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03-03-2020, 06:54 AM | #11 |
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Damn this DOES look good, thanks for posting it!! I remember watching this air live on tv when I was little.
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03-05-2020, 06:10 PM | #12 |
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I've literally watched this 300 times. I swear growing up in the 80's was the best! We had the coolest toys, the coolest toy commercials and don't forget Saturday morning cartoons- I miss all of that. Alot.
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03-11-2020, 03:22 PM | #13 |
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This never gets old. YO JOE!
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04-17-2020, 03:35 PM | #14 |
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04-17-2020, 06:31 PM | #15 |
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Mine wasn’t incased in glass.😜
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09-09-2020, 04:53 PM | #16 |
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A commercial like this would not have been shot on VHS. VHS was a consumer home video and recording medium, not a professional broadcast format. Most likely, this commercial was shot on film (probably 16mm) and transferred to 1-inch videotape for post-production, editing, and special effects. That 1-inch tape had an effective resolution of about 400 lines of analog resolution, which was much better than VHS at 240 lines. At some point, a broadcast master existed that was reasonably clean and good quality for Standard Definition. Whether that master was preserved somewhere or has been lost to time, I cannot say. Keep in mind that broadcast TV in the 1980s was much higher quality than VHS. VHS was a very poor quality format. Unfortunately, the copies of the commercial that exist today were mostly sourced from people's personal VHS recordings from broadcast TV. If you're lucky, they recorded in SP format for the best resolution at 240 lines. If unlucky, they recorded in EP format at about half that resolution. Transferring that VHS to a digital file inevitably loses some quality, and the digital compression for YouTube then loses a lot more, until you wind up with a blurry, pixelated mess that's barely watchable. So, while yes, TV in the 1980s was nowhere near as good quality as the High Definition (much less 4K) video we have today, it wasn't THIS bad. Broadcasters did have standards for the video quality of content that aired on TV, and something this crappy would not have been accepted. If you got a good signal, a TV broadcast was fairly close to DVD quality. I'd like to imagine that the ad agency Hasbro used for these commercials filed away all of its video masters in a vault where they might be rediscovered some day. However, the reality is that the agency probably no longer exists, or may have changed ownership so many times over the years that no one has good records of what happened to stuff like this. |
09-09-2020, 05:03 PM | #17 |
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Sorry, should have made myself more clear. What I was saying is that the Flagg commercial on YouTube is a VHS recording owned by an individual archivist that collects forms of toy and cartoon media from the 1980's and 1990's and coverts them to a more modern format so that he can download them onto YouTube.
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09-09-2020, 06:25 PM | #18 |
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I still remember seeing that commercial as a kid. I think I saw the Flagg in a store once only when I was a kid. It was like $100 CDN
The other thing was that I swore I saw it when I was in Japan in 1986, but I was really young back then. I bought a lot of the 1982 figures on Japanese cards when I was there, but I swear I saw the Flagg behind the cashier in a Japanese box. However, thinking back, it might have been the ad as they Flagg is featured in a lot of the promo ads as part of the background and maybe that's what I remembered. Wish I still had my Flagg though. Sold it with my original Joe collection.
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09-11-2020, 03:00 PM | #19 |
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If anyone comes across a better copy post it please. Although not sure they exist. Jinx still gets props for finding this one
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