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Wait a minute. Have none of us made a "boob tube" comment until now?
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Sep 14, 2020 03:11
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I recently picked up a betamax player, the Sanyo VCR 6400. I ordered new belts for it, so need to find the time to take it apart and give it a good cleaning. Also bought a pile of about 25 beta tapes, most of which are home recordings, in the hopes of finding interesting old commercials.  
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Sep 17, 2020 07:46
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Somewhere, an NFL lawyer stirs from his deep slumber.
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Sep 17, 2020 08:06
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this is the vcr equivalent of a stack of ps2 games that are just like madden and fifa and rock band
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Sep 17, 2020 08:30
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Trabant posted:Somewhere, an NFL lawyer stirs from his deep slumber. I really hope there's a paper stuffed into that cassette sleeve that gave the person who recorded it express written consent from the NFL 
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Sep 17, 2020 10:21
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They’ve eased up on a lot of that stuff in recent years, so you can find a ton of old games on YouTube that random people recorded forever ago, sometimes including commercials. It can be really funny for stuff, like the first games Fox aired in 1994 have the announcers reading promos for Zima. As an example, the first half of Super Bowl XVI on that tape, which was the first time John Madden and Pat Summerall called a Super Bowl, is already on YouTube (Along with the Up with People halftime show  ).
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Sep 17, 2020 13:44
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Code Jockey posted:I really hope there's a paper stuffed into that cassette sleeve that gave the person who recorded it express written consent from the NFL That's the only funny joke I can remember from family guy. "Do you have express written consent from the NFL and ABC to record that?" "Only ABC" *repeatedly shoots VCR*
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Sep 17, 2020 15:36
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Cojawfee posted:That's the only funny joke I can remember from family guy. "Do you have express written consent from the NFL and ABC to record that?" "Only ABC" *repeatedly shoots VCR* edit: I'm wrong. The Simpsons had the "implied oral consent" joke. mlnhd has a new favorite as of 03:08 on Sep 18, 2020 |
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Sep 18, 2020 03:04
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This is what I recorded the Simpsons on in the mid 90s before I got my own VHS player. I had a hand me down beta player and all the tapes.
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Sep 18, 2020 17:55
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I'm not really a hoarder, I just buy up alot of vintage items at estate auctions. I have a Beta player....SOMEWHERE and a bunch of tapes scattered around. One day, I'll be able to combine the two.  Pioneer CLD-M403 Laserdisk player. Picked this up several years ago from an older man purging his old A/V stuff He had it hooked up and playing, but this has sat in the closet, or in storage for a long time. I *think* I have a laserdisc.....somewhere that I can use to test this but....one day. One day. I know the belts tend to deteriorate in these sorts of things. I even have the remote. It's got a cool round springy knob like you see on the far right .
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Sep 19, 2020 15:47
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Johnny Aztec posted:I even have the remote. It's got a cool round springy knob like you see on the far right . That's honestly the rare thing with players. I have 3 (Onkyo, Pioneer and Sony) and only one has remote
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Sep 20, 2020 08:43
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Johnny Aztec posted:I'm not really a hoarder, I just buy up alot of vintage items at estate auctions. You should be able to play CDs on that, the tray that slides out should have a small circular depression for CDs. I have Pioneer CLD-D925 thats sounds good as a CD spinner.
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Sep 20, 2020 14:57
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I really want a decent Betamax so I can rip all these early-mid 80s Betamax tapes at my parents' house. The one we have was picked up at a yard sale for $2 (my dad was really annoyed because the kept telling him "it's not a VCR, it's a Betamax") and the tracking on it is absolute poo poo that needs constant readjusting every couple of minutes
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Sep 20, 2020 15:14
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spookygonk posted:You should be able to play CDs on that, the tray that slides out should have a small circular depression for CDs. I have Pioneer CLD-D925 thats sounds good as a CD spinner. No AC3 though which is a bummer
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Sep 20, 2020 16:00
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Johnny Aztec posted:I'm not really a hoarder, I just buy up alot of vintage items at estate auctions. You inspired me to fire up the Laserdisc player I bought a few years ago but never tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyAFzEstico
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Sep 21, 2020 00:40
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wa27 posted:You inspired me to fire up the Laserdisc player I bought a few years ago but never tested: Well, I'm glad to see I've had a little positive impact in this world! I'll do the same! Let me get on ebay/Facebook and find the cheapest Laserdisc, so I have something to test with. I actually have another Laserdisc player in my closet, so it'd be good to finally get around to do something with them.
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Sep 21, 2020 03:31
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Johnny Aztec posted:Well, I'm glad to see I've had a little positive impact in this world! Which country are you in? If Australia theres quite a great FB group of LD collectors. I drive-by it on the regular to get some deals. My latest backroom deal was this haul: Judge Dredd (1995) $5 Lion King, The: Deluxe CAV Letterbox Edition (1994) $30 Natural Born Killers: Special Edition: PSE (1994) $20 Taxi Driver: Criterion #109A (1976) $10 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) $10 Blade Runner: Director's Cut (1992) $10 From Dusk Till Dawn: Exclusive Director's Edition (1996) $10 Humphreys has a new favorite as of 11:03 on Sep 21, 2020 |
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Sep 21, 2020 09:44
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Humphreys posted:Which country are you in? If Australia theres quite a great FB group of LD collectors. I drive-by it on the regular to get some deals. My latest backroom deal was this haul: It says something that the thing I'd be most excited about is the Stallone Judge Dredd.
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Sep 21, 2020 16:25
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Humphreys posted:Which country are you in? If Australia theres quite a great FB group of LD collectors. I drive-by it on the regular to get some deals. My latest backroom deal was this haul: 'MERICA!  I posted a "Looking for" on Facebook, and was informed a booth at a local flea market has a bunch of LD. Guy said there were a bunch of classics. NO idea what the prices would be. A friend of mine saw the post, and said he could loan me a couple discs to test the players out on, so that worked out. Ill probably still swing by that place, and if the prices are right, pick some up. Could bundle them with the players.
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Sep 21, 2020 16:31
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Wacky Delly posted:It says something that the thing I'd be most excited about is the Stallone Judge Dredd. It does. That's not a good thing though
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Sep 21, 2020 16:31
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Hey hey, Judge Dredd is a fun movie. Not a good Dredd movie, but it is fun,and enjoyable in it's own right.
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Sep 21, 2020 16:44
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Yeah but look at the rest of that list. Even the Lion King would be one of the few decent 90s kids movies.
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Sep 21, 2020 16:45
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Saw this and thought of this thread: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54239180 quote:"The mystery of why an entire village lost its broadband every morning at 7am was solved when engineers discovered an old television was to blame. What the hell is this killer TV doing?
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Sep 22, 2020 09:23
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Just don't go usin' that TV between 4 and 5. That's Willie's time!
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Sep 22, 2020 11:16
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I found the Philips catalogue with the TV my dad bought in 1985. It was the biggest one they had at the time: 26". Mind you, 26" in 4:3 would be fine for me right now so 
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Sep 22, 2020 11:33
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Necrothatcher posted:Saw this and thought of this thread: Ideally, the input amplifier should only accept and amplify its received signal. In reality, some of that signal is reflected, and some of the signals from further inside the TV leak out. When he turns it on, this guys TV seems to blast out a big pulse o' energy. This blinds everyones modems/routers until they resync.
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Sep 22, 2020 15:24
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Regarding laserdiscs, I found A Clockwork Orange at Weird Stuff in San Jose and bought it because I liked the big-format cover art. Then I posted an ad on craigslist asking if anyone had a player... and some guy brought me a very nice LD player and a box full of movies, for free. Over half of them are Disney, including Japanese releases of Bambi and Song of the South, but there was also Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, and a few other good ones. Maybe I just got lucky because I was in the SF bay area, but anybody looking for a player or discs might want to try it. 2001 would be a good watch on LD but that has to be at least two discs, right?
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Sep 22, 2020 15:33
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Everytime I want to watch 2001, I remember I have to get through that ape sequence first.
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Sep 22, 2020 15:39
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Necrothatcher posted:Saw this and thought of this thread: LMAO it's literally that futurama episode where Bender's antenna kills everyone's TV reception
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Sep 22, 2020 19:10
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Cojawfee posted:Everytime I want to watch 2001, I remember I have to get through that ape sequence first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gggQtG8hgKY&t=45s
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Sep 22, 2020 19:13
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Necrothatcher posted:Saw this and thought of this thread: Take this man's telly license away. He cannot be trusted.
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Sep 22, 2020 19:16
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wa27 posted:Take this man's telly license away. He cannot be trusted. Give that man a TV that doesn't have Lucas Electronics components.
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Sep 22, 2020 19:19
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Pham Nuwen posted:Regarding laserdiscs, I found A Clockwork Orange at Weird Stuff in San Jose and bought it because I liked the big-format cover art. Then I posted an ad on craigslist asking if anyone had a player... and some guy brought me a very nice LD player and a box full of movies, for free. Over half of them are Disney, including Japanese releases of Bambi and Song of the South, but there was also Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, and a few other good ones. Maybe I just got lucky because I was in the SF bay area, but anybody looking for a player or discs might want to try it.
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Sep 22, 2020 20:51
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Necrothatcher posted:Saw this and thought of this thread: I swear I read this story before and the guy was given a new TV. Also, I wonder if his old one predated 1968.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:02
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i know where Powys is cuz of CK2
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Sep 22, 2020 21:36
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SubG posted:Is that the Criterion LD with a commentary track that's the commentary in one stereo channel and the Japanese dub in the other? Now I'll have to check. It definitely has a commentary track.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:47
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Cojawfee posted:Everytime I want to watch 2001, I remember I have to get through that ape sequence first. Turn on the TV?
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Sep 22, 2020 22:59
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Pham Nuwen posted:Now I'll have to check. It definitely has a commentary track. Criterion are known for being some of the best versions of a movie on LD. I have 1 and it's wasted on Chasing Amy. Except the Taxi Driver I have in the post but I can't judge that yet.
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My brother had Tombstone (which was 2 discs) and it had all kinds of extras and deleted scenes. I was beyond pissed when I plunked down $25 for the DVD when it first came out (in 1998/1999 dollars, mind you) and it was just the movie - no extras, nothing. They had the files! All they had to do was put them on the disc, dammit!
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