The New Venue advances the definition of what film on the Internet can be by showcasing films produced for a new medium. This site, one of the channels on QuickTime TV , offers a weekly highlight of films that push the technical or esthetic limitations of film on the web. The Internet imposes creative restraints in the same way the sonnet or haiku form does in poetry.
Pieces have to be optimized for the Internet.
Like Cheever, Wishnow prefers QuickTime as The New Venue's distribution format. What I liked was the quality of QuickTime, knowing that the final product will look the same on someone else's computer, anywhere in the world, as it does on the filmmaker's own computer. It's the most unbelievable tool for digital media authoring and production, but it's also totally connected to netcasting and distributing media over the Internet. We recognize the preference for one shade of white over another, for instance. That's one of the things that led to the choice of QuickTime as a playback medium.