> with digital storage it's often a step function where it's like "whoops, a few bits flipped, can't read at all anymore" Digital anything, really. Analog sign

> with digital storage it's often a step function where it's like "whoops, a few bits flipped, can't read at all anymore" Digital anything, really. Analog signals degrade somewhat gracefully—you have to explicitly build error correction into a digital signal. A relatively recent example of a bungled transition from analog to digital: when the US switched to digital television in 2009, my family suddenly and completely lost many local/lower-powered/more distant stations that we used to be able to get with just a little static or distortion. And the channels we continued to get wou— —ut out occasio— —in a really a—oying wa— and became unwatchable (well, unlistenable).