16-06-2024, 02:00 PM
Wonderful, not long after the revamp as well.
Big Boys Don't Cry by Lolly is one of the videos that has The Box's logo inserted into it, as I mentioned before (you can see it just after the 43 minute mark), as is Keep on Movin' by Five, at the 2:16 mark (the Box Logo was also at the start of that video, but that's cut off here).
Rather sadly though, it just seems to be videos, and none of the surrounding presentation, like the videos I used to make. Funnily enough probably 85% of the songs here are on the videos I made around the same time.
You can see on there some of what I mentioned in how the Sky/national version of the channel used to cut off the starts of some videos, and as a result the live generated captions with the selection number were out of sync with the burnt-in song titles. Our local cable company's version of The Box (which was closed down around September/Ocotber 99) never used to do this.
This has the edited version of TLC's Unpretty video, with Chilli's bit cut down to remove some of the cosmetic surgery scenes, and Left Eye's bit cut entirely, I didn't see the uncut version shown until around a decade later. Also they'd switched to the finished version of the Will2K version by this point, for a while they were running a version with unfinished effects (which also had the 80s date shown as 1986 rather than 84).
Always appreciated them showing you the video directors too, I got to recognise their styles and the sorts of music they directed, a shame that went when they moved to the new system in 2000 (then the record company names went the following year).
In early 2000, the playlist graphics at the bottom of the screen during videos changed from the two-tier multi coloured one, to a single tier white one (that alternated between song details and phone numbers), and the viewers selections were stacked on the right hand side of the screen rather than across the bottom- that style was kept on (but in a better font!) when they moved to the new system at the end of the year.
Seeing Lyte Funky Ones (LFO) appearing on the playlist banner- that's a band with a tragic story in the years since.
Big Boys Don't Cry by Lolly is one of the videos that has The Box's logo inserted into it, as I mentioned before (you can see it just after the 43 minute mark), as is Keep on Movin' by Five, at the 2:16 mark (the Box Logo was also at the start of that video, but that's cut off here).
Rather sadly though, it just seems to be videos, and none of the surrounding presentation, like the videos I used to make. Funnily enough probably 85% of the songs here are on the videos I made around the same time.
You can see on there some of what I mentioned in how the Sky/national version of the channel used to cut off the starts of some videos, and as a result the live generated captions with the selection number were out of sync with the burnt-in song titles. Our local cable company's version of The Box (which was closed down around September/Ocotber 99) never used to do this.
This has the edited version of TLC's Unpretty video, with Chilli's bit cut down to remove some of the cosmetic surgery scenes, and Left Eye's bit cut entirely, I didn't see the uncut version shown until around a decade later. Also they'd switched to the finished version of the Will2K version by this point, for a while they were running a version with unfinished effects (which also had the 80s date shown as 1986 rather than 84).
Always appreciated them showing you the video directors too, I got to recognise their styles and the sorts of music they directed, a shame that went when they moved to the new system in 2000 (then the record company names went the following year).
In early 2000, the playlist graphics at the bottom of the screen during videos changed from the two-tier multi coloured one, to a single tier white one (that alternated between song details and phone numbers), and the viewers selections were stacked on the right hand side of the screen rather than across the bottom- that style was kept on (but in a better font!) when they moved to the new system at the end of the year.
Seeing Lyte Funky Ones (LFO) appearing on the playlist banner- that's a band with a tragic story in the years since.