lution sufficient //
Robert Johnson is regarded as the king or the Delta Blues. His small output was brilliant. Another, more important reason is that the recording of his brief life are some of the oldest that still sound good… Most audio recordings before 1936 sound old and scratchy.
The Wizard of Oz remains one of the most popular movies that people watch. The production values in 1939 are still good enough today to feel professional. Movies from just a few short years ago are now dated, jumpy relics.
A first edition Agatha Christie novel can be read with ease, but an old book is not read the same.
Today, no one wants to look at websites built with Geocities and pages created in Prodigy. A blog such as this is still readable, and it’s design is almost a decade old.
Future advances are nice but not necessary when a medium reaches a sufficient resolution. Once an industry understands this, it will begin to reduce its investment in resolution. It’s hard to know if a resolution is adequate until it has happened.
We’re finding a lot of content right here and now that has a high resolution. This will lock in new forms and cultures of interaction for many years to come.
