Holy crap! I've been a member here over 10 years!!!! (1 Viewer)

[Marty M]

I see there are some members here that have been around a little longer than me. I joined in December 1998, a few months after I purchased my first DVD player. My upgrading has waned in recent years, mainly an economic issue so I haven't been posting or reading some of the equipment forums as much.

This was the first home theater forum that I joined and have always appreciated the job Ron and Parker have done to keep this a friendly place to visit.

 

[Heinz W]

I've been here for about 11 years despite my join date of 2001. I originally joined in '99 or '00, can't remember which, after lurking for a while. During one of the software upgrades in the early part of the decade it was lost and I had to re-register. Oh well, at least I know how long I've been around!

The HTF has been my favorite HT site since I first discovered it.

 

[BrianW]

Yep, I'm a moldy-oldy here. I still have my widescreen NTSC component-input CRT projection set and first-generation Toshiba DVD player for watching "anamorphic" DVDs.

 

[Walter Kittel]

Another old timer posting to this thread. My exposure to HTF was due to my participation on Steve Tannehill's DVD Resource.

Like others, my posting has waxed and waned throughout the years. (Sometimes you just get talked out on a topic, at least it happens to me.) I can recall many of the topics already listed, including Divx, the wonderful dialogs with Peter Staddon (I remember how cool it was when Say Anything was finally released on DVD), the conflict over support for anamorphic enhancement (which was a precursor to the HD-DVD / Blu-ray battles.), and so on and so on.

Whenever the topic of longevity on the HTF comes up, I can't help but wonder what happened to others who aren't active these days on the HTF. (Some old timers that come to mind are: Mitty, Seth Paxton, Mike Knapp, Jack Briggs, and George Kaplan to name just a few.)

- Walter.

 

[Heinz W]

Hey Walter, I remember all those guys too. I thought Jack Briggs was a mod? How long has it been since he posted? It was always easy to spot a post of his with that "2001" title shot in his sig. George Kaplan was another guy whose posts I enjoyed reading, saw him a lot in the Polls area. Also a 'nasally' guy named Rain. Maybe they just lost interest in HT, or moved on, etc. It happens.

Dave Hahn appears to be the only Old-Timer with a less posts per year average than me!

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

Briggs is probably sulking since he'll have a Hobson's choice: either put in a tiny sliver 2001 shot as an avatar OR "pan & scan" a Kubrick shot to 1:1 AR.

 

[Mikael Soderholm]

10 years here too, how time flies. I had lurked for a while but registrered around the time I bought my first DVD player (a Pioneer DV-515 that still works)

 

[Mikael Soderholm]

Strange, I got an error message, please retry, but somehow it posted anyway, sorry...

Edited by Mikael Soderholm - 7/6/2009 at 11:30 am GMT

 

[Mikael Soderholm]

10 years here too, how time flies. I had lurked for a while but registrered around the time I bought my first DVD player (a Pioneer DV-515 that still works)

 

[Mikael Soderholm]

10 years here too, how time flies. I had lurked for a while but registrered around the time I bought my first DVD player (a Pioneer DV-515 that still works)

 

[Eric Samonte]

Yes, its the RF modulator and it costs me $150 to get DD from a laserdisc player. But how can u watch Star Wars without good sound? You gotta do what u gotta do.

I registered before April of 99 but a software change "erased" me that I had to sign-up again.

 

[Graham Perks]

I joined up around the time I got my Panasonic A110 DVD player. 8-bit video, not 10-bit. But I still thought DVD was great. I'd never really bought any VHS (or LD), but suddenly I bought a ton of DVDs. Now I wonder why I wasted all that money. I guess back then you couldn't actually rent DVDs anywhere! With the arrival of children, time for HT dropped considerably. But I still enjoy these forums and nowadays we mostly Netflix TV series.

 

[Graham Perks]

Ha, besides the 1969ers I have you all beat by whole MONTHS of HTF addiction

Divx was interesting... then came double-sided discs and the argument about how the sides should be labelled. Bad Wives was the first multi-angle DVD, I think every DVD owner had that bit of porn as that was the only way to show off all the features of your new DVD player! What else? Everyone had Austin Powers and The Fifth Element too. I think Austin Powers was my first DVD.

We were still educating people on the benefits of wide screen vs full frame (apparently that argument is still ongoing, we seem to be winning; at least most TVs nowadays are widescreen even in the USA).

The never-ending "when will Star Wars come out on DVD?" question. Now it's Lord of the Rings on Bluray. Who cares, if I do buy it, it will probably be on iTunes. AppleTV FTW and an iPhone (or iPod Touch) makes a great remote.

 

[Steve Tannehill]

Twelve years. Thanks to Ron and Parker for keeping the place going for so long!

- Steve

 

[Mike Frezon]

Originally Posted by Walter Kittel /forum/thread/289739/holy-crap-i-ve-been-a-member-here-over-10-years#post_3580147

 

[Aaron Silverman]

Originally Posted by Dave Hahn

How about all those studio chats! Then there's the interaction we used to have with the studios through great people like Peter Staddon.

I most fondly remember the East Coast Meets at Scooter's. They were awesome! Getting to meet so many of the good people from the forum in person was the best. I still remember holding the Terminator 2 - Judgement Day DVD in my hot little hands months before it became available to the public.

Googling my name used to bring up a photo of me in an incredibly loud Hawaiian shirt holding up that disc in Scooter's backyard. (Sadly lost in one of the drive crashes.) Those were the days!

Of course, my #1 HTF memory has to be the awesome proposal that the aforementioned Peter Staddon and his crew helped me put together on the 2004 Hollywood Meet. I think those photos are still around here somewhere. . .

 

[Jack Briggs]

This is my second time visiting the site since its massive makeover. I must admit, it takes some getting used to.

As Walter said, one occasionally gets talked-out on a subject. For yours truly, the year 2008 drew me away from my administrative duties here (work, baby, work -- and at a newspaper during an intense political year ... well, you get the picture). (And, hot damn, but I do miss my 2001: A Space Odyssey signature.)

Ten years at HTF: You know, I at one time would have posted something about that. But having worked here with so many charter members back in my admin days kinda quieted me down on that score. I believe Michael Reuben mentioned at one time to me about having been a member here when there were only forty or fifty members. Imagine that.

I am certainly glad to see that the site still is coming along well. As I said, the new look certainly takes some getting used to. But more importantly, it is nice to see so many people I've known for so long posting in this (interesting) thread.

 

[Walter Kittel]

Jack, nice to see you posting in this thread. (Yeah, I miss the old .sig as well.) Anyway, just popped into the thread to say Hi, and that I'm very happy to see that you are still around these parts. Take care.

- Walter.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Hi Jack! Awesome!

Ernest Rister comes to mind as another guy who participation around here I miss a lot. He had joined the same time as me.

 

[Graham Perks]

Amazingly, at that time the internet was still very new, and not everyone had access. We were still being supplied with coasters by AOL.