halcy 
a common affordance in scifi is that spaceships can just video call each other, even spaceships of different races who have never met before. this implies that there is a sufficiently mathematically obvious RTC protocol that all spacefaring races eventually discover
„but halcy, the computer simply adapts the signal“ try piping an opus bitstream into chatgpt, see how that goes
LisPi@halcy Headcanon: They're sending analog audio & crt linescans.
CubeOfCheese@cubeofcheese @halcy There's some synchronization stuff involved with radio television but it's plausible to make a dumb program to automatically handle it if one expects that format (especially with an operator actively directing the program).
Arbitrarily-complex digital protocols, not so much.
Arbitrarily-complex digital protocols, not so much.
Piko Starsider 
@lispi314 @halcy @cubeofcheese And a not-so-dumb program (or ML model) that looks for circles in the picture and other clues to adjust the aspect ratio automatically, as well as orientation. Although most automatically decoded transmissions would be black and white, since color is much more complex. Maybe the same model that detects orientation can also detect color signals somehow.
Galbinus Caeli@starsider @lispi314 @halcy @cubeofcheese
Also "color" has a very species specific definition. Unless you transmit many, many wavelengths, and hope to hit the right one(s)
Also "color" has a very species specific definition. Unless you transmit many, many wavelengths, and hope to hit the right one(s)
chexum@GalbinusCaeli @starsider @lispi314 @halcy @cubeofcheese in addition to all this, the shows often make the local and remote viewer look at each other, even when viewed from an angle. For the purpose of “don’t look at the camera”, which is guaranteed with all 2D screens, the view is then forced to be three dimensional, and not just stereo, but volumetric, rotatable, which makes all the brainstorming so far useless :S
I love the arbitrary crt scanlines idea otherwise, sounds workable from a hw implementation point of view (modulo colour)