User Generated Video: It is Big & Crisp in Japan
Compared to Japanese mobile services, cellular services in U.S. simply suck. Soon you may say the same about U.S.-based video sharing sites. YouTube has all the traffic, but the video quality is not anything to write home about.
Not so in Japan, where the Sony eyeVio project, a user-generated video sharing site, has just launched a “eyeVio High Quality Video” where the video screen size supports “near DVD quality” resolution (640 x 368 at 16:9 and 480 x 360 at 4:3) screen sizes. The bit rate of videos is 1.5Mbps. All users of the site can upload videos and chose to have them in this new resolution. You can find examples of the new video size here.
There is a direct correlation in the quality (and quantity of digital content consumed) and the speed of your connections. And that is precisely the reason why Japan (and other countries) might start pushing the video quality envelope, because of the easy availability of super broadband (in some places as fast as 100 megabits per second) over fiber connections.
Higher speeds, both for download and uploads, make it easier to play around with bigger files. Higher quality files, say like the ones on eyeVio, take a long time to upload on U.S.-speed broadband connections, but at over 50 megabits per second, the files are transferred in a blink of an eye. In Japan, some broadband service providers are boosting the upload speeds as well.
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As an original content producer, I am very eager to see this come to the U.S. We need to get this up and running. My cooking show is put together with a lot of planing and dedicaton, yet the only choice I have for distribution , are all Behind the times in technology. I pay for a high speed connection, and for web surfing, it’s top notch. However, for all my efforts to be seen in a blur and sometimes uneven audio is…disappointing. I do all I can to assure greater video quality. Now it’s time for all these communication leaders to step out of the dark ages and deliver that kick-ass service we were all promised.
coldhitz on September 23rd, 2007 at 11:52 am - Permalink