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Back on TV: Max Headroom
infofreako writes: "
Everyone's favorite 80's construct, Max Headroom, has returned
thanks to the people at TechTV.
According to their website,
they will be rebroadcasting all 14
episodes starting this Friday! This series was doing ethics
themes based on designer babies, corporate controlled media, brain
scanning and more before some of us were capable of hitting record
on the old VCR. "
R-R-R-Rock!
Max Headroom back on TV, Alf doing commercials, a new flavor of Coke hitting the market, Hulk Hogan as WWF champ... the 80's are back! Ronald Reagan should be President any day now.
OMG, that's the nastiest thing I've ever seen.
They invented this new color. The Max Headroom guys would look at it astounded while the camera was always on the other side of their computer monitor so you couldn't see it. How could you invent a new colour on an RGB monitor??? Funny stuff, that show is great.
;-) Can't wait until mine arrives...
Then one day I found out that they really have found a new color! Hrm, I can't seem to find the link though, anyone have it? You can even buy T-shirts in the new colour
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
Max Headroom was NOT computer generated. Those funky, trippy lines behind him might have been, but even that would have pushed technology to the limits. :P
Oh, and by the way, Star Trek (the orig, with Kirk) didn't have a computer generated starship either.
Oh shit! I forgot to click "Post Anonymously"...
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Hey I barely (barley is yummy) remember Max Headroom, not that I'm young(33) but didn't he start by some guy going face first into a toll booth arm thing...what do you call those things? It said "Max Headroom" on it. Shouldn't he be called Moordaeh Xam? Sounds like an Indian superhero... :-P
Watch out Delhi here comes Moordaeh Xam! Bollywood should make a movie about that.
VCR??? What the hell is that? I was recording those babies on my parents BetaMAX.
The best episode by far was #13: Lessons, about cracking down pirated video programming
Wow, can't wait to download it...
I think Britney is hotter... but she's also more technologically "enhanced".
Speak for yourself. I've got them all on Betamax.
-----sharks
Zik Zak corporation is Microsoft's role model :-)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
This series was doing ethics themes based on designer babies, corporate controlled media, brain scanning and more before some of us were capable of hitting record on the old VCR.
Ahem. Speak for yourself. I was the only person in my family who could Program the VCR. I was 4 years old. My dad still hasn't figured it out.
Triv
A BetaMax of a Beta Max.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Y'know, I look at advertisements for new model cars, and I look at the state of the economy, and I look at Slashdot stories like this and I just have to wonder... Maybe Back to the Future II was really shot on location in 2015 afterall.
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Trivia: The guy who exploded watching blipverts was played by Mike Cule, who played the Vogon Guard in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series...
Yes. I am sad, thank you very much...
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Cheesy story ...
When I was a very young geek lad, I had a TRS-80 color computer. After watching Max Headroom, I decided that I wanted my own max headroom. So, I layed awake in bed one night, excited about the prospect that there could be a slight chance that I could build a max headroom with my TRS-80.
The next morning, I tried. It was my first programming experience. It went something like:
10 say "hello, I am max headroom"
I couldn't figure out what "syntax error" meant, and my dreams of my own Max Headroom faded into the past.
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