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Maybe one too many trips to see 2001 under "special circumstances." Our Advisor is having a flashback this week!
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...Flashback/3387 |
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that was funny. lol
and hey i didn't know original letterbox movies had gray bars. all the letterbox VHS movies my dad owned had black bars so there ya go, to quote Attack of the Show: "you've just been learned" :P |
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/golfclap
that was glorious. |
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My VHS copy of 'Manhattan' had the gray bars. Very bizarre.
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"Initially, letterboxing was limited to several key sequences of a film (e.g., opening and closing credits)"
that's something i recall seeing a lot, even when movies played on cable or network tv. the funny thing is i had gotten so used to seeing that happen to certain movies that when i bought them on dvd i was expecting the bars to disappear after the opening credits and they never did. lol |
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had to google SelectaVision.
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lolz, that was awesome!
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Great column, Josh!! Really brought me back...
(Sadly, I still vividly remember when my dad brought home our first VCR. I was about 15 and the individual VHS tapes were like $29.99 apiece!! Yikes!!) |
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Q: We recently had cable TV installed. I can't believe how many channels there are to watch. We have over 30!
LOL... I do remember when that was a good number. Now I have over 300sd and 100hd channels and i wish 30 of them were good.
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I really enjoyed the flashback, but 'fess up . . . you doctored the questions!
Between the "totally rad", the $800 CD player and the refrence to Swatches I definitely smelled a little nostalgic revision going on here. Fun though! |
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You just made my day! (Well, you and BOFH...) Took me back to when I was making mixtapes of MTV video clips with two VHS decks. 8-)
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I do remember when the opening & closing credits of movies were sometimes letterboxed for TV broadcast, even before home video came along. However, in those days they had a stylized pattern at top & bottom--before even gray bars, much less black bars. |
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IR remotes only became commonplace after the mid-eighties. For a good couple of years, an IR remote was a pretty big "up-sell feature".
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I lol at some of the stuff. But considering I'm a '90s baby, it was very informative!
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