Cartoon Network Commercial Breaks (January 4, 2014)

Recorded 1/4/14 - This was one of the first DVD Recordings I made after getting my DVD Recorder for Christmas 2013. My first TV recording since 2009 that wasn't something on DVR temporarily.
In anticipation for Pokémon the Series X & Y, Cartoon Network decided to air some classic Pokémon stuff including this movie for the very first time in Widescreen HD. The previous weeks leading up to this, CN aired the episodes of Pokémon where Ash gets Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle. I remember they also had older Pokémon episodes on Cartoon Network OnDemand too. I was so excited for all this because Season 1 era Pokémon is my absolute favorite, so I had to record this movie.
This wasn't the first time CN aired Pokémon the First Movie of course. They had aired it every once in a while until about 2010 or so but that version was a cropped 4:3 version. But either way, I was still excited to watch this as I had not seen it in years at the time. The commercial breaks and bumps here run through the whole duration of the movie. We get to see some stuff that was forgotten over the years lol. Like commercials for that weird Cel Shaded Powerpuff Girls special, a time when Johnny Test overran the channel, Adventure Time still being really popular, so on.
Unfortunately, this is the only 2014 CN recording I have. I kinda regret that I didn't record more CN that year as this was the last time they still regularly had classics like Codename Kids Next Door, Courage, Ed Edd n Eddy, so on. I was only hesitant at the time to record them because of Turner's dumb stretching of 4:3 content even on their Standard Definition channels. You don't know what you got until you lose it, and by mid-2014 we lost many of the CN classics as they got a new president at that point in time. As a result, I pretty much stopped watching Cartoon Network apart from Adult Swim, didn't help that I turned 18 that year so the newer stuff for kids didn't interest me. As of late 2021 though, CN has been trying to show some of their older shows again for once, usually for holidays or something but it's still better than how things have been in the past 7 years prior to that where they'd pretty much only show Teen Titans Go or The Amazing World of Gumball.