New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2016
- Captured from a D-Theater HD DVHS Demo Tape - more here: • Remember when HD Movie...
In 2002 D-Theater launched in the US - the dealers needed a demo tape of HD footage. JVC reused some HD video that had been shot as a demo for the Japanese HD market back in 1993.
This footage would have most likely been originally used for a HiVision MUSE demo (an HD Broadcast, Tape & Laserdisc format).
You can determine that the year is 1993 by the adverts in Times Square - The Radio 501 CD that's advertised on a billboard came out in 1993 and Paper Moon is playing at the Marquis Theater.
For those wondering what HD video camera tech existed in 1993 - there are a few options, but it's likely that this footage was shot with a HDVS camera- perhaps a Sony SONY HDC-500 attached to a HDV-10 portable recorder which recorded on UniHi 3/4" tape.
Music - Living for the City - Muzak Version (Originally Stevie Wonder) / Autumn in New York - Kimiko Itoh
HEY DO YOU WANT TO LICENCE (LICENSE) THIS VIDEO?
Loads (I mean loads) of people making TV and Film have asked if they can licence this footage for their production set in the 1990s. The answer is - 'It's not mine to licence'. The video was shot by a crew for JVC in Japan in 1993. Apparently some people have tried contacting JVC in Japan and they have no records of this. Not exactly a surprise. So if you want to use this footage you're out of luck - no need to email me - all I know is I found it on a demo tape - end of story.
![1930s - Street Scenes New York in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ePH--widhXk/mqdefault.jpg)
This is the longest law and order intro I’ve ever seen
lmfaoo im dead
Hahahaha
Blueis Notgreen Was Bill Clinton President? Was it a bad time for America?
@@eduardogavilanes4651 i thought it's George H. W. Bush?
HBC 101 no. Bill Clinton got elected in 1992 and was inaugurated in 1993
Can't believe 1993 was 60 years ago
Lmao
Lol you're crazy
2 years ago you idiot.
Yea ikr wow
25 years ago*
Seeing 30 years ago in such high quality puts into perspective how fast time flies. Someone who was 10 years old when this was recorded would be 40 now.
Yes, me!
I was -10 lol
Well I was 11 and I'm 41 now and my son is now 11.
I was 14 in 1993, I'm 44 now. It definitely doesn't feel like it's been 30 years
@@shaunsteele6926 i know, what happend?. I feel like I was young moments ago and suddently I am now old.
Oh no! The ponytail guy from 1:00 had seen this video and left a comment, but I'm not seeing it anymore :(
😢
Has it been deleted ? 😢
ya where is he? =/
Damn everyone looks like a character from an fbi movie.
lol............
everyone was suddenly really into the color black in the 90s lol
@@ronaldcole6101 Those who were in a work schedule, but the rest of the outfit was quite colorful.
The X-files
1000th like
It’s so weird seeing this era captured in such high definition. Even my memories of growing up in the 90’s aren’t this clear.
There are some very interesting videos of old street-life films shot in the 1930's and 1940's that have been remastered to 4K, colorized and 60FPS that look like they were shot yesterday. It's almost like a time machine.
@@davidgmaloof can u link one?
@@rytism7156 No don't bother. It's low quality fad upscaling by losers who need something to do with the garbage software they paid $400 dollars for. It's a fad for infantile low intelligence mental infants.
If you want actual high quality look for actual film scans, film resolution is actually pretty good so you can easily get real 4k direct scans off 16mm film archives and 8k scans off 35mm video film. Actual film high quality raw scans is what you're looking for, not fad software that's fake and AI doesn't actually exist. It's a sales gimmick to make you feel special about yourself.
High quality film was very common commercially. It was home theater that was low definition. When they 'remaster' old films into HD, they're just taking the original high quality master and releasing it to the general public instead of the down scaled and letterboxed versions we saw at home back in the day.
@@natsfan100 partially true. It depends on how old of a film we are talking. If this was before I'd say the 1970s, a lot of those movies were stored on actual physical film and that was the only copy of available. The film was physically degraded so they had to usually, before computers, go frame by frame and do hand cleanups and sharpening filters.
As someone born in the mid-2000s, seeing high quality footage from the 90's is so incredibly surreal to me.
You were born in the mosaic pixel distortion era.
As someone born in 70s it’s weird too!
Were you born in the mid 2000's? my condolences to you, you were born at a time when this country had already gone to shit along with most of the world
There is a lot of film from even the 60's that is very HD. It's just that DVD could not provide that, but if you get an old movie on Bluray, you can see the HD.
I was born in the 80’s and feel the same way! Even seeing in widescreen-ish surprises me, instead of 4:3. Widescreen (16:9) really wasn’t common until the early 2010s…
Consider one thing: Any professional 35mm film footage of that time, if well-preserved, would translate to HD and 2K and 4K resolution. People tend to think of the resolution of consumer end products (VHS, Laserdiscs, DVD's) as equivalent to the actual source media (16mm/35mm/70mm film, Broadcast master tapes, etc). HD video production was happening in Japan in the 1980's but HD as a consumer reality in America happened 20 years later.
You are 100% correct! That's why old episodes of "Columbo" look so good in HD. They were all shot on film stock.
To be fair, the reason why it took so long for HD video to become a common consumer item was because the early analog HD systems (like the Sony HDVS used here) were insanely expensive and was more a production rather than a consumer format. It was only by the mid 1990's when microprocessors became faster and cheaper along with the development of digital compression codecs that HD video became more practical for consumers.
If you watch Taxi Driver, in most well preserved cases, it really looks HD, and that was in the 70s
@@gabrielmoreno9455good point. This footage has its own charm though-the higher frame rate of video, while often derided by film purists, makes it seem closer to real life IMHO.
Seeing Pre-2000s clips in such high HD quality is like hearing a movie with sound in the silent-film era. It’s MARVELOUS.
That's the first thing I've thought too: incredible quality for a VHS tape.
True, this is gold
It’s also like seeing photos and videos pre 19th century 😂
Movie "The Jazz Singer" (1927) is this is the same movie with sounds in the silent-film era
Are you forgetting movies? This is just more baffling because it's on VHS
The internet is the closest thing to a time machine we have.
Its also ironically what ruined all of this :/
Correct
Indeed! I was thinking the same thing the other day. I hope everyone uploads as much content as possible as old as possible to be saved forever for all of us to enjoy and cherish. I adore watching the past and eras I never lived in. Thanks RUclips and technology!
too bad
EvilDeadRecordsVideo Ruined what? The internet isn’t what’s ruining everything, unfettered and unregulated capitalism is.
Seeing movies based in New York with the towers still standing high always made me feel at home with my family. Miss the 90s camera quality though lol
What a magical video! Thank you so much for uploading ❤
1:00 And he never saw her again
you can ask him, he is up in the comments
Actually there are more shots which really are spot on. But you can see she noticed someone looking at her. Her body reaction was like: pff not again..lol
Jajajaja
@@luciaflor9420 I was more looking at the moments in the film. Also thinking..where are they now?
this video just made heim relive his regrets of not knowing that woman on the street
Best picture quality of any video in 1993 respect
Just imagine if we had cameras in Roman times.
oldi184 that would be amazing or dinosaurs time
I thought you said 1939 I was like sorry bud there's none 😂
Or when flying spaghetti monster was alive
A lot more white people. The Best times. Back when it was mostly just White and Black people and no racism in the media. Puerto ricans and Asians too in New York but hardly anybody else in big numbers. No mexicans at all. Everybody got along. The better days
The quality is wonderful. Props man
It's incredible! This is definitely a phenomenal and unique video, especially since it was filmed 30 years ago. But what’s even more interesting is how the destinies of these people turned out, for example, a man in a business suit and glasses against the backdrop of the Twin Towers, a sweet beauty walking towards a guy with a ponytail, a girl adjusting her earring, a couple smiling at each other. Each of them contributed to this video, making it so bright, wonderful, positive, real - and for this I want to thank them and wish them all the best.
P.S: I met a guy with a ponytail on RUclips, a very cool guy. I wish him all the best😊
I am always intrigued about this when I see old footage of people going about their lives, what are they doing now, what has happened to them, are they even still alive?
If you look at the Ladder 1 fire engine at 1:42 you have to wonder if one of those firefighters was killed on 9/11.
0:59 my man in 1993 and got caught in HD
He actually left a comment
That girl is pretty bad tho I can't blame him 😂
literally
He's actually in the top comments of the video.
His comment is pinned😂
It’s absolutely wild to think that this nearly 30 year old time capsule looks like it could have been taken yesterday
28 not 30
A2B Anshuman That’s why they said NEARLY 30 year old..🤦♂️
True, last time I saw 1993 that clear was...in 1993.
I know right? This feels so unreal
@@OdinUpsilon shut the hell up
Most amazing time capsule. 30 years! Production and technical quality are exceptional by *today's* standards
1993 was the year I went to America for the first time. I was 21 and had a blast. ❤
0:58 I don't blame you bro...
She kinda looks like Alexandra Daddario, no?
@@YashpalKrishna kinda looks like Barbara Palvin
Looks like that stock image
Funny thing is, he's in this comment section. Right up there, pinned to the wall
They caught him in HD all the way back in '93!
This is the longest crime show intro I've ever seen
which is place is at 2:41?
Lmao yeahhh
@@jerrythomas9936 😂😂😂 I literally asked everyone to get the answer as it was urgent at that time...
@@TysonEmmy Central Park? Why didn't you just google it?
@@theinternetexplorer7873 Lol How do A google place of which i don't know any name....
"aren't you surprised to see 1993 in HD?" Bro that's why I'm here
Thank you for uploading this.
It's so easy to think that the 80s/90s looked like a 4th-generation VHS tape, or that the 1890s looked like a sepia-toned photograph, even when you know in your head that's not true. Exellent, eye-opening footage.
we can never see this sunset again 5:15
Exactly what I always think when I see stuff like this
I thought i was the only one who thought this
Great point
People are pretty much the same in the past. Just the settings are different.
This feels like a opening shot for the worlds greatest New York sitcom.
The greatest New York sitcom in my opinion is friends
Kneox NO IT FUCKING ISNT SEINFELD IS BETTER
Wonderful footage.
It brings me back to my childhood, I feel like I want to cry but my tears would be warm and somehow full of happiness and nostalgia.
I feel grateful for being grown up in the 90s. What an amazing time to be alive it was.
No internet and no cell phones, just the right amount of comforts and technology. It was fun, really. And great music hits too.
I guess the 9/11 changed our perspective for the worse, people aren't that happy since then imo
Thank you very much for the upload, I love it.
I don't think it's the cell phones, but I definitely do think it is 9/11. Usually, cultures end in a gradual way. The 80's had a smooth gradient into the 90's, with the introduction of easier computing and access to greater color gamuts. However, the the 90's and the 2000s were a very immediate switch. From people I have asked, and things I have seen, a lot of people had a very immediate shift of feeling and mood once 9/11 happened. The economy also went to shit directly after due to the sudden loss of a large financial construct, and the practical death of the travel industry.
Many people lost the feeling of strength, indestructibility, and safety that many used to have back then, as US citizens, and that effect still shows today, although things are definitely recovering as more generations pad the gap.
(Also people in the 90s also wore suits so much better than people in the 2000s omg)
-- a 2007 kid
The city looks clear and more presentable than today.
the hell is that supposed to mean?
This has to be the best early 90's video quality I've ever seen.
@odeerg film is 24fps. the resolution is good but the motion feel cinematic. this dvhs feels realistic because of high frame rate
@odeerg Film is (for the most part) 24/25fps, and this is 60fps so this is far more realistic
@@SantiagoMonroy5 This is more realistic in terms of fps, but in terms of resolution film is still higher. Amazing video, in any case, I had seen a small part of it in Techmoan's channel.
@Vornado pro I do agree with tou on the quality.
Vornado? I worked for them in 1966, and on and off 1972-77.
Von duMozze, wow, 1966! Have you heard of cryostasis?
This is what I remember 1993 looking like at age 13 or 14 -- funny to see the distorted VHS tapes making me feel older than I am. Now I know how my parents, grandparents and great grandparents must have felt looking back at old footage knowing that's not how they remembered it.
Evan J I love you White man
Evan J not really because this is old footage but in the same quality we have today.
I'm sure they remembered watching old film footage on TV though, just like I remember watching early 90's film and videotape footage (which had its own trademark look) back then. Seeing it still takes me back.
My beautiful home sweet home! Brooklyn, 1993, freshman in high school, and I felt like the future was brighter than a million suns for me!
I love how people notice the camera and look at it. When a person brought their camera, it was a noticeable & large device. It also wasn’t very common.
Now, most people have a pocket sized device that films in 4k & can post said video onto the internet…
This is incredible probably the best footage of 90s I’ve ever seen
Apart from feature-length movies lol
Doesn’t beat my beastie boys vhs
It's 1993, not 1893
some people in the 1800's took better photos than we can today actually using certain techniques that most didnt use@@fatahmalom2393
0:58 - ME TOO!
This is so trippy. Seeing something recorded that's over 20 years ago starts messing up your perception of time. We're so used to seeing HD videos/movies, we just assume that it was recorded "recently", but watching this, really messes with you.
I mean, film has an incredible amount of detail (much higher than this video) and it's been that way for decades and decades. This is still quite interesting to see but it doesn't seem weird at all.
Imagine seeing color HD footage of like the 1770s, it would be mind blowing
+Rilumai; yes but the look is still different with analog tapes and especially film! This footage is shot digitally and along with the 60p it reminds us so much of the cameras we have today.
Thomas I agree that film looks different and much better than this video, but wasn't this video also shot on analog tapes? That's what the description says anyway.
+Rilumai yeah
Its so surreal seeing this footage in HD because i wasnt even thought of yet and was born in the 2000s and it looks like somewhat today but realistically 30 years ago.
I miss how New York was back then 😢, before the magic got ripped away. This footage is amazing. I plan to watch it at least another 99 times!
I agree.
It’s like someone sent a current day camera back in time.
It's like when you have dreams about being high school, then in the middle of the dream you think "wait, I have a college degree. Why am I here again?" (I always wake up as I establish the inconsistency)
There is nothing new under the Sun.
This is the closest to time travel we will ever get
idk why but reading that made me sad, you right tho.
@@BKbucknut93 Don't be. Trust me, we will get closer than a simple short video someday.
ruclips.net/video/j_DGRXvKkD4/видео.html
@@maksphoto78 thx
dont forget that in 30 years vloggers videos will be used in history classes XD.
outstanding and remarkable footage
The early 90's is when I wanted to move to NYC the most. Never made it. But the quality of this video is remarkable
I wish this camera was available in the 50s or 60s. Those are the times I really want to see in HD.
Here's Disneyland in 1956 (when it was only 1yr old) in close to HD
ruclips.net/video/TXNHmhqOweQ/видео.html
Look up queen's 1981 concert in Montreal
Just turn on the tv its about the same thing
Find some old family 8mm film reed and have a ball. Found my great grandfathers who toured all over Canada and USA shooting film. Reels and reels of it projected onto a wall in my basement. The clarity and colours of projected film is absolutely brilliant. 1960’s, Air shows, Chicago with the Marion towers being built, Disney world the year it opened...amAzing stuff.
i wish this camera was available in the start point of big bang 😩😩😩
Ah yes, a much simpler time--when I didn't exist.
Lmaoo same💀
That’s too bad man, it was almost 180 degrees different than today’s perpetual shit show
I wish I could have been born and experience those simple times before 9/11.
I miss being in the peaceful nothing.
No internet no smartphones no prevalence of personal computers either. People just lived their lives .
It looks like I'm looking through a clean window! Remarkable quality thank you!!!
They had some good camera quality for 1993.
it's so weird seeing no one on their phones lol
hello
good point
No it isn't. It's weird AF that everyone now IS
@@thingonathinginathing well, weird is only what's deviant from what's most common. So in a sense, it is weird that they're not on their phones, since it's so prevalent today.
dem old people in the video most likely deceased🙁
I would have never discovered this art piece without Vsauce. This is amazing.
I was going to comment something similar but you beat me to it :P
Same
Me 4!
If only that guy smiling with the rice was also filmed in HD in the 1900s.
Literally the same.
@@liamfinlay2039 he’s beaten may people to it.
Fantastic!!! Thank you very much for fullHD-vhs!!!!
this is such beautiful quality, you'd think it was filmed yesterday. unfortunately, theres one landmark in particular that tells me that it wasn't....just wonderful footage
You can still see the 80's vibe there... Interesting how early and late 90's felt so different !
I'm age 31
I still remember seeing 9/11 on TV in Arkansas back than age 11
Back in 2001 in 20th century now its 21 century
Same with early and late 2000's
@@criticalhard True. However there was very little difference between early and late 2010’s. I just didn’t feel it at all unlike previous decades. Is it just me or the culture has been stagnant recently?
@@ROCKSTAR3291 Massively agree - the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s seemed to have distinct cultural themes. To the point where you can easily identify what era an old photo or video is from. But the late 2000s to present have just felt boring - there's nothing really going on.
This is the New York we all ❤️
It's so weird seeing this in HD, as if it was only recorded yesterday.
I'ts because some time traveler did it
@@dalent Thats's the most logical explanation.
upscale
Minus all the smartphone zombies. Sometimes I wish I'd been born early enough to experience the entirety of the 90s. Too bad I was born at the end of the greatest decade in 1999, nevertheless im still glad to have been born at the time
I'm 1997 but pretty much grew up with 90s stuff (from cartoons to sega games,toys,..) we didn't had mobile phones nor computer till 2006 or so but even then internet explorer was so slow no one was bothering with we'd always play outside till dark
Simply amazing!! Thanks for uploading this
I remember growing up in the Bronx and of course spending a lot of time in downtown, particularly at around WTC, back in the 90s. This is definitely the golden days for my childhood.
Twin towers
In Full HD
In 60 FPS
Holy shit
good nigga This ain't Full HD. This is just 720p.
JFlare - Gaming, Tutorials, Walkthroughs
Nah man, for me it's 1080p
It's neither, I believe it's 1050i at 29.9fps. It's just been converted into 1080p 60fps, for minimal loss of quality when uploaded to youtube.
9/11 in 4K 60fps
Now if only someone had this camera handy on 9/11/2001... I'm sure so e conspiracy theorist would have paid big bucks for the footage lol
This was 28 years ago
To contrast, 28 years before 1993 was 1965, the beatles were still making albums
Yea, just turned 28. Wish I could be in my 20's forever... 😔
The world of my childhood when I was in elementary in the late 90's and early to mid 2000's was totally different than the world today. Growing up alongside the rise of the internet and computers, seeing the twin towers get smashed into in 1st grade on Live TV in class (don't know why the teacher thought that was a good idea for small children to see..), then the "War on Terror". Was just a kid then, but even I realized shit was getting real...
I remember in like 1st or 2cnd grade, we still had globes with USSR on them instead of Russia lol
Guess my school was broke af...
I am 37. I remember starting elementary school without the internet since it wasn't a thing. But by the time Highschool came we had yahoo and Napster. There were payphones everywhere and a 25 cent bag of chips was a lot more chips. My daughter who is 15 never knew a world without the internet and seen payphones in old movies. When I tell her stories from my childhood and days of playing Pogs on the schoolyard I now feel like an ancient.
or is it?
@@Clos93 lmao yep
0:57 It wasn't this particular video I don't think but I remember on one of them the pony tail dude actually found it and was commenting on it. It was pretty cool.
Strange... a large crowd is filmed, but only the man looking back leaves a comment... not even one comment from many other people can be found...
Are you getting at something?
@@ucc930ml It is not rare, that is how life works, it is someone special or different as you want to call it, someone who acts differently or goes against the current, you or I could be one of them by the simple fact of thinking about it and realizing about it, as if we were protagonists. Nothing is a coincidence.
I was born in 2004, so seeing hd footage of the 90s is so cool! I wish I could've experienced what it was like during this time!
2:56 New Yorkers were even angry in their sleep.
He's homeless. I reckon I'd be pissed too if I didn't have a bed to sleep on. :/
@@SwitchTvAr yeah, you right. That was very wrong of me. He might have been tired and decided to take a nap on the bench. I apologise. :)
@@mirkoamicizia4258 looking at his clothing and grooming he is not homeless he is just resting their.
He looks so peaceful to me... maybe just the music ^^
This camera must have been astronomically expensive in 1993.
Equivalent of an 8K capable camera now.
8K isnt even that much nowadays compared to HD in 1993, it's like 32K nowadays, something it's only going to be normal in a distant future, like 20 years future
I think he meant in terms of cost.
it wont, size is the thing that matters here, cinemas will only achieve perfect quality with 64 k most likely, it's such a big screen that the resolution is too small for the screen, IMAX theatres even worse, for regular tv's and smartphones it will stop at 4k, but cinemas and the such will most likely require 64 k resolution to match our eyes level of detail, perhaps even 128K recordings will be necessary, nonetheless evolution is still going to happen, it's inevitable, new technologies allow it, and as they get cheaper, people will want 16K computer screens, even if they dont see any difference from 4K or 8K, they want it just because they think they are getting more from their buck. Buying a 4k 13'' screen is retarded and people still buy it becuase they can
The camera head and the accompanying lens each cost a quarter million back in 1991/1992, or about a half million today each when adjusted for inflation in 2018.
The recorder that shot this video had 20 MHz of luma bandwidth, which translates to 640 vertical lines of horizontal resolution. The two chroma channels had a bandwidth of 5 MHz or about 160 vertical lines of horizontal resolution for each channel.
The signal format was 1125/60/2:1, which means there are 1125 total horizontal lines, of which only 1035 are active, for the spatial resolution, 60 Hz scanning frequency for the temporal resolution, and interlaced scanning mode is implied by "2:1." Here's the product information page, there is a dearth of information available about this even online:
www.broadcaststore.com/store/model_detail.cfm?id=16388
Here's a rental store that offers the same camera on a daily basis, and probably still makes money today renting these things out:
www.mm-technology.de/rental/hd01.html
Watching with tears, my grandma still alive that time, my childhood still happy, but all is over the next year.
Central park indeed so great, wishing that i can have a visit one day.
The first time I ever watched this video I was very high on ecstasy and when I see it or hear this music still I feel so in love with these people and this era and this HD quality video. Good memories. Love this vid.
That's crazy, that level of quality from 25 years ago. And it looks like it was shot at 60 frames per second, unless this footage was interpolated? Could practically be from a modern DSLR
>that level of quality from 25 years ago
We've had that level of quality for longer than that. Movies shot on film are higher than HD resolution. What's amazing about this is that it's digital, so it doesn't have that grainy film look. Also, 35mm movie cameras were rarely used to shoot random street scenes due to their cost, so footage like this is uncommon.
It was shot on an old analog high-definition 3/4" format VCR called "UNI-HI" (with model no. HDV-10) introduced in 1984 and used videocassette tapes that could each hold up to 62 minutes of footage encoded as an analog component signal (Y/B-Y/-R-Y). It was based on the old U-Matic VCR format. The resolution was about 640 lines for the luma channel, and the resolution was about 320 lines equally split between the two separate chroma channels. The signal-to-noise ratio was 42 decibels, equating to a dynamic range of 7 stops, or a contrast ratio of roughly 128:1. In digital terms, that's the equivalent of 210 Mbps (not bad for a 1984 VCR).
xereeto it's not digital it's Muse
Sorry, not digital, my bad. Still I believe the "captured electronically" look, i.e. not shot on film, is what makes this so fascinating.
What you're trying to say is that it's a video signal.
Looks like an sitcom intro.
Or first episode.
sienfef
when the group walk towards the building at 0:43
You are like a one episode sitcom girlfriend, or at leas that’s what my mother said when she read your comment. She is hilarious,
If she didn’t pump out all 6 of us at eighteen I’m sure she would have gone to do great things but that how the cookie crumbles
sounds like one too
The picture quality is utterly stunning.
30 лет назад !Цифровое видео все таки одно из важнейших изобретений
man the 1990s what a great decade
The best¡!
I'm glad for Americans. In my country 90s were tough.
Best decade ever. I remember hanging out in Manhattan when I worked in Jersey in 1999. Before 9/11, social media, and coronavirus... things were different; much better.
@juanjunior39 those were the bad disgusting scumass old days.
@@user-bt5hf9yx6y What is your country?! It is in Eastern Europe?! BTW, the 90s was pretty peaceful and careless in France too
this is so rad
Artzie!!!!! :D
Jasey Studios Jasey!!!! :D
Artzie Music it's vaporwave as hell dude
Artzie! Hi!
Did you turn this into a music video
Beautiful
Amazing quality.
I always forget that people were still sorta rockin' the 80's styles in 1993
+Alex Kuhn Just with more muted colours. Lots of grey and light blue, rather than bright orange and neon green.
+kenny comack lol, lumberjackey
+Alex Kuhn Not anyone who'd heard the Seattle sound.
More than sorta... ;)
+William Mark Dyer umm yes we did in 1991
Crazy how this was 27 years ago.
Yeah, time flies huh?
@NoName718 Probably dead in my case. Dang life has flown by, huh?
NoName718 ill be 50 when that happens
Only 27...if that was your age...whole life ahead of you...in a free society/ world
And im 27 yrs old
I've still got a cupboard full on digital video tapes of mainly corporate NDA stuff. Nothing this memory inspiring. That footage invoked memories of such dreamy optimism in life! Like an untold story.
Beautiful video.
Props to the cameraman that traveled back in time to get this footage
U stole this comment....and your doing a marathon... I know...
one like one support 🙌🙏
@@kozmokramer7398 bruh
Parsa Ghiasian according to this comment it does?! (Sarcasm)
@Parsa Ghiasian bro no way
this is like the opening to some cheesy 90's sitcom about living in the big city
Seinfeld?
Yeah, I'm getting that Seinfeld vibe for sure.
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood
Friends season 1 if it wasn't potato cam
It’s absolutely INSANE seeing such high quality footage that’s 30 years old
if you think that's nuts, imagine in 10,000 years when people can watch footage of humans speaking to each other, imagine what the world would look like in 10,000-100,000 years and seeing us and what our languages were like and our ancient architecture
have you seen movies?
1:00
The birth of Distracted Boyfriend meme
Indiana? They named you after a dog?
- Sallah, Circa 1936
@@kennarajora6532 Bwahaha!
@Anthony F. Tuffiano ur mom
Yasss
When I read your comment I knew exactly what part you meant!
Bob Ross's "The Joy of Painting" was still airing.
Fool. It still runs somewhere. Like here in Germany, late at night. They run it until the old tapes fall into dust.
*new episodes were still being made
@@domib.3924 Yeah, but with his son. Or am i wrong?
nigga what
Samsung TV has a Bob Ross channel
This looks like a proper studio made VHS, incredible really.
On another note, watching people ignore their surroundings (except the ponytail guy and the guy in the SS sweater) without phones or headphones was nice for a change, back then people were themselves as compared to today were everyone tries to not stand out as there are cameras everywhere. I suppose back then living in the moment was easier and that people are so busy archiving every memory that they can't live in the present. Wonder what those memories will be worth in the future, if people ill sit down and go through their archives and only remember filming or taking pictures on their phone to share on social media.
Ponytail guy was in the comments. Hopefully, the Nazi is either long gone or has turned away from evil.
Interesting thought about the “too busy Archiving Life Behind a Lens Instead of BEING The camera Yourself” concept
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Well that does osund bizarre not to even have some way to at least be listening to rhe radio or play gbc or something for fighting boredom of sitting for who knows how long like for either pharmacy trips and the waiting thst such a thing involves say for example or as another example say the dmv or something else that takes awhile and the time becomes so slow etc.. plus seeing how long ones battery more or less will or does last for curiosity etc fwiw seems neat.. ooh man this is good As such I wisj there was a longer version of this.
I very much appreciate that someone else saw and understood the guy as a nazi. I've been scrolling through comments for quite some time, and this is the first one besides my own to mention it.
This was America's heyday, before its decline. Wonderful time!
take off the rose tinted glasses man
Funny to feel nostalgic for a place I’ve never been to.
Yes! And I'm not even An American! I guess with the way 2020 is going & a lot of other terrible things that have been happening all over the world for the past few years, we just long for the feeling of peace & intimacy that the 90's convey
That is because of movies... we see this and it remembers us from the 90'movies or shows, which sometimes we used to watch as kids and than it brings this kind of nostalgic moment that we may have been there.
I think it's because of that, American culture was everywhere, and when we were kids that was where we wanted to be too.
Captain flying away...
(Wait, does this only work on 9gag?)
World changed with computers too, internet was in its infancy.
maybe in your past life
I've been to NY before, but I don't remember any of it.
Went to NYC in June 1999 when I was only 9 months old, yet I still feel super nostalgic for it despite having no memory of it...!
God this is surreal. It's like someone went back in time and filmed in HD
I know, what an incredible video
futuredirector999 or its like someone recorded it in HD then and posted the video now...
futuredirector999 You can get lots of HD footage from this era it was called film
Michael Walters yeah the weirdest thing is that rappers could actually rap back then, but it looks just like today...weird
Athiestforlife777 Its called Remastering a video
That ending is hauntingly beautiful
Great to see people looking up and being in the moment and enjoying each other, rather than looking down at their phones in another world.
Sad to think that squirrel 3:00 is no longer with us. Rest In Peace, squirrel. 😔
No, he's still there. I saw him only last week. Well... it looked like him.
i thought the exact same thing.
I'm a car guy, was thinking the same thing about all the Caprice classic taxis. There was even an old checker cab in one of the shots. Surely all scrapped and crushed by now
Fountain of Fire my thoughts!
No hes still alive,I saw it jerking off to pigeons the other day while I was at Central Park.
Everybody walking on those streets got 29 years older . Some of them passed away... so life is short and temporary
@Mary O'Bear no you dont you look 100
@Mary O'Bear Doubt a 44 year old can still look like an 18 year old. Stop.
@@-_--_--- WHAT YALL HATING FOR LMFAOOO RELAX
So profound and deep. Excuse me, I'll have to cut myself....
/sarcasm
@Mary O'Bear really
Good old days! Back when America was the land of dreams and opportunities! Even tho I’m gen z and never experienced this I fell in love with the America of the 80s and 90s.
uh. the US has never been the land of dreams and opportunities for minorities, and only recently for women (somewhat). Basically, only for cishet white men. And only Irish and Italians recently.
I don´t know why but seeing cities in old times for me it´s just beautiful. I imagine me living there in those times and everything would be perfect
City life in 1993 was much more relaxed compared to now, year 2033. Hoping this comment ages well.
how are you guys in 2033 dealing with the sea level rising?
NUCLEAR STRIKE INBOUND
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
FUCKING PANIC IT'S 2033
Time machine
Are tik tock users still alive?
@@CosmicCitiZenOfficial I hope not
1993 vídeo with 2019 high quality.
*Wait, thats illegal.*
HD was a ploy to sell more TVs, it solved a problem that didn't exist.
Nothing is illegal here. Japanese has their Hi-Vision (HDTV) system back in 1980s.
@@fred7635 *Sarcasm.*
@@Victor_2000s I know. Just explain.
Al igual que ser furro y ser un pagano y no arrepentirse
Wow this is mesmerizing!! I was a kid in the 90's and my uncle lived in NYC and operated horse drawn carriages in Central Park. He would come back every few years to visit and tell me stories of about New York and I became completely fascinated by it and the United States in general. Unfortunately he died many years before I finally got to go in 2010. I moved there the following year and have been living there since. This is always the vision I had of NYC but of course it changed a lot by the time I moved there. I always wonder what it must have been like for my uncle when he lived there and how different things were then. Watching this video makes me just picture myself in this era of the city. I know this is often a topic of debate for some but it seemed a lot cooler back then than it is now. I mean hell, even when I first arrived it was cooler than it is now.
This video is clearer than today video because the sky is clean
It's interesting that when you think about old times, a blurred image immediately comes to mind, without much color and without definition (which were common TV and VHS images at that time). It's even weird to see images in high definition from almost 30 years ago, it seems like it's a modern-day movie representing the 90's.
mate, 30 years ago there was color and high quality video during that time, plenty of it. It just wasn't readily available, technology wise, like it is now. To have this type of quality Camcorder back in this time would cost you an arm and a leg. Not everyone had access to it - and not every had a TV to show that quality. Go back 70 years - that's what you're talking about.
I have been trying to get that idea out of my mind forever, the idea that people lived in black and white lol
you should see the fires of kuwait in HD it was filmed on 70mm imax from memory, amazing.
At that times, USA was doing great with its Capitalist ideology. Now, slowly left ideology is getting common among Americans.
Left is just a myth. Capitalism is the only way out to be a successful nation.
@@rShubham17 i disagree
90’s optimism captured on film.
@@JPX64Channel So digital film?
JPX64 Film is another word for video... 🤦♂️
@@JPX64Channel You can get as many frames per second with film as long as you can run that film as quickly through the camera. Look up original high speed footage.
How lovely to see everyone looking straight ahead while walking and not staring down at a phone. We've lost eye contact now. Beautiful footage. Thanks for uploading.
How could this be 30 years ago? It's no different than now
@@AtomicGirlNYC😂 Harlem and the Bronx were way shittier back than.
Is it me or is this the best quality I’ve seen for being filmed in the 90s. Almost thought it was a set
Uhhh that's because it is the best quality video from the 90s?
There's a video of a similar quality from the 30s that I've seen in the national archives. blew my mind when I first saw it.
@@01DOGG01 Please provide a link, I'm curious!
@@natemyers1791 same
Best quality material shot on video, yes, but the material shot on film will still look better, and the resolution is much higher. If you take a look at some remastered film footage, even from the 60s, the quality is just amazing. ruclips.net/video/HtUH9z_Oey8/видео.html
So life in 1993 wasn't actually like a VHS tape...?
Of course not. That's just silly.
That's like thinking life in 2006 was like a blurry, 240p RUclips video.
This is from a VHS tape (DVHS)
@@valkiron11 It was sarcasm. lol
Nope. And I'm relieved to see HD footage from the 90s, because I remember it crystal clear, whereas looking at old TV shows makes it look as if
the entire decade was drenched in grease. Seeing this video reminds me that things actually looked as I remember them.
@@SpaceCattttt A lot of TV shows we're recorded on film and have been remade in HD.
Although one difference here is that his was interlaced footage. Which looks 'live'.
this is amazing
People seemed much more present back then. Like much more aware and in the moment. That’s the best way I can describe it.
And not a single 'smartphone' in sight. People were more present, engaging with other and not the damn zombies we have walking around today absorbed in their phones.
Because it's in HD
did we watch the same video? A ton of people are basically only aware of what's immediately in front of them