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What are you not nostalgic for? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't miss dial-up internet, I just don't. I don't even like the sound because it's just digital screeches and it's a sound that makes me cringe a little upon hearing it. Because I remember the times when I'd be listening to music with headphones with volume high and then that fucking digital screech just blares into my ears.

I don't miss waiting 30 minutes to load a page. I don't miss a bit of it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It was a shared experience, and! and! the quality was better! Don't believe me? Find any freesat channel right now and compare it to any streaming service.

Streaming services have to serve millions of different customers different content on-demand, and as a result the signal is compressed and dithered to the point of unviewabaility (says me, my family are apparently unaffected by the fuzzy black dots...) even on 4K streams.

Broadcast content? Its just chucked out there over the waves for anyone to catch, and the bitrate and quality are fantastic in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is definitely a hot take. I’m yet to see broadcast content that comes close to streaming content in quality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Paid streaming, sure - you get the nice bitrate.

Free streaming (or Netflix bottom tier) vs Free Broadcast? Broadcast wins hands down in quality

I've seen silky smooth 60fps 720p streams coming over the air, compared to what I was getting with Netflix through cable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Also the 'cultural exchange' you'd get if you lived in border regions!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the quality was better

This very much depends on when you're taking about. Over the air television when I was young was absolutely not better quality than any streaming service now. 480i delivered by an analog interference-prone signal definitely does not compare favourably to streaming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I guess I'm talking about now. Yeah it's interference prone, but when the signal is good, it's amazing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just pirate the 4k versions if you want to be a video snob.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

HD piracy on demand is not that easy. Even popcorn time at its peak would suffer buffering if the media wasn't popular enough

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pirate it ten minutes before demand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you're asking me for a level of foresight that is simply not possible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Stremio+debrid-link is pretty great, although it isn't free.