Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.
LANIK2000@lemmy.world 2 days ago
2002 here, we still had such a TV. For quite a while actually, since we never upgraded and just started using phones and computers instead. It became my console monitor.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah OP full of shit. My three sons all born after 2000 have seen this. Hell my flat screen will show snow if I turn it to antenna and there nothing for single to pick up. Also I have console tv for our old gaming systems so they seen that as well
They also know how a vcr works and what a payphone is. We are not that far removed from that technology. Hell my middle son 17 has a record collection and cds. Also we have the cassette audiobook version of Stephen King Dolores Claiborne.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Modern Tv project fake static when there is no siginal because of fimilarity. OTA broadcasts are all digital, either you get a siginal or you dont.
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Some TVs may project fake static.
Just because OTA broadcasts are digital doesn’t mean you are stuck with all or nothing. You can definitely have poor signal and see or hear something other than what was intended. Doesn’t manifest as analog static, but depending on your decoding and error correction schemes, you can have cut audio, frozen frames, iframe inconsistencies, and stuttering.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
No digital is all or nothing. What you are describing is some digital packets making it through and the algothrim is designed to accept some packet loss. Its more complicated then i make it out, but thats the jist of it.