{"id":50825,"date":"2024-02-22T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50825"},"modified":"2024-02-22T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:10:56","slug":"it-was-all-my-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/22\/it-was-all-my-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was All My Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1029,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tenforward.social\\\/@djwudi\\\/111972750078299021&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1030,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/dp\\\/B0CVS23J48&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I was one of the first of my friends group to really get into \u201chome theater\u201d \u2014 at least, as much as I could in the mid-\u201990s on a financially questionable 20-something\u2019s budget. Our apartment had a big-screen rear-projection TV (bought used, of course), later replaced with a (ridiculously huge) three-beam projector sourced from a bar that was closing down, an early surround sound system, and I started collecting widescreen movies with the special edition of <em>The Abyss<\/em> on widescreen VHS. I had a pretty decent widescreen VHS collection before finally upgrading to DVD.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Chad and I were sitting around, bored, and looking for something to watch. \u201cI\u2019ve got <em>The Crow<\/em>,\u201d says Chad. Sounded good to me, so he went to grab it. And pulled out his copy \u2014 a home VHS tape, with the movie taped off of TV, over something else, in broadcast pan-and-scan, and probably in mono. He popped it in, and we started watching.<\/p>\n<p>About ten minutes in, suddenly he turns to me and spouts off with a hearty and apparently random, \u201cFuck you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the hell?\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil I lived with you, I didn\u2019t care about widescreen, or surround sound, or any of that. I\u2019d just watch the movie. You\u2019ve ruined me!\u201d And as I laughed, he turned off the movie in amused disgust. And it wasn\u2019t too long before the widescreen DVD found its way into the collection.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/tenforward.social\/@djwudi\/111972750078299021\">Originally posted to Mastodon<\/a>, and prompted by the announcement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CVS23J48\"><em>The Crow<\/em> on 4K Blu-ray<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching The Crow on pan-and-scan VHS taped off of TV leads to a realization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[2058],"class_list":["post-50825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-the-crow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}