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February 5, 2006

Why I don't bother with video-for-iPod. Yet.

Brian Tiemann thinks out loud about video:

I think that with regard to videos and movies, we are today about where we were in 1996 with respect to music.

Remember 1996? MP3s were becoming quite popular, and the reason for it was that you could finally afford big hard drives (a gigabyte or more) that you could use to store significant numbers of them, and the Internet (especially on college campuses with T3 lines and in-room Ethernet jacks) was fast enough that people could transfer 5MB files around without much hesitation.

Very interesting.

Posted by CrankyProfessor at February 5, 2006 10:34 PM