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Re:How Will ATSC 3.0 Transform TV Advertising? by JohnFen on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @06:43PM (#36702671)
Not sure if its a generational thing or not. I'm a graybeard, if that matters, and I remember when cable TV was a brand new technology.

I think of it as streaming just because that's what it looks like. I never put any real thought into it. I didn't even realize that I thought of it that way until these comments.

My conception of this might be related to the notion of "streaming" also being a pretty old one to me. I was working on such software years before streaming services were a thing, around 1990.

Re:How Will ATSC 3.0 Transform TV Advertising? by dylan604 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:35PM (#36704390)
I see your 1990 working on streaming and mention that cable started in the late 1940s.

Just a shot in the dark, were you working on MPEG delivery formats?

Re:How Will ATSC 3.0 Transform TV Advertising? by JohnFen on Thursday July 13, 2023 @10:59AM (#36710254)
No, I wasn't. This work predated MPEG-1 by a couple of years, too.