7、"The video camera provides such an accurate and convincing record of contemporary life that it has become a more important form of documentation than written records."
The speaker tends to assert that video capture could be a replacement for traditional written record. Albeit the latest information technology does provide many alternatives for recording, such as speech recognition, scanner and digital camera, all which have their own pros and cons. Thus, it does not exist a choice could be nominated as ultimate option or perfect solution.
The common view is, with the rapid development of information technology, general users have more high efficient ways to do recording than ever before. Look back upon the years of hand writing, a famous classical literature work– The Story of The Stone – need a person to transcribe for months, if in traditional Chinese characters. We indeed need to thanks such as video camera devices that could let users record events with no hassle, no matter you are a professional or not, of which designer provide the best user experience for them to start instantly. Furthermore, video record could also give us some special perspective of views which traditional way could not provide, such as nonlinear edit, that make us to alter the sequences of the event in other ways become possible.
Even by using video camera could present stunning effect to let audiences have more direct cognition it does not mean motion pictures do not bring other issues compare with writing records. Storage is one of problems that cannot be overlooked as the resolution of the single frame increase, especially most of the digital camera are in HD phase today. Even though computer graphic depression technology, such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, have many ways to remove redundant data for sequential frames that are time based and within a single frame space based, it is still make users headache when searching specific information within large scale video file, because the technology at current phase still cannot give the video data proper index for basic element that understand by the way of human being, though as computer vision and pattern recognition development, such index issue could be fixed in the future.