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[jellies_two]

Everyone is looking around.
They have time to think and observe while walking. And check each other out.

thats been removed now, this has to be making a huge change in how the world develops vs how things would have turned out if small powered screens never became a thing.

 

[Secret Fawful]

There's a guy who looks just like Donald Trump at 1:14.

This moment made me smile:

Yeah, this made me smile too.

 

[HStallion]

Basically it's way more tourist-friendly today. It's kinda Disney-ed in a way.

Hah what I was going to say. Times Square is the perfect example. It was always gaudy but now there are tourists everywhere and big huge stores and everything that goes with tourists. It used to be a total sleaze fest haha

 

[BlueTsunami]

This moment made me smile:

The '90s, when love still existed

 

[CadetMahoney]

I heard some people describe 90s NYC as the Warriors except with Walkmans, Tye-dye t shirts and that yellow smiley face that's seemed to have pretty much vanished outside of the Watchmen movie.

There was a thread which I can't find talking about that early 90's era as the peak of violent crime in NY. Then it went down.

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

In 1993 there was no gaf no internet and no good way to communicate with people all over the world.

Ignorance is bliss...no really, for most people it is.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

lol guy at 0:57

I think the suspenders guy isn't getting enough credit for helping to hold this framing together

 

[teruterubozu]

There was a thread which I can't find talking about that early 90's era as the peak of violent crime in NY. Then it went down.

Yeah then Giuliani came in and started his "clean up" program.

 

[MrCunningham]

Awesome time to be alive. No cell phones, no social media, the heyday of Genesis vs. Super Nintendo, new episodes of Seinfeld...

Well, cell phones did exist in 1993...

But of course not many people had them. But I understand what you're saying, it's interesting to go back to a time where people weren't glued to their phones.

Really great footage too, I had no idea that D-VHS was available in 1993, and this was filmed at 60FPS too?

I was 12 years old in 1993. Goddamn.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

It's nice that almost everyone appears to be looking where they're going, be it pedestrian or motorist.

Still doesn't stop the flood of people crossing against the light starting at 2 minutes in.

 

[Loki]

The New York of 1993 was completely different from the NYC of today in so many ways that you can't begin to count them all. I'm happy that I grew up in the 80's and 90's in NY and not the NY of today. It's much (MUCH) safer today, but does lack a lot of the character and culture that it had.

 

[winjet81]

This moment made me smile:

Toooootally missed the point of the video. Of course no one's impressed by the video quality. It's just a nice quaint look at life in NYC in a simpler time.

Everyone is hopped up on cocaine. How is that representative of a quaint and simpler time?

 

[legacyzero]

Best thing about that video: not a cell phone in sight.



WTC

I thought something felt off about it.

Also, damn...

 

[Theonik]

I want more VHS HD videos. Watching this feels so surreal.

Not much of note was released on the format, pretty much some blockbusters that have no real value outside collectors.

DVHS is 98, so either this is film or some other tech. Maybe a prototype, non-consumer version or something but then it probably still wouldn't be 93.

Still pretty cool to see good quality video of an older NY, documentaries usually don't have the same quality as older films since better quality film is so expensive and digital recording wasn't that great back then.

The video was not made for D-VHS but was an old Japanese demo used to sell HD sets in 1993. It was re-released on D-VHS as a demo reel.

DVHS was a pretty amazing format. Blu-ray picture and sound squeezed into a video cassette, all the way back in 1998. Shame it was so expensive or it would have ushered in the HD era a lot sooner.

The picture and sound was not really as high as BD. Tape capacity is the same clocking at 50GB which is the same as a dual layer BD but the maximum rate the tape could be read was 20mbps vs 40mbps on a BD. Encoding was also MPEG2 which is half as efficient as the AVC codecs used on a BD, audio encoding was also lacking for similar technical reasons.

 

[DSFan1970]

The New York of 1993 was completely different from the NYC of today in so many ways that you can't begin to count them all. I'm happy that I grew up in the 80's and 90's in NY and not the NY of today. It's much (MUCH) safer today, but does lack a lot of the character and culture that it had.

No lies detected. Despite the name.

 

[Seductivpancakes]

Man such a nostalgia trip for me. I miss seeing those bent metal trash cans everywhere and the old NYPD cars.

 

[Jal]

Smooth as fucking butter, i swear 98% of youtube videos if someone dares to move the camera everything turns into a stuttery mess, is this a framerate problem or something else? i know most videos aren't 60fps.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I never knew about the D-VHS format. The footage from I, Robot looks pretty damn clean for it predating DVDs

 

[John Kowalski]

Everyone is hopped up on cocaine. How is that representative of a quaint and simpler time?

Drugs were quainter and simpler too.

 

[jossueinacoma]

Imagine if the porn back then was shot with this quality.

My man

 

[Yawnier]

I visited NYC for the first time in 2012 so I can't say anything about that city in the 90s but damn this is a really cool video.

 

[Seductivpancakes]

Trying to plan shit with your friends was a pain in the ass back in the day without cell phones. Especially in a city as big as NYC. I don't miss it at all.

 

[teruterubozu]

Everyone is hopped up on cocaine. How is that representative of a quaint and simpler time?

It's arguably worse today. Heroin overdose deaths have been outpacing homicides in NYC for the last 3 years.

 

[Etrian Oddity]

I'm definitely ready for '90s fashion to make a full in vogue resurrection.

 

[Saganator]

I remember that year well. Played the heck out of Mario Kart SNES. Seemed like a simpler time.

Very nice footage.

Indeed, '93 was a good year. I was pretty young, but I remember it very well. My Giants won 103 games, Bonds was a monster and no one talked about PEDs.

 

[andythinkpad]

There used to be armies of scammy camera stores in Time Square before Disney and the neon billboards came in.

One thing I really miss from the 90s citiscape was the in-line skaters.

edit: also, you actually get porn from newstands, that was pretty cool.

 

[Tobor]

I was 17 in '93. This all seems like yesterday. Time moves so quickly.

 

[dhonk]

I never knew about the D-VHS format. The footage from I, Robot looks pretty damn clean for it predating DVDs

I know this is obvious, but it takes a damn long time for this stuff to be affordable to the average joe. Case in point: Back to the Future in Laserdisc MUSE HD format.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Getting crazy deja vu feelings from MGS2's ending from this, specially with that romantic jazz.

Beautiful city then, and beautiful city now. It's easy to fall on the "those good old times" train of thought. Heck just today I felt that way with the thread on Disney changing a certain ride for a comic themed one (that was solved when posters stated that they wouldn't change the Orlando one at least). But we always have to consider that we're going forward in so many things: medicine, social issues, communication, etc.

 

[shaowebb]

Great video. Makes me want to go back to 1993, but this time as an adult.

Same. And invest in Yahoo and Google.

 

[MrCunningham]

The video was not made for D-VHS but was an old Japanese demo used to sell HD sets in 1993. It was re-released on D-VHS as a demo reel.

Ah that makes sense. I wonder what the original format was for this film then?

 

[Big Chungus]

in a time before video games and the internet, amazing!

also

did you know that people born in 1993 are no LEGALLY allowed to drive?

 

[Breakage]

It's so strange.
They aren't fondling glass screens.

 

[Aaronology]

the racism, sexism and homophobia are the same despite marriage equality.
police still kill lots and lots of blacks and Hispanics. the rich are so far ahead of the working class and poor that it would take ten lifetimes to catch up to the most bottom rung of the lower ten percent of the mega rich. don't fool yourself into thinking that social media and smartphones that have turned people into extreme narcissists is somehow better.



wrong on all accounts. there were forums and chat rooms and internet and anything else you wanted to talk to people halfway around the world. it was not the stone age at all.



who have the 10s been awesome to?

How are you reaching this conclusion? Nevermind sexism and racism, even attempting to argue homophobia is the same as the 90s seems pretty silly to me.

 

[Theonik]

I never knew about the D-VHS format. The footage from I, Robot looks pretty damn clean for it predating DVDs

It came after DVD. That was 1998. It was an attempt to keep VHS alive by tapping on the niche of people who owned HDTVs at the time since DVD didn't compete with it and LD Hi-vision (which never came outside Japan) in terms of quality.

e:

Ah that makes sense. I wonder what the original format was for this film then?

It was made to advertise Laserdisc Hi-vision which was an HD Laserdisc format that never came out of Japan. Hi-Vision was the name for a very niche high-end Japanese HDTV format a the time.
e2: lol

 

[Gentleman Jack]

no cellphones

They existed, they just were only phones instead of shiny distraction devices, and there was a lingering stigma that if you walked around with one held to your head that you were some yuppie dickbag asking to get hit by a truck.

 

[Rich!]

Cool video but I for one wouldn't want to go back. I like smartphones.

I miss going to the cinema and not having your film ruined by asshats with their phones.

I want to go back.

 

[NYR94]

Getting crazy deja vu feelings from MGS2's ending from this, specially with that romantic jazz.

Beautiful city then, and beautiful city now. It's easy to fall on the "those good old times" train of thought. Heck just today I felt that way with the thread on Disney changing a certain ride for a comic themed one (that was solved when posters stated that they wouldn't change the Orlando one at least). But we always have to consider that we're going forward in so many things: medicine, social issues, communication, etc.

Same here. I had no idea this format even existed.

 

[MrCunningham]

I miss going to the cinema and not having your film ruined by asshats with their phones.

I want to go back.

You could go back to 1993 and see Jurassic Park.

It was made to advertise Laserdisc Hi-vision which was an HD Laserdisc format that never came out of Japan.

I wonder how long the run time would have been on an HD laserdisc at 60FPS? Laserdiscs generally could only hold about half of a movie on each side.

 

[jmood88]

It's really weird to see an HD video from the early 90's. It almost feels like I'm just watching a 2016 recreation of the 90's.

 

[L4DANathan]

So many celebrity look-alikes, damn.

 

[Zee-Row]

I liked 1993 , it was a good year for me.

 

[Theonik]

I wonder how long the run time would have been on an HD laserdisc at 60FPS? Laserdiscs generally could only hold about half of a movie on each side.

LD runtime depended on the mode used It could be as short as 30m per side in CAV mode with CLV going up to 60m per side (at the expense of some features like frame by frame/slowmo playback and possible increase in crosstalk)

I don't think the Muse Hi-vision disks had decreased capacity. They gained the increase in resolution by using a lower wavelength (red) laser and the Muse encoding system.

 

[BFIB]

I'd love to go back to this time to relieve X-FILES again for the first time.

 

[Always-honest]

That was weird and fucking awesome.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

People talking about all the good shit in '93 forgetting Jurassic Park came out that year. C'mon guys. These people's lives either just improved massively, or is about to.

You could go back to 1993 and see Jurassic Park.

Dammit, beat.

I never knew about the D-VHS format. The footage from I, Robot looks pretty damn clean for it predating DVDs

And that's with YouTube compression.

 

[Sou Da]

I can't wait the vaporwave videos using this footage.

 

[jond76]

This looks amazing.
I totally like the style.

I need to learn how avatar quote quickly.

 

[industrian]

This moment made me smile:

This is what women's hair looked like before Rachel and Friends came along.

in a time before video games

...

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Simpler times? Man please. It was anything but simple. And let's not act like the 90's wasn't the beginning of the tech boom.

I understand the novelty of looking at "Seinfeld street shots" in high def.

But if you call the 90s "a simpler time" you are just wearing a rose tinted glasses of different sort,

Everyone is hopped up on cocaine. How is that representative of a quaint and simpler time?

By very definition it's a time before the oceans of faces craned into their smartphones and all the complexities that came with that little glowing screen. To me, anytime before smartphones qualifies as a "simpler time".