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> "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" no longer resonates with anyone born the last 20 years or so when reading that
by tetraodonpuffer 10y ago
> "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" no longer resonates with anyone born the last 20 years or so
when reading that my mind conjures a gray sky, but then again when I was young TVs displayed static if you turned them to a dead channel, not solid blue...
- doomtop 10y agoI believe gray sky is the intended image.
- c22 10y agoI own a 60" television with no TV tuner attached to a smattering of devices that play and stream digital content. I suspect when my 1 year old is an adult she won't even have a solid conception of a "channel" let alone be able to imagine the color of a "dead" one.
- stephancoral 10y agoThe grey of a dead OTA channel and the grey of a missing / removed YouTube video aren't too dissimilar
- icebraining 10y agoThat's because YouTube mimics the TV static in their player.