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  <title>Comments for Looking at Video</title>
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    <id>tag:www.dashes.com,2007:/anil//1.6652</id>
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    <published>2007-01-18T19:14:30Z</published>
    <updated>2007-01-18T19:16:00Z</updated>
    <title>Looking at Video</title>
    <summary>Mike at Techdirt (that&apos;s the popular tech news blog which actually deserves its popularity) mentions that Sony is now rewriting history, trying to take credit...</summary>
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      <name>Anil</name>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Mike at Techdirt (that's the popular tech news blog which actually <em>deserves</em> its popularity) mentions that <a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20070117/104753.shtml">Sony is now rewriting history</a>, trying to take credit for the success and popularity of the <span class="caps">DVD </span>format.</p>

<p>I almost admire the chutzpah -- when people ask what I do for a living, I sometimes say that I look for a parade of bloggers, and then try to get in front of the parade and pretend I was leading it. I keed! I keed!</p>

<p>Meanwhile, <a href="http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/01/03/the_future_of_television_and_the_media_triathlon.php'">Clay Shirky was teliing the truth, too</a>. His point may have been too subtle, buried as it was in plain English at the top of his post:</p>

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<p>Mark Cuban doesnâ€™t understand television. He holds a belief, common to connoisseurs the world over, that quality trumps everything else. The current object of his faith in QualitÃ¤t Ãœber Alles is <span class="caps">HDTV.</span></p>

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<p>Hmm, quality (in terms of resolution) isn't always that important. See also "<a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/01/16/cranky_geeks_fr">I like the crappy videos</a>" and, somewhat more broadly, <a href="http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/002177.html">Jay's long-running skepticism</a> about freestyling being "superior" to written rhymes.</p>]]>
      
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    <id>tag:www.dashes.com,2007:/anil//1.6652-comment:123410</id>
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    <title>Comment from Robert on 2007-01-20</title>
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        <name>Robert</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>re; the quality question. You don't have to go any further than the iPod to see how Quality comes second. I love my MP3 player but you just have to plug it into a real amplifier and speakers to hear how bad it really is.   And those stylish earbuds are the worst.  Does anyone care - not on your life.</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-01-20T23:49:54Z</published>
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    <id>tag:www.dashes.com,2007:/anil//1.6652-comment:129724</id>
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    <title>Comment from Jeff Atwood on 2007-01-31</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Er, how about YouTube? Quality is job #8,601 there, and it doesn't matter a whit.</p>

<p>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000755.html</p>

<p>And I'd argue that's exactly as it should be.</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-02-01T03:36:58Z</published>
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