Multimedia that are wrong

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

I'm sitting in multimedia class right now, and I can't believe the amount of wrong information we are being fed.

Heres a few things that are on the handouts.

1. Apparently shrinking a large picture (image size not file size) doesnt damage the quality no matter how small you make it.

2. Apparently LCD screens dont hurt your eyes, even at low refresh rates (the point being, to my knowledge, LCD screens don't refresh, the image is static as its produced in a different manner than CRT)

3. Apparently a CPU ranging from 800MHz to 2GHz can handle intensive VIRTUAL REALITY

4. DV is now apparently Lossless!! *slaps cheek, open mouthed * well I'll be!

5. Camcorders produce digital signals. Camcorders. What??

Heres what I think.

1. Shrinking a picture will damage it badly because of pixel compression and deletion (not sure if thats exactly what its called, but you get the idea)

2. LCD screens dont refresh like CRT screens do.

3. Virtual Reality requires MASS POWER, not a 2GHz home PC

4. It looks lossy to me, and I think you's will agree.

5. Camcorders record on tape. Tape is magnetic. Magnetic is analogue. DV Cameras are Digital, not Camcorders. End of story.

Honestly, I'm paying these people good money to get my credentials for later in life, and they're feeding me wrong information! And I get laughed at for speaking up and setting them right, I also get told to shut up and stop being a "computer einstein". So for the sake of brevity, for the sake of ease and saving time, the TAFE Information Technology dept is willing to cut corners and tell us falsified details about a VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT. I'm just waiting to get failed on something I know is right so I can go to the QLD Education Dept and get the tafe a series of $6000 up-front fines.

Has anybody else had/is having experiences like this before? What did you do about it?

[fyrtenheimer]

Where the hell do you live?!

[fyrtenheimer]

Oh, to answer your question.

I paid 15k for a private coll that was supposed to be awesome. Ppl warned me though, I just didn't take the hint. Like your class, mine were all like that. It ended up getting depressing and my grades were kinda shitty. And now they're raising tuition? No, besides, any money I had they handled shitty. I could really go on for a while about how dumb this place is. So I left. I'm going to a different college this next year.
Let's just hope that my luck is better.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

Its really fucking annoying, isnt it? Oh, and I just noticed, there should be a "Lecturers" in my thread subject title.

Well, I'm taking Cert 2, 3, 4 and a diploma of IT so I can go into multimedia but there is a module that does go fairly deep into it, and thats what I'm in at this very moment. Can't wait to get out of here and take a proper Multimedia course.

[kthulhu]

Has anybody else had/is having experiences like this before? What did you do about it?

It's called gasoline. You figure out the rest.

As for virtual reality, The graphics and physics aren't the big problem. The bigger issue is interfacing and feedback. For instance, walking around is a hard thing to figure out because, while you have unlimited space in the virtual world, there's only so much physical space near the VR rig.

Figure out the interface and feedback, and the processing power WILL be there.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

Where the hell do you live?!

And to answer your question, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

[trythil]

2. Apparently LCD screens dont hurt your eyes, even at low refresh rates (the point being, to my knowledge, LCD screens don't refresh, the image is static as its produced in a different manner than CRT)

They don't refresh like a CRT, but they're treated like a CRT because all the software is written for CRTs, and why fix what works?

Hence: what the handout said is technically correct, if misleading.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

2. Apparently LCD screens dont hurt your eyes, even at low refresh rates (the point being, to my knowledge, LCD screens don't refresh, the image is static as its produced in a different manner than CRT)

They don't refresh like a CRT, but they're treated like a CRT because all the software is written for CRTs, and why fix what works?

Hence: what the handout said is technically correct, if misleading.

Yes but the handout says SPECIFICALLY that LCD doesnt hurt your eyes EVEN AT A LOW REFRESH RATE! The point I was trying to make is, the lesser informed in the class are gonna walk around not knowing WHY that is, assuming that LCD refreshes because thats what we were told, when it would have been easier to say on the h'out/lecture that LCD does not refresh, therefore it doesnt have an eye-strain factor. I wasnt talking about software, I was talking about HARDWARE.

[trythil]

Yes but the handout says SPECIFICALLY that LCD doesnt hurt your eyes EVEN AT A LOW REFRESH RATE! The point I was trying to make is, the lesser informed in the class are gonna walk around not knowing WHY that is, assuming that LCD refreshes because thats what we were told, when it would have been easier to say on the h'out/lecture that LCD does not refresh, therefore it doesnt have an eye-strain factor. I wasnt talking about software, I was talking about HARDWARE.

Meh. Their loss.

Besides, if they were to say that LCDs don't refresh in the same way that CRTs do, somebody would have to ask "why do I have this refresh rate setting in Display Settings?" (I'm typing this up on my laptop, and it's right there.) Then you'd have to bog yourself down in explaining the hardware differences and so forth.

So maybe it's better to live a lie, especially when everyone lives that lie anyway

[dokidoki]

So maybe it's better to live a lie, especially when everyone lives that lie anyway

The Matrix is telling me my next video doesn't suck...

...that lying piece of crap.