Re:Microsoft Coffee
by whatthesmack on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:38PM
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Former Seattleite... those are (were?) legit KOMO news anchors. I believe the person on the left's name is Keith Eldridge. I don't remember the name of the person on the right, but I do recognize them.
Good call, this definitely looks like the same guy: https://komonews.com/station/people/keith-eldridge
Re:Microsoft Coffee
by DonHopkins on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:49PM
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Has anyone contacted him and made him an offer on that box of Microsoft Coffee? He was right, it would be worth a lot now!
The real question should be, who is the news anchor woman that he gave it to at the end? Did she end up taking it home?
Re:Microsoft Coffee
by withinrafael on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:09PM
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I reached out to him and KOMO on Twitter, no harm in trying. Would be handy to find these reported references in tech magazines and radio programs.
Re:Microsoft Coffee
by ElderKorihor on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:51AM
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> I don't remember the name of the person on the right
Probably Kathi Goertzen?
https://weatherchannel.fandom.com/wiki/KOMO-TV#Previous_Pers...
From here, I looked up pictures of anchors who worked in that time period, and I see Eric Slocum (now deceased) and Margo Myers who did evening news together in that time frame, and look quite similar to the people in the video.
EDIT: someone else identified Keith Eldridge, who definitely looks like a match for the video.
Re:Microsoft Coffee
by mynameisvlad on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:23PM
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> If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly.
I mean this assumes said perfect video exists. I don't think most people would go to extreme lengths to preserve a video tape of a prank they performed 25 years ago.
> If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly.
The video maight have been digitized years ago not yesterday.
Re:Microsoft Coffee
by kenjackson on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:04PM
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What's also suspicious is there is a lot you can find online about the 1994 Vatican City hoax that they allude to, but nothing about Microsoft Coffee.
I think a really good prank using deep fake tech.
I dunno, I don't think I would care about getting a perfect capture of a VHS tape from a silly project 25 years ago. The VHS artifacts add character to the memory.
If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly.
> There’s the KOMO News footage, which some of us still have on a dusty VHS tape
Does anyone from Seatle recognise the two KOMO reporters?
If the footage is a deep fake over real footage from that time, I'm very very impressed. I suspect that the audio is fake, sort of matches up with the real recording, and the box is digitally replaced.