Should I get over my prejudice/ignorance/snobbery for WAV and change to mp3?

[MrPopinjay]

Good post, well said.

[ekwipt]

No, it doesn't. It wants to be cheap (in terms of bandwidth, media, and storage costs) just like audio. 1080p HD is lower resolution than the CRT that came with my dell in 1999. It's about 2 MP. It takes ~30MP to even come close to color still 35mm film. The film that movies are shot in and finished on (when they're using film) is often times larger than that.

So, no, video is not concerned with high quality. That's one thing where the analog formats just can hold more information. It's more expensive. It's a lot harder to work with. And the technology has existed to go back and forth between analog and digital formats for a while. But when it comes down to reproduction, HD video is worse than the technology that existed 13 years ago. And it all sucks compared to film.

What are you talking about? 1080p has nothing to do with CRT, one is resolution and the other is the type of TV.

Most CRT is based on SD resolution which is 540i there's less information.

CRT did have better colour gamut, low black levels and high contrast, but it has been superseded by LED technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube

Have a look at consumer video cameras they're now shooting 1080p and 3D

Have a look at higher end, we're going towards 2k and 4k viewing in the cinemas in the future.

Even photography is going higher MP

WAV and AIFF should be the minimum for DJs

Let the iPods have their low audio standards, we should be pushing them

[deevey]

I think it's ridiculous that some stores charge more for lossless formats...

Bandwidth Costs a lot more for a lossless file - simple really.

Personally I can understand completely why they charge more, I researched building a site hosting DJ mixes / tracks as just MP3 files even and the bandwidth costs via S3 or similar high speed service were astronomical when I ran the numbers even on a pretty small user base.

[mostapha]

What are you talking about? 1080p has nothing to do with CRT, one is resolution and the other is the type of TV.

Most CRT is based on SD resolution which is 540i there's less information.

CRT did have better colour gamut, low black levels and high contrast, but it has been superseded by LED technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube

Have a look at consumer video cameras they're now shooting 1080p and 3D

Have a look at higher end, we're going towards 2k and 4k viewing in the cinemas in the future.

Even photography is going higher MP

WAV and AIFF should be the minimum for DJs

Let the iPods have their low audio standards, we should be pushing them

You know literally nothing about what you're saying. I was there. I set my monitor's resolution higher than I've seen any consumer LCD go. I am a photographer. I'm dating a girl who actually works in TV. I appreciate a legitimate dynamic range in my screen, and I like the color black. I'm not big on LCDs, but I've made my peace with them. HD video is something I'll never pay for.

HD video is the mp3 of the video world. It fucking blows, but it's marginally better than the cable tv we grew up with, so we're happy to have it.

The only difference is that video files at 30MP/frame and 24 frames/sec are legitimately too big to stream over the Internet. FLAC isn't.

[ekwipt]

That's great that your girlfriend works in TV.

What does she do?

[ekwipt]

Just because the monitors resolution was set higher doesn't mean there was more information coming into it?

So you had movies at higher resolution than 1080p playing on your 19" CRT Dell computer monitor 10 years ago???

LOL

[mostapha]

Rendered graphics.

[sarasin]

Guys.....your 'nerd' is showing.....

[Jack Bastard]

Just because the monitors resolution was set higher doesn't mean there was more information coming into it?

So you had movies at higher resolution than 1080p playing on your 19" CRT Dell computer monitor 10 years ago???

LOL

He's obviously not saying that, what he's saying is that in 1999 he had a monitor with a higher resolution than 1080p (true) and that his computer was outputting at that resolution (true). 1080p is actually a pretty backwards step comparing it to what old high end CRT tubes were capable of.

[ekwipt]

I get what we're all trying to say but we talking about file formats not what they are being played on?

We're going way off topic. But it's like me saying were going backwards in technology because we can use FLAC as an audio compression.

Its like someone says FLAC doesn't sound as good a my valve amp I had in 1984.

No it doesn't because it's not the same frickin thing?