[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by James

I recorded a lot of programmes off the TV in the 90s on VHS tape. I don't know what is on the tapes because I didn't label most of them lol.

My dad used to rent and... Umm... "back up"... Films from Blockbuster using two VCR's connected together with a SCART cable. There would be very occasional visual blips or sound glitches/wobbles in this process, and as a result, films that I watched repeatedly as a kid had those glitches as standard and they became a normal part of the film...

Best example is, we had Independence day, and there's a scene where Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are standing together looking at the small alien ship hatching the plan to infiltrate the mother ship. On our version, it glitched and repeated about two seconds: they were looking at each other, both look at the ship, it blipped back to them looking at each other, and repeated the bit where they turn to look at the ship.

Mkst have watched that ccopy dozens of times.

TO THIS DAY if I watch Independence Day on streaming or whatever, I find it weird when that DOESN'T happen .

Another example is, on our copy of Back To The Future there was a bit where the sound went higher pitched for maybe 5 seconds. Again I expect it to happen every time I see the film...