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Yes…yes, they are. But I grew up with them, so I still love’em.
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Some things like pron don't improve with hd.Yes…yes, they are. But I grew up with them, so I still love’em.
What?! 4K/8K pron rocks!Some things like pron don't improve with hd.
I was one of the few that grew up with Betamax instead of VHS. It would be interesting to see what differences those offered with modern source material as well.
What?! 4K/8K pron rocks!
Eh, with a population of 7 billion, there are plenty of sloots that look good in 8K 3D.I dunno, sometimes I think I rather let my imagination fill in the blurry details.
This is recorded from a video game, but Beta at BII speed looks like crap compared to VHS at SP speed:I was one of the few that grew up with Betamax instead of VHS. It would be interesting to see what differences those offered with modern source material as well.
Pretty sure I had a VCR with SVideo output on it, not sure what he is taking about at the end...
The fuck you just say?Snicker the data format was only bad in that when the later plastic went through readers designed around the original metal film that was considered a safety hazard, they wear off and can not be played because the bits are in the wrong location on the film. Me and some friends used to use kids camcorders and the joke handy cams that came out in the late eighties plugged into a computer via an s-video cable. The quality was better and you could convert the 300x200 image to something easier to store, dvd-r disks. Then people started coping rentals and most of the equipment started coming with safety features to prevent recording directly to the computer, until web cams came out. That said if you have an old crt, a mpeg one encoder you can telesene the analog image to a screen or projector and re-film it at higher resolution. What companies do when they re-master a movie is they find a copy that has not been played before and project it onto a screen with no imperfections that is bolted in place and then film it using a higher quality digital capture system. But all the old film was metal film not plastic film until someone got cut by accident likely 8mm or 11mm stock. Those don't wear out from playing but they can snap and or corrode.
Most porn these days is totally computer generated. You shoot a dozen locations with no one in them, then you film women in swimsuits, then someone attempts to recreate them naked, then an animator poses them the way they think the human body works... I know several people that run some of the funnier sites, most people have so little grasp of what the human body actually looks like from all the years of people compositing images for the clothing ads that when people see something in footage they assume it is real. A fun thing to look for if you are into that type of thing the space between a woman legs is not wide enough for another human body unless the hips are angled up so when you see a woman sitting in a guys lap and his is sitting upright and she is... start laughing the person who created the porn has never seen people having sex... the knees have to be higher than the guys ribs in order for their bellies to be touching... snicker. People who have some one to try out some of the silly camera poses in porn must get really puzzled at first. The joke among my friends is that ninety percent of the shoots people like are physically impossible because of where the camera needs to be, usually about five feet behind the person to get what they want in the shot. But most of holly woods shots are the same way. You want lighting as if their is four walls you have to fake the lighting... you want a wide view of a narrow hallway you have to fake it in post. While I only know how holly wood and some of my female friends do it, I have a feeling that most of it totally fake, since it is easier to create a thousand women based on the two inches across the center of their face needing to be appealing the rest can sorta look right as long as most of the people looking at it have never seen a naked woman...
Yes. Beta was superior
How could anyone love 240 lines of resolution ?
Why do people complain about VHS...considering it was "VHS or Go Back To ABC's Movie Of The Week", or whatever HBO decided they wanted to show you that month, you were SOL. The best part about VHS today are all the private tapes that people recorded, all the TV commercials and old news broadcasts and stuff that are now basically lost to time.....that's whats interesting today.
And when DVD finally hit, and the players didn't cost $1000 each...holy smokes, the audio alone blew you away..the visuals...full 720x480 resolution, on the then-brand-new Widescreen TV's.....and if you had a fancy Progressive Scan player so you didn't have interlacing....ZOMG. Tears of Joy...
LaserDisc was always one of those technologies where you knew of some guy who knew of some guy who's parents had it.....but it was like the chupacabra, a lot of people claimed to have seen it...but you sure never did
BUT - this is the huge thing. Hook it up to a 1080P LCD and it'll look like ass. Same with the older video game consoles. They were designed for CRT's. Hook those up to CRT's, and the image looks better. Not sharper, but it's better. Not better than DVD on the same TV, but vs. an LCD TV.
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I have to expand on what I posted earlier about resolution of VHS and Betamax. Betamax's Beta I was 250 lines while VHS was 240 lines, but Beta II reduced to 240 lines to increase recording time while VHS HQ increased to 250 lines to match Betamax. I am not persuaded that consumers would have been able to tell the difference between 240 lines and 250 lines on most TVs and recorders of that era.
That was only the initial problem. 2 hr beta cassettes were soon available.VHS won because a 2 hour movie could fit on to one cassette.
^this. Growing up in the 60's, with ONE black and white 16" TV for the whole family, having color and a 25" set in 1985 and being able to time shift, easily rent 6 month old release movies and pron on every other corner, was heaven.When it was the best you had at the time, it was fine.
VHS does have one satisfying aspect though, and that's sucking in the tape drive. Something just feels solid and right about that mechanical process.
Tracking problems was my biggest complaint.
We had VHS, then Laserdisc. We did go for the Super VHS for a while, along with the camcorder for it.
Yes, it's all as bad as I remember. I had to hook up a VCR the other day for safety videos at work. It sucked.
BUT - this is the huge thing. Hook it up to a 1080P LCD and it'll look like ass. Same with the older video game consoles. They were designed for CRT's. Hook those up to CRT's, and the image looks better. Not sharper, but it's better. Not better than DVD on the same TV, but vs. an LCD TV.
VHS on CRT is better than VHS on LCD. Still looks like shit compared to the others, but to make it a better comparison, IMO.