Dude, I don’t tell the people I live with what to do. You are assuming I’m some patriarchal figure making choices for these people, that’s not how it works. They make their own choices with their own money, my family situation isn’t a US sitcom scenario.
You’re also assuming our local broadcast solutions here are… I presume American? The balance of quality and issues is not the same worldwide, the specific technical implementations aren’t the same. My “cable box” is in fact a IPTV solution and it also parses what you’re defining as “OTA” directly from an aerial antenna and bakes it into the channel list. And for the record, all different sources there range from 720p to 4K with different levels of compression through some combination of regulation requirements and which broadcast source has decided to update to newer standards when.
The one thing I find interesting in this wall of text is that you seem to be okay with some datamining solutions (Apple or Nvidia) but not others. I’m not sure if this is again a regional thing, but I don’t find those alternatives any better. The only meaningful difference is between being entirely offline or not. The most I can provide with a meaningful improvement is selfhosted media, at least without additional setup.
Dude, I don’t tell the people I live with what to do. You are assuming I’m some patriarchal figure making choices for these people, that’s not how it works.
I’m making suggestions of courses of action, not demands. I’m not telling you to control your family with an iron fist, yet somehow thats the idea you’re coming away with. If this is the first thing you think to say to me after reading what I wrote, I don’t think we’re communicating AT ALL. You’re not happy with this and neither am I. I don’t see any path to anything productive from here. I’ll simply say goodbye and I hope you get what you want.
Dude, I don’t tell the people I live with what to do. You are assuming I’m some patriarchal figure making choices for these people, that’s not how it works. They make their own choices with their own money, my family situation isn’t a US sitcom scenario.
You’re also assuming our local broadcast solutions here are… I presume American? The balance of quality and issues is not the same worldwide, the specific technical implementations aren’t the same. My “cable box” is in fact a IPTV solution and it also parses what you’re defining as “OTA” directly from an aerial antenna and bakes it into the channel list. And for the record, all different sources there range from 720p to 4K with different levels of compression through some combination of regulation requirements and which broadcast source has decided to update to newer standards when.
The one thing I find interesting in this wall of text is that you seem to be okay with some datamining solutions (Apple or Nvidia) but not others. I’m not sure if this is again a regional thing, but I don’t find those alternatives any better. The only meaningful difference is between being entirely offline or not. The most I can provide with a meaningful improvement is selfhosted media, at least without additional setup.
I’m making suggestions of courses of action, not demands. I’m not telling you to control your family with an iron fist, yet somehow thats the idea you’re coming away with. If this is the first thing you think to say to me after reading what I wrote, I don’t think we’re communicating AT ALL. You’re not happy with this and neither am I. I don’t see any path to anything productive from here. I’ll simply say goodbye and I hope you get what you want.