Not sure about pricing.
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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    26 days ago

    How much bandwidth did it need? The 90’s seem early for a live video feed.

    Also, man, that’s a whole new meaning to the Wild West era of the internet.

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      26 days ago

      Tbf, a frame every few seconds was considered “a live video feed” in the mid/late 90s.

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        26 days ago

        I remember the numerous demonstrations of companies trying to make the video-phone happen as a business and domestic device and they certainly considered that a couple 120px frames per second in black and white made for impressive life like video.

        The audiences generally weren’t too enthusiastic for some reason.

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        26 days ago

        My cousin and I used to watch fairy/leprechaun/wee-folk cameras in Ireland. Never saw shit. Starting to think there weren’t any.

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        26 days ago

        That would make sense, but I really hope you’re not trying to shoot a deer based on a 3 second old image.

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        26 days ago

        Looks like that gave a tiny black-and-white image with a lot of latency.

        For the purposes of OP you’d really want pretty good quality and tiny latency. Otherwise you’re kind of just spraying bullets randomly.