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Sweevo posted:They carried on doing that poo poo with DVDs for a while. They'd release a series, but not as a box-set, you had to buy 45 discs with two episodes each. I've noticed they STILL pull that poo poo with cartoons, releasing a few episodes a disc to scalp parents out of $30AUD each time.
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At least my Xfiles vhs tapes came with those cards with the cool freaky artwork and were only...80 bucks in 96 money for 6 episodes on three tapes... Definitely got my moneys worth by rewatching constantly
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it took me 3 years to get the entirety of Evangelion on DVD. Buying one dvd ever 2-3 months because they were 30bux for 2 episodes. But I did used to record everything from TV, I had tons of tapes of simpsons, babylon 5, ds9, sailor moon and and I think the first season of Voyager before i realized there was no point because I would never want to watch this show again.
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Sweevo posted:They carried on doing that poo poo with DVDs for a while. They'd release a series, but not as a box-set, you had to buy 45 discs with two episodes each. It took a while for them to come down, even after they would put out full seasons on just 5 or 6 DVDs. Granted, this is more for the 2000's poo poo thread, but I was working one summer (2002/2003) in a Wal-Mart electronics department, and the full seasons of Trek, X-Files, B5, etc... were about $100. Even current "prestige" dramas are generally under $50 a season now, even when first released a year after they aired. And older shows are pretty much at $20/season, less if you get one of those "full series" collections. And these are Blu-Rays at this point, not even standard DVDs. I actually worked out a scam (after I was done working there) where I bought 1 of those "$5 DVDs!" from the discount bin, copied the UPC code into some barcode software, and printed them off onto sticker sheet, and bought several DVD sets of Star Trek, X-FRiles ,etc... for only $5 each, and sold them for like $70 each on eBay. It only worked because, for some reason, I noticed the Wal-Mart I worked at was the only one that I'd seen that didn't have the TV DVD sets behind a locked case where the associate had to open it and you had to pay for it right there. They were just sitting next to the regular $20 movie DVDs. I'd grab one, discretely slap that generic $5 barcode sticker on it, and choose the checkout lane with the oldest cashier who wouldn't have any idea what price it should ring up as.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I actually worked out a scam ... Did they not come up as the wrong thing in the system and on the reciept? (Though to be fair, I imagine that's something a cashier could overlook, you tend to just go on automatically unless something sticks out.) Or was it more that they were listed as 'Generic 5$ Bargain DVD #452'? I'm curious how that ended up once it was time to count the stocks. "Hey, according to this we're supposed to have -30 copies of the Leave it to Beaver Season 1 dvd, but all of them are still here."
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SubNat posted:Did they not come up as the wrong thing in the system and on the reciept? (Though to be fair, I imagine that's something a cashier could overlook, you tend to just go on automatically unless something sticks out.) Yeah, the latter. The "$5 DVD bin" just had a sticker placed over the barcode of every DVD in there, and when rung up it just came in as "$5 Discount DVD" or something. By choosing an old cashier, I was confident they probably might not even know what a DVD is, let alone what they should cost. I only ever bought one at a time, and IF I was ever questioned on it, I figured I would claim ignorance as well and agree it should ring up as $100, or whatever. I never was, but I also only did it about 10 times so as not to push my luck. I'm not PROUD of it, at least not the theft part, partially proud of thinking up the scam at only 19/20, the the early days of the internet and all, but I was a poor college kid and had NO money for a month or so after paying rent and whatnot so I needed to do something to get some quick cash.
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Aug 21, 2020 18:28
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DrBouvenstein posted:It took a while for them to come down, even after they would put out full seasons on just 5 or 6 DVDs. You were doing god's own work 
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Aug 21, 2020 18:33
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verbal enema posted:any one remember some 90s r&b song where the singer is like "lets talk about the nation lets talk revelations" ? "A Long Walk" by Jill Scott maybe?
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twistedmentat posted:But I did used to record everything from TV, I had tons of tapes of simpsons, babylon 5, ds9, sailor moon and and I think the first season of Voyager before i realized there was no point because I would never want to watch this show again. I did this for the first five seasons or so of the Simpsons and for the entirety of Red Dwarf. And because I wanted to cram as much onto each cassette as I could, they were all recorded in SLP speed and looked like steaming hot garbage. Plus, for the first few years, the local Fox affiliate was a crappy UHF channel so the reception was godawful. And now I haven’t see either show in about twenty years.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:I did this for the first five seasons or so of the Simpsons and for the entirety of Red Dwarf. And because I wanted to cram as much onto each cassette as I could, they were all recorded in SLP speed and looked like steaming hot garbage. Plus, for the first few years, the local Fox affiliate was a crappy UHF channel so the reception was godawful. God, that brought back memories. My local fox affiliate was also on a crappy UHF channel, until 1994 when we got cable. I remember a few years later we found an old tape with something recorded off of the UHF, and it was amazing we could have even seen what was happening on there.
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This is extremely 90s and one of my favorite performances of anything, ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOfLzGvlJJo Suede at the 1993 Brit Awards Some context from the comments: apparently the awards sucked even more then than they do now (haven't seen them in like 15 yrs so cannot confirm but awards shows in general are ehh) and the audience is all industry execs. The band felt super uncomfortable and unwelcome and you can tell!! The shot of the audience's faces at the very end is just 
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twistedmentat posted:it took me 3 years to get the entirety of Evangelion on DVD. Buying one dvd ever 2-3 months because they were 30bux for 2 episodes. I recall doing this but with VHS. The box art was neat, though.
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Iron Crowned posted:God, that brought back memories. My local fox affiliate was also on a crappy UHF channel, until 1994 when we got cable. I remember a few years later we found an old tape with something recorded off of the UHF, and it was amazing we could have even seen what was happening on there. Aren’t you from Ohio? And would thus be referring to WOIO TV-19 being the Fox affiliate, which then switched with WJW TV-8, the CBS affiliate at the time? If so, hi-five.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Aren’t you from Ohio? And would thus be referring to WOIO TV-19 being the Fox affiliate, which then switched with WJW TV-8, the CBS affiliate at the time? Thanks but, I currently live in Ohio, my affiliate growing up was KCPQ 13 in Seattle. There are a ton of Simpsons gifs out there with the Q13 watermark for whatever reason.
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Sweevo posted:They carried on doing that poo poo with DVDs for a while. They'd release a series, but not as a box-set, you had to buy 45 discs with two episodes each. Anime was real bad with that, FLCL was a $60 purchase because it was two episodes on three DVDs
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It started to get better around 2004-8 when the HD-DVD/Blu Ray format wars started and lots of cult shows normalized the "season release" DVD.
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Iron Crowned posted:Thanks but, I currently live in Ohio, my affiliate growing up was KCPQ 13 in Seattle. There are a ton of Simpsons gifs out there with the Q13 watermark for whatever reason. I would almost prefer if my ripped Simpsons episodes had a couple authentic 80s-90s cartoons per episode, just to relive those times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfAPDR8tmsg This was probably the first time I'd ever really heard grunge. I don't think I had my guns'n'roses and metallica posters for much longer after I saw this.
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Sweevo posted:They carried on doing that poo poo with DVDs for a while. They'd release a series, but not as a box-set, you had to buy 45 discs with two episodes each. And then you'd find some guy selling the complete series on 3 discs for like 30 bux, making the bootleg way more convenient.
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Volcott posted:And then you'd find some guy selling the complete series on 3 discs for like 30 bux, making the bootleg way more convenient. That was what happened with my Cowboy Bebop. I ordered it from the Amazon Marketplace back in the summer of 2006 and then started reading about all these bootleg anime box sets and that set was absolutely bootleg as hell. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't spell the name of the creator wrong on the packaging in a legit copy
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I never once had a problem with the audio/video/subs on the actual discs, so at least they were competent bootleggers.
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Len posted:Anime was real bad with that, FLCL was a $60 purchase because it was two episodes on three DVDs ADV was such a scam in general, Funi was slightly better but still awful at the time. Anime was such a niche thing at the time that they knew they could get away with charging that price if people wanted physical copies, but thank gently caress for Kazaa and Limewire picking up the slack, although this is straying more early 2000s here, while the 90s was certainly the era of ordering tapes from someone on a BBS who made their own subs or some poo poo.
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Cartoon Man posted:
This is the version that always gets posted, and I had one as well. But I swear I had an even shittier one before that which slid onto the gameboy horizontally, had no lens, and just a tiny Christmas bulb to light the screen. I haven't found a picture of that version anywhere. It sucked even worse. Edit: this motherfucker https://imgur.com/a/XY4HTxF Also I had a gameboy-shaped briefcase that held the console and 15 or so cartridges and it kicked rear end. Highbrow Slick has a new favorite as of 08:23 on Aug 22, 2020 |
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twistedmentat posted:it took me 3 years to get the entirety of Evangelion on DVD. Buying one dvd ever 2-3 months because they were 30bux for 2 episodes. In the late 90s, there was this one guy who worked at a game store in Helsinki, Finland who would get tapes of Babylon 5, the X-files, etc shipped from the US. He would then lend them to people, there was a waiting list for the most popular stuff. I was a big fan of XF but I couldn't watch his tapes because I didn't have a NTSC VHS player  He kept taunting me about this and dropping tiny little spoilers about the show.
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In the summer of ‘99, I moved to Pittsburgh for art school, and the tv reception in my apartment was atrocious. This was the only thing that came in, and even that looked like scrambled porn. About a year later, the school gave us free digital cable. I feel like our money could have been better spent, but whatever.
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Cartoon Man posted:
I raise you the Handy Boy which I found at a Goodwill for $5 once and still have at my dad's somewhere 
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Defining the ’90s Music Canon
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Cartoon Man posted:
And then when the first GBA was released, things like that popped up again because the screen was so drat dim from alack of back or front light. As well as internal kits to mod a front light inside the thing. But, again, that's stuff more suited to the 2000s thread.
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DrBouvenstein posted:And then when the first GBA was released, things like that popped up again because the screen was so drat dim from alack of back or front light. I had one of those worm lights  I think I remember it working ok?
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:I had one of those worm lights I had this and I HATED the way the lightbulb itself reflected on the screen.
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:I had one of those worm lights That was probably the best one, for what it's worth.
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Pneub posted:That was probably the best one, for what it's worth. Counterpoint, this battery hog never did me wrong. I have not read the below review https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/02/22/flood-light-review?amp=1
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I remember some motherfuckers monopolizing this thing to play KC and Jojo's "All my Life" for like 3 months straight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvMT_mVbqw
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Pneub posted:That was probably the best one, for what it's worth. I remember having to strategically tilt the GBA to make the bright dot it reflected to not be in the way but also help me see what I needed to at that point in the game.
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The GBA SP was just backlight + a clamshell design but damned if I didn't buy one as soon as I had the money.
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Volcott posted:The GBA SP was just backlight + a clamshell design but damned if I didn't buy one as soon as I had the money. My parents got one the day they found out it had a rechargable battery. Between the gba and that light I linked they were real tired of buying batteries all the time
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Len posted:My parents got one the day they found out it had a rechargable battery. Between the gba and that light I linked they were real tired of buying batteries all the time I had rechargeables from The Radio Shack but yeah it hungered. Only saw one secondhand but apparently keeping a game gear in batts was like that dril tweet about candles.
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Volcott posted:I had rechargeables from The Radio Shack but yeah it hungered. We didn't have rechargeables, for some reason my parents despised them and I still don't actually know why. Were they bad in the late 80s/early 90s? The hatred was instilled by the time I got a game boy pocket in 3rd or 4th grade which was 97/98
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