K-Factor vision of the future.

[David Harmon]

Wade...please don't make me turn off my pop-up-stopper!! hehe
    Dave

-----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 5:23 PM
To: Discussion rc NSRCA
Subject: Re: K-Factor vision of the future.


Lee,
I think web based advertising (mixed with conventional) would be even
more effective. Pop-ups, dynamic pictures, links to advertiser... the
web thrives on them.
Wade
 

----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Sweeney
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:54 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: K-Factor vision of the future.
 

I do not think the concept will be to actually download the K-Factor,
but rather, to read it on-line, similar to the way

many Magazine publications are today.      

 

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
On Behalf Of Lee Davis
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:51 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: K-Factor vision of the future.

 

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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