K-Factor vision of the future.

[Lee Davis]

Yes, this is an issue I haven't seen mentioned that needs consideration.

I did some experimenting with pdf files and the typical page, done in
grayscale, will come in somewhere around 100KB per page.  Full page ads,
around 150KB/page.  This is best case scenario.  Pics and other graphics
will look OK on screen but print poorly.  For print quality pdf files
(300dpi) the size goes way up, 1MB - 2MB per page.  Publish in color and the
file sizes increase more.

The issues I question are:
1) How many people who opt for the online version will actually bother to
download?  Broadband internet connections are still in the minority - most
people are still 56Kb dial-up.
2) What are advertisers going to think about this and how important is
advertising to the K-Factor budget?  As an advertiser, I'm skeptical.

Lee Davis
Piedmont Models
http://www.piedmontmodels.com/

  -----Original Message-----
  From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On
Behalf Of Wade & Barbara Akle
  Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 8:34 AM
  To: Discussion rc NSRCA
  Subject: Re: K-Factor vision of the future.


  I may have missed somebody mentioning the excessive size of the present
k=factor downloads of 5-7 Mbps (:<
  I have great admiration for our web-site team and thank them for it al the
time. And, I am for having the k-factor delivered on the web.

  One question is how come I get to download in pdf format all kind of
manuals and pages of information larger than the k-factor in a reasonable
time and yet have avoided the k-factor because of the time it takes??

  Until the download time on a 56 kbps phone line gets down to less than a
minute or two, we have a losing proposition, leaving a lot of us without the
k-factor.
  Wade
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