Absolutely the animated series was far superior, and the movie somewhat bland…but the character was still a bad ass action heroine.
Wasn’t it on MTV’s liquid tv first? I remember having to stay up until 1am or later to watch it back before DVRs, even before most people had VCRs.

Edit: not that I disagree about Furiosa.

I used to have a VCR tape of old-timey newsreels from the 30s and one of them was a story about a dude who did this kinda thing to his car. He's showing this backward-car shit off in the city and some cop walks up to him, looks at the car, WHACKS THE DUDE WITH A FUCKING BATON, then points for him to GTFO with a "ged da fuck odda hehr!" expression. The best part is that everyone looks like they're having a great ol' time, including the dude who just got brained by Boston's finest. The guy's smiling while O'Malley the Copper looks like he's debating taking another swing.

If that dude with the car had been black, the tone of that newreel would have been a weeeeee bit different, especially the ending.

Brainscan is a fucking awesome movie (with an equally awesome sound track). I still own it on VHS, but I haven't had a VCR in ages. Something made me think of that movie a while back and I tried to find it on DVD. I only found insanely expensive used copies and Amazon was selling expensive, licensed rips on DVD-R, so I decided to rip, I mean rent it from Netflix instead.

Ditto. My college friends and I watched this episode, on VCR, because of that.

There are a lot of parallels between advertising and copyright. Buy wholeheartedly in to either, and you end up sort of failing to accept the reality of their flaws.

Advertisers think they have a big problem whenever someone circumvents their ads. They panicked when VCRs came around and allowed people to record shows and fast-forward through ads. They panicked when DVRs came out and let people digitally skip through ads. And they are panicking now, with more and more people getting fed up and putting ad-blocking software on their computers or devices.

Copyright holders think they have a big problem when someone tries to circumvent their system, too. They worried about libraries giving people free access to books; but at least a physical book is pretty much limited to one person at a time. They freaked out about cassette tapes being easily copied with a dual cassette deck. They freaked out about people sharing MP3 music over the internet. They freaked out when DVDs came out with CSS protection which was circumvented almost immediately. They continue to freak out by pushing for ever more and more drastic DRM schemes, that are generally circumvented quite rapidly.

The general theme in both advertising and copyright is escalation; a sort of arms race. The problem is that that solution doesn't actually improve things for anyone, in either case. Ads get more and more offensive and annoying, more and more people block/skip them. Copyright gets more and more locked-down, more and more people circumvent it. In both cases, as the "legitimate" side squeezes harder, it ends up making the user experience better for those who circumvent it "illegitimately". See, for example, this good old comic from The Oatmeal:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

The web with adblock software is a massively better experience than the web without it. A pirated 1080p movie or TV show lets you skip the previews/commercials that are often unskippable on a DVD. And on and on.

This arms race doesn't have a good future. Creators and distributors must start wracking their brains to come up with whole new ideas, or at least variants of the old ones, that break that cycle and ensure that "illegitimate" users/viewers don't have a better experience than legitimate ones. I'm sure not holding my breath though.

Also, no recording for consumers until VCRs.

Times were different back then!

*promote in honor of the last VCR production line in the world shutting down

*music almost *nsfw

The original Poltergeist flick, on cable/VCR, for me at my a Christian's house.

Im not surprised for kids of this age not to know.

For more of this i give you, Kids react to old technology. I always get a kick out of these. Kids are hillarious and awesome.
VCR https://youtu.be/kesMOzzNBiQ
ROTARY PHONE https://youtu.be/XkuirEweZvM
WALKMAN https://youtu.be/Uk_vV-JRZ6E
TYPEWRITERS https://youtu.be/vfxRfkZdiAQ
OLD CAMERAS https://youtu.be/DDtWxURLlPk
OLD COMPUTER https://youtu.be/PF7EpEnglgk

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I still use my Sharp CRT TV from January 1996, VCR from Y2K, VGA, etc.

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Yes, but if even John Carmack admitted that programming a VCR was too complicated for him, we might as well consider that this kind of feature was not available to the layman. :-)

I still have my Toshiba VCR from Y2K, but it only to connect between my very old video card and 19.5" Sharp CRT TV (January 1996).

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