You had an analog cable box, but you could buy a "chip," out of the ads in the Popular Mechanics magazines for like $50 and install it in your cable box and now have access to every channel like spice, all ppv channels, etc.,
My dad made good money as it was but did this for his friends as a side hustle and would charge $300 to chip their cable boxes for them
I thought this only happened to my TV. The signal would come in and then scramble at random points. I had to call the cable company again and they typically gave me the show for free.
It was and it wasnt. They always aired the same episodes, and they would always use the same short couch gags, and the episodes had scenes removed so they could squeeze in more commercials. I think they even sped up the episodes.
Every Simpsons Ever was the best we ever had since the original golden age episodes aired on sunday nights.
Interesting Things were on air when you had no time for them, or multiple interesting things rivalled each other. Most of the time, there was just garbage to be seen. However, it was less streamlined than todays Netflix.
>black people had their own shows >in those black people shows, they were wholesome and relatable >white people had their own shows >they would have a black neighbor friend tho >married couples were the same race >teens were sexualized sometimes >no potty mouth dialogue >moral, family lessons >jokes were obvious but incorporated into the show and not references. mostly. >Girls were girly, boys were boys >no gay people >no trans people >when men/boys dressed like girls, it was a joke. >commercials were EXTREEEME!!!!11!! >commercials were witty >everyone wanted to be on tv >The Saturday night movie was a family event >The Simpsons was still good.
god that's so true it hurts. blacks on tv back then were much more intelligent and mostly well spoken, now its incredibly trendy to emulate hoodrat Black folk. white kids are almost worse--speaking in broken english on purpose, using a constant stream of vulgar slang, acting irreverent to everyone, and as if you're life is the truman show. i realize that's some boomer shit but what happened to being your own person and just being kind? why does everyone need to be 'hard' now, like they've got something to prove when there's clearly nothing behind their intent.
i have serious Black person fatigue. its all so tiresome.
>The Saturday night movie was a family event
It really was. We'd all sit on the couch and sometimes have popcorn. Great times and I did not appreciate them enough.
You watched what was on and sometimes had to sit through a show you didn't like to see the one you did.
There was more content and entire days weren't filled with 10 hours of one show.
my uncle told me that early satalite tv was fun because there were no commercials so for instance during sports games, when they would go to commercial breaks the camera operator would drift around and sometimes even zoom in on the cheerleader's asses
There used to be a Youtube channel that had those "off the air" broadcast moments from different sporting events, mostly wrestling shows. Even during the taped Smackdowns and Raws it would be what the cameras caught during the commercial breaks. Sometimes you could even pick up the straight broadcast relays too and hear what the people in the truck were saying to the cameramen too.
I always had to sit within arms reach of the TV so that I could change the channel whenever my dad told me too. Probably why I ended up needing glasses
It was great. Every night after 12am most drama channels aired softcore porn like Red Shoe Diaries, Showgirls, Emanuelle, Latin Lover, etc… or paid advertisements for phone sex lines or whatever that always had sexy women in bikinis dancing around.
When you came home from school you always flipped on the TV and watched The Simpsons and at school you’d talk about Simpsons references. Also all movie trailers featured Don LaFontaine’s voice saying “This summer…” or “In a world…”.
It was perfect. Channels wpuld play blocks of similar shows instead of just 6 hours of 1 show. Commercials had white people. There were types of comedy other than sardonic or snarky. We were as kings, but we all knew something dark was ahead.
Y2K happened and it was called 9/11. Thanks, israelites.
Comfy but short lived.
There was no such thing as “throwing on a show” or “binging”. Your shit would be in at X time on X days and you’d have figure it out with everyone else in the house when you could watch your shit.
The best was going to a friend’s house to catch new episodes of your show because somebody else had dibs on the tv.
Apparently american sattelite was easier to pirate than canadian so most people in my town in the 00s had a legit canadian box they paid for with minimal channels and an american box with all the channels for free. The way they hacked them was with a card, probably like sim cards in phones now. I bet it was dead ass simple to do yet the guys who did them were considered wizards and charged a lot for them.
You saw more bad stuff overall because you couldn't decide to watch the best episodes of your favorite show 24/7, but you also ended up watching more diverse shows and movies because sometimes you had no choice.
Double edged sword
It was cool to watch something big happening on TV and know that a bunch of other people are all watching it too and experiencing it at the same time. Then you could go to work or school or whatever the next day and talk about it. You felt a lot more connected to other people thru media back then as opposed to nowadays where everyone has their own sort of individual cloud of content they consume.
Probably the most genuinely remarkable thing was that it was possible to miss an episode. Also, people watched shows out of boredom, or to kill time before an episode of something genuinely good. Getting slotted around a popular show on the same network could give a show a real boost, while running at the same time on a different channel was an absolute killer.
Promo spots also built up anticipation, and frequently totally spoiled an episode or were wildly inaccurate. For example, I remember the episode where Marge's pretzel business is funded by the mob being previewed with clips of the sequence where the Yakuza arrive to battle Springfield's mafia, and I was pretty disappointed that was basically the end of the episode.
The best.
It was fuzzy
480p was considered "HD"
I remember when Youtube had 480p for the first time and it was labeled as HQ
And they'd type [HIGH QUALITY] or [HIGHEST QUALITY] at the end of the vide title that was still just 360p
My memories are all in Ultra 4K
>480p was considered "HD"
It literally never was. Standard =/= HD
HD was always HD
No it wasnt, moron.
This might out me as a Zoomer, but I always thought 1080p was “HD”, 720p was “High Quality” and 480p was “Low Quality”.
>This might out me as a Zoomer,
Nah you're just stupid. 720p is HD.
You had an analog cable box, but you could buy a "chip," out of the ads in the Popular Mechanics magazines for like $50 and install it in your cable box and now have access to every channel like spice, all ppv channels, etc.,
My dad made good money as it was but did this for his friends as a side hustle and would charge $300 to chip their cable boxes for them
And if not chipped or anything you just looked at this and tried to see if you could make out a nipple
>do a 50$ job for 300$
woah what an awesome friend your dad is
It's the same as charging someone to mod their xbox. Not everyone has the know how.
No paper trail and guaranteed secrecy
You could flip through the channels really really fast and still get an idea what was on. It made a nice sound.
>if only you knew how white things really were
I miss white America
Eeuuuuggghhhh?
Comfy
Bunny ears
Funny enough I can pick up some HD broadcast channels with just a clothes hanger .
this reminds me of a poem i can't remember and a song that may never have existed and a place i'm not sure i've ever been to
I remember having to phone the cable company in order to buy wrestling PPVs and then pray to god it worked
I thought this only happened to my TV. The signal would come in and then scramble at random points. I had to call the cable company again and they typically gave me the show for free.
Getting PPV was always a fricking hassle
For me it was disconnecting the phone line from the directv box so I could order the UFC ppv and not get charged for it.
PEAK KINO
soulful
4:3
Why do people keep using ads from Q13 specifically?
You actually had something to look forward to. Everything felt fresh, and you didn’t feel like you were being beaten over the head with a message.
Watching The Simpsons every weeknights was the comfiest experience possible at the time.
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It was and it wasnt. They always aired the same episodes, and they would always use the same short couch gags, and the episodes had scenes removed so they could squeeze in more commercials. I think they even sped up the episodes.
Every Simpsons Ever was the best we ever had since the original golden age episodes aired on sunday nights.
Interesting Things were on air when you had no time for them, or multiple interesting things rivalled each other. Most of the time, there was just garbage to be seen. However, it was less streamlined than todays Netflix.
Shit, you had to watch whatever they gave you, however crap it was.
no different than today. mostly garbage.
90% of sitcoms and cartoons were boring as hell.
by the way, simpsons was never good.
It was good until Season 11 Episode 6
>black people had their own shows
>in those black people shows, they were wholesome and relatable
>white people had their own shows
>they would have a black neighbor friend tho
>married couples were the same race
>teens were sexualized sometimes
>no potty mouth dialogue
>moral, family lessons
>jokes were obvious but incorporated into the show and not references. mostly.
>Girls were girly, boys were boys
>no gay people
>no trans people
>when men/boys dressed like girls, it was a joke.
>commercials were EXTREEEME!!!!11!!
>commercials were witty
>everyone wanted to be on tv
>The Saturday night movie was a family event
>The Simpsons was still good.
this.
you could actually watch a black centric show without feeling like you were watching hoodrat shit.
god that's so true it hurts. blacks on tv back then were much more intelligent and mostly well spoken, now its incredibly trendy to emulate hoodrat Black folk. white kids are almost worse--speaking in broken english on purpose, using a constant stream of vulgar slang, acting irreverent to everyone, and as if you're life is the truman show. i realize that's some boomer shit but what happened to being your own person and just being kind? why does everyone need to be 'hard' now, like they've got something to prove when there's clearly nothing behind their intent.
i have serious Black person fatigue. its all so tiresome.
You are clearly soft.
rather be soft than a Black person.
>The Saturday night movie was a family event
It really was. We'd all sit on the couch and sometimes have popcorn. Great times and I did not appreciate them enough.
were EXTREEEME!!!!11!!
Frick yeah they were
You watched what was on and sometimes had to sit through a show you didn't like to see the one you did.
There was more content and entire days weren't filled with 10 hours of one show.
the simpsons legacy - one of the greatest shows ever
tim allen legacy - being a fricking snitch
>think about a Simpsons episode
>it airs that night
kinda soupy how often that happened to me.
I fricking hated home improvement but still saw almost every episode just because it was a lead in to the Simpsons
Your rich friend had more channels
it felt like everything you watched was old
My parents pirated satellite TV by paying the dish dealer once a month to get the showroom access code for unlimited channels.
my uncle told me that early satalite tv was fun because there were no commercials so for instance during sports games, when they would go to commercial breaks the camera operator would drift around and sometimes even zoom in on the cheerleader's asses
There used to be a Youtube channel that had those "off the air" broadcast moments from different sporting events, mostly wrestling shows. Even during the taped Smackdowns and Raws it would be what the cameras caught during the commercial breaks. Sometimes you could even pick up the straight broadcast relays too and hear what the people in the truck were saying to the cameramen too.
I always had to sit within arms reach of the TV so that I could change the channel whenever my dad told me too. Probably why I ended up needing glasses
It was great. Every night after 12am most drama channels aired softcore porn like Red Shoe Diaries, Showgirls, Emanuelle, Latin Lover, etc… or paid advertisements for phone sex lines or whatever that always had sexy women in bikinis dancing around.
When you came home from school you always flipped on the TV and watched The Simpsons and at school you’d talk about Simpsons references. Also all movie trailers featured Don LaFontaine’s voice saying “This summer…” or “In a world…”.
There's always been a plethora if shitty shows. Life in general was comfy back then, though.
It was perfect. Channels wpuld play blocks of similar shows instead of just 6 hours of 1 show. Commercials had white people. There were types of comedy other than sardonic or snarky. We were as kings, but we all knew something dark was ahead.
Y2K happened and it was called 9/11. Thanks, israelites.
Comfy but short lived.
There was no such thing as “throwing on a show” or “binging”. Your shit would be in at X time on X days and you’d have figure it out with everyone else in the house when you could watch your shit.
The best was going to a friend’s house to catch new episodes of your show because somebody else had dibs on the tv.
it was sneedy
Apparently american sattelite was easier to pirate than canadian so most people in my town in the 00s had a legit canadian box they paid for with minimal channels and an american box with all the channels for free. The way they hacked them was with a card, probably like sim cards in phones now. I bet it was dead ass simple to do yet the guys who did them were considered wizards and charged a lot for them.
You saw more bad stuff overall because you couldn't decide to watch the best episodes of your favorite show 24/7, but you also ended up watching more diverse shows and movies because sometimes you had no choice.
Double edged sword
It was cool to watch something big happening on TV and know that a bunch of other people are all watching it too and experiencing it at the same time. Then you could go to work or school or whatever the next day and talk about it. You felt a lot more connected to other people thru media back then as opposed to nowadays where everyone has their own sort of individual cloud of content they consume.
the TV guide used to have its own channel
Probably the most genuinely remarkable thing was that it was possible to miss an episode. Also, people watched shows out of boredom, or to kill time before an episode of something genuinely good. Getting slotted around a popular show on the same network could give a show a real boost, while running at the same time on a different channel was an absolute killer.
Promo spots also built up anticipation, and frequently totally spoiled an episode or were wildly inaccurate. For example, I remember the episode where Marge's pretzel business is funded by the mob being previewed with clips of the sequence where the Yakuza arrive to battle Springfield's mafia, and I was pretty disappointed that was basically the end of the episode.