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  • You could stream 144p6 video with phone-like audio with a RealPlayer browser plugin and a 28k modem in 1998. Very few websites served video but some TV channels were available live like this, maybe also in 240p15 at double the bitrate with a luxury 56k modem or ISDN. Viewers with slower modems could often download such videos as VODs (depending on copyright because those didn’t have RealPlayer DRM) as WMV (with Microsoft’s proprietary codec better than MPEG-2) or AVI (as MPEG-2 so you could burn it onto a CD and view on a DVD player but it’s unlikely you’d have a big disk and CD burner but processor too slow for that video). DVD-quality video (high bitrate 480p30/480i60/480p24/576p25/576i60, now considered low-end for movies) only became available to stream about 10 years later.



  • Whatever, as long as they’re all there in some capacity. I feel like my brain is good at equalizing within reason. I had headphones that when unplugged a bit, they probably put the capacitive mic in series with the drivers, muting a mid frequency band, effectively making it sound like someone used a shitty “vocals removing” tool.

    And of course, missing bass (tiny phone speaker) or anything over 5 kHz (MW band of AM radio) doesn’t sound good either.