Television broadcasts are merely compressed streams of data
Modern cable boxes aren't pulling continuous analog waves out of the air anymore. The smooth, high-definition sports games you watch are aggressively chopped into mathematical packets, stripped of redundant pixels, and blasted to your screen to be unzipped in real time. If the signal stutters even briefly, the illusion collapses into a mosaic of blocky artifacts.

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