Comment on Street View of 1980s New YorkComments−Bucephalus3557yApparently VHS came out with an HD format in the early 1990’s.Here’s a sample clip from 1993 of NYC: https://youtu.be/fT4lDU-QLUYIt’s amazing. It so...looks like today, but it’s not. I don’t know how to describe the realness of image quality that looks like it was filmed earlier this afternoon but is in fact over 20 years ago. Unsettling yet beautiful.−jrumbut7yThanks for sharing this, it's very uncanny to watch, brings back memories of seeing the world when it actually looked this way.−dsego7yDiscussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085603−boobsbr7yThe quality is amazing. It's better than a ton of HD devices that came out in the 2000's, and even some from the 2010's.
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Apparently VHS came out with an HD format in the early 1990’s.
Here’s a sample clip from 1993 of NYC: https://youtu.be/fT4lDU-QLUY
It’s amazing. It so...looks like today, but it’s not. I don’t know how to describe the realness of image quality that looks like it was filmed earlier this afternoon but is in fact over 20 years ago. Unsettling yet beautiful.
Thanks for sharing this, it's very uncanny to watch, brings back memories of seeing the world when it actually looked this way.
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085603
The quality is amazing. It's better than a ton of HD devices that came out in the 2000's, and even some from the 2010's.