Write the HTML to insert a digital video file into your web page Lesson Blame it on television, Hollywood, MTV, etc, but we are a society tuned to video. And with the web, we can also include information in a video format. But just be cause you can does not mean that you should. There are low cost solutions, but they still call for special hardware, a lot of disk space, and video editing software.
Video represents a tremendous amount of information and is reduced quality over modem speeds.
We suggest you try to think about the use of video without comparing it to television or the movies. The video adds very little, and as we see later, you can send the equivalent information using less bandwidth intensive media by combing still images and audio. Let's shift and talk about video technology. To use video on a computer, all of the information must be digitized or turned into a data file, essentially a series of still images that when played back at an appropriate speed, looks to the human eye like actual motion. When we start talking about digital video, we enter a region of acronym soup for the various kinds of video files.