One man's far-from-humble opinions, and philosophical discussions, about pop-culture (mostly geek-flavored i.e. fantasy, science fiction, anime, comics, video games, etc). Expect frequent remarks on the nudity of the Imperial personage—current targets include bad fantasy and the creative bankruptcy of most SF in visual media.
2014/05/12
Distortion Levels So Low as to Make a Brave Man Weep
It occurred to me, you can actually transmit optical hi-fi analog. How? Easy—if you're, say, scanning a near-UV nano-scale optical storage medium, you just have what the near-UV laser gets as input, be output again, say as a 532-nanometer laser (since that wavelength experiences little degradation, even across interstellar distances). That, you can then watch on something that receives those signals, or record back to other media. It's still very unwieldy compared to digital streaming, but it's also superior to digital. Interestingly, it works a lot like VHS did, back in the day, but HiFi.
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