The biggest changes in modern times aren't that we can record in higher quality than the recent past so much as (a) we've given that higher recording ability to relatively cheap handheld devices that most people are carrying around with them and (b) the typical bandwidth required for uploading / streaming high quality content is available to most people sitting at home. So it makes sense encoding and uploading/streaming your video in a high quality format. (Of course, higher quality and better encoding methods have appeared too. But this is why we're used to seeing high quality video / clips compared with even the recent past. In that recent past it would have been possible to film and play a high quality video, but you'd have needed a more expensive camera and/or you wouldn't have been able to stream it on the typical home internet - so people creating video encoded it at a low bit rate even if they had a good original)
This conference talk is very interesting but it would have been more interesting if we were able to see what he's showing on the screen.
The slides link seems to have been broken by Microsoft.
Very enjoyable to watch and great explanation, but how is this 2007 haha? Looks more like 1987
It's not even because the video quality. It's the sweater :D
The biggest changes in modern times aren't that we can record in higher quality than the recent past so much as (a) we've given that higher recording ability to relatively cheap handheld devices that most people are carrying around with them and (b) the typical bandwidth required for uploading / streaming high quality content is available to most people sitting at home. So it makes sense encoding and uploading/streaming your video in a high quality format. (Of course, higher quality and better encoding methods have appeared too. But this is why we're used to seeing high quality video / clips compared with even the recent past. In that recent past it would have been possible to film and play a high quality video, but you'd have needed a more expensive camera and/or you wouldn't have been able to stream it on the typical home internet - so people creating video encoded it at a low bit rate even if they had a good original)
why the screen is never shown?
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such a good explanation !!