The “best” TV you could buy in 2005, television shows specifically appeared to be “high quality” or “clear” and now if you watch a show that is directly uploaded from the producers (circumventing continuous compression from file transfers) you can tell it’s out dated just based on the quality of the show (aside from cultural cues such as fashion, vehicles etc)
tl’dr : I was watching T.C.A.P w/ Chris Hansen on TV when it was aired, watching it now I can tell how old it is based on the quality of the recording.
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We didn’t know better. Look at an actual TV from 2005. 1080p was a massive improvement from 480i, but display technology has improved significantly since then — especially at the low end.
American TV from the early HD era looked and sounded different from what you’d see in film. The sound often had no dynamic range, just LOUD to compete with commercials. The visuals had to be kept to the center of the screen to be easily cropped for 4:3 broadcast. The lighting tends to be very bright, so the subject will be visible on a cheap LCD or fuzzy CRT screen.
There are a few people saying that the analog to digital conversion is what ruins those shows, but they’re dead wrong. If TV shows from that era were shot on video, which many were, there’s no film print to re-scan.
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