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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Two different reasons:
* Perception drift. There was a time when 720p looked fantastic. There was a time when 480p/576p looked fantastic. It was better than whatever was before and it was the best to compare against. Right now I am watching a 1440p youtube video with color range, depth, accuracy and grading that was just not possible back then. Remember smear lags from early CRT cameras? They are painful to notice today. Because we know we can do better.
* Display technologies at the time relied a LOT on smoothing/interpolating in the analogue domain. How to transfer CRT projection into digital domain has been a loooooong research and fight, but ultimately it’s just not the same.
But mostly it’s because the grass was greener back then (and you did not know any better than that).
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