Live vs Prerecorded media
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:08 pm
Is there really any difference between live and prerecorded content if the communication is only one direction? Even what we're calling "Live" has a delay in it - often quite a bit more than you might suspect. Next general conference, try loading up the audio feed on two different computers to see just how far out of sync it is.
I can understand people's desire for "live" vs "prerecorded" but a certain amount of that might be based around us allowing ourselves to think of it the same as being there watching it when it really isn't. Any sort of media encoding that has a encoding/decoding time gap large enough to be easily noticeable by a human all pretty much seems "prerecorded" to me. I tend to think of all this "prerecorded" media pretty much the same when I'm viewing it with the exception of things that require a participation on my part that goes beyond simply digesting the media (prayer is a good example).
Answering what should be live (and possibly what constitutes "live") and what is suitable for prerecorded would go a long way towards helping to determine appropriate technical solutions to the various communication issues that are faced. Is anyone aware of any Church policy on this issue?
This prerecorded media issue becomes an ancient issue if we consider what King Benjamin faced trying to talk to the people from his tower.
I can understand people's desire for "live" vs "prerecorded" but a certain amount of that might be based around us allowing ourselves to think of it the same as being there watching it when it really isn't. Any sort of media encoding that has a encoding/decoding time gap large enough to be easily noticeable by a human all pretty much seems "prerecorded" to me. I tend to think of all this "prerecorded" media pretty much the same when I'm viewing it with the exception of things that require a participation on my part that goes beyond simply digesting the media (prayer is a good example).
Answering what should be live (and possibly what constitutes "live") and what is suitable for prerecorded would go a long way towards helping to determine appropriate technical solutions to the various communication issues that are faced. Is anyone aware of any Church policy on this issue?
This prerecorded media issue becomes an ancient issue if we consider what King Benjamin faced trying to talk to the people from his tower.