Funny lunar headset commercial

Plantronics has a funny commercial, that is currently being showin in
the U.S., about the use of their headsets during Apollo:

Here is the URL:

http://www.plantronics.com/north_ame...mmercial.jhtml


Rusty

Funny how the mainstream culture has finally realised that Apollo was
truly special. Ten or 15 years ago, no-one would have run such an ad.
It's taken the rest of the world almost 40 years to realise what the
rest of us space nuts always knew.

Gene DiGennaro
Baltimore, Md.

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Funny how the mainstream culture has finally realised that Apollo was
truly special. Ten or 15 years ago, no-one would have run such an ad.
It's taken the rest of the world almost 40 years to realise what the
rest of us space nuts always knew.

Gene DiGennaro
Baltimore, Md.


.... personally I think its one of the major downsides of this modern digital
age - no matter how momentous the event if no color video/film exists
showing what happened then its not relevant and the newer generations cannot
grasp or comprehend it - and grainy extremely low-definition B & W video
does not count!!
And besides if it was really important then there would be a Hollywood movie
about it like *Pearl Harbor* or *Saving Private Ryan* - right??

wrote:

Funny how the mainstream culture has finally realised that Apollo was
truly special. Ten or 15 years ago, no-one would have run such an ad.
It's taken the rest of the world almost 40 years to realise what the
rest of us space nuts always knew.

The length to which space nuts will go to convince themselves that a
vast untapped space market/interest is fascinating.

D.
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I began working in TV in about 1973 and getting a set of personal
Plantronics headset was all the rage among the directors and cameramen.
Didn't know they were still around until I began seeing the commercials
a few weeks back.
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Because I fly, I envy no one.

Huh?

On 31 Oct 2005 10:55:05 -0800, "Gene Seibel" wrote:

I began working in TV in about 1973 and getting a set of personal
Plantronics headset was all the rage among the directors and cameramen.
Didn't know they were still around until I began seeing the commercials
a few weeks back.

....Yeah, they're still around. We had them at Ch. 7 in the production
control booth, but engineering and master control had these huge
noise-cancelling Telex jobs because of all the noise from the A/C fans
that kept the VTRs cool. Those things were noisy as hell.

OM
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Rusty writes:

Plantronics has a funny commercial, that is currently being showin in
the U.S., about the use of their headsets during Apollo:


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wrote:

Funny how the mainstream culture has finally realised that Apollo was
truly special. Ten or 15 years ago, no-one would have run such an ad.
It's taken the rest of the world almost 40 years to realise what the
rest of us space nuts always knew.

The length to which space nuts will go to convince themselves that a
vast untapped space market/interest is fascinating.

Tom Hanks taps into this market successfully. The Apollo 13 movie, From
the Earth to the Moon, still in 3-D IMAX theaters: Magnificent
Desolation.
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is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk.
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