Just stating a fact. Their image quality looks bad.
Depends what you want. For a lot of things that may not matter... for
me as a viewer I'm not really all that hung up on quality -- I'm
always more interested in immediacy (content almost always trumps
image quality for me). Especially if you're talking about user created
content. You're not likely going to get high quality footage on the
input, so why try for it on the ouptut... compress the hell out of it
too. If you are going to serve to a large audience then heavy duty
compression is probably necessary.
But in terms of audience... I would counter that Rocketboom gets a
substantial regular audience (probably more so in frequency and return
visits than any single vid in the MySpace/YouTube universe).
Rocketboom is able to build a relationship with viewers through an
experience that is entirely their own. They have great image quality
(and getting better), and have always produced their content in a way
that promotes their brand without being forced to promote other brands
in the process. That is creative control even if they are syndicating
the video, allowing free downloads with no DRM.
When I look through the eyes of a creator, the most important thing to
me is freedom and I'm not sure how much of that I see in MySpace,
YouTube, or many other similar sites...
Then again, a lot of people probably don't care that much about
creative control or their own freedom.
-Josh
On 3/2/06, robert a/k/a r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and mp3 doesn't sound anywhere near as good a vinyl on a linn.
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> >> Based on viewing the other videos on the site, I'd say that means the
> >> host is encoding my video into Flash.
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> > And based on that same viewing experience, their encoding looks really
> > terrible.
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> > -josh
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