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[mckmas8808]

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



WTC

Not one thing wrong with people looking at cell phones. Have no clue why people hate them.

 

[strafer]

this type of footage always makes me sad.. just think about it, all those people are gone now :/

How do you know that?

 

[The Elite]

this type of footage always makes me sad.. just think about it, all those people are gone now :/

What?

 

[Squalor]

"Yay! no one is on a cell phone. I wish I lived in this time. It's so much better than now."

*Posted from iPhone*

 

[Blues1990]

There was a long nostalgia overload thread on this video a few years back:

7-11 in the 80s

As someone had mentioned already, I love how everyone in that video seemed to easily connect with each other.

 

[Vital Tundra]

this type of footage always makes me sad.. just think about it, all those people are gone now :/

Wait... What?

 

[LeleSocho]

That black man with the glasses at 1:02 looks so badass

 

[Mass_Pincup]

this type of footage always makes me sad.. just think about it, all those people are gone now :/

Lmao it's the 90s just 23 years ago, not 60.

 

[User 479360]

It makes me sad, because times were simpler then and those years were some of the best of my life. Things will never be like that again.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

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

How did people live without being buried in their phones 24/7?

It makes me sad, because times were simpler then and those years were some of the best of my life. Things will never be like that again.

Is that on you? it's up to you how you live your life

 

[Radec]

this type of footage always makes me sad.. just think about it, all those people are gone now :/

Its 1993. Not 1923

 

[MechDX]

this type of footage always makes me sad.. just think about it, all those people are gone now :/

So Im dead? Bummer

 

[Ensoul]

Its 1993. Not 1923

LOL.

Great video and thanks for posting that. Not that 1993 was all that long ago but it was still nostalgic anyway.

 

[Gunslinger]

As a 90s kid I miss the 90s....

Also it was hard to believe this was 23 years ago...man time flies by fast

 

[astroturfing]

Lmao it's the 90s just 23 years ago, not 60.

oooooohh yeah, just looked like really ancient footage. my bad, some of them are probably alive today.

 

[TickleMeElbow]

oooooohh yeah, just looked like really ancient footage. my bad, some of them are probably alive today.

I'd say most of them are still alive doood.

 

[User 479360]

How did people live without being buried in their phones 24/7?



Is that on you? it's up to you how you live your life

I guess

I consider my life to be over now, due to paralyzing depression, grief and the loss of my mother.

 

[Ensoul]

oooooohh yeah, just looked like really ancient footage. my bad, some of them are probably alive today.

Maybe I am just old but that looked far from ancient. What kind of cars do you think people drove around in 1923?

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

I guess

I consider my life to be over now, due to paralyzing depression, grief and the loss of my mother.

I'm sorry to hear about your mother, really am. We must keep living, time waits for no one, I've had my own issues I had to overcome also

 

[HStallion]

I think some people are really jumping on the cell phone thing when a lot of us are yearning for a NYC that doesn't exist anymore, or at least as widely spread as it once was. The smartphone thing is only a part of it, their is also gentrification, losing some of the more unique neighborhoods over the years, and so on. I swear, some people seem more concerned about telling people about how much they love their cell phones without actually seeing what people miss about these times and its not the fact that people are looking forward and not down while walking.

 

[Ensoul]

I am not hung up on the whole cell phone thing as much as others. Times changed. What I miss about the 90s is being younger, having more time, less responsibility, hanging with my friends, and going to different basketball courts in Boston and playing against different people.

 

[Krathoon]

I am surprised that there was HD back then.

 

[Ninja Dom]

It makes me sad, because times were simpler then and those years were some of the best of my life. Things will never be like that again.

People will be saying the exact same thing in the future about 2016.

 

[Ninja Dom]

 

[Ensoul]

I am surprised that there was HD back then.

I was in Washington DC in 1992 and they had a demo of an HDTV in some museum and I was completely blow away by it.

 

[AlexMogil]

this type of footage always makes me sad.. just think about it, all those people are gone now :/

Yeah, they've certainly moved around since then.

 

[Krathoon]

I wonder how big the HD tape is.

 

[andythinkpad]

I am surprised that there was HD back then.

Have you heard of the movie The Wizard of OZ? It was shot in HD.

 

[Krathoon]

Have you heard of the movie The Wizard of OZ? It was shot in HD.

Actually, I don't know much about film technology. How sharp does film get?

 

[Tugatrix]

Actually, I don't know much about film technology. How sharp does film get?

around 4k if 35mm, but the depend on the film some were shot on 70mm, just make the counts

 

[jstripes]

I was in Washington DC in 1992 and they had a demo of an HDTV in some museum and I was completely blow away by it.

I had a pocket TV in the early '90s, and one time we were driving to Florida I stumbled across a channel with nothing but a test pattern and the words "Experimental HD Broadcast".

My mind was blown. It was like receiving a signal from the future.

 

[DedValve]

This is about the time every sitcom and late-nite show started making incessant gay jokes every night, a trend that lasted for the next two decades.

Addendum: This is just month(s) after Home Alone 2's release (Lost in NY)! Wow

This reminds me that boy meets world cory x sean was my first ever ship.

Here we are 20 years later and now I ship Riley and Maya. The more things change....

 

[Fox Mulder]

It makes me sad, because times were simpler then and those years were some of the best of my life. Things will never be like that again.

Everyone says that about years gone by. I'm sure my 3 year old niece thats already proficient with iPhones and tablets will think the same 20 years from now.

I wonder how big the HD tape is.

Pretty much the same as a regular one.

 

[Slayer-33]

this type of footage always makes me sad.. just think about it, all those people are gone now :/

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOL, I just bursted out laughing.. Thank you for me making me look bad over here..

 

[pulsemyne]

I wonder how big the HD tape is.

The HD tape that it's is recorded from is the same size as a normal VHS tape. The early 2000's saw a format called D VHS released which could play back things at 1080i. It was VHS tapes with digital information on them. You had to have special DVHS players of course.
The actual original video itself of New York in 1993 could be from Japan as their tech companies were filming test footage for a HD service in Japan. If everything had gone well then we could have been basking in the glow of HD TV's in the mid 1990's.

 

[MisterR]

this type of footage always makes me sad.. just think about it, all those people are gone now :/

Gone where? this is 1993 not 1903.

 

[Theonik]

I wonder how big the HD tape is.

500m of tape for the largest capacity HD tape but physically it's not much different than the best analogue SD tapes JVC made.

Actually, I don't know much about film technology. How sharp does film get?

It's hard to express. The maximum resolution of film depends on the size of the grains and the area of the film, but it's not an ordered pixel grid or anything. A normal 35mm celluloid film can easily have enough information for a 4K scan. This is why old films can get pretty stunning BD releases. The Wizard of OZ and other films like Lawrence of Arabia were shot in 70mm film which can do 8K+ though again it's not really accurate to compare resolutions

I was in Washington DC in 1992 and they had a demo of an HDTV in some museum and I was completely blow away by it.

HDTV was a really slow burn. Compared to it 4K sets have gone down in price quite quickly. Early 4K plasmas were about $150k only around 2009. Now you'd be dumb not to get a 4K set if you were on the market for a TV.

 

[Mossybrew]

If you hate other people looking at their phones, great, you don't have to look at yours. You can partake in it as much or as little as you want.

You make a good point - personally I rarely use my smartphone, but I appreciate having access to all that information right in my pocket - but you can't control what other people do. My ex had to have her phone out all the time, we'd be watching a show, eating a meal, whatever, and she would always randomly be looking at it, texting, doing who knows what, her attention was never fully where we were, it sucked. I told her I thought it sucked but the pull of that device was more powerful than my opinion on the matter.

Anyway I graduated high school in 91 and had my first kid in 99, so the 90's were a time I look back on very fondly, little responsibility, freedom, a great group of friends, it was a great decade.

 

[GabeTheGrouch76]

Really amazing that film of this quality existed back then (and its even in 60FPS!). It's like looking into a time capsule but without the usual film quality you'd expect from most media of the era.

Seeing in particular the world back then without modern elements like smartphones in good video quality is a bit surreal IMO. It's almost akin to looking at a television show even though it's real life.

 

[Coreda]

Have you heard of the movie The Wizard of OZ? It was shot in HD.

I think it's just surprising there was digital HD that early, considering the typical digital recordings from that time, and that HD consumer devices didn't become mainstream until quite recently. Film is a bit different, since it's resolution isn't recorded in pixels.

For me my childhood is in Super 8

 

[Bleepey]

The HD tape that it's is recorded from is the same size as a normal VHS tape. The early 2000's saw a format called D VHS released which could play back things at 1080i. It was VHS tapes with digital information on them. You had to have special DVHS players of course.
The actual original video itself of New York in 1993 could be from Japan as their tech companies were filming test footage for a HD service in Japan. If everything had gone well then we could have been basking in the glow of HD TV's in the mid 1990's.

Is it wrong that I kinda like the Vaseline over the screen look of a lot of 90s stuff?

 

[soqquatto]

It makes me sad, because times were simpler then and those years were some of the best of my life. Things will never be like that again.

the fucking nineties were simpler? where were you living? because the 90s were pretty damn horrible compared to the eighties. meanier, uglier, more dangerous. it wasn't candy land.

 

[uncredited male]

The 90's spread porn to the unwashed masses so you can't really knock it.

That woman everyone keeps quoting reminds me of a famous actor. Or perhaps more than one as the look was rather popular.

 

[User 479360]

the fucking nineties were simpler? where were you living? because the 90s were pretty damn horrible compared to the eighties. meanier, uglier, more dangerous. it wasn't candy land.

I was a kid then. I didn't have to worry about anything, and dealing with slow Internet speeds (which depresses me) wasn't a thing.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Is everyone forgetting the disgraceful hysteria over HIV/AIDS in the 90s?

 

[MisterR]

Is everyone forgetting the disgraceful hysteria over HIV/AIDS in the 90s?

That was more in the 80's.

 

[jellies_two]

It's also amazing how the cars went from boxy (93) to roughly contemporary shaped in almost a blink like by 1999 the traffic changed to roughly how it is now - but in this video -- it still looks like 70s/80s Dirty Harry.

 

[Kaizer]

I was born in 1992, so for me I look back on the 90s as a fairly boring/drab time period. It didn't help that I was also an army brat until 2001, meaning I grew up in small army towns & didn't really see any big towns/cities till I was about 10.

I definitely remember having to go with my Mom to the library like everyday during the summer so she could sign-in to use a computer for e-mail when my Dad was stationed at the North Korea/South Korea border for 2 years. She would let me play a Magic School Bus game while we there that I remember blowing my mind back then.

First gaming system I owned was a SNES, but I barely remember anything about it - other than playing Mario Paint on it and making songs with it. Probably while I still make music now with Ableton Live.

Also have fond memories of watching Armageddon at a small theater with my Mom in Kansas in '98 - it would be the first film to make me cry when Bruce Willis' sacrificed himself at the end. Roland Emmerich's Godzilla terrified the shit out of me when I saw it the first time.

Fuckin' Power Rangers though man, MAAAAAAN I used to watch it every single day with my friends afterschool. Kimberley was my first crush ever. During the fight scenes we'd stand-up & fight around the room mimicking the rangers lol

 

[andythinkpad]

Is it wrong that I kinda like the Vaseline over the screen look of a lot of 90s stuff?

I played around with some camera RAW converters recently. One take away from doing the RAW conversion myself is that alot of the analog film "look" was from incorrect or "mainstream" color correction in photo printing. For example, if you shoot in colder sunny condition but output the jpg file in "cloudy" warmer color temperature, you get a distinctive look that remind you of the cheap film prints from the 90s.

I think a lot of these "looks" were from the mainstream equipment used at the time.

Analog media also fail more gracefully that corrupted digital media.

 

[HStallion]

Is everyone forgetting the disgraceful hysteria over HIV/AIDS in the 90s?

Yeah the 90's, the early years especially, were more about dealing with the aftermath of the AIDS/HIV epidemic and the huge amount of lost life because of the disease.