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12/4/18

Group 1 response to group 3

What is more important, quality or accessibility and affordability?

Quality of an image is just as important as the accessibility and affordability of that image. To watch a movie or see an image of low quality is to see a misrepresentation of that created media. When looking at movies of the past that were not digitally remastered compared to today, yes, the quality of today’s image is much better. However, this isn’t exactly what I mean by the quality of an image because even in old movies and pictures you still have a close enough representation to the real thing. You can still see what everything is, what a person looks like, what clothes they were wearing, what type of environment they were in, etc. It doesn’t have to be a perfect 4k image and if it is it should be charged for being so. Of course, the price of higher quality should be more expensive if it was harder to produce, it’s only fair to the creators of that content. But, I don’t have to watch everything on YouTube at 1080p, I’m perfectly fine with 720p or even 360p. There’s a clear difference, but does it matter? No because you still know what you’re looking at and understand what you’re seeing. Not to mention YouTube is free. In comes the question of “would the poor image stop you from consuming media?” Not necessarily and it depends what I’m paying for. For example, recently I bought the iPhone XR instead of the iPhone XS Max. Why? Because it’s cheaper. The build quality is slightly different using aluminum instead of stainless steel, there’s 1 GB less of RAM and the difference which most likely impacts the lower price drastically is the screen resolution. The screen resolution of the iPhone XR is 1,792 x 828 instead of 2436 x 1125. So, for this difference I got a phone that was $300 cheaper yet relatively the same. And the reason is “poorer” image quality. What people fail to realize is that it doesn’t make enough of a difference to the human eye for that much higher of a price tag. The phone works the same way, has the same OS and there are no limitations on either. Here is a situation where I don’t see the quality of the image as important as the affordability. However, in the case with pirated DVDs vs a stream or the movie theater. I would much rather pay the difference for the higher quality image because the difference is so drastic that it’s worth paying more so you can tell what’s going on. Humans have always associated with higher and bigger is better but sometimes less is more, in both your iPhone’s screen resolution and its price.