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That is a feature of the content rather than the technology. The original video was a silhouette piece in black & white: https://youtu.be/G3C-VevI36s

That's also why it has so much presence in the demo scene. It loses very little fidelity when transcribed to different mediums, be it teletext, ascii [1], flip dots [2], or an oscilloscope [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT2ufnGe9Cc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko0z3SfXpm8

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psp0JfNlzRU



I assume it's also because it's ridiculously compressible compared to more normal video of similar resolution?




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