www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
On 16/11/2010 20:10, dennis@home wrote:


My other guess is that digital media will speed up through improved
compression techniques and technology requiring LESS bandwidth than is
currently needed. Certainly in a domestic capacity at least.
I doubt that, the current compression technology chucks stuff away and
degrades the image.
Compressing more will result in an even worse image.

But in the same way is it was "impossible" to increase the capacity of a
DVD until technology allowed more data to be stored on different layers
of the same disc. Perhaps compression was the wrong term to use, what I
ment was some form of simultaneus data transfer like diferent "colour"
binary digits... Blue, Red, Green, 0s and 1s
sort of like combination between DVD layers and multiple frequencies
transmitted simultaneously....



Compression is all about reconstructing from the transmitted data what
you EXPECT to be there.
If the data is full of the unexpected, like sports, it wont compress too
well.

However apart from camera cutaways, one video frame is very like
another, so delta techniques work well. The downside is that it
necessarily introduces delays..


Hover all that's pretty pointless worrying about as there is no life
beyond December 2012 anyway so worry about the now and don't waste time
worrying about the what-if?s
Can you donate all your goods to me on at the end of 2012 then as you
wont be needing them.

Look me up in January 2013 and I'll see what we have left that hasn't
been melted by excessive rediation.
;¬)


Rediation?

Nivver erd of that guv!

your life will come to an end at the wrong end of a baseball bat wielded
by a starving thug who has already finished looting Tescos, and now
wants the contents of you fridge.