Posted by cwdjrxyz on 10/19/07 20:25

On Oct 19, 4:43 am, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article
> <1192785331.819120.60...@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
> Travis Newbury <TravisNewb...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 18, 10:05 pm, "Delli" <de...@belli.com> wrote:
> > > any opinions on bitrate for progressive DL movies and/or max file size for
> > > DU/BB connections?
>
> > You can have a disclaimer like: "I am sorry you have a hard time
> > watching this 4 meg movie. Please download out 5 meg Powerpoint that
> > explains the same thing..."
>
> > Dialup users and video do not get a long. Unless we have a specific
> > request we encode everything at 400k. Also if you switch to Flash
> > video you have much more control over what your user experiences.
>
> <geez>I was on dial up for years and years and I watched more
> trailers and short movies than I do now on fastish broadband.
> Using dialup is strictly for mature people who preferably use
> tabbed browsers, have more than one thing to do at any time of
> the day and have some bloody patience.I would download 18 MB
> trailers while out shopping or sleeping or eating or turning the
> compost heap over! I downloaded a 128MB update for an OS
> overnight. No problem.</geez>

If you think a 128 MB download on dialup is slow, just buy an
electronic download of Encyclopedia Britannica Deluxe or the Deluxe
Roxio Media Suite (just a bit under 1000 MB). You likely could take a
short vacation while Roxio downloaded on dialup :-). Of course you
would need a good UPS and and an isp that does not cut you off after a
number of hours - some do.

I like to think of 2 kinds of videos. The first type is used to
hopefully help sales of something or to decorate a page. In that case
it had better stream without much time to buffer. If the video is the
message itself, then someone may be willing to download it, even if it
requires many minutes or even more time. Examples might be a movie
purchase, a video of children for their grandparents, etc.

[Back to original message]