Video: Girl Or Boy (Discovery Kids)?

[TaylorJackson]

Here is the clip from the discovery show. The channel has a few other interesting one including two scary clips from the movie second serve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFIWIzaPFs0

[Betty]

Thank you! I couldn't find it anywhere.

No wonder I missed it, it's only yucky 144p & blurry (VHS is 240p). It was probably shrunk down to 144p RM to stream back in the 1990s dialup days. I think I didn't move off of dialup until about 2001 or 2002.

I tried to download, enhance, & clean it up, but there wasn't really much to work with here because is was such poor quality & extremely low resolution. Still, it came out a little bit better, but not by much. I suggest not watching it in full screen or watch it on small screens... poor quality video actually looks a lot better when it's smaller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSzAw7o2tLg

[Betty]

Gosh, I forgot about the movie Second Serve. I still have that laying around somewhere. Probably on a data DVD disk rather than a hard drive.

[Robyn Jodie]

That may be where I got my original ".rm" file which, judging from the "rm" in the title, was the format of the original upload.  I downloaded the current .mp4 file and did a side-by-side comparison using VLC:  the ".rm" file is noticeably sharper, if only slightly so.

[Betty]

Yeah, back in the late 90s we only had bandwidth hungry crappy mpg, RM, & WMV internet video formats. MPG is still your standard DVD format... 3.7-4.7gb of space for a 2 hour movie at 480p. RM & WMV were considered much better for the smaller file size. But because most were still on dialup at the time, they'd compress the hell out of them, & shrink them to 200-240p. 144p was rare except for 90's porn from underground sites off private or personal servers.

Up until just a few years ago, RM's RMVP (Real Media - Variable Bitrate) was still very popular throughout Asia for the best picture in the smallest possible file size. But it never caught on in the USA when we were still using inferior DIVX & XVID in AVI. It wasn't until recent advancements in H264 for mp4 (version 2) that it became better than RMVB. My first seasons of The Big Bang Theory are still in RMVB format (.rm).

I used to be so amazed to squeeze a 20 minute episode down to 175mb & still have it look good in RMVB. But now I could make it look the same in H264 mp4 in about 60mb of space.

I found my copy of the 1986 TV movie "Second Serve". Clearly a dowloaded version with Spanish subtitles. It looks like it was originally a high speed (SP) VHS tape.

I made a clip of the early crossdressing scenes.

http://unclegadget.com/media/secserv.mp4
6mb, 3 minutes.

I'll post the entire movie in our private viewing area at a later date. I'd like to see if I can get a better version first.