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submitted 15 hours ago by Brkdncr@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

From the early days of the modern internet. He released it in HD yesterday.

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[-] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 20 points 15 hours ago

oh wow good catch. They've never been in high-def before?

[-] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I suspect this might be the remaster that was included on the It's Such a Beautiful Day Blu-ray. And I could've sworn I just saw it on his YouTube channel a couple weeks ago, but maybe I'm misremembering. (Maybe he had to delete it and reuploaded?)

Edit: Found it. REJECTED by DON HERTZFELDT (Blu-ray restoration) (uploaded October 29, 2018) is unlisted now.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 14 hours ago

A comment says he unlisted it and reuploaded a less noisy version

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 14 hours ago

Yup, I've only seen it in blurrydefinition before and I tend to watch it every few years

[-] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Cool, I feel like I always watch the blurry version too.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

I always thought that the blurry low res definition was part of the art.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 14 hours ago

I think the lines being all shaky was part of the art (which is why that hasn't changed), but it having the resolution of a potato was more of a technical limitation of 20 years ago or whenever it was uploaded to YouTube originally.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

but it having the resolution of a potato was more of a technical limitation of 20 years ago or whenever it was uploaded to YouTube originally.

Was it even on YT originally? I remember it being like.. iirc.. I remember seeing it first being posted to a forum.

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

It aired at Spike and Mike’s film festival! That’s where I first saw it.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Was it even on YT originally? I remember it being like… iirc… I remember seeing it first being posted to a forum.

I don't remember running into it on any of my forums, but it may have predated my forum use, which started in like 2004 or so. Since the video itself is older than that, I'm fairly sure you're right, but I'm also fairly sure most people have seen it on YouTube first like myself. It's been popular for decades now, people tend to send it to their friends as a YouTube link.

Also most file hosts used by people back in those days had pretty nasty file size limits too, I think it was pretty common to have really low resolution and bitrate for videos. And all the warez stuff was usually in like 30 or 40 file split archives lol

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