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Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:20:44 +1000
From: amiles-AT-netspace.net.au (Adrian Miles)
Subject: Re: Focus of the List


Alan wrote:

>Quickly in response to Adrian (I just got in), I don't identify video
>necessarily with a small screen, any more than I identify film with the
>silent era. As far as the differences are concerned, budget, image
>manipulation and processing, wholesale color phasing, etc. are just some
>of them. It's not video "trying" to become anything; it's video. And it's
>not a question of whether they're wanting to be like each other - etc. -
>they're media and they _are_ converging, and I expect video in say two
>decades at the most to replace film; at the moment it's largely a
>question of knee circuitry (contrast) and resolution, and these are
>temporary. Spy satellites use 10,000 line screens, almost an order of
>resolution above a 35mm slide, or so I've been told.

I certainly don't want to take a contrary view to this, but I would like to
be able to provoke this a bit. Presumably if there is this convergence,
actual possible or potential, then is there some similarity of concern,
function or use (sorry about the lists) between these two things.

I guess this is a question that presupposes some idea of their being a
specificity to each medium, and that if this convergence is literally a
convergence (rather than say a mutation of one into another) then is there
a specificity here that they share? What might it be? Is it a desire to
represent (with the appropriate caution around that word) that they both
share or is it simply light and shade that moves? Is it their common base
as temporal representative media that allows or produces this? Any ideas?

Adrian Miles

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