Bits and Bytes (1983)
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@travisdh1 said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
CRT monitors in the late 90s to early 00s were much higher resolution than TVs.
A typical late model, high quality CRT Television in the US was 525 lines and interlaced not progressive (which essentially makes the resolution only half as good.) So it was like having a resolution more like 262 lines. And not wide screen.
In computer terms, the old NTSC television standard was a lot like a 320x240 monitor resolution today, which is only 25% of a 640x480 resolution which itself is almost impossible to use today!
Televisions have to work with broadcast standards for resolution and dimensions. Computer monitors are free to be bigger, different shapes, vertical, higher resolution, whatever.
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@scottalanmiller this sent me down a rabbit hole regarding vector images lol.
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@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@mary said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Is there much difference today between monitors and TVs
Same as with monitors and speakers. Monitors are meant to "monitor" things and therefore are focused on faithful reproduction of what they are given. To be a television means it has a tuner for TV signals. There is obviously a ton of overlap. But a monitor doesn't imply that it can tune in television signals, and TV doesn't imply any intention of being used as a faithful reproduction device.
In practice, they are nearly the same thing and while people used to call monitors TVs all the time now people call TVs monitors all the time.
I'm not sure this is still the case, but Visio was selling a Monitor without a tuner as a TV in Best Buy the last time I was looking at buying a TV... Though it was a 'smart TV' so it had Netflix, Hulu, etc on it. I suppose you could argue those were the tuners.
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@Dashrender said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@mary said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Is there much difference today between monitors and TVs
Same as with monitors and speakers. Monitors are meant to "monitor" things and therefore are focused on faithful reproduction of what they are given. To be a television means it has a tuner for TV signals. There is obviously a ton of overlap. But a monitor doesn't imply that it can tune in television signals, and TV doesn't imply any intention of being used as a faithful reproduction device.
In practice, they are nearly the same thing and while people used to call monitors TVs all the time now people call TVs monitors all the time.
I'm not sure this is still the case, but Visio was selling a Monitor without a tuner as a TV in Best Buy the last time I was looking at buying a TV... Though it was a 'smart TV' so it had Netflix, Hulu, etc on it. I suppose you could argue those were the tuners.
Most brands sell models without a tuner now.
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@Dashrender said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@mary said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Is there much difference today between monitors and TVs
Same as with monitors and speakers. Monitors are meant to "monitor" things and therefore are focused on faithful reproduction of what they are given. To be a television means it has a tuner for TV signals. There is obviously a ton of overlap. But a monitor doesn't imply that it can tune in television signals, and TV doesn't imply any intention of being used as a faithful reproduction device.
In practice, they are nearly the same thing and while people used to call monitors TVs all the time now people call TVs monitors all the time.
I'm not sure this is still the case, but Visio was selling a Monitor without a tuner as a TV in Best Buy the last time I was looking at buying a TV... Though it was a 'smart TV' so it had Netflix, Hulu, etc on it. I suppose you could argue those were the tuners.
So you aren't sure if it is mislabeled, while saying it is mislabeled?
It's probably a monitor, not a TV. Nothing makes it a TV other than some marketing. Marketing is not a factor. Not a TV.
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@JaredBusch said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@Dashrender said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@mary said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Is there much difference today between monitors and TVs
Same as with monitors and speakers. Monitors are meant to "monitor" things and therefore are focused on faithful reproduction of what they are given. To be a television means it has a tuner for TV signals. There is obviously a ton of overlap. But a monitor doesn't imply that it can tune in television signals, and TV doesn't imply any intention of being used as a faithful reproduction device.
In practice, they are nearly the same thing and while people used to call monitors TVs all the time now people call TVs monitors all the time.
I'm not sure this is still the case, but Visio was selling a Monitor without a tuner as a TV in Best Buy the last time I was looking at buying a TV... Though it was a 'smart TV' so it had Netflix, Hulu, etc on it. I suppose you could argue those were the tuners.
Most brands sell models without a tuner now.
Most things are monitors now. Regardless of the tuner, because you CAN put a tuner in a monitor, they've moved to using monitors for nearly all things today.
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Episode 10 done. Interesting how simple tones were amazing discoveries back then. Anyone could be on the cutting edge to find out what could be done. That being said, I lost countless hours of my life to frooty loops lol.
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Episode 11 done. All the word processing power we have today is impressive compared to where we came from. Simple editing seemed laborious compared to today where we simply drag the mouse or click a button. Are hot keys from that era and were just carried over?It makes me wonder what things will look like 20 years from now.
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Episode 12 done. Interesting to see where they thought we would go. The one thing that got me the entire time was what was Luba Goy using as the communication screen? Was it fake orvreal?
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@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@Dashrender said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@mary said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Is there much difference today between monitors and TVs
Same as with monitors and speakers. Monitors are meant to "monitor" things and therefore are focused on faithful reproduction of what they are given. To be a television means it has a tuner for TV signals. There is obviously a ton of overlap. But a monitor doesn't imply that it can tune in television signals, and TV doesn't imply any intention of being used as a faithful reproduction device.
In practice, they are nearly the same thing and while people used to call monitors TVs all the time now people call TVs monitors all the time.
I'm not sure this is still the case, but Visio was selling a Monitor without a tuner as a TV in Best Buy the last time I was looking at buying a TV... Though it was a 'smart TV' so it had Netflix, Hulu, etc on it. I suppose you could argue those were the tuners.
So you aren't sure if it is mislabeled, while saying it is mislabeled?
It's probably a monitor, not a TV. Nothing makes it a TV other than some marketing. Marketing is not a factor. Not a TV.
OH - it's a monitor for sure - but they were clearly advertising it as a TV. that was all i was saying.
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@mary said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Episode 11 done. All the word processing power we have today is impressive compared to where we came from. Simple editing seemed laborious compared to today where we simply drag the mouse or click a button. Are hot keys from that era and were just carried over?It makes me wonder what things will look like 20 years from now.
Yes, not only are hot keys from that era. But many of the specific hot keys that we use today are the same ones from then!
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Cool I like it, where is the second video?
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@scottalanmiller It is amazing that now most programs are not just for a model or a brand machine
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@brianwinkelmann said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Cool I like it, where is the second video?
All of the videos are in the thread, you just have to scroll down.
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@brianwinkelmann said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@scottalanmiller It is amazing that now most programs are not just for a model or a brand machine
I know, a totally different world. It wasn't that long ago that people would say things like "Oh that's a Mac formatted file." Now there isn't even a concept as a file just for one kind of computer, what would that even mean?!
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@scottalanmiller I like it, It makes me remember my first steps in the university studying basic programming course.
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@scottalanmiller Bits & Bytes are still the rule! (+ nostalgia)
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Cool, very interesting how was to transfer data in the past.
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@brianwinkelmann said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Cool, very interesting how was to transfer data in the past.
It was a pretty big challenge.
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Just found this thread and can say that I watched these as a kid and loved them.
This program wasn't around for that long but in the early 90's another program took over in a similar fashion "Dotto's Data Cafe". Much higher level but I loved them just the same.
