Saturday, April 20, 2002
Hit me baby, one more time
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 11:39 PM
Time for a little late-night venting. I was doing some 802.11b testing, and went to the Windows Media Mobile site - there was this video entitled "Britney 2032" that I just had to click on. Here's a snapshot of the video stream I watched:
Anyone have any clue what the heck that image is? I didn't either. I had to go to the real web site to watch the video. Reality check for everyone offering multimedia content: people with 56K modems can accept the fact that they can't stream decent video, so offer the rest of us something better! There's no speed options for the video on the Windows Media Mobile site, so it's 56K video streams for us all. Whee. :-( Let's see here - we have CDPD at 19.2. Nope, that won't even play. GPRS is around, but a 56K video stream would choke and sputter on that too from what I've heard. What's left? 802.11b baby, and we can handle a REAL stream. Give us some options would ya?
By the way, the video is hilarious - especially the out takes - check it out...on your desktop PC that is.
Anyone have any clue what the heck that image is? I didn't either. I had to go to the real web site to watch the video. Reality check for everyone offering multimedia content: people with 56K modems can accept the fact that they can't stream decent video, so offer the rest of us something better! There's no speed options for the video on the Windows Media Mobile site, so it's 56K video streams for us all. Whee. :-( Let's see here - we have CDPD at 19.2. Nope, that won't even play. GPRS is around, but a 56K video stream would choke and sputter on that too from what I've heard. What's left? 802.11b baby, and we can handle a REAL stream. Give us some options would ya?
By the way, the video is hilarious - especially the out takes - check it out...on your desktop PC that is.
