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  dude you rock : boring gegtik
  • Everyone inf this motherfucker : boring gegtik
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    my friend did most of the work :) thats what I get for not programming. i helped with design and name. St... : historyinthemaking
    • no, don't ruin it. LEAVE THE PERFECTION : Luminair
  • PLEASE DIGG - http://digg.com/television/Have_A_Very_BetaMaXMas : historyinthemaking
• Frosty :) : gigaduck
• haha... that is awesome! : Shadowdane
• CHANNEL 33 NOW!! NOW!! : m0rfus
• God that's weird. 21, 27 and 33 were the only channels I got around here as a kid. haha : ThomW
• :) OMG this is wicked awesome. : voodooraze
• very slickly done. : Antilles_Prime
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  is the tv guide working? : boring gegtik
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    oh shit the rabbit ears work to remove static that is so awesome : boring gegtik
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      I was thinking, "Hmm, too much static. They should tone it down a bit...", then just for grins I tried to... : mn3m0n1c
      • hahaha me too : Arctic Fox
  • Takes the server time and gives you what is on at the moment and what is up next. : historyinthemaking
• This is awesome. Great job. : malevolence
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  Wow, that's great. How'd you get around copyright protection? : punchdog
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    It is all streaming from youtube. So we dont host anything. : historyinthemaking
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      what happens if a youtube video is taken down for copyright violation? : kaddar0
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        I am pretty sure it will skip to the next one. But most of these have been up for a while. We pretty mu... : historyinthemaking
        • GAH, nevermind, looks like we switched to everything on Amazon S3 : historyinthemaking
      • Channel goes out, lazy cable pirate. : SinistarX
• This reminds me of GTA 4 haha awesome stuff! : Melll
• so these are all old TV shows you have taped on Beta that you are streaming? : mojothemagician
• I find it cool that you can adjust the bunny ears for better reception, just like the old days! : DHAvatar
• Wow, nicely done. : jason bergman
• This site is awesome! Great job : Lionhart32935
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  BALKY!! HOW I MISSED YOU : LoioshDwaggie
  • i know! : onji
• nice! : mwasher
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  Ha, this is fun, how much time did it take you guys to do this? : krym3
  • Thats something Im wondering too, cool idea for sure. : Melll
  • Not too long actually. Probably 40 -50 hours. Most of that being dev. I only spent a few hours here and t... : historyinthemaking
• wow, awesome work : grabbie
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  FROSTY THE SNOWMAN YESSSSSSSSSSSSS : AlexXdude
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    charlie brown christmas! oh god it's all coming back : AlexXdude
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      It just needs Ciné-Cadeaux and I can become 10 again : MrLobo
      • hahah oh god all of the nostalgia is killing me today : AlexXdude
• oh god i think i've recognized every commercial and show : [fry]
• Aloha, Mr. Hand! : Rich McNinch
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  OMG We need something like this, but with porn! : voodooraze
  • 70s porn : stratedge
  • and LCD TV :) : pun][sher
• I think you might have just won the internet. : Mr.Finkster
• Pretty awesome. : nodge69
• So awesome. : Phil
• Reminds me of the Krofft Saturday Morning collection on DVD http://www.amazon.com/Krofft-Saturday-Morning : Xin Jing Client 1a
• Heh that Pee-Wee Xmas segment where he rode a sled on the Magic Screen reminded me of Line Rider! : Xevo
• This is pretty epic. : filtersweep
• Haha, this is fantastic. Great work, the both of you! : DrWaffles
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  OK, so this thing's awesome - now you must make it so I can turn on the X-Mas tree lights! Also, the TV r... : mn3m0n1c
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    More to come :) : historyinthemaking
    • You need to package this so i can make it my HTPC interface. : krym3
• Brilliant. : SiW.
• Awesome. I remember a lot of these commercials as well. So cool, yet makes me feel old as well. Great job... : Fyunch Click
• hahaha that cool as hell : .Jayson
• Haha wow, this is awesome. I've been watching it for half an hour already. : Vantage
• this is so great : oHnOES
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  Fights ARE fun :3 AWESOME. : Deathlove
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    I wish the antennas worked a little better in full-screen. : Deathlove
    • I think we will lock the them to no static when you go full screen. : historyinthemaking
• hooooly shit, this is the best website ever. history in the making indeed! AAAAA CHARLIE BROWN I love ... : Majuju
• I have to say without a doubt that this is one of the coolest sites someone has posted here. And the fact... : Phreakin
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  Can you explain the TV Guide a bit better? Because right now it seems disconnected from the programming. : Majuju
  • yeah, I don't get the TV Guide. also - TONY BENNETT! : AlexXdude
  • It takes the server supplied time and finds the remainder of that against the channel playlist time. S... : historyinthemaking
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  WOTY : AlexXdude
  • needs the original "It's A Wonderful Life" and i'll die happy : AlexXdude
• That is fantastic! : helvetica
• I LOVE the antenna feature :D : SlamDunk
• I never noticed how much Jon from Garfield sounds like the Warden from Superjail! : Deathlove
• this is really crazy, kudos to you. : kainen1
• You guys are amazing! This is the best thing on the internet right now : WhiteHatVeteran
• my buddy MY BUDDY my buddy MY BUDDY! Wherever I goooooo he gooooooooees : kainen1
• Well done. Well done, indeed. :D : grayscale
• That's really awesome. Very clean, good job! : boarder2
• good work history'! : niceguynick
• Neat! : breadsticks
• That is great! Clever! : baron calamity
• Awesome, I am 12 years old again. : cjcharv
• I love this! This is the best x-mas present ever. Thank you : tinfoilhatter
• That is fucking awesome. Well done!!!! : jigstah
• wow you could really expand on this, this is awesome : onji
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  Holy shit, that was Jason Bateman on Silver Spoons? : slax0r
  • Yeah. He played Ricky's best friend on the show. : ThomW
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  that is very very cool. thanks for the link. : dromo5
  • this is oddly comforting : dromo5
• Aw shit. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. : stump
• Pee Wee! : freshyk
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  this is such a tease. Man, I wanted to watch Muppet Babies. :( : bakanoodle
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    We are going to put the shows back to back. Stupid youtube 10 min limit. sorry about that. : historyinthemaking
    • awesome. : bakanoodle
    • i love you : AlexXdude
  • oh man I loved that show... : Shadowdane
• Wow. Too cool! I actually remember that One To Grow On. : airmaus
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  Smurfs xmas special while eating lunch is awesome friday. : ant_hillbilly
  • oh god the facts of life. : ant_hillbilly
• i love this! : grendel
• wow this is so perfect in every sense... down to the panelling on the wall! haha : El Tigre
• This site is brilliant and very nostalgic. Two thumbs up. : hrdwregk
• So cool. : NastyJack
• Wow, this looks like it took a lot of effort. Great idea and awesome execution. Kudos, good, sir. : Moonbase Commander
• This is the best thing ever. : bitter ego
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  Sweet jesus, George Clooney has a mullet. : Cliffzorz
  • Damnit! I missed Charlie Brown's Christmas. Now I gotta watch this thanksgiving thing. : Cliffzorz
• This is fantastically great. : baronzemo78
• That is so fucking awesome man. So many memories there. : deadhorse
• LOL, i completely forgot about that Ernest show. : deadhorse
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  haha oh wow, I have seen Night Court in years. Too bad it cut out for an 80's music video in the middle ... : Anti_dentite
  • It's even better because they're all xmas specials right now. So nostalgic. I'll get caught up watching t... : Anti_dentite
  • Ya, that means the 10 min youtube limit was up. we are fixing that to the shows are back to back. Sorry f... : historyinthemaking
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  Are you from Youngstown, OH? Those 3 channels are the ytown tv stations, 21 nbc, 27 cbs and 33 abc, IIRC. : slickdoody
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    i think Jeff is from around there. Jeff is the guy who built this. : historyinthemaking
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      haha, awesome. Where I grew up (only an hour from where i live now) we could only get the youngstown tv s... : slickdoody
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        Niles, Ohio : historyinthemaking
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          are you serious? I grew up in Warren. : mystikal
          • though I think most of you Niles people hated us JFK folk :) : mystikal
• Very will done! : Zhaneel
• this is awesome : Mmmmmoo
• Very cool. Great nostalgia. Kudos my friend. : freakynipples69
• I just got a molestation commercial. Thanks Michael J. Fox for bringing back repressed memories. :| : DarkWolf5
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  haha growing pains is on. santa wants to commit suicide down the chimney into the kids below : dantastic
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    wtf it changed shows at a cliff hanger :( : dantastic
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      Yes, 10 minute youtube cutoff, go and find it on youtube. We are working on putting the shows back to bac... : historyinthemaking
      • oh i didnt know they were off youtube. i figure you had to only show clips for legal reasons : dantastic
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  We should get this on the digg front page : haiku
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    http://digg.com/television/Have_A_Very_BetaMaXMas : historyinthemaking
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      Not the best headline for making the front page, but worth a shot. People who are going to digg this: Cop... : haiku
      • I done cut-n-pasted the URL as requested. With CTRL-C and CTRL-V!! take that, mac user! : Dave-A
      • or just click the link on the page. it seems like referrers coming from the actual site get weighted pret... : Gonzo
• Excellent idea : aldraek
• Bravo.. love it. : Chew
• these recipies look atrocious : GloriousCow
• It wasn't working earlier and I got annoyed frantically clicking on the rabbit ears trying to make the st... : A Sponge
• This is almost as cool as newspond : carnivore
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  Awesome, but the TV snow is too strong. : stratedge
  • Adjust the antennas. : guido anchovy
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  She-Ra? Oh man yes : Zero|DPX
  • lol I know, hadn't seen that in 20 years. : freezejeans
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  pretty cool, but can you actually use those logos and stuff? : prime8
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    all videos are from youtube. : historyinthemaking
    • I was talkin about the TDK logo, Star Wars logo, and TV Guide logos... : prime8
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  oh man the smurfs xmas special's audio is way out of synch : dantastic
  • Yeah I was about to tell him the sync is smurf'ed as well : royalally
• Coolest thing I've seen in a while! :D : guido anchovy
• This is rad. : Lightzout
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  "Whaddya mean Beethoven wasn't so great?!" LOL this is awesome. : freezejeans
  • ...aaaand I just watch 10 minutes of this show on your site, having seen "A Charlie Brown Christmas" sinc... : freezejeans
• This is excellent. : bombay
• THis is awesome - good job! : alnya
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  uh....so it's job is to display christmas-seasons shows from the 1980s? am I missing something? : rektify7
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    a soul : historyinthemaking
    • Pretty much this : OverloadUT
  • That's my kinda job. : guido anchovy
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    Do you have a job? Ooops, no you dont! http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18601398 : Melll
    • EXCUSE ME if i'm a little bitter, OK >:-( : rektify7
• hahaha so. very. cool! : cap n KRUNCH
• This fucking rules. Dugg, blogged and e-mailed to all my friends. : jasonepowell
• its really cool but there's like the same few things just repeating, not the whole episode, just tons of ... : feek
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  The best part is the vcr blinks 12:00. Awesome job! : D45hiz
  • that was just added 10 minutes ago. :) : historyinthemaking