Comments on: Weekend Question: Quality vs. Convenience? http://gigaom.com/video/weekend-question-quality-vs-convenience/ Sat, 26 May 2012 06:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Abigail Hamilton http://gigaom.com/video/weekend-question-quality-vs-convenience/#comment-469434 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:19:53 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=20155#comment-469434 I am totally with you. I think HD has its place but when it comes to at-fingertips content, what’s WAY more important than absolute image quality is sound quality and smoothness of delivery.

Our eyes “fill in” for what’s missing visually (we interpolate just like an image editor or a data modeler) but our ears are very picky. And we do NOT have time for buffering issues. Puhlease!

]]> By: Tadukau http://gigaom.com/video/weekend-question-quality-vs-convenience/#comment-469433 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:24:48 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=20155#comment-469433 It seems like convenience is winning. But in my opinion it’s so only because convenience must be at the first place and second most important thing should be quality.

]]> By: Dave Zatz http://gigaom.com/video/weekend-question-quality-vs-convenience/#comment-469432 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:44:20 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=20155#comment-469432 IF I didn’t have other high-def options, I’d make do with SD. But Amazon is competing with cable VOD, Xbox 360, PS3, Vudu, AppleTV who all offer HD titles… My main problem has been that many TiVo-encoded Amazon SD titles don’t look very good – both letterboxed and pillarboxed with stutters with camera pans.

The goood news is that multiple sources are now confirming for me Amazon VOD in HD is currently in testing on TiVo.

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