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I’ve had this vision of being able to watch 90s cable as it aired (channel flipping). This would entail a project wherein people en masse would send in all thei
by dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
I’ve had this vision of being able to watch 90s cable as it aired (channel flipping). This would entail a project wherein people en masse would send in all their VHS and in return for free digitization we would be able to keep the archived video to recreate cable airtime. I know it’s impossible, for copyright/privacy issues, but stories like this make me think it’s technically feasible. The material is out there.
- jplayer01 8y agoThis is why copyright needs to die. Modern culture is locked behind it, making it inaccessible unless people pay in perpuity. Even then, access is limited and a lot of properties simply aren't sold legally anymore.
- therealx 8y agoThere's a website like this. You can only flip through a few channels, and there's no guide, but it was long format recordings including commurcials. Ah! Why can't I think of the name. Maybe keep looking? Sorry this isn't more helpful, but maybe just knowing it's there will help.
- ctoth 8y agoI reckon you're looking for https://my90stv.com/ https://my90stv.com/ :)
- tritium_ 8y agoWow that was an interesting 5 minutes of my life. Does U.S. TV still have so many pharmaceutical ads?
- acomjean 8y agoYes, probably more. Glossy and strangely happy visuals as a list of side effects is being read. I don’t watch a lot but still have over the air tv, and it seems to be bankrolled by drug ads.
- duskwuff 8y agoNothing from the 90s, but the Internet Archive has a sizable archive of news programs from 2009 on: https://archive.org/details/tv https://archive.org/details/tv They also have a detailed archive of September 11 programming: https://archive.org/details/911 https://archive.org/details/911
- LanceH 8y agoI would enjoy channel flipping again, and not the 1+ second delay between each switch.