K-Factor vision of the future.

[Thomas C. Weedon]

Lee,
I think you have spotted one problem, that of the advertisers. If we have
mostly an on-line version, we would loose much of our advertising revenue.
Tom
  -----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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