Charles Wiltgen wrote:
> Metadata standards are a Good Thing, but the lack of standards hasn't
> prevented anyone from doing searchable video databases of Salsa moves.
> After all, it's been possible to do this since you could hook a Mac Plus
> up to videodisc player. It's just that nobody** cares.
Didn't Harry ask for a more individual search with somehow 'quality' parameters?
> **Meaning "not enough people to recoup the investment it would take to
> create such a thing".
That's an argument which _the market_ tries to make it common standard. Still there's no
general relationship between supply and demand. Back to the 'Model T' comparison: The
gas cell (? Brennstoffzelle) is older than the combustion engine - nevertheless there is
almost none. The market wanted to suck most money with the combustion engine first -
besides all needs or demands. Back to Quicktime: It has no _reasonable_ user interface
to edit quicktime movies yet, though LSP had developed one. " It's just that nobody**
cares." ?
Harry, remember this Subject: Re: QT vs. Real vs. WM ?:
> The speed of tech development seems to prevent a development of
> neccessary intelligence in such software. It's still the point that software does not
really
> try to get known with me in a smart way. That's too much programming effort.
On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 16:05 PM, Harry Pasternak wrote:
> I think you hit the nail on the head - 'the point (is) that software
> does not really try to get known with me in a smart way'. Many web based 'business'
web sites definitely
> don't interact 'to get to know potential clients and existing clients in a smart way'.
It's obviously to me that software can't do a satisfying search for "More good movies
like this Salsa movie.". Human language just does not enable to DESCRIBE a movie with
important parameters. How would a database look like? Filled with what data? A "Good
movie" is - like quality - always a matter of taste.
Additionally I still do believe that technical development prevents afford in content or
communication progress simply by keeping the focus on questions like "How can I handle
the technolgy to make it work?" With a global standard for movies, i.e. Quicktime, we
still will would have browser, platform and operating system issues. For now a quality
search would be much simplier to do with books ...
As long it's not possible to search for quality parameters in books there is no way to
enable this for movies. The print process for words is older and simplier, though this
facts didn't encrease content quality or its classification in the same way like the
amount of published words. An Amazon search for a book "same good as my Salsa book"
still seems to be absurd to me, though there is a section at Amazon which pretents to
supply it: "You may also like".
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