Henry Winkler (the Fonz) went on to become a big-name Hollywood producer—he executive produced the original MacGyver—so he was probably one of the easiest to contact.
He’s one hell of an attorney too.
How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#112Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…
I completely agree with you. Our family's first computer ran Windows 3.1. Moving to Windows 95 was a huge revelation about the potential that a computer could unleash.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#113Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…
The last 3 years of LLM progress, to me, feel like 1994-1998.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#114Licensing?
I read the whole thing (all several paragraphs of it) and the answer is, indeed: Licensing. It's approximately the least-interesting article I've read this year.
There's a "footnote video" with slightly more details:
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#115Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…
The ad, for the curious: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AJM6HMYjM
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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think folks forget this was part of it. PC's were being sold as supporting "multimedia" and Intel was selling chips with "Multimedia extensions". Just playing a video at all was a big deal. Video was rare. You weren't downloading videos over 56k dialup (I remember leaving the modem running all night to download movie trailers from Apples Trailers website (only available in Quicktime format of course)
> You weren't downloading videos over 56k dialup Sure you could. Not so much in the 90s; But during 2003/2004, with a 56k modem, an unlimited dialup plan, a second phone line, software to redial when the internet dropped, and bittorrent: I was managing to download roughly 150-200MB of data per day (sometimes more) I could download one of those 350 DivX/Xvid rips every second day. At one point, someone was posting 60M…
Yeah... Farscape took quite a long time to download on 56K.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#117I must confess that these kind of corporate storie make me throw up in my mouth. (Yes, I have karma to burn, hit me)
I liked this one because that video on that CD was a big part of my childhood. But yeah, same here. The worse ones are the ones from Apple / Steve Jobs that are meant to be cute and quirky but are actually just examples of sociopathy.
I like the band too and remember the video, but this "article" is just corporate BS.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#118Few months ago I learnt there's Edie Brickell's Good Times video on Win 95 CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okt9GcWiWmE There's also Weezer? Whoa. Of course I did experience Win 95. My 1st PC (96/97 ??) came with it. Never bother to mess with the instalation CD, though.
I kept scrolling because the line in the article “It’s like, there’s one video on YouTube, and it’s your video” rung hollow considering the CD had two music videos on it and I played them over and over.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#119Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…
I remember my father had installed Windows 3.10 (not 3.11) on our home pc (I must have been 6-7 at the time). I complained that it was just awkward to use compared to DOS and all games required you to reboot in DOS anyway. I didn't see the point with a graphical OS.
Then came Windows 95 and my mind was blown.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think folks forget this was part of it. PC's were being sold as supporting "multimedia" and Intel was selling chips with "Multimedia extensions". Just playing a video at all was a big deal. Video was rare. You weren't downloading videos over 56k dialup (I remember leaving the modem running all night to download movie trailers from Apples Trailers website (only available in Quicktime format of course)
> You weren't downloading videos over 56k dialup Sure you could. Not so much in the 90s; But during 2003/2004, with a 56k modem, an unlimited dialup plan, a second phone line, software to redial when the internet dropped, and bittorrent: I was managing to download roughly 150-200MB of data per day (sometimes more) I could download one of those 350 DivX/Xvid rips every second day. At one point, someone was posting 60M…
I remember getting my hands on a rip of Titanic, burned onto 3 CD-ROMs in 1997/1998 before it was released to video. I used the CD burner at school to sell copies to other students, and got in trouble for it lol. Just having a copy of the movie before it was released was really something.
I just went through a bunch of old CDs that had DivX rips on them a couple of years ago. Binders with hundreds of CDs. I thought that they would still look decent and I was going to back them up... back to my hard drive. But no they were really terrible. I donated the binder to Goodwill, hoping that someone might find the surprise...
They were fine when you had a CRT TV to play them on, we even had a DVD player from LiteOn that would play DivX videos back then.