Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
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#2Kind of related: does anyone else notice how long it takes to change channels on the TV these days? It used to be instantaneous when cable first came out and at some point it became this laggy experience where you'll press buttons on the remote and the channel takes forever to change. I hate it and it's one of the reasons I don't have cable any more.
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#3After reading this headline I felt like I was having Deja Vu. I wasn't, it was posted 11 hours ago
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21831931
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643663 (posted two years ago)
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#4Kind of related: does anyone else notice how long it takes to change channels on the TV these days? It used to be instantaneous when cable first came out and at some point it became this laggy experience where you'll press buttons on the remote and the channel takes forever to change. I hate it and it's one of the reasons I don't have cable any more.
It is interesting to see just how much more information is in a second of video than it used to be.
That said, I'm not sure that counts for the latency by itself. Pretty sure it doesn't. :(
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#5Kind of related: does anyone else notice how long it takes to change channels on the TV these days? It used to be instantaneous when cable first came out and at some point it became this laggy experience where you'll press buttons on the remote and the channel takes forever to change. I hate it and it's one of the reasons I don't have cable any more.
It takes time to pick up the MPEG2 scheme and start decoding.
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#6Kind of related: does anyone else notice how long it takes to change channels on the TV these days? It used to be instantaneous when cable first came out and at some point it became this laggy experience where you'll press buttons on the remote and the channel takes forever to change. I hate it and it's one of the reasons I don't have cable any more.
Also, TVs kinda started having a black screen in between switching of channels. At night that becomes incredibly uneasy for eyes.
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#8What is this? Are these tweets? It's like reading a programming language where vast amounts of syntax is optional. This style of blogging is making the world worse.
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#9Kind of related: does anyone else notice how long it takes to change channels on the TV these days? It used to be instantaneous when cable first came out and at some point it became this laggy experience where you'll press buttons on the remote and the channel takes forever to change. I hate it and it's one of the reasons I don't have cable any more.
My favorite "the world is terrible" curmudgeon observation is how awful hotel TVs (and hotel TV remotes) are. Every single hotel room TV I've had the displeasure of using in the last N years takes more than 20 seconds to turn on after multiple button-presses, starts out on a terrible in-house channel at high volume regardless of the last-watched channel+volume, takes multiple seconds to change channels, and has no real TV guide option to let you see what's on. This plus HDMI ports are regularly inaccessible and it's nearly impossible to use streaming sticks (roku) due to web-based wifi portals that only work half the time if you have an ad-blocker enabled.
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#10This is a very hard rant to read. The examples either aren't factually true or are poorly explained and the "solution" is largely nebulous.
I feel like this topic has merit and with a well written article with real examples (both 2019 and 83) it could be something special, but this isn't that.
I'd be interested to know how many upvoted based on the title/what they expected this to be, rather than after having tried to read it. Most of the replies from the older thread are about the title alone (or being critical of the content).