On 5 Jan 2003 12:58:03 -0800, garamand@yahoo.com (Big G) wrote:

>One of the features of the PC9 is that you can record MPEGs to the

>memory stick which can be downloaded to the PC using USB. Nice idea.

>But when I do this the quality of the MPEG is pretty poor - so bad it

>seems pointless to me. I was hoping for something better. Is this

>just a limitation of the technology or is there something I can do to

>improve quality. Cheers.

It is a limitation of the technology and of the very much

reduced file sizes (to make them practical for email or

web use - and then the limit is about 4 seconds for reasonable

dial-up service download time). These videos were never

intended to be of high quality... (BTW, there is a test

video at www.visitithaca.com, "More", "A Question for You",

"Video", to see if we wanted to add short video clips to

this web page - it was shot with the PC9, and takes quite

a few seconds to download with a 56k modem...)