Video Quality Matters Less If You Enjoy the Show 366
An anonymous reader writes "Rice University researchers say new studies show that if you like what you're watching, you're less likely to notice the difference in video quality of the TV show, Internet video or mobile movie clip, putting a lie to some of the more extravagant marketing claims of electronics manufacturers. 'If you're at home watching and enjoying a movie, we found that you're probably not going to notice or even concern yourself with how many pixels the video is or if the data is being compressed,' said the lead researcher. 'This strong relationship holds across a wide range of encoding levels and movie content when that content is viewed under longer and more naturalistic viewing conditions.'"
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
PS/3 (Score:5, Funny)
My Playstation 3 came with a copy of the first BlueRay video I'd seen at the time: the latest Spider Man movie.
It's like Sony was trying to turn people off to BlueRay.
Confirmed by 80s teens. (Score:5, Funny)
Ah scrambled porn. Waiting through 5 minutes of snow for one elliptical, green boob.
Re:Confirmed by 80s teens. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The xkcd Principle (Score:5, Funny)
And it always has something appropriate: http://www.xkcd.com/732/ [xkcd.com]
Re:In other news (Score:1, Funny)
That's ok, I don't mind if your politically correct reflex kicks in as long as your gag reflex doesn't.
Re:Confirmed by 80s teens. (Score:3, Funny)
Well duh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good Stories = Good Viewing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Confirmed by 80s teens. (Score:4, Funny)
Damnit, where the hell are my mod points??
Working against you, apparently.
Re:In other news (Score:2, Funny)
When you are getting plenty of it, you don't pay attention to it.
Boy, you must be great in bed.
Re:In other news (Score:5, Funny)
If sex is the second most overrated thing, what's the most overrated thing, then?
Farmville.
Re:In other news (Score:3, Funny)
If you're having it, you know that it's really not that special after all. Honestly, sex is the second most overrated thing in our cultural landscape.
Sex is like oxygen. When you're not getting it, nothing else matters. When you are getting plenty of it, you don't pay attention to it.
Your analogy has a flaw in that if you'd have as much oxygen as you'd like to have sex, you'd die.
Re:Applicable to games? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Confirmed by 80s teens. (Score:5, Funny)
Shame they never made sequels. It had promise.
Re:Well duh (Score:5, Funny)
They made a reality show about Star Trek: DS9?
Re:In other news (Score:3, Funny)
Just like I want great looks and and great sex from a girl.
I've always just wanted a living, human female.
But hey, 2 out of 3 aint bad right?