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If I'm not mistaken, raspberry pi has composite video support. At least some generations (2, 3 and 4?) seem to include it in the headphone jack. Edit: even the 5 seems to include composite video, but it requires a little bit of soldering.
Growing up in the 90s, television was a different experience. You turned on the TV, and whatever was playing at that moment would become your entertainment. Strangely enough, I miss that feeling of having something selected for me, something I cannot influence. I grew up a few decades before and I lack the author's nostalgia. I think some of that is because my exposure to OTA TV was much longer. Some was because I mi…
I'd love to have a database of once-annoying but now-nostalgic TV commercials to intersperse between the shows, and insert into commercial breaks. (Those dramatic pauses in Star Trek TOS just aren't the same without a Crazy Eddie interruption.) HEAD ON: Apply Directly to the Forehead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwD7RveNE W.E.T. P.E.T.S.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbsZU83ajc Fine Corinthian Leather: http…
In 2005 I came across of video stream (mp4? viewable in VLC) of early 20th c. cartoons. There were dozens and dozens of them and nothing else. I never worked out who was behind it, just that it's IP was in western Europe. It was up for at least a year. My kids were often with me during adult hours (work, etc) and I'd put it on for them. But I was also half-captivated by the idea of anonymously delivered content. It w…
Take a look at archive.org’s video section.
I once saw this awful movie in mid-1970s. I couldn't remember the name, just bits of the plot.
archive.org had it: https://archive.org/details/EndoftheWorld
I'd love to have a database of once-annoying but now-nostalgic TV commercials to intersperse between the shows, and insert into commercial breaks. (Those dramatic pauses in Star Trek TOS just aren't the same without a Crazy Eddie interruption.) HEAD ON: Apply Directly to the Forehead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwD7RveNE W.E.T. P.E.T.S.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbsZU83ajc Fine Corinthian Leather: http…
kinda tempted to get a CRT just for it to make it even better
I have long thought Netflix should offer such a service. Have a sitcom channel that plays constantly from a slowly evolving list. Even better if I could just pick say Seinfeld and get random episodes from an episodic show. I do not want to have to expend energy picking a season+episode, just trying to decompress.
Netflix wants you to watch their own shows, not TV from the 90s that they have to pay licensing fees for.
In 2005 I came across of video stream (mp4? viewable in VLC) of early 20th c. cartoons. There were dozens and dozens of them and nothing else. I never worked out who was behind it, just that it's IP was in western Europe. It was up for at least a year. My kids were often with me during adult hours (work, etc) and I'd put it on for them. But I was also half-captivated by the idea of anonymously delivered content. It w…
Take a look at archive.org’s video section.
Not sure whether he even implemented that Weather Channel simulator or I’m mixing things up in my head. But I remember that it was pretty impressive.