I am now wondering just how much of a threat online video really is to Hollywood movies and television studios and whatnot. Yesterday, I got put on very sudden house-sitting duty as a friend of mine needed to leave and someone had to hang around her place to let an electrician in.
Well, as compensation, I got play around with a computer with a giant 20-something inch flat screen monitor and I figured I’d pass the time by watching videos on something that isn’t my little laptop. So, I load up some video and hit the full-screen button expecting this to look better than on my old TV.
Um, no. Stretching it out over that much screen space, all I could see what how grainy pixilated they were. Yuck.
It seems pretty far off from replacing going to a movie theatre or even renting something to watch on a proper TV since even the decades old television sets I usually use look better than this. Watching video in a tiny box is fine for clips or cats doing amusing things of babies laughing, but for anything else? Until we get proper broadband in North America so it’s possible to stream files big enough to hold all the detail, this isn’t a very good distribution method and I can’t imagine enough people are preferring grainy pirated videos to the real thing to be putting that big of a dent in revenues…
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