Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds...
by wruza on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:36PM
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There are technical reasons for this I guess (as you pointed them out). But what gp is talking about is really a ubiquitous phenomenon of not trying to do anything with it.
Users want to change channels quickly? Okay, let's decompose a problem into what they really want to do, then make N "preview of i-j" channels in 720p with channel pictures in e.g. 8x5 grid and show numbers so that a user could just dial them on a remote. After finding an interesting preview, it's not an issue to push some buttons and wait a couple of seconds to get 2160p or whatever quality there is. Didn't like it? "99<n>", "ok", repeat. This solution would be a jquery of tv world, dumb, straightforward, non-automated, but it would be a thousand (fourty to be honest) times better than nothing.
When I had an hd tv set, I just checked 3-5 channel numbers that I remembered and turned tv off if there was nothing of interest, because you could easily spend half an hour by just peeking them one by one.
Users want to change channels quickly? Okay, let's decompose a problem into what they really want to do, then make N "preview of i-j" channels in 720p with channel pictures in e.g. 8x5 grid and show numbers so that a user could just dial them on a remote. After finding an interesting preview, it's not an issue to push some buttons and wait a couple of seconds to get 2160p or whatever quality there is. Didn't like it? "99<n>", "ok", repeat. This solution would be a jquery of tv world, dumb, straightforward, non-automated, but it would be a thousand (fourty to be honest) times better than nothing.
When I had an hd tv set, I just checked 3-5 channel numbers that I remembered and turned tv off if there was nothing of interest, because you could easily spend half an hour by just peeking them one by one.