The bumper…I don’t know what it’s called…that little clip with the snow that fades in and reveals the logo.
It’s terrible.
For one, a lot of people actually don’t know what TV static is. Analog broadcasts stopped almost 16 years ago, and before that, most younger people had cable.
For another, static is really difficult to compress. It looks horrible and consumes way too much bandwidth for just a couple of seconds that won’t even load right. If anything, they should cache a local copy of the bumper in-app in a format that doesn’t look like ass when every pixel changes every frame.
Why not just have the app dynamically generate the static with random numbers every time. There is no video file of white noise, and bonus the bumper intro is never exactly the same twice.
Maybe we’ve gotten used to that very particular white noise pattern and anything else would feel wrong?
Completely pulled that out of my ass, for the record.
Do you think dynamically rendering 4k snow is something your typical FireTV stick is capable of doing?
That’s a good idea. They could probably do something similar for the audio.
They’d have to code around the rest of the animation and audio effects, but the size of that code would certainly be smaller than the rendered audio and video.
These are both really cool ideas and seem like a fun project.