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That'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 millis

That'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.