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Rhys 📼

@flemishdog.bsky.social

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Off Air TV Archivist. Autistic. (They/Them) I demand excellence in design & function & will not compromise. https://archive.org/details/flemishdog linktr.ee/flemishdog

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 9h

Less forgotten and more "we destroyed the machines that made them cheaply and efficiently and have no market incentive to invest in starting up again"

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks Granada and Cunton sorry Carlton.

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 16h

Mmmmm, NTSC 3:2 pulldown

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 18h

Not Xbox but with some controllers sure

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 18h

Seven wasn't good with animated shows. King of The Hill and Futurama too.

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 19h

actually THIS is what gamers want

infamous "prototype" version of Ms Pac Man title screen for the SNES

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 20h

yeah its a shame all that good work went towards this

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 20h

its not easy given how late Seven played it.

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 20h

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 20h

finally found a full episode of duckman with the commercials on Seven. Only had the first 15 mins or so of another episode before a tape ran out.

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 21h

my thought process during the announcement and release:

oh cool a new TRON

- jared leto is in it
- elon musk is promoting it

well there goes all my enthusiasm for the entire thing.

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 22h

Noel only does Betamax.

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 22h

and that VCR is still with us (after 2 tune ups from Noel in Victoria)

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 22h

15 years ago i finally got the ability to play Betamax tapes. The next step in digitizing old tapes.

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

somethings wrong with everyone mate, you're not special in that regard

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

that's be great. i've already got vector graphics of the clock when I did my Tshirt

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

close, the NODDY camera, a brilliant setup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_%28camera%29

Noddy (camera) - Wikipedia

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

heres video of a similar process to the ABC clock for the BBC globe ident giving a good look at the actual model and where it was placed (with a bunch of slides for technical faults) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agKiATDgdBs

BBC1 1971 Closedown - YouTube

Early 1971 and Peter Bolgar closes down BBC1 for the night.The extremely slow nation anthem was used for years

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

The second thing i wanted was "The Big Ship" by Brian Eno being played over the test card. they played all of side 1.

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

an analog video synthesiser adds the colour live to the image. (Blue was a very popular choice)

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

now you may think the clock is computer generated. but it's not. you can see the hand "snap" back like a real clock, Because it IS!

A black and white camera is pointed at a card with the ABC logo and the clock face, and a mechanical clock poked through

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

I finally bugged @davidmgreen.bsky.social to give me a copy of the 198 ABC/Inside the Third Reich tape for two things.

One, this excellent instrumental of Spandau Ballet's "To Cut A Long Story Short"

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

the more i keep looking at that first screenshot the more incredulous i get at only apologizing for it LAST YEAR

Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

You only apologized LAST YEAR??

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Rhys 📼 @flemishdog.bsky.social · 1d

Tracey Ullman clearly took away the wrong lesson on what made The Simpsons more successful than her.

PEOPLE LIKE YELLOW PEOPLE HUH?? I CAN DO THAT

Tracey Ullman in yellow face as, get this, " Mrs. Noh Nang Ning". Yes I swear to god that's the name she went with.

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