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		semanticist 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How can traditional British TV survive the US stre... Red Dwarf used practical effects in the era when VideoToasters were a thing. For some reason the BBC replaced the lovely miniature shots of space ships with crap CG in a mid-2000s remaster.

Lio 89 days ago [–]

VideoToasters were a thing but they didn’t work with PAL, at at least not the original version.

I agree that the models looked better IMHO.

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