>>96140218>VHS as being no worse than DVDBro, VHS was from the 1980s! Of course it's going to be trash compared to digital media like LaserDisc, or DVD which looked straight from the future. VHS was great because I could watch Robocop and Batman taped from TV but quality wasn't its strong point.
>hundreds of megabytes in a night?128 kb/s = 16 kB/s = 0.016 MB/s
700 MB / 0.016 MB/s = 43750 s = 12.15 h
You only need 12 hours to download a CD worth of content, overnight basically. Obviously if you wanted to download an entire series of 24 episodes, that was gonna take a few weeks.
The first cable connection I had was 64 kb/s but it was upgraded to 128 kb/s shortly after, and it was great. Then the ISP increased our speed gradually over the years to 256 kb/s, 512 kb/s, and 1 Mb/s. A stable connection was more important than raw speed.
>You wouldn't have a chance of that with older codecs.But you didn't need it. A screen monitor is not going to show you every detail, so even at 720p, it looked fine. I dunno, DivX and Xvid worked well.
>much more versatile than CDs for general use-cases.Nobody was thinking about it back then. We just wanted a bunch of movies to watch. CD cases were cool *clank* *clank*, hard plastic hitting other cases, and you could print your own cover, and CD sticker if you had an inkjet printer.
This is literally not off-topic because Eimi Isami from Phase Connect Generation 3 Phase Euphoria talked about her own experiences with older media, from her father and older brother.
