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Analog cable was superior for channel surfing. No digital buffering meant you could change channels instantly to surf back and forth like changing between brow
by omilu 6y ago
Analog cable was superior for channel surfing. No digital buffering meant you could change channels instantly to surf back and forth like changing between browser tabs.
- nitrogen 6y agoEarlier small-dish satellite systems sort of worked around this by showing each I-block as it came in (something like , instead of waiting for the full frame to be available. You still had to wait for enough macroblocks to show up, but audio was instant. Later receivers (last time I used one a long time ago) waited for a full frame to be available instead of showing the blocks as they are displayable. I have been trying to look up what this I-frame-less encoding method is called, but it's impossible to find niche topics like this on Google or DDG these days (tried intra sweep, iframeless, progressive intra, without iframes, etc).