I was referring to VHS recording which is limited to less-than-broadcast resolutions.
DVD and HDD PVRs for analog broadcasts did capture at 480i but were wildly expensive.
Subchannels are an interesting concept, but suffer from compression loss from packing in multiple streams into a single 6 MHz slice that would otherwise be a single channel.
Don’t get me started on the fact that we are limited at 1080i as well.
> You’re better off building parallel infrastructure and taxing cyclists to pay for it via licensing.
I think it's worth talking about taxation here. Roads are generally in the top 3 costs for most municipalities along with police and firefighting.
Even when you add together tolls, gas tax, vehicle excise taxes, it doesn't cover the costs of road maintenance, and needs to be supplemented by sales tax, building property tax, etc.
If bike infrastructure reduces the number of cars, SUVs, and pickups that are on the road just to carry one person around, the reduction on road wear means it's a total cost savings.
(For what it's worth, I think the same argument applies also to buses.)
My smallish town budgets less than $14M/year for streets and $300M/year for K-12 education. I would not be surprised to find that ratio generally repeated anywhere in the US.
It's somewhat hard to find, so lest anyone thinks I'm making it up, here are two things I have heard of - DirectX passthrough and (probably related) DirectML passthrough
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