently changed from their premiere/RV content to free Windows Media content. Naturally, it is quite broken in Firefox, which sucks. But then again, so does Windows Media Video.

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