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by xnx 632 days ago
> Digital tvs are cursed to wait for the next key frame in the video to start displaying

If they chose too, couldn't TV decoders pretend to have a all-gray keyframe as a starting point and apply the streaming diffs to that until the next true keyframe came? That would at least give some garbled image before snapping in. I'm sure most consumers would consider this "broken" though.