Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://icosahedron.website/@halcy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>halcy</span></a></span> I guess that to an extend stuff like analog <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NTSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NTSC</span></a> or even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HiVision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HiVision</span></a> + <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MUSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MUSE</span></a> is not just trivial to modulate but also that basically any space-faring civilization will have a decently performant <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDR</span></a> setup.</p><ul><li>I mean, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamradio</span></a> operators do <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SSTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSTV</span></a> for decades so the only reason they don't do <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> at fluent frame rates is lack of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/spectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spectrum</span></a> to do so.</li></ul><p>But in space, that problem isn't existing so quasi-optical links in like 24GHz & 60GHz bands are trivial to setup.</p><ul><li>Compared to the challenges of superluminal or spacetime warping travel, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhIEfxRLiPI&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">autonegotiation and frequency selection for bidirectional audio & video feed</a> [if not compression] is an absolutely trivial problem that I'm confident elementary schoolkids in a <em>"Star-Trek" - esque universe</em> doodle in their free time like some folks nowadays do breadboard.</li></ul><p>Also a lot of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/encoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encoding</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/decoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decoding</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a> schemes can be broken down into mathematical formulas and that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCkD5GOjvx8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">is a universal languague</a> to the point that one could assume said communications to be like a sci-fi variant of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDhyayQ_Rk0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">modem handshake</a> within a second as computational power and speeds should be abundant anyway... </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Vision" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Vision</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Sub-Nyquist_Sampling_Encoding" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple</span><span class="invisible">_Sub-Nyquist_Sampling_Encoding</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-sca</span><span class="invisible">n_television</span></a></p>