You can only download 500MB of video from Vimeo per week? Seriously? Using the article’s example of a 1GB video being 6 minutes long because it is HD, that equates to only 3 minutes of video viewing per week. Surely something is amiss here. A standard double-layer DVD is 9GB, give or take. Let’s assume the main feature takes up about 6GB of that in pure audio/video data. Roughly speaking, it’ll be 2 hours long. That means each hour is 3GB, and therefore 500MB is 10 minutes. So for DVD-quality video, Vimeo allows you 10 minutes per week, if I understand things correctly. I’m less familiar with HD-DVD/Blu-Ray file sizes, but Wikipedia tells me that a double layer HD-DVD has about 30GB of data on it. So roughly this is 24GB for the main feature, or 2GB per 10 mins. For your 500MB you get 2.5 minutes. Not a whole lot… Yes, these are back-of-a-fag-packet calculations, and video data is (as the article points out) compressed for use on the web. But the more you compress, the more data you lose and the worse the picture quality, which defeats the point of HD. Maybe I’m missing the point, or maybe it was a typo in the article that should have read “upload” instead of “download”. I’d welcome some clarification. UPDATE: dalasverdugo has said that this refers to uploading, and that it was indeed a typo in the article. But I stand by my point that even for uploading, 500MB per week isn’t a huge amount. I know bandwidth and storage costs, but it’s a relatively low threshold. I guess Vimeo is intended to be for shorter clips rather than longer videos.Vimeo was reviewed in this article, bottom of the page.
Reblogged from: dalasverdugo
Originally posted on: Pseudolectual
