P3D Re: SW

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:17 PM 5/12/98 , you wrote:
> is really worthless.  
>> >
>> >Why?  Are the printed versions we're mailed worthless too?
>> 
>> The printed ones are of much higher resolution and image quality than
>> scanned images would be, unless the scanning resolution were so high that
>> only a few letters could be seen on the screen at a time.  Also, the images
>> on the printed pages are screened, and scanning screened images will
>> degrade the quality.
>
>So the text is inherently worthless, and it's only good for the
>pictures?  What magazine are we talking about here again, P******?  :-)

>From my point of view, reading large quantities of scanned text at screen
resolutions is worse than worthless ... it's likely to cause eye strain.
Your mileage may vary.

Anyway, I don't know why you're trying to put words into my mouth.  I never
said the content of Stereo World was worthless ... only that page scans of
that magazine would be worthless (to me).  For my part, I have fewer than a
dozen issues of SW, yet I would still find a simple scanned CD worthless.

-pd
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