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FreudianSlippers posted:They call her "Anaconda" because strangulation is her favoured execution method. My anaconda don’t My anaconda don’t My anaconda don’t want none unless you’re 2D hun
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Sir Lemming posted:I doubt it -- the warm, analog format in this analogy would be film, and that's already a thing. Sort of. Laserdiscs do have a certain antique/nostalgia value, but that's all they'll ever be. They're not vinyl, they're cassette tape. There's also CED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc quote:The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by RCA, in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special needle and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records. Though I don't think anyone who collects CEDs does so because they think they're "warmer" or more natural than DVD or whatnot, like with audiophiles and vinyl, they just collect them because they like collecting old electronics.
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Unrelated, but I used to get my haircut at a place called Joe's who also did VCR repairs. He had tons and tons of old VHS tapes and you could ask for one to watch while he cut your hair. I miss that old neighborhood sometimes. edit: He's still around! http://joesbarbershopchicago.com/ Much like the rest of the neighborhood it looks like it's gotten classed up though....at least the Bob Inn is still a proper Logan Square dive bar.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Unrelated, but I used to get my haircut at a place called Joe's who also did VCR repairs. He had tons and tons of old VHS tapes and you could ask for one to watch while he cut your hair. I miss that old neighborhood sometimes. Bringing it back to the thread, there used to be a barbershop/banned cartoons shop where I lived. I first saw “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves” while getting a trim.
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There was a while where laserdiscs had slightly better digital sound than DVDs, and the AV-philes knew to bring it up in every single discussion!
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Byzantine posted:It stuck out to me cause I first read the book in 2012 on a bus ride with a bunch of smokers, so the "by 2012 smoking became so abhorrent people start editing it out of old movies" thing got a laugh. Nice. I don't know why I remembered that scene as opposed to any other, or indeed any real idea of the book's plot
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DrBouvenstein posted:There's also CED: Didn't Techmoan do a thing on them? That site/dude rules.
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Slippery posted:Didn't Techmoan do a thing on them? That site/dude rules. I don’t think there’s much Techmoan hasn’t done. Around the time he tried to get over the air HD working with a Korean set because no one ever bothered setting it up in the UK was the time I realized that man has no limits but his imagination.
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Slippery posted:Didn't Techmoan do a thing on them? That site/dude rules. Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrPe0rwXOU
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Gann Jerrod posted:Bringing it back to the thread, there used to be a barbershop/banned cartoons shop where I lived. I first saw “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves” while getting a trim. That's a problematic cartoon as it's generally heralded as one of the most technically ambitious shorts of the era. The subject matter is... unfortunate.
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evobatman posted:There was a while where laserdiscs had slightly better digital sound than DVDs, and the AV-philes knew to bring it up in every single discussion!
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Having trouble finding a source, but I heard Mr. Rogers would save all his old outfits and re-film scenes from old episodes where he said something antiquated. The example I heard was about how he had a scene explaining that daddies went to work and mommies watches the kids, and he refilmed it and edited the new scene in.
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Drunk Nerds posted:Having trouble finding a source, but I heard Mr. Rogers would save all his old outfits and re-film scenes from old episodes where he said something antiquated. The example I heard was about how he had a scene explaining that daddies went to work and mommies watches the kids, and he refilmed it and edited the new scene in. This world never deserved that man.
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Drunk Nerds posted:Having trouble finding a source, but I heard Mr. Rogers would save all his old outfits and re-film scenes from old episodes where he said something antiquated. The example I heard was about how he had a scene explaining that daddies went to work and mommies watches the kids, and he refilmed it and edited the new scene in.
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Mr Rogers facts sound like Chuck Norris jokes but are actually true.
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GrandpaPants posted:Mr Rogers facts sound like Chuck Norris jokes but are actually true. Someone stole his car but returned it when they found out it was his.
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I link this every chance I get because he's just so god damned genuine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
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Thanks for confirming that, great watch!
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Push El Burrito posted:I link this every chance I get because he's just so god damned genuine. It's the most amazing thing you'll ever watch in your life. It's like a scene out of a movie, but you'd never make it because "evil congressman is convinced despite himeslf by power of pure goodness" is so hackneyed. But it's real
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CannonFodder posted:And when George Lucas released the revised updated lovely version of Star Wars the laserdisc version was the best version of the original trilogy. I have no idea if the proper original version ever made it to DVD or BluRay. The original theatrical version was released on DVD, but it was a lovely dupe and he did nothing to clean it up. If you know where to look, there's an 18 GB around. Someone got an original print and literally cleaned it up, frame by frame and cleaned up the soundtrack as well. It's amazing, speaking as someone who has seen the opening day, VHS, DVD, and "special" Edition versions.
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MrUnderbridge posted:The original theatrical version was released on DVD, but it was a lovely dupe and he did nothing to clean it up. hell yeah, the silver screen edition? look how crisp it is
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Last Chance posted:hell yeah, the silver screen edition? man that is well done
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CannonFodder posted:And when George Lucas released the revised updated lovely version of Star Wars the laserdisc version was the best version of the original trilogy. I have no idea if the proper original version ever made it to DVD or BluRay. It did get released on DVD once (in 2006) but it's a low quality version.
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"Uncle Toast? Aunt Burnedthrough?" I meant the Harmy version. Haven't seen the Silver Screen one yet. MrUnderbridge has a new favorite as of 15:06 on Jan 15, 2019 |
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The Harmy despecialized versions are excellent, yeah. Made me realize how cheap looking the first film actually was.
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evobatman posted:There was a while where laserdiscs had slightly better digital sound than DVDs, and the AV-philes knew to bring it up in every single discussion!
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Drunk Nerds posted:Having trouble finding a source, but I heard Mr. Rogers would save all his old outfits and re-film scenes from old episodes where he said something antiquated. The example I heard was about how he had a scene explaining that daddies went to work and mommies watches the kids, and he refilmed it and edited the new scene in. https://kottke.org/18/06/mister-rogers-fixed-old-shows-if-he-felt-they-were-wrong http://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/mrn/episodes/1589/index.html http://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/mrn/episodes/1696/index.html The last one is the only one with a real good source here, but it's like 4 hours long so I'm not going to go digging for the quote in it. Seems likely at least a new dub was done for some things.
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It's sad to think the world might be too jaded for a Mr.Rogers now
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El Gallinero Gros posted:It's sad to think the world might be too jaded for a Mr.Rogers now Nah the cynics wouldn’t stand a chance
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El Gallinero Gros posted:It's sad to think the world might be too jaded for a Mr.Rogers now we may not have him anymore, but we do have at least one generation of kids who learned a lot of important things from him, so don't give up hope just yet. the light from his candle was passed along to a whole lot of people before it went out
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SatansOnion posted:we may not have him anymore, but we do have at least one generation of kids who learned a lot of important things from him, so don't give up hope just yet. the light from his candle was passed along to a whole lot of people before it went out Look, I'm a big cool internet toughgirl in 'real life' or whatever, but I say to you, with real, honest tears, that the light from Mr. Rogers' candle will NEVER go out, and I firmly hope that will be true.
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SatansOnion posted:we may not have him anymore, but we do have at least one generation of kids who learned a lot of important things from him, so don't give up hope just yet. the light from his candle was passed along to a whole lot of people before it went out There’s this quote from Jim Henson that says something like “we made Fraggle Rock to try to save the world,” and it’s in the context of him saying it was a silly thing to try, but my response is that there’s at least another 10-15 years to go before we’ll know for sure if it worked.
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ThatGirlAtThatShow posted:Look, I'm a big cool internet toughgirl in 'real life' or whatever, but I say to you, with real, honest tears, that the light from Mr. Rogers' candle will NEVER go out, and I firmly hope that will be true. Exactly! The good that people do lives on after them, at least as much as the evil, and the good things that Fred Rogers did had a particularly long reach on the topic of the thread: I never did get the appeal of Gilligan's Island to begin with, but some of the earlier episodes go from zero to yikes especially quickly when they stumble across a ridiculously racist "comedy" Japanese stereotype character. He's seriously like the distilled essence of those nasty propaganda images Dr. Seuss drew during WWII (and later really regretted iirc) delivering poo poo-tier fauxriental shtick that was old and hackneyed when vaudeville was young Also, I think he showed up in > 1 episode, too, so somebody watched that poo poo and said "yes, this is what I would like to see more of in this television series"
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SatansOnion posted:Also, I think he showed up in > 1 episode, too, so somebody watched that poo poo and said "yes, this is what I would like to see more of in this television series" He was the Japanese solider once and an evil scientist twice.
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Lazlo Nibble posted:The brain makes you say crazy poo poo when you start to process the fact that your shelf full of $100-a-title Special Editions is about to turn into a bunch of dollar-bin novelty items. I mean, yeah, sure. But there was less compression on the DTS tracks. And stereo tracks on most DVDs were lossy compressed, though a lot of laserdiscs had stereo PCM sound that had pretty good quality. I had a laserdisc player as a novelty, but the sound was pretty good.
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Lazlo Nibble posted:The brain makes you say crazy poo poo when you start to process the fact that your shelf full of $100-a-title Special Editions is about to turn into a bunch of dollar-bin novelty items. I paid $90 for the Criterion version of Blade Runner. No regrets.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:It's sad to think the world might be too jaded for a Mr.Rogers now only takes one good person to make a difference just think of the quote from the best epispde ot the twilight zone (and/or horace mann)and refuse to die until you have won some victory for humanity
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Speaking of Twilight Zone, I'm binging classic Twilight Zone episodes and the ending narration to Death's Head Revisited is amazing and the opposite of aging poorly:Death's Head Revisited posted:There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes– all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth The episode itself is also one of my favorites, it's about an SS captain returning to Dachau camp years after the war to reminisce, only to be judged by those he killed. I still can't believe it was made in 1961, and like any episode of the Twilight Zone it is about as subtle as a hammer to the head.
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Mr Rogers is my hero and I unironically try to live by his example whenever I can (though I rapidly fall into being a cynical, ironic shitbag). It takes deep and powerful courage to be that sincere and genuine. The more I read about him the more I understand how the church came up with the concept of saints.
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