[cameronh90]

It's possible for analogue engineering to be incredibly challenging impressive and, to put it crassly, a bit crap.

I certainly don't miss the days of adjusting tint settings, headroom, over-scan and interlacing. Digital isn't without its issues of course, but even a lot of those trace their history back to analogue hacks - article case in point.

There is this side effect of digital lowering the bar though. Back in the analogue days, you needed to be a wizard to get anything done, which meant a lot of the people then seemed to care about the details more than they do now. Digital makes everything so easy that anyone can do it, which can go both ways.

[noasaservice]

The difference is that analog is EVERYWHERE.

Spinning rust drives store analog magnetics that get error corrected to digital. Same with electron potentials in ram. Same with SSDs. Signals over HDMI are converted to analog to display.

Sure, it's nice to deal with crisp neat digital signals... But to get there, you always need to deal with analog.