~nJan 24, 2023
What if we had Full-HD videos from the early 90s? What would it look like? This stuff surprisingly exists. A video format that probably never made it into your living rooms was D-VHS. Digital VHS made it possible to store 25 GB of data on a standard VHS tape. It never caught on as there were few TV sets to render that content and even fewer 1080i cameras. But there were recordings made and miraculously they survived for over two decades. Here you go! NYC in 1993 in 1080:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY
New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape

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Show threadBrian Marick

@nblr Quite an interesting tune to use as the opening sound track, as the lyrics to "Living for the City" are not exactly boosterish.

"His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty.
He spends his life walking the streets of New York City.
He's almost dead from breathing in air pollution.
He tried to vote but to him there's no solution.
Living just enough, just enough for the city."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsqEk6v6t1A

Stevie Wonder - Living for the City

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Jan 24, 2023 at 3:46pmWeb