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I have a pair of giant rabbit ears antenna on my TV in my apartment. I'm too cheap to buy cable, and I need it to work with the digital TV box I have. I need to move them around to get the best reception, and sometimes 2 (of the 13) networks won't come in right. It's both hilarious and depressing.
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Cornjob posted:I disagree on the "poor selection". Nearly every movie released on VHS from 1980-1997 had a LD counterpart. My grandfather collected laser discs. Every year we'd go to his house in New Jersey and watch them on his massive TV. Besides the usual sci-FI movies and dramas he had Don't Look Now, which traumatized me as a kid with man-rear end.
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Aug 3, 2012 00:14
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You want obsolete? I watch TV using a rabbit ear antenna connected to a digital set top box. I constantly need to adjust them to get a clear signal, and a few channels don't come in some days. I live alone and don't want to pay for cable, but barely any Australians have cable anyway. Everyone still watches network TV, and if you have digital you get something like 14 channels. Some of them were added in the last year! I think the whole country is switching over to digital soon. Talk about culture shock! I thought stories about only having 4 channels were made up to scare kids. Instead of using clothes dryers most people hang clothes on 'hills hoists', spinning clothes hangers Aussies are very proud of inventing.
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Nov 18, 2012 10:29
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I found some statistics from Energy Star: I listened to the AusPol thread and hung my clothes out to dry, and now its raining and my clothes are ruined. Guess clotheslines are obsolete for a reason.
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Nov 19, 2012 08:12
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For some reason most stations shut off after around 1am, so I watch Weather Watch (the weather, with music) or a blank screen. One station shuts off at 8! Living in the past is interesting.
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Nov 19, 2012 08:29
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Lots of Australian TV stations still shut off at night. It's really strange. I used to volunteer at a secondhand shop, and in just a few months a saw a ton of great old stuff like typewriters, sewing machines, etc. My favorite thing that I wish I'd bought or took photos of were these Apple paddle controllers:                
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Aug 16, 2015 09:06
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My drummer wants us to release on tape, and at a gig somebody said they 'prefer the warmer feel of VHS'. So hipster poo poo, basically. I'm waiting for CD-R mistakes to come back as the token physical format. What happened to just vinyl and a digital download?
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carry on then posted:Now if you really want hipster bullshit, release only sheet music and post a tirade against the laziness of canned music to your band blog. I think Beck did that recently. People would perform the sheet music. I get the idea of releasing on a physical format so that you have something to sell at shows, but we may have reached the point where vinyl is the least hipster option. It's all pretty cool though. Count Chocula has a new favorite as of 03:17 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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Aug 17, 2015 03:14
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WebDog posted:In Australia it generally was all of the sci-fi shows like Star Trek or Babylon five that were aired at the witching hour. You could tell if anyone was a Trek fan back then by the few days that they staggered into school looking completely dead because they'd snuck downstairs to watch. I worked overnight shifts when they aired Firefly at 2am. That was at a TV station where I had to transcribe Betamax tapes that had all the info on file cards. This whole country is obsolete tech. There's still Blockbusters open everywhere since we just got Netflix.
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Aug 18, 2015 02:17
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Has anyone mentioned Scopitone in this thread? They were basically jukeboxes that played 16mm music videos. A local cult movie host has a tone of Scopitone clips and shows them before movies. It's mostly fun 60s go-go stuff. http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/scopitone-60s-music-videos-youve-never-seen/ http://www.scopitonearchive.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a02SqdXuq0 http://scopitones.blogs.com/   
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Aug 18, 2015 12:34
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Zaphod42 posted:When I was a teenager the cool thing to do (well, not so much) was cruise around wardriving with laptops. Thanks to horrible data limits and expensive Internet, I've recently had to 'warwalk' around with my phone. Or hope the library left the WiFi on at night. Otherwise I couldn't get Facebook messages or anything.
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Aug 19, 2015 14:34
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Some people have no credit so they just Facebook. Some people don't have your number. I'm torn on physical media. I got rid of 90% of my CD collection and I kinda regret it. I had them in this big albums, hundreds of them. Just kept one box. My friend had a bunch of awesome VHS tapes she had to get rid of, so we kept the covers to use for art - lots of b-movie and monster stuff. I'm probably getting rid of most of my DVDs too. I remember reading some Star Trek book where physical books were just a rare affectation. We're not at that point yet, since it's way more fun and easy to read books than using e-readers or iBooks, but it was still oddly accurate.
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Aug 20, 2015 12:22
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SubG posted:That article is from 1948, but it's even older than that. The first commercially produced and successful typewriter was introduced in the 1870s, and there are surviving examples of typewriter art from the 1890s. E.g., from Pitman's Typewriter Manual published in 1893: The photos from this thread need to be compiled into an awesome Tumblr.
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Aug 21, 2015 11:14
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http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/saving-the-scream-queens/401141/ This makes me regret helping my friend get rid of a bunch of horror and explotation VHSes.
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Aug 22, 2015 02:55
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http://dangerousminds.net/comments/new_app_makes_hd_smartphone_video_look_just_like_crappy_1980s_camcorder_foo There's a new app that makes smartphone footage looks like 80s camcorders. Ironically, in 10 years we'll be nostalgic for Instagram filters.
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MSN Messenger was really popular in Australia. I used AOL Instant Messenger as a kid. Remember that program that let you set an away message for AIM? It was basically Facebook a decade earlier. http://www.cameronsworld.net/ has all the Geocities images and autoplaying sounds you need.
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