Viewfinder: A New Way
An opportunity is on the horizon for video creators. In just a few short years, the way we distribute or share our video has become easier and less costly. Tapes are expensive to mail, time-consuming to duplicate, cumbersome to handle and bulky to store. The DVD is more affordable to mail, quick to copy, elegant to handle and easy to store. But the Internet has presented us with a series of promises to make video distribution even cheaper and easier.
Since most ISPs limit the size of attachments, sending video files as e-mail attachments has not proven popular. Remember all the fuss about streaming video? This remains inferior to watching a show on a television. While watching TV, we press the channel button and within a second or two, the video appears. When we click on a Web page to start a streaming video, we wait a long time for a low-resolution i…
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