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> The basic disadvantage of that design is that a real radio or TV can change channels in milliseconds, but it takes seconds to set up a digital stream in most
by toast0 2y ago
> The basic disadvantage of that design is that a real radio or TV can change channels in milliseconds, but it takes seconds to set up a digital stream in most cases.
Real TV is all mpeg transport streams these days. Maybr you can tune in milliseconds, but you can't decode until you get a keyframe.
- userbinator 2y agoYou can still decode starting at a non-keyframe, and just apply the diffs to the current picture, although the results might not be understandable; VLC is known for doing this when seeking.
- RulerOf 2y agoThat's a good point. I take for granted that I remember well what it was like in the analog age. Channels could be changed in what must've been around 30 milliseconds. I always found a modicum of latency to be generally acceptable in something like TV tuning once it went digital. Streaming doesn't really offer anything with that kind of experience anymore. Even analog car radios tend to have digital tuners with their own degrees of tuning delay.
- zrobotics 2y ago"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" Can't remember where I saw this pointed out, but this Gibson quote from neuromancer won't make any sense to anyone young enough to have not been exposed to analog TV. And most radios by default do channel scan, so you aren't even exposed to audio static as much anymore either.