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Originally Posted by Dude111
Yes its stupid....... WHY DONT THEY MAKE IT RIGHT?? (Or dont do it at all)
Why produce garbage??
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It is likely almost impossible to 'make it right'.
Take NTSC video tape time code for instance. It is based on video frame rate which is 59.9---Hz. The only economically feasible way to implement the time code is to count 60 frames and call it 1 second when it is actually 1.00167 seconds this may not seem to matter, but over the run time of long program it can be maddening for the crew of a TV station that may be required to run x minutes of commercials at an exact time, or make sure that a movie that time code says is 120 minutes actually takes exactly that long and does not interrupt the news afterwards or run short and leave a worrying blank between it and the next show.
There is no hard and fast way to fix that as there is also no hard and fast way to fix the problem that film runs at a different speed than later TV systems. IT IS A BIG OLD WORLD, AND DIFFERENT PLACES CREATED A WIDE VARIETY OF DIFFERENT WAYS TO RECORD AND PLAYBACK IMAGES USUALLY (sometimes intentionally) WITHOUT REGARD TO COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER SYSTEMS MADE BEFORE OR LIKELY TO COME IN THE FUTURE.
WE COULD MAKE A UNIVERSAL FORMAT THAT ALL NEW MATERIAL WOULD BE CREATED IN, BUT IT WOULD NOT HELP! SINCE THERE IS NO WAY TO MAKE ALL THE OLD FORMATS PLAY EXACTLY AS ORIGINALLY INTENDED ON A SINGLE DEVICE WITHOUT SOME TRADEOFFS IN QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, SPEED AND ASPECT RATIO....UNLESS SOMEONE GOES BACK IN TIME AND RE-FILMS/RE-RECORDS EVERY RECORDING EVER MADE IN A MODERN UNIVERSAL FORMAT.
Since people want to see as much content (of various formats) as they can, as cheaply as they can, and in the best quality (the last two are in direct conflict with each other) engineers work hard TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST TRADEOFFS AVAILABLE (for all concerns) to make it so people CAN EVEN GET the content AT ALL.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE TRADE OFFS ENGINEERS HAVE TO MAKE TO GET YOU YOUR SHOWS THEN GO TO COLLEGE, BECOME AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, AND TRY TO FIND A BETTER WAY TO DO WHAT WE HAVE DONE (there is money in it for you if you do)! AND DON'T BLAME ME IF PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING INSIDE THE DEVICE YOU MADE COMPLAIN ABOUT IT NOT BEING SOME MAGICAL IDEAL DEVICE. If you KNEW the full complexity of the requirements for just the processes you deem unsatisfactory, and were asked to create that process from scratch could you honestly do better without introducing new problems that others would not find worse than what you are complaining about?
PERFECTION IS IMPOSSIBLE! NOTHING IS PERFECT, NOT EVEN ANALOG! IT HAS AT LEAST AS MANY ISSUES AS DIGITAL...The APPLICATION, and COST determines the merit of either process.
Please do not assume any anger in the above post, because there was none...Just me making a point emphatically.