SilverWook

So, the Tool Man himself, is a tool? Thank you! I’m here all week! 😉

I used S-VHS extensively back in college. It beat the pants off of U-Matic. More than a few forum members have at least one S-VHS deck around for videotape preservations.

S-VHS straddled the world between consumers who wanted better video quality for their home video projects, and low end broadcast. The broadcast end competed mostly with Sony’s venerable U-matic format, which was the backbone of many a small cable company or college. One low power tv station near me, (now long gone) was new enough in the early 90’s, they were S-VHS from the ground up. I rented their editing suite once.

Also called being a dick. 😉

Alderaan said:

Saw Beauty and the Beast (2017) last night:

Animation and production quality was outstanding. Film looked beautiful, although the interesting shots were all CGI, and nothing great from the camera work otherwise. There were even some moments when the camera panned around that everything went out of focus for an extended amount of time. We watched just a normal showing, maybe that stuff wasn’t a problem in the 3D or IMAX shows, I don’t know.

Biggest problem with this movie was the miscasting of the lead actress. Emma Watson never owned the role and I spent the first half hour pining for someone like Julie Andrews. There was no love or charm emanating from her persona, no connection between her and her father, none between her and the beast, and she was even entirely unconvincing and moribund in feigning her contempt for the boorish Gaston. The framing of the story also missed the mark, in my opinion, as there was no need to show the prince before he turned into a beast, nor any need to show the servants in the same way. Those early intrusions sapped energy from the story’s pathos, but maybe it was the same way in the original cartoon, I really don’t remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbL_KjOBHe8

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.mic.com/articles/amp/171536/waiter-asked-latina-women-for-proof-of-residency-before-taking-their-order?espv=

A waiter at a Southern California restaurant has been fired after asking a group of Latina women to provide “proof of residency” before taking their drink order, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

As some people on twitter are still screaming boycott, I guess firing the guy and apologizing wasn’t enough.

Sad to hear. The Captain Sternn segment of the Heavy Metal movie based on his comic was one of my favorites. Probably the one story that made it into the film mostly intact.

IIRC, there was a VCR in the late 80’s/early 90’s that revisited the dials idea to make digital programming and clock setting easier. Can’t recall who made it though.

Sony also made VHS decks in the end. A dark day in the view of die hard Beta fans. Beta’s industrial broadcast cousin Betacam became an industry standard though.

Sougouk said:

SilverWook said:
Curiously, my DVD recorder has no such feature, but setting the clock is fairly simple compared to the arcane sequence of buttons our first family VCR in 1984 required. 😉

Was your first family VCR like this? This was a beast, and took up a lot of room.

I always liked the buttons on that. Damned if I can find a picture of the actual model but it was cosmetically close to this one.

Ours didn’t have the tacky fake wood paneling, and the tuner was all digital, and allegedly “cable ready”, a much abused term often used to make unwary consumers think their VCR could unscramble pay channels. Our was one of the first linear stereo models, with Dolby NR, which I thought sounded pretty good through the cheap little Radio Shack amplifier and speakers I added later. Over the air stereo tv broadcasting wasn’t quite a thing yet, but you could hook it up to a stereo system, and record an FM simulcast of certain movies and concerts.

I sort of want the one HD DVD player Toshiba made for RCA, because it reminds me of the old family VCR.

Jetrell Fo said:

Both my DVD Recorder and my Panasonic AG-1980 are blinking 12:00 as I type, lol. I would think something was wrong if they weren’t blinking.

😉

Not much point since the tuner is useless these days. I keep the DVD recorder clock up to date as it timestamps when I actually did a transfer. It certainly helped pinning down a batch of discs from 8 years ago that are going bad now as they were all recorded in the same month.

Wait, 1980 Flash Gordon was a family film? 😉

The profanity levels are getting a little high in here.

The costume almost looks too big on this chap. So an insert shot makes sense to me. Also note the Endor backdrop seems rather small. This could have been shot at ILM months after principal photgraphy wrapped.

I think it’s like that Residual Self Image thing in The Matrix. You remember what you used to look like and what you wore. (Or in Anakin’s case, what you would look like if you never got delimbed and barbecued.) Also, we really don’t need to see naked Force ghosts.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/us/twitter-journalist-strobe-epilepsy/index.html

The questions still stands then. Where did the boots go? 😉

Late 90’s models onwards had auto clock set. One channel in most cities, (usually a PBS station) had a subcarrier signal the VCR clock would use to set itself. You were still on your own setting it up to record something unattended.

The last regular VHS deck my parents used had this feature, but I could never get it to work according to the manual. But if you left it off, it would magically set itself. I never could catch it in the act either. Tempted to plug it in again one of these days and see if it will still set the clock. The cable system here still has a few analog channels, downconverted from digital of course.

Curiously, my DVD recorder has no such feature, but setting the clock is fairly simple compared to the arcane sequence of buttons our first family VCR in 1984 required. 😉

Yeah, let’s not discuss legboots here.

Jeebus said:

Handman said:

Jeebus’s new avatar has a lightsaber placed just right that I thought he was banned.

lol

Now I want to change it, but I made a promise to myself that I won’t change my avatars as often.

You could just flip it horizontally?

Jetrell Fo said:

Also, Trump comes from a different era, he is not as tech saavy as some seem to expect him to be.

FYI, my college tv years were a cross between WKRP in Cincinnati and Videodrome. 😉

Moderator sense tingling…

So, what’s German for “Kindly leave me the hell out of this, Mr. President!”? :p