Does Japan not have High Definition?

[xXx: State of the Union]

Everytime someone sends me something from Japan (typically it's like news footage or pro wrassling botches) the footage always looks like it's come straight out of the 1980's.

What's the deal with that? Is Japan based and realizes that 4K is a nigger technology so doesn't bother with it for television and stuff or is there something else I'm unaware of going on here?

 

[Gargamel]

No, because I live in the EU and we are a commie dictatorship.

This is what I get when I follow that link.

View attachment 5753604

This is what Yahoo! Japan looks like:


For reference, this is what the American Yahoo! site looked like in 2005:
(forgive the bad rendering, this is Firefox 122 displaying a page I scraped out of the cache of IE 5.5 on an old laptop)

 

[Lemmingwiser]

For reference, this is what the American Yahoo! site looked like in 2005:

Thanks for the japanese one. Also thanks for the refference, but I remember. I used it back then for cheating on school projects.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

The first one has bad camera focus and was definitely upscaled. Both of them look like they've been deinterlaced.

But why tho?

 

[r9k-speaks]

Least they have widescreen

 

[HarblMcDavid]

This is what Yahoo! Japan looks like:

In fairness to the Japanese, the more several megabyte unoptimized Javascript libraries get added to every cycle of redesign of western websites, the more I appreciate a website that loads instantly no matter how bad the cell service is and doesn't cause my phone to heat up like the surface of the sun as it tries to process the tsunami of shit it just downloaded just so it could display the images on page.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

View attachment 5753441

But their stock market tells an even clearer story.
They haven't yet recovered from their late 80s early 90s stagnation:

View attachment 5753450

"The good news is Netflix" should only precede "is going bankrupt".