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Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:16 pm Post subject: Northstar (1986 TV Movie) |
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I learned about this unsold pilot when I posted the YouTube video for The Man With the Power, another unsold pilot. Here's what IMDB says about Northstar.
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An astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acquired superhuman powers and a super-genius IQ.
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The YouTube video below is from someone's video tape, and the commercials were cleanly omitted during the recording — something I became quite adapt at in the days of VCR's. I owned the first model of the Sony Betamax that went on sale. 
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Robert (Butch) Day
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I still have that same model BetaMax™ and it still worls!
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Bud Brewster
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| Robert (Butch) Day wrote: | | I still have that same model BetaMax™ and it still worls! |
What do you use it for, Butch? Videotapes look like crap compared to any of the modern HD video formats!
I have several high-end VHS recorders I still use, including the Mitsubishi HS-HD2000U, which is a VCR that records digital video like a DVD!.
But I only use it to make audio tapes in CD quality stereo on six hour tapes, recorded from Sirius XM channels. (Actually, I've never recorded any digital videos on it . . . )
Your poor old Betamax tapes only last two hours, the picture quality is terrible, and the audio is analog monaural. 
So . . . what good is your poor Betamax, old friend!
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Robert (Butch) Day
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Mostly nostalgia. And a lot of stuff I taped back in the 1950s directly off my Big Ugly Dish (12 foot) TV steerable antenna of programs from Japan and Russia, Today I use it as a UFO Halloween and Christmas decoration. Halloween; Neighbor's artificial pond in background:
Pye-Rate made the detachable bottom half and legs.
Set up-right for Christmas 2017:
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