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Post by creepygirl on Dec 23, 2011 9:47:45 GMT -5
This is just to comment on earlier posts concerning VCRs. During the VHS boom of the 80s and early 90s, hundreds of titles were released on VHS that still have not seen the light of day on DVD. Without my VCR a big chunk of my collection could not be watched. What I'm saying is... I like VCRs. /note/: I too knew the above poster was refering to "Operation: Spoilssport.
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Post by herald7 on Dec 23, 2011 11:50:42 GMT -5
This is just to comment on earlier posts concerning VCRs. During the VHS boom of the 80s and early 90s, hundreds of titles were released on VHS that still have not seen the light of day on DVD. Without my VCR a big chunk of my collection could not be watched. What I'm saying is... I like VCRs. You're absolutely right! It's like how some cassette tapes weren't put on CD either. That's what can happen with media migration, a lot of things get left behind. Like I recently bought a VHS of William Katt's movie First Love, because it's never been put on DVD. Then again, I think streaming video is the future anyway (and thankfully it is on Netflix in that format).
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Post by prometheus74 on Dec 23, 2011 22:49:22 GMT -5
Then again, I think streaming video is the future anyway (and thankfully it is on Netflix in that format). I was just about to mention Netflix and other online streaming services, but you beat me to it. I, too, think that's the future of home entertainment. And it makes me a little bit sad, because I own literally several hundreds of movies and TV episodes on DVD and Blu-Ray-----which have cost me, overall, thousands of dollars over the years to amass that large collection. All of which might soon be museum artifacts to future generations. Netflix may be a very convenient way to watch movies and TV shows, but the fact is that hundreds of titles will fall by the wayside, exactly like what happened when VHS was replaced by digital technology in the late 90's. Plus the large movie rental stores-----which once teemed with long line-ups of customers on Friday nights and Saturday nights, eager to rent the latest releases, holding their candy and bags of popcorn------are quickly going the way of the dodo (or T-Rex, if you prefer). The Blockbuster Video chain has now disappeared forever, and every other DVD rental stores are quickly following suit.... Although I haven't rented movies in several years, preferring to buy instead, I still feel nostalgic. And I think it's a significant loss to our culture, to be honest.
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Post by herald7 on Dec 23, 2011 23:58:36 GMT -5
Netflix may be a very convenient way to watch movies and TV shows, but the fact is that hundreds of titles will fall by the wayside, exactly like what happened when VHS was replaced by digital technology in the late 90's. That's a good point; migration isn't done messing up our entertainment yet, hehe. Ideally what I'd like to see happen is for audiences to get more say on what gets streamed online. The only problem are the networks and studios constantly putting up roadblocks. But eventually they will have to give into the future.
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Post by scenario on Jul 10, 2013 0:14:11 GMT -5
What's up guys. Don't know how many people remember me, I haven't been around in a few years, poked my head in and found this old discussion from 2 years ago pretty interesting so I though I'd chime in. Don't know if I'll get any replies anytime soon as the boards seem pretty dead. But I figure what the heck. I've loved TGAH since I was a little kid, but I've also nearly always thought TGAH was a dated TV show. There was a strong 1979 vibe that carried over into TGAH. A vibe that made the series look far more dated then other 80s TV shows. To me the series looked dated by the mid-late 80s when I would watch syndicated reruns. Even the 1982-'83 season looked dated by the late 80s. The big bulky computers looked dated by the later 80s, as did the late 70s fashions by the mid 80s. It wasn't straight up 70s, but the series had that transition phase look to it, you know the feathered blow dried Chachi Arcola hair, the leisure suits and big collars. A lot of the dialogue seemed goofy to me by the later 80s, like "I don't know spit about that jack, but I know how stand my ground!" or "If you mess with my girl again I'm gonna have to pop you in the melon again, ya dig?" Who the hell ever talked like that? By the 90s, when I tried showing some friends episodes, they couldn't bare to watch much of it b/c how dated it looked. I even tried showing the series to a guy about 20 years older then me, someone who would have been a 20 something during the 1970s and even he was repulsed by the 70ish quality of the pilot episode and "the jazzed up disco beats". I still remember this guy telling me this back in the mid 90s. I'm certainly not trying to rag on the 70s or the early 80s. I have a great fondness for the 1970s and I adore the 80s and 90s, but it was always the stories, writing and acting that carried TGAH for me and I suspect a lot of you. Here are some stuff I thought did keep the series looking relevant and modern into the later 80s. Ronald Reagan, the space shuttle, cordless phones, and other general 80s references. Though the cordless phones would get neutralized by the invariable rotary phone that would pop up every now and then. Just like Bill's car phone makes the show seem kinda modern and also horribly dated at the same time. Anyway, I think it's kinda unfair to talk about how dated this show is to the 2010s, 30 years later, when we can easily talk about how dated the show looked by 1988. The microwave cooking seems odd, as I looked it up and microwave ovens were sold commercially in the late 1960s. I even remember heating up food in our microwave as as a little kid around 1982. Ofcourse everything becomes antiquated, the early 2000s and the many CRTVs, the bigger, bulkier computer monitors and lack of smartphones make 10 years ago look dated compared to today. Anyway, hope all is well around these parts.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Jul 10, 2013 21:07:42 GMT -5
Welcome back, scenario! A lot of us still lurk around here, waiting for people like you to show up. I never thought about it like that, but since I wasn't really alive during the first run, I can see why that is. I can see the 70s vibe though, especially in episodes like the 200MPH FASTBALL. The uniforms had a very 70s vibe.
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Post by MelMac on Jul 11, 2013 23:06:11 GMT -5
What's up guys. Don't know how many people remember me, I haven't been around in a few years, poked my head in and found this old discussion from 2 years ago pretty interesting so I though I'd chime in. Don't know if I'll get any replies anytime soon as the boards seem pretty dead. But I figure what the heck. Welcome back Scenario. Yes, it's been relatively quiet, with more action when Katt or Connie do a convention or the like. But many of us still lurk around here more often than not. I didn't see much of the leisure suits except for the bad guys, but for me that makes it funnier - their "out of date" beliefs (crime is good, etc.) reflected in the clothing. I agree with the Chachi hairstyle - I had wondered where I had seen Tony's hairstyle (particularly) before. I guess for me because the 1970s styles started back up again around the time the DVDs came out, I didn't see any dated aspects as far as clothing - in a way, save a few instances you've mentioned, the show could fit in today as far as the clothes. What's interesting about the shuttle is they used a photo of it for the show itself, given the Columbia wasn't as active (if it had been launched) at the time of the episode. What makes me shudder though is many years later the Columbia WAS in a disaster. It's probably the one time a show has predicted a fate of something - even though admittedly it wasn't caused by an electric eel. I'm showing my age (though I was 2 when the show first aired), but we didn't have a microwave in our place until maybe 1984, because of the costs. It was still expensive, and we'd seen Ralph and Pam as being quite wealthy to have one. I also remember we had to program the microwave to cook anything. In all honesty, I take for granted that now I can use my microwave to fuse glass (with a special kiln) and not have to punch 20 numbers. And even the giant computers weren't too dated - I remember seeing an ENIAC/UNIVAC computers large enough to fill a room as late as 1989/1990. It was also about 60 degrees (or felt like it) because they had to stay cool. But maybe I'm old fashioned - we did have at least one class that used the typewriter type printers in my classroom in elementary school, complete with the Apple IIe computers. In short ... maybe that's why I enjoy the show in spite of the dated appearance of items - I still remember them and in some cases still used them until about a decade ago.
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