Nah, most likely they are an old divorced military couple. Marriage in the Navy rarely lasts.
For me its more the VCR scan lined early 90s, and the shitty low resolution digital images and video (Real Audio does video now!) of the late.
Oh FSM save me. The Real Networks HQ is just down the street from where I used to work. Theyâre still there in fact. I have no idea how they manage to linger on in this late hour of nobody giving a flying eff about musicmatch jukebox, rhapsody or their awful codecs.
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I thought the same thing. That kiss around 2:48 was a bit too sensual for the context. I couldnât tell if it was bad acting or some kind of mind fucking by the producers.
I donât think thatâs bad acting. It looks pretty intentional to me. Iâm thinking the director wanted it to be âimpactfulâ, bud didnât get that multiple kisses makes it go from sweet to weird.
Although maybe they were just pressed for time, and missed the multiple shots in post, so that you get all the attempts.
In the days of low bandwidth, their codecs made video possible. I do not miss them but Iâm glad they kickstarted motion and audio media online in a meaningful way. You still occasionally see pron packaged as real media files.
Also MMJB was not a Real Networks product as far as I know, plus it was just about the best free CD ripping tool for windows back in the day because it had CDDB support, encoding options and was totally free and easily gotten.
Huh, I mixed up MMJB with RealPlayer. My first PC came with both, and I remember one was completely useless, but the other was pretty great for CD ripping. I guess MMJB was the one that was great for ripping CDs.
Still though, RealAudio and RealVideo were on the heels of the original DivX 
Hm, as my memory serves the videos themselves werenât so bad, but the proprietary player and its litigious asshole owners were. According to wikipedia it used a h263 container so Iâm guessing our bad memories of âurgh its real mediaâ are half the crappy player and half the 120p vids we were watching as a result of dialup.
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The 70s
The 90s
No contest. Case closed.
Thatâs probably it. I got into codec testing a little while after there were some choices.
I spent a lot of time working on whether commercial DivX codecs were better than the opensource XviD codec.
If youâre willing to go and mark each scene by frame number, and note down how the cutting goes, you can make XviD outperform all versions of DivX up to about DivX 9, using the XviD codecâs dialog for specifying compression zones by frame.
That way if you have, say a live-action, full motion intro until frame 719, followed by 10 slides of opening credits on still images lasting 72 frames each, then you can create a zone for the intro at full quality, and a new zone for each slide at maybe 1% quality and so on, without ruining the psychovisual quality of the whole video.
DivX never allowed for manual hand-tweaking like that. At least not back in the day when DivX was an MPEG4 Part 2 codec. Now itâs just another H.264 codec, like the half dozen others, and they all perform pretty much the same, although Iâm partial to the x264 implementation and have a few custom patches I build against to increase its performance on Anime. Playing with the quantizer matrix a bit.
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I donât think USN sailors were allowed shaggy Beatles haircuts, even in 1991.
I noticed he was glancing back over his shoulder before kissing his mistress, probably to make sure his wife hadnât brought the kids for some family food.
I went to a Sizzler a couple of times in 1991 â supposedly the worldâs largest, but who knows â and the buffet bars invariably looked like theyâd been hit by tornadoes. It was always a fucking mess. The steaks were tiny and mostly fat. I never tried any seafood.
Going Sear: Sizzlertology and the Prison of Beef
Hold on, the jury is still out
70s
90s
It was a fast paced world in slow blurry motion.
Yes, I put one of my stockings over the camera lens, and tried to hang myself with the other one.
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QFT. I think thatâs sig-worthy.
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Hillary Clinton Makes it Official: âIâm Running for Sizzlerâ
