On Monday, May 30, 2016 at 9:43:06 AM UTC-7, wrote:
With TV, they wasted it. They went digital because NTSC takes too much
bandwidth and has limited resolution. The problem is they cannot come
up with any decent programming anymore.
Digital would take more bandwidth, except they use compression to reduce the amount of data sent. In the 1950s, there was not enough computing power in the whole world to do the compression and decoding in real time.