pendell

Current Hyperfixation: Wizard of Oz

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

Check tags like Star Trek Archive and Media Piracy to find things I share for others.



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

i posted a short on yt a couple weeks ago, of a TV with the ability to display 12 simultaneous channels in PIPs over the main channel, and every day or so i get a comment saying "definitely for CCTV" and i'm just amazed at how many people are willing to talk about something they don't know literally the first thing about. cctv does not and probably never has used RF modulation, it's all baseband, yet it's clearly tuning through RF channels because they're all showing static. baseband doesn't do that. the TV is also obviously a consumer set, it's finished in silver paint ffs.

the comments calling me fat or a pervert or just telling me i got something wrong don't irritate me nearly as much as the people who are extremely confidently incorrect.


pendell
@pendell

gravis it was obviously used so the most hardcore of gamers could play twelve different video games at the same time while snorting lines of coke off the top of the set.


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

yeah being able to have 12 PIPs updating once every couple seconds is not only obviously a feature for Sports Dads, but obviously a feature for a particular type of Sports Dad who likes either baseball or college football

it's pretty much my job to look at stuff and go "okay, i see no obvious use for this. what uses might exist outside of anything i can ever imagine myself wanting?" and i get that other people do not habitually do that but it's so frustrating having to watch Takes that wouldn't survive one single second of analysis pour into my comments week after week. it's my #1 complaint about shorts: the masses are at least 60% less washed.

I'm guessing most of those people aren't from the era of 500 Channels And Nothing On. Not only does this obviously sell to Sports Dads it also obviously sells to anyone who has a grip of channels they regularly watch and don't want to be bolted to TV Guide all day to know if they want to switch

The best I can imagine why anybody started designing that is "framebuffer memory suddenly got really cheap, so something must be done". It probably wins on being a flashy feature that stands out in a row of display sets at Sears. Practically speaking, a TV with a built in TV Guide "except you get to guess what's on from a bunch of 2 inch screencaps of the back of someone's head" sounds like a TV that I would return after a day.

It's only natural, the amount of introspection you do about subtle inaccuracies and the potential for even bigger oversights is obvious. Seeing people so flippantly ignore that, and worse, decide that you're wrong for not just running with the most obvious interpretation, of course that's gonna bother you.