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"1984" original Mac commercial ???

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badda

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Apr 17, 2011
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Hello mac fans,

I've been looking all over the web for a high quality (as in an NTSC vob, or clear 720x480 VHS rip) of the original "1984" commercial for Apple's Macintosh.

(I'm not looking for a youTube version.)

I believe Apple itself used to host high quality mov files of the advertisment a few years ago, but not any more, unfortunately.

Please, if you know a working URL where I can download "1984", I would be grateful if you would point me towards it.

Thanks. Any ideas?
 
Unless I'm mistaken, VHS is 250x480 in resolution. Maybe somebody has it on a Laserdisc or something somewhere? Its just old enough that I don't see that many high quality versions existing in a digital format.
 
The version that Apple hosted on their website was pretty poor quality back in the day when bandwidth was low and a 28.8Kbps modem was the norm.

I've never come across anything approaching "high" quality. If anybody does, I'd love to know too.

I know the original Apple hosted video (just to show how bad it was) is on archive.org but I can't locate it right now
 
LimeiBook86 said:
I have a few versions of it somewhere, I know I have the 1984-2004 version. If I find anything else I'll let you know. :)
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Great! If you have a clean version of the original, I would love to have a copy (via something like megaupload/rapidshare etc) please. I'd really appreciate it.
 
Back in '84 the recording choices were Beta or VHS... :eek:

That would be the source, unfortunately.... ;)

I guess is someone had a Beta Hi-Fi copy on a High Grade Tape with great reception, then you can capture it but need to use some sort of TBC with it.
 
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