> > So... get off their backs please. > > I think Haze's point is well made. The entire point of this is quality; if we didn't > care about that we'd write something to convert all of the Daphne MPEG4 rips rather > than having all these people spending all this time and money.
Since the video as posted lacked any information about what they were trying to show, we were all left to deduce what the WIP actually was.
My guess is that it was intended as a demonstration of the ability to decode the full NTSC signal from raw signal data, including both audio and video with proper color. From that perspective, I was hugely impressed. It looked great and sounded clean (for non-deinterlaced NTSC).
Given my guess, the whole compression issue was a big "who cares?" to me. Seemed like a lot of unnecessary shade was thrown over something that wasn't particularly relevant to what I am guessing was being demo'ed.