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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A big aspect of this is you had no experience of HD or 4K at that point. You only watched SD and HD was about to really kick off. So you were used to SD being the cutting edge and better than the 90s and 80s or whatever.
Then you saw 1080p HD, and suddenly you look back on SD content and notice it actually sucks. Now you know HD can exist and you experienced the upgrade, SD now is bad by comparison.
Then go to 1440p or 4K or even beyond… and suddenly HD sucks and you notice HD wasnt that good either. And so on.
Go drive a Ferarri and then go back to your Camry or whatever… your Camry was fine, you loved it… but then you experienced a real amazing driving experience that set a new standard for you.
There are also differences in CRT tv and modern LCD or plasma or OLED… that can be a factor too
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