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This is a distinction without meaning: all digital anything is analogue if you look closely enough > And that was because computing power back then was non-exi
by throwaway27448 8mo ago
This is a distinction without meaning: all digital anything is analogue if you look closely enough
> And that was because computing power back then was non-existent so they didn't use any kind of compression?
Compression is not a medium-level detail. You can easily store compressed data on a laserdisc.
- system2 8mo agoNo, with digital, you need encoding. How can you even compare binary with embedded images.
- throwaway27448 8mo ago> How can you even compare binary with embedded images. How are the images encoded?
- brazzy 8mo agoIn ways that ensure that they are not visually recognizable on the physical medium afterwards, because the visual layout represents a whole lot of redundancy, and the job of compression is to remove redundancy. If the end result has any recognizable patterns, the compression is not doing its job well.
- system2 8mo agoIf you watch the video, you can see that the images are burnt to the medium and can be seen optically. With 1 and 0, you cannot do this. All you'd see would be random dots everywhere.
- roywiggins 8mo agoYour CED or laserdisc player needs to be smart enough to be able to decode whatever you put on it, which- in the era that they were relevant- pretty severely limited what you could do.