POV: Streaming doesn't exist yet. You're watching a movie on cable and you somehow don't mind the pan-and-scan, censored dialogue, or 5 minute commercial breaks every 15 minutes
POV: Streaming doesn't exist yet. You're watching a movie on cable and you somehow don't mind the pan-and-scan...
OH boy a commercial! Now I can talk to my friends and take a quick bathroom break
This is what they took from us
5 minute commercial breaks every 15 minutes.
But we still have that. I think it might even be worse
The commercials part has been sneaking into streaming though
You little zoom zoomers don't remember televisions that had circle dial wheels to change the channels, and there was a second knob for the shitty channels like A.M. radio called VHF (UHF being the main knob with the good channels).
We still had this slop in the 80's weren't no remote controls boy.
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Go back to tiktok, please.
That sounds old even for Anon Babble standards. The image quality on those couldn't have been very good. Were you even capable of running a coaxial cable to the back of it to get cable?
he knows the exact platform that "POV" is popular on
You first
Were you even capable of running a coaxial cable to the back of it to get cable?
nta but everybody had an RF to coax converter
We had an antenna on top of our house. No cable :(
sometimes, commercial breaks had Rhonda
It's popular on every normie site like tiktok, reddit, instagram and facebook. I just picked tiktok since it's the worst of the bunch.
STOP TURNING THE DIAL SO FAST!
Zoomszooms can't imagine the suffering we GenX had to endure. I taped Star Wars, He Man, Transformers, Robotech etc. broadcast on tv using a VCR and had to hover my finger over the pause button everytime an ad comes on. Some of the ads still got recorded and ironically they are more interesting to me today than the recorded movies.
You're watching a movie on cable and you somehow don't mind the pan-and-sca
Wasn't a huge deal. Still isn't. It's inferior, but not a huge deal.
or 5 minute commercial breaks every 15 minutes
Never happened. Ads are worse now.
the knob broke off
have to ues pliers to change channels
Real ones permanently attached a wrench or vice grip
Gen X had just the right amount of technology desu
Dad would go outside and rotate the big pole the antenna was on and scream "How is it?!?!?" while you watched the TV and said "Good...better...ok STOP!!!...no no go back a little...TOO FAR...OTHER WAY"
you somehow don't mind the pan-and-scan, censored dialogue, or 5 minute commercial breaks every 15 minutes
this will be streaming soon when they have a monopoly, and they will
rent video from video store
Highlight of the movie is finding the alternate cover on the back of the cover slip
Good times
pay $200 cable bill
pay $20 streaming app to get rid of ads and then cancel when youre done watching the show you want to watch
It's not that old. My bedroom TV was one of those in the early 90s. Coaxial for VHS, and being in Australia, I could sometimes pick up almost watchable New Zealand channels.
It was all I had outside of going to the movies.
when you get dad to set the timer to record a late movie and the late movie sucks but the movie you never heard of that came on after is kino except the recording ends with 20 minutes still to go and no VHS store in your town has the movie
Y-You dont understand!
if you buy every single streaming service with every addon possible its almost as much as paying for cable!
Is streaming the most consumer friendly market in the US?
commercial breaks have become several minutes longer than they used to be, and more soulless with tons of B and C-list celebrities instead of campy no name actors.
kys yourself
Imagine going on the internet and just lying, theres no way you ever picked up NZ channels, you'd be hard pressed to pick up regional city channels like Prime etc and what not a few hundred km away and they'd be 90% snow.
Tv ads got much worse in the last decade or so. It wasn't 5 minutes of ads every 15 minutes it was like 2.5 minutes every 25 minutes which was enough to enjoy the movie and then get up and get a snack before it came back. It became intolerable later on.
your dad replaces the VCR with a new one that has auto-tracking and you cry in frustration because it never works and you were a manual tracking master and could get a watchable image for even the most rented tapes
finding a tape you recorded years ago with all kinds of crazy shit after the movie
that tape under the bed with all the self recorded fuzzy ass porn
One, I only had regional Channels because I lived in Tasmania. Two, New Zealand broadcasts on both radio and TV were obtainable in summer when they were boosted for the boats.
thanks comedy central presents
jakey g's best role
Also, this is now bringing back childhood trauma
have this exact same argument with my friends in the 1990s
claim I'm lying or that I'm seeing something that isn't there
Vehemntly defend myself
they catalogue all the times I have lied
Half of them are actually mostly true
Story of my life.
Any anons here ever hit a thrift store or yard sale for vhs tapes and found gold?
I used to dream about getting a hold of a hot milf's secret sextape.
Who the fuck was paying $200 a month for cable lol?
you try copying a tape from one VCR to another and the resulting tape is dark and fucked up, you later learn that this is copy protection
You're either 60+ years old or you don't remember them either. I'm 30 and the only person I ever knew that had a TV like that was my grandma, and it was a shitty one she kept in her room while she had a normal tube TV with buttons and a remote in the lounge room.
the cool uncle who had the porn channels.
Not sure how you took away from this thread an aggressive attack on streamcucks. The 90s and 00s were just dominated by cable TV which almost everyone in America had it unless you were dirt poor and could only watch broadcast television via antenna.
POV: parents are asleep, time to scan for brief flashes of kino
OHHHHH YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!
51 here. We had that TV up to 1982.
I'm a zoomzoom and the only movies I got to watch at home until I was like 11 were VHS tapes picked up for sale at the library, or DVDs from the Redbox at the Albertson's. Then we started renting DVDs through the mail from Netflix
The Sony Trinitron was the best tv, if you had anything else, you were a fucking poorfag.
I never had this problem. I know PAL had the same macrovision protection as NTSC (because google told me). But I *think* when copying tapes here, you had to put a piece of tape over a hole in the front. Something along those lines.
Actually ime with OTA TV there are fewer ads than there used to be. Probably a result of declining viewership and maybe a move to algorithmic advertising even for that.
I'm only 40+ and I had a TV like that into the 90's. Not the living room TV though.
I *think* it was Macrovision. I lived in an NTSC country but was trying to copy what was I think, a PAL tape, from muh home country (UK) and it did that. It was the only tape I had that problem with.
Cable sucked shit though. You might've watched 10 or 12 channels out of 600, except you had to buy 3 or 4 bundles of dozens of channels to get that 12. Streaming is a better proposition because you get more or less all those 600 channels for the price of those bundles, not to mention you can watch you want whenever without worrying about DVR space or paying a king's ransom for on demand.
Dude same. We didn't everything new at the time.
yeah but do you have Rhonda?
Then you got a glimpse into a life before streamshit. When, if you bought a movie, you owned it, and could view it forever at the same initial quality. Nowadays, streaming services will introduce ads on something you PAY FOR....and also remove content from an episode that they deem to be "problematic"
My grandparents had one in their spare bedroom. I remember watching episodes of Hercules on it.
I looked it up. The hole/tape thing wasn't piracy protection, it was to stop you from recording over a tape. Also now that I think about it, my dad surprisingly had very little straight pirated movies. It was mostly TV recorded stuff.
I've only ever heard of the "tape over a hole" thing regarding audio cassettes. And floppy disks now that I think about it. I think there was a tab to preventing recording on a movie tape, but I'm not sure who ever had a problem with that.
you could just recover the hole with scotch tape and record again.
you'd be hard pressed to pick up regional city channels like Prime
Damn, never thought I'd seen Prime mentioned here. I actually worked at the Prime TV station in Canberra from 2010-16. It was my first ever real job and super comfy in hindsight.
Cope. JVC D-Series were arguably just as good as Sony Trinitrons.
Wasn't a huge deal. Still isn't. It's inferior, but not a huge deal
Can you imagine watching something like Ben Hur in pan and scan though?
USA network, TNN/TBS, and Comedy Central were usually the place to go for shitty cable movie re-edits. Would Idiocracy even have cult status if CC didn't air that movie all the time?
Right on my SANDWICH right after you kiss it!
his family didn't get a christmas gift for the whole household from his rich single uncle that was a yagi and remote controlled rotating base mount so you could label all the directions of best reception for each channel
Being able to watch red dwarf and see what the fuck was going on was a game changer.
what I find more baffling is that until the 60s, it was common to walk into a movie theater halfway through the film. then you wait for it to end and start again, and you leave halfway through once you see the first half. AND THIS WAS NORMAL??????
Later on we got one of those things where you moved a dial and a motor on the pole would move the antenna. It wasn't always 100% spot on though, and being off by, 1/4 of a degree or whatever would have the desired station disappear into snow.
TV bumpers alone gave each channel an identity. Nickelodeon just blindly threw money at some doo-wop group and put their music against trippy animations. They need to get their shit together and do that again
Fantastic fick