[HN Gopher] Space Jam's 1996 website has finally been updated
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Space Jam's 1996 website has finally been updated
...25 years after launching. New site: https://www.spacejam.com/
It seems the developers understand the legacy of the original site,
as you can still access it: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
Author : johneth
Score : 75 points
Date : 2021-04-03 17:40 UTC (5 hours ago)
| don-code wrote:
| About 12 years ago, some friends and I ended up rewatching the
| original Space Jam. 30 minutes into the movie, somebody exclaimed
| "THE WEBSITE IS STILL UP!" - and we promptly changed movie night
| over to trawling the website, laughing at the design. Keep in
| mind these were peak Web 2.0 days.
|
| I'm glad that the 1996 website is preserved in some official
| capacity, but there are two things that we won't get back: the
| joy of hogging the phone line for an hour to download a 7.5mb
| trailer, and now the joy of surreptitiously finding the site
| untouched.
| onion2k wrote:
| That's more frequently than I update my website.
| geocrasher wrote:
| I think the bigger news is that there's a remake, and it looks
| great. I never did see the original. Might have to change that!
| MisterBiggs wrote:
| Old site is still accessible: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
|
| I think my favorite part is you can download the original trailer
| in a crisp 160x120 and 8 fps
| https://www.spacejam.com/1996/cmp/jamcentral/trailerframes.h...
| re wrote:
| Video codec is Cinepak, which macOS doesn't support any more:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak (Good thing there's VLC!)
|
| Audio is raw PCM (8 bit mono audio @ 11kHz)
|
| QuickTime wouldn't get support for the more advanced Sorenson
| Video and QDesign Music audio codecs until QuickTime v3.0,
| released in 1998.
| daniellarusso wrote:
| Very 'Heaven's Gate' design vibe.
| oplav wrote:
| Created with Adobe Premier 4.2. Input #0,
| mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'spacejam.mov': Metadata:
| creation_time : 1996-10-24T17:18:51.000000Z
| premiere_version: Created with Adobe Premiere 4.2
| quicktime_version: Created with QuickTime 2.0 or later
| Duration: 00:02:14.87, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 458 kb/s
| Stream #0:0(eng): Video: cinepak (cvid / 0x64697663), rgb24,
| 160x120, 365 kb/s, 8 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc (default)
| Metadata: creation_time :
| 1996-10-24T17:18:51.000000Z handler_name : Apple
| Video Media Handler encoder : Cinepak
| Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: pcm_u8 (raw / 0x20776172), 11025 Hz,
| 1 channels, u8, 88 kb/s (default) Metadata:
| creation_time : 1996-10-24T17:18:51.000000Z
| handler_name : Apple Sound Media Handler
| tombert wrote:
| > It's 7.5 megs, it's Quicktime, and it's worth it.
|
| I can't say I disagree. I got substantially more entertainment
| downloading this and watching the potato-quality trailer than I
| did actually watching Space Jam.
| hughw wrote:
| How come my Big Sur MBP can't play it? It can play the audio,
| but no video.
| jibbers wrote:
| Download IINA and use it instead of QuickTime Player.
| tombert wrote:
| I just loaded it with ffplay, and it worked fine.
|
| According to ffprobe, it's just using raw PCM for the audio
| channel, which would explain why the audio still works.
|
| I don't know when Quicktime stopped supporting the Cinepak
| codec.
| joezydeco wrote:
| Sequel comes out this summer.
| nolok wrote:
| I'm willing to bet this new updated site with javascript events
| everywhere and three different third party script integration
| will either stop working or disappear before the original 1996
| version.
|
| I'm glad they kept a copy of the original online
| desktopninja wrote:
| Just doesn't feel the same.
|
| Should have been: https://www.spacejam.com/2021/
| [deleted]
| saint_angels wrote:
| I feel that even for 1996 the original website was very
| cool(planet buttons circling around the logo and all that). I
| wish designers had some fun designing the new page instead of
| trying to make it look slick
| ivraatiems wrote:
| I guess they won't need https://www.spacejam2.com/ after all.
| rtx wrote:
| They tried, its better than buy this domain.
| elamje wrote:
| That's amazing.
| markdown wrote:
| Wow, the Space Jam 2 trailer is riveting!
| rbanffy wrote:
| Does the new one work with Netscape 2?
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Gosh I was about to freak out if they dropped the '96 version.
| Legendary site
| ExcavateGrandMa wrote:
| oh well js is a dependency now...
| joshmanders wrote:
| As sad as I am to see such a website update, the new movie
| doesn't look half bad.
|
| As a big SpaceJam fan, I'm excited for it.
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