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HBO should use a different bumper for streaming. (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 month ago by JasonDJ@lemmy.zip to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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The bumper...I don't know what it's called...that little clip with the snow that fades in and reveals the logo.

It's terrible.

For one, a lot of people actually don't know what TV static is. Analog broadcasts stopped almost 16 years ago, and before that, most younger people had cable.

For another, static is really difficult to compress. It looks horrible and consumes way too much bandwidth for just a couple of seconds that won't even load right. If anything, they should cache a local copy of the bumper in-app in a format that doesn't look like ass when every pixel changes every frame.

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[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a good idea. They could probably do something similar for the audio.

They'd have to code around the rest of the animation and audio effects, but the size of that code would certainly be smaller than the rendered audio and video.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These are both really cool ideas and seem like a fun project.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You guys are basically describing the old Demoscene.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Love that stuff, it's so cool.