Re: shell (cell phone rant)

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Wieder
stephen- Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:48:42 PM, you wrote: > To be fair, Skype's bandwidth (audio wise) sounds a lot better than 3k. We spent an hour and a half on a Skype video conversation halfway around the world with a friend in Germany yesterday with crystal-clear reception. My vision of th

Re: shell (cell phone rant)

2010-01-18 Thread stephen barncard
Which is my point. Between You Toob and MP3s and cell phones, the 'general public' is often only exposed to distorted (and disfigured) sound and video sources -- the 'dumbing down' of quality to where there is no quality reference available and so this noise ends up being what is considered 'accept

Re: shell (cell phone rant)

2010-01-18 Thread Mikey
It doesn't help that the phones sux0rz, either. I have two phones on my hip, and the new one, the expensive one, sounds like crap. Bluetooth headsets sound like crap. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God pu

Re: shell (cell phone rant)

2010-01-18 Thread stephen barncard
To be fair, Skype's bandwidth (audio wise) sounds a lot better than 3k. That's a value like the horrible cellphone audio bandwidth (which is far worse than POTS). Skype is MUCH better sounding than either. Most of the communication companies don't give a hoot about clarity or quality of the conver