I don’t miss dial-up internet, I just don’t. I don’t even like the sound because it’s just digital screeches and it’s a sound that makes me cringe a little upon hearing it. Because I remember the times when I’d be listening to music with headphones with volume high and then that fucking digital screech just blares into my ears.

I don’t miss waiting 30 minutes to load a page. I don’t miss a bit of it.

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    I don’t miss only having 3 channels to watch and having to be home at a particular time to watch something.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      It was a shared experience, and! and! the quality was better! Don’t believe me? Find any freesat channel right now and compare it to any streaming service.

      Streaming services have to serve millions of different customers different content on-demand, and as a result the signal is compressed and dithered to the point of unviewabaility (says me, my family are apparently unaffected by the fuzzy black dots…) even on 4K streams.

      Broadcast content? Its just chucked out there over the waves for anyone to catch, and the bitrate and quality are fantastic in comparison.

      • colourlessidea@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        17 days ago

        This is definitely a hot take. I’m yet to see broadcast content that comes close to streaming content in quality.

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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          17 days ago

          Paid streaming, sure - you get the nice nitrate.

          Free streaming (or Netflix bottom tier) vs Free Broadcast? Broadcast wins hands down in quality

      • vithigar@lemmy.ca
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        15 days ago

        the quality was better

        This very much depends on when you’re taking about. Over the air television when I was young was absolutely not better quality than any streaming service now. 480i delivered by an analog interference-prone signal definitely does not compare favourably to streaming.