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The VHS tracking is what makes me suspicious (and of course the date, the lack of any mention of it at all) If you've waited for 25 years to announce something
by iso1210 6y ago
The VHS tracking is what makes me suspicious (and of course the date, the lack of any mention of it at all)
If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly.
> There’s the KOMO News footage, which some of us still have on a dusty VHS tape
Does anyone from Seatle recognise the two KOMO reporters?
If the footage is a deep fake over real footage from that time, I'm very very impressed. I suspect that the audio is fake, sort of matches up with the real recording, and the box is digitally replaced.
- gruez 6y ago>If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly. maybe the tape degraded?
- whatthesmack 6y agoFormer Seattleite... those are (were?) legit KOMO news anchors. I believe the person on the left's name is Keith Eldridge. I don't remember the name of the person on the right, but I do recognize them.
- floren 6y agoGood call, this definitely looks like the same guy: https://komonews.com/station/people/keith-eldridge https://komonews.com/station/people/keith-eldridge
- DonHopkins 6y agoHas anyone contacted him and made him an offer on that box of Microsoft Coffee? He was right, it would be worth a lot now!
- glenneroo 6y agoThe real question should be, who is the news anchor woman that he gave it to at the end? Did she end up taking it home?
- withinrafael 6y agoI reached out to him and KOMO on Twitter, no harm in trying. Would be handy to find these reported references in tech magazines and radio programs.
- ElderKorihor 6y ago> I don't remember the name of the person on the right Probably Kathi Goertzen?
- cavanasm 6y agohttps://weatherchannel.fandom.com/wiki/KOMO-TV#Previous_Personalities https://weatherchannel.fandom.com/wiki/KOMO-TV#Previous_Pers... From here, I looked up pictures of anchors who worked in that time period, and I see Eric Slocum (now deceased) and Margo Myers who did evening news together in that time frame, and look quite similar to the people in the video. EDIT: someone else identified Keith Eldridge, who definitely looks like a match for the video. https://komonews.com/station/people/keith-eldridge https://komonews.com/station/people/keith-eldridge
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- kenjackson 6y agoWhat's also suspicious is there is a lot you can find online about the 1994 Vatican City hoax that they allude to, but nothing about Microsoft Coffee. I think a really good prank using deep fake tech.
- IncRnd 6y ago> If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly. The video maight have been digitized years ago not yesterday.
- sgtnoodle 6y agoI dunno, I don't think I would care about getting a perfect capture of a VHS tape from a silly project 25 years ago. The VHS artifacts add character to the memory.
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- mynameisvlad 6y ago> If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly. I mean this assumes said perfect video exists. I don't think most people would go to extreme lengths to preserve a video tape of a prank they performed 25 years ago.