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MyRetroTVs.com - Scratch That Retro Itch
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:37 am
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:37 am
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:26 pm to VoxDawg
That's pretty cool. I'm currently watching 80s commercials
Posted on 4/6/26 at 4:40 pm to boxcarbarney
It's funny that 20 years afterwards, the trend thanks to TiVo & later DVR systems were to skip commercials entirely. Now we go to YouTube and watch them in 2H blocks at a time.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:17 pm to VoxDawg
That is incredible! Thanks for sharing!
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:07 pm to VoxDawg
This is great. The 90’s one is missing an opportunity not having the Prevue Channel or The Box
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:41 pm to VoxDawg
surfed through 3 channels and found WCW Saturday Night. Booker T and Stevie Ray were wrestling someone.
eta: thought i found the Flintstones movie from '94. turns out, it's linked to a scene from YouTube and it's playing on repeat.
eta: thought i found the Flintstones movie from '94. turns out, it's linked to a scene from YouTube and it's playing on repeat.
This post was edited on 4/6/26 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 4/7/26 at 9:06 am to FairhopeTider
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The Box
I loved The Box when I was at LSU.
I think Box Pulse was my favorite channel.
We'd get fricked up, and order random songs.
For the youngins out there, this was before YouTube and being able to watch videos instantly. The Box was a bunch of music channels broken up by genre. There was a text scroll at the bottom of the screen that gave a code for different music videos. If you wanted to watch one, you'd call a 900 number and punch in the code.
So if you wanted to watch The Offsprings Pretty Fly for a White Guy, you'd wait for the text at the bottom to scroll to that song. Say the code was 410. You'd call the 900 number and type in 410. And eventually the channel would queue up that song for you.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 9:14 am to boxcarbarney
I remember when I got DirecTV in 1999, the MusicChoice audio-onlu channels were pretty revolutionary.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 9:55 am to VoxDawg
this is awesome
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:07 am to VoxDawg
This is fricking amazing. I am 100% going home today and putting this as a favorite on my Xbox internet app at home and watch it with my son.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:14 am to VoxDawg
I have playlists on my iphone that recreate some of my favorite 8-Track tapes, complete with the 8-Track "CLICK" and the original rearranged album tracks (they use to move tracks, add songs so that the A and B sides were separated into equal 4ths.
I also have playlists by year, including TV theme songs, commercial audio, with TV dial sound effects between tracks.
I take nostalgia very seriously.
I also have playlists by year, including TV theme songs, commercial audio, with TV dial sound effects between tracks.
I take nostalgia very seriously.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:40 am to Fewer Kilometers
I had posted on Twitter the other day that it makes me sad that the digital music generation won't experience some of the psychological phenomenon that anybody who lived from the Advent of the phonograph through the compact disc era came to accept as a way of life.
I was waiting for my oil change to be completed and Take it Easy by the Eagles was playing in the dealership. As soon as the song ended, in my head I immediately heard the opening notes of Witchy Woman, which was the second track on the blue Eagles Greatest Hits Volume 1 that everybody and their brother owned. We didn't necessarily have the benefit of skipping tracks easily, so it was very common place for the songs to hit in a specific order that they are featured on the album, 8-track, cassette tape, CD.
The iPod and later streaming music generations won't experience that sort of thing, and that makes me a little sad.
I was waiting for my oil change to be completed and Take it Easy by the Eagles was playing in the dealership. As soon as the song ended, in my head I immediately heard the opening notes of Witchy Woman, which was the second track on the blue Eagles Greatest Hits Volume 1 that everybody and their brother owned. We didn't necessarily have the benefit of skipping tracks easily, so it was very common place for the songs to hit in a specific order that they are featured on the album, 8-track, cassette tape, CD.
The iPod and later streaming music generations won't experience that sort of thing, and that makes me a little sad.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:42 am to VoxDawg
And in a fit of serendipity, the gas station I just walked into is playing Take It Easy. 
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:53 am to VoxDawg
quote:
As soon as the song ended, in my head I immediately heard the opening notes of Witchy Woman,
I do this when I hear any early 90's George Strait or Garth Brooks song. We had all those tapes (and later CD's) and I immediately start hearing the next song in my head
Posted on 4/7/26 at 11:04 am to VoxDawg
quote:One of the necessary talents of being an 8-Track listener was to gauge the point in a track when you could switch tracks to get to the start of a favorite song. You knew how far to listen into Track 3 before you clicked through to Track 2 again to hear the preferred song.
the digital music generation won't experience some of the psychological phenomenon that anybody who lived from the Advent of the phonograph through the compact disc era came to accept as a way of life.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 1:59 pm to VoxDawg
This awesome
Posted on 4/7/26 at 4:24 pm to boogiewoogie1978
yep. 1975. Frampton killing it on Midnight Special. followed by Leo Sayer (who can dance, BTW)
Posted on 4/8/26 at 7:36 am to Jmcc64
I haven't gotten out of the 1985-87 corridor yet. Once I hit the music video channels, I'm done. There are few feelings better than not knowing what will be played next and how long it might've been since you've heard a given song.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 8:48 am to VoxDawg
Fantastic stuff. I've just lost a few days. I'm grateful and incredibly sad at the same time.
I hate today's society.
I hate today's society.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 9:50 am to TygerLyfe
quote:
I hate today's society.
Never forget what they've taken from us.
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