> You could switch channels as fast as you could press the button. Yep, and everything was exactly the same video format, and all TVs had the same capabilities

> You could switch channels as fast as you could press the button. Yep, and everything was exactly the same video format, and all TVs had the same capabilities. The slowness was present on VGA monitors as well, if you recall. Slow switching is a tradeoff worth having, given that it allows me to have any number of digital resolutions and color depths available to me.