Everyone seems entranced by "wow this would have been cool in the 80s", but the compression is a necessary part of the puzzle. How fast could you do k means clustering on 80s hardware?
That's a very good point!
And also one to keep in mind for a possible additional demo. Use only hardware from the 80s also for the encoding!
I think the demo is still really cool. I mean more to push back against the "programmers are lazy look what you can do with limited resources" ignoring the fact that the limited resources were only used for the playback part. Still awesome, just not possible in the 80s