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AnalogRocks
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I was gifted a Citizen 14" TV/VHS combo and 5 bags of movies.
Now watching TMNT 
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Does it do 4K?
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No sorry it only does 480 K! Wayyyy better!
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I watched Sleeping Beauty, I hadn't seen it in 40+ years. I forgot how well done it was.
Apparently it was 6 million dollars in 1959 to produce.
Done on 70mm film and i got to watch it in glorious 480i VHS. 
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | I watched Sleeping Beauty, I hadn't seen it in 40+ years. I forgot how well done it was.
Apparently it was 6 million dollars in 1959 to produce.
Done on 70mm film and i got to watch it in glorious 480i VHS. |
Sorry to disappoint but VHS never was 480i, rather 240i at best
Actualy it was, but the horizontal resolution was severly decreased about to 240-320 lines and about 40 chroma lines
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What got me with VHS wasn't the lower resolution necessarily, but just how unstable/noisy it was.
I had spent quite a bit of money on a good quality SVHS player back in the day that I'd keep clean and aligned, but it seemed pointless given that we'd rent movies from the local rental store that often had been watched 200+ times and the tapes were worn to crap. For newer movies we'd try to get in early to rent them so that it hadn't been through dozens of players that had never been maintained.
After those days DVD was a godsend.
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| gjaky wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: | I watched Sleeping Beauty, I hadn't seen it in 40+ years. I forgot how well done it was.
Apparently it was 6 million dollars in 1959 to produce.
Done on 70mm film and i got to watch it in glorious 480i VHS. |
Sorry to disappoint but VHS never was 480i, rather 240i at best
Actualy it was, but the horizontal resolution was severly decreased about to 240-320 lines and about 40 chroma lines |
I know. It's so surprising how low a resolution people use to get movies in.
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| kal wrote: | What got me with VHS wasn't the lower resolution necessarily, but just how unstable/noisy it was.
I had spent quite a bit of money on a good quality SVHS player back in the day that I'd keep clean and aligned, but it seemed pointless given that we'd rent movies from the local rental store that often had been watched 200+ times and the tapes were worn to crap. For newer movies we'd try to get in early to rent them so that it hadn't been through dozens of players that had never been maintained.
After those days DVD was a godsend.
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I had scored a S-VHS deck back in 1996 at a pawn shop.
I liked recording off analog cable and, with SVHS's 420 lines of resolution and perfect freeze-frame, the recordings looked like the broadcast.
I fooled some friends one Saturday night, I told them X-Files had moved to Saturdays. I hit play on the recording before turning on the TV and there was X-files on Saturday. Not looking like regular VHS playback they bought it 'till I needed a P break and hit pause. They were blown away! Both of them said "Whoooaaa!"
That was the first time they had seen a high-end deck, and for me was a good geek prank. They total bought it.
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Just watched "Annastasia" Disney Don Bluth 1997.
Man the evil Rasmutin character was almost to brutal for young children.
I'm scared, hold me 
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | Just watched "Annastasia" Disney 1997.
Man the evil Rasmutin character was almost to brutal for young children.
I'm scared, hold me |
When it came out I was 11yo and really liked its movie poster. It was only a few years ago when I actually saw it LOL.
Originally I also thought it is a Disney movie, but it is really not!
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Whoops you are correct. I knew it was Don Bluth, as I recognized the animation style. So, I sit corrected.
Foxvideo/Don Bluth
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