Between the two articles this week, I had a more enjoyable time with e-flux. Maybe because I had an easier time relating to it and poor images.
"More affordable derivates of the same images circulate as DVDs, on broadcast television or online, as poor images."
Nearly anything is pirate-able on the internet in current times. Literally hours after a TV show airs, a person could go and search for it. There would be copies of it via torrent and streaming sites in every file size and type. The high resolution HD files will have great image quality, but never true to the original. The amount of true downloads only tells part of the story, because I'm sure the ripped and hacked videos or DVDs are sent around more than just once to the friends with a common interest and even not the case sometimes.
"Poor images are poor because they are not assigned any value within the class society of images--their status as illicit or degraded grants them exemption from its criteria. Their lack of resolution attests to their appropriation and displacement."
Having downloaded my share of movies and TV shows, I know first-hand that there is truth in this and that a show airing on TV will look better than me re-watching it on my computer. I may have found the highest resolution available, but it's not the same quality.
I suppose everything I own is a poor image by the standards set forth by the author of this article.
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