[geeks] Whee! Lightning strikes, AGAIN!

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:18:42PM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:

> It WOULD have been great, if everyone involved would have been ok sending
> the compressed MPEG-2 and H.264 unencrypted bitstreams across it.  That's
> what I was envisioning.  Seems pretty silly to me that we're doing all the
> demuxing and decoding in each device necessitating all these
> high-bandwidth interconnects and switches for the decompressed streams.  I
> think everything would be better as a network of self-configuring
> transports and decoders, but my ideal is far different than the limited
> range of stuff we have in this reality.

I do not consider it to be great to not be able to play new codecs, such
as perhaps a JPEG2000 stream, nor do I consider it to be great to
require my computer to recompress to MPEG2 or H.264 before it can
display on a large display.