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The VHS tracking is what makes me suspicious (and of course the date, the lack of any mention of it at all)

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.

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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

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?

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.

> 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.

https://komonews.com/station/people/keith-eldridge

> 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.

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.

maybe the tape degraded?

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