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I find terms such as “broadband” and “high definition” that need to be updated every so often to be incredibly useless. Numbers and units exist for a reason. I
by Blikkentrekker 6y ago
I find terms such as “broadband” and “high definition” that need to be updated every so often to be incredibly useless.
Numbers and units exist for a reason. If one wish to speak of 100 Mib/s, then one should simply do so. — that way, I, and everyone else, knows exactly what is going on.
- Arrath 6y agoI ran into this on a government contract that wanted videos of certain things submitted in, per specification, "high definition digital video" okay 1080/60 it is. Oh, no that's too big for them to email to their antiquated consultants, turns out they want 15MiB max video clips. Well to do that I had to step down to 720/30. Which they then complained wasn't clear enough for their uses. Three rounds of RFI later I'm back as square one, they've defined HD as 1080/60 and they say they'll figure out how to distribute the clips. Just annoying as all get out when they could have started with clear language (numbers) to begin with.