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Qwest commercial 1999 - Every Movie

Greg Nielsen · 60.6K views · 2012-01-30 · 0:31

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A one-minute 1999 Qwest commercial where a hotel clerk promises every movie ever made in any language, any time.

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HN uses it as a nostalgic example of the promised any-media-on-demand future that never fully arrived.

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mansilladev · 2023-01 · Reference

These also remind me of the Qwest commercials. ("Every movie.. every language.. any time") - [VIDEO] The tone and cadence of the rhetorical questions in the AT&T commercials also reminds me of comedian Tom Papa ("Have you ever..? .. I have") - [LINK]

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dublin · 2022-10 · Reference

Yeah, but that's a real problem for those of us who don't watch a lot of movies. Many people aren't capable of figuring out "where to look" at all anyway. I am, to some degree, but it's just not worth spending that much of my time to hunt them down on the rare occasions I really want to watch something. Also, I'll just note that we never got the 21st century we were promised, which was this - any movie ever made: [VIDEO] The fundamental problem is that the people who own movie IP rights are truly evil.

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cardiffspaceman · 2019-08 · Joke / meme

I'm not an audiophile but I have a pair of speakers that is probably 70 or so laptops of volume and something nice to hook them to. I stream lots of music through the YouTube app in my smart TV, and last night some of that was written by Grieg[0]. Remember this Qwest commercial [1]? Streaming music has its pleasures and undistorted sound should be one of them. [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]

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