Making Use of What?

I don’t know why. Just trying.

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Curated showcase of video tapes and films on popculture and audio-visual media of the 90s. Not only do we love analogue media, but especially the media of the 1990s. Including TV and cartoon series, home videos and rentals, promotional material, laserdics, documentaries, VHS-rips and such stuff.

CONTENT

Imagine this channel as the forgotten weird VHS-Casette you find in the attic. You love glitches, scratches, poor audio and 5-hours long specials on your favourite series? You need an introduction for aliens to late 20th century culture of planet earth? Or you just like to watch all your beloved cartoons just you did all those saturday mornings. It’s the 90s!

Original files are the best. But what is being done to the sources you watch? Moderate color correction, audio adjustments and obvious aspect ratio corrections are applied. No cuts and strictly 4:3 media spanning the 1990s.

FAIR USE

This channel and related content are for artistic, scientific, educational, informational and therapeutic purposes only.

This channel uses dramatised scenes and repurposed archival footage.

This may include copyrighted material owned by a third party, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Notwithstanding a copyright owner’s rights under the Copyright Act, Section 107 of the Copyright Act allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, for purposes such as education, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing.

No animals were harmed during this stream.

PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING

Some shows contain flashing images as part of the animation, but also sometimes unintentionally. In the case of the latter, due to the nature of the original video encodings, they may show flickering images for extended periods of time that may not have existed in the original broadcast. If you are prone to epilepsy or similar afflictions, please use discretion.

DISCLAIMER

This channel aims to showcase vintage media related to television and video in the most presentable manner possible, without any comment. We aim to keep the content original. That means most sources are PAL/NTSC and therefore max 720p. We love glitches, errors and the aura this media may still have.

It is not possible to recreate the historical context of this content, which informed any information presented therein. This channel does not warrant the accuracy or validity of any information presented as fact in these videos. Any opinions and views expressed in these videos do not reflect those of this channel or its staff.

THE NINE-TIES

Not only do we love analogue media, but especially the media of the 1990s.

Including TV and cartoon series, home videos and rentals, promotional material, laserdics, documentaries, VHS-rips, experimental and independent videos, TV-subculture, computer art and other ephemera from the perspective of media art.