amungus
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| sounds about right. "I'm hoping for more services like Vongo, and Vongo to increase the quality of their downloads. I do not believe they have HD yet."
yeah me too... I'm a little miffed at Vongo for deleting my account for no reason, but they have a sound idea with subscription based movies online. If there were more content, the quality a bit better, it'd be worthwhile. Oh, and HD would really rock for sure.
The whole "raising the bar" makes me laugh though.. Over compressed video looks like garbage. Flash video is better than some mpeg, but it's horrible unless it's at very very very high quality. Scales badly. MPEG-4 is finally good after all these years, and I think it's the way to go for streaming, or most any online content. Microsoft essentially ripped it apart, and put it back together with DRM and a couple tweaks, their compression is about the exact same as DIVX/MPEG-4. ...Raising the bar would seriously entail some high quality video with surround sound. Otherwise, this is all a joke.
This is all still a HUGE step back from even standard NTSC IMHO... Until 'net video is at LEAST as smooth and clear as standard NTSC is on a TV, it's a WASTE of time. They can do quality video, but there doesn't seem to be much interest in doing it RIGHT for the regular joe who just wants to push play. Vongo has that part right at least, making it simple, wait a minute, play a movie, on a TV if you want. ..Quality/selection are the biggest problems.
We should have subscription based video like Rhapsody/Napster by now that beats the pants off of Vongo. Sadly, too many old school, slow to adapt people in charge of making it really happen. Until then, real DVD's, and real HD quality are the only way to go. Sure, it'd be nice to have zero drm, but that's probably not going to happen any time soon. For now, drm that doesn't bug you much would be nice. I could deal with encrypted movies that can't be burned if 1) subscription deals are good, 2) quality isn't jerky, overly compressed, and sound was decent coming through good stereo/surround setups. |
