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Humphreys posted:He really is great with his content and research. Pretty much the same level of focus as 'My Life In Gaming' and their never ending obcession with RGB. CDV is physically the (analog) LaserDisc format on the outer portion of a (digital) audio CD. I don't think any standard CD burner could create the video portion of a CDV disc.
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Humphreys posted:He really is great with his content and research. poo poo youtubers have lowered the bar so much that "doing research" is the new "doing great research". I guess it's because research is actual work. I'm assuming it's off-site money, i.e. Patreon, that makes it possible for guys like TechCon to actually produce content instead of "producing content" because they'll never make PewDiePie subscribers?
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Foone on Twitter is a quality follow; they spend a lot of time reverse-engineering old video game code. https://twitter.com/ChartreuseK/status/1119314467823570944
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Jerry Cotton posted:poo poo youtubers have lowered the bar so much that "doing research" is the new "doing great research". I guess it's because research is actual work. Jesus dude why are you always just so loving negative, lovely and contrarian? They literally say how they make their money in most of the video descriptions; it's usually Patreon. These dudes do better research than your posting.
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While coarse, the poster is right that the great beast of attention requires a bunch if content always. It's not possible to take your time under the lovely model that PDP works under.
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Apr 21, 2019 20:49
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That Sunbeam toaster... 
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Mr.Radar posted:CDV is physically the (analog) LaserDisc format on the outer portion of a (digital) audio CD. I don't think any standard CD burner could create the video portion of a CDV disc.
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Apr 21, 2019 21:40
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OK so if you felt attacked by my "YouTube is shirt but this guy isnt" post you can literally go fuxj yourself. We all can it's really nice.
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Apr 21, 2019 21:41
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Jerry Cotton posted:OK so if you felt attacked by my "YouTube is shirt but this guy isnt" post you can literally go fuxj yourself. Is this a #justfinnishthings... thing? At this point I'd believe any thing you'd say.
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madeintaipei posted:Is this a #justfinnishthings... thing? At this point I'd believe any thing you'd say. I'm just very old so I'm used to very very very different standards of communication on the Inetret.
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Dick Trauma posted:That Sunbeam toaster... Right? It’s genius.
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The Radiant Control toaster is an engineering masterpiece. That said, I think the drawbacks of the ordinary toaster are overstated. Pushing the lever down is no hassle. My toast never gets flung clear of the toaster. I don’t have problems with consistency unless the darkness knob is adjusted, but that’s a problem the RCT shares. The potentiometer in a normal toaster is probably more consistent when returned to the same position than bimetallic‐strip‐tensioning system used in the RCT, too.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm just very old so I'm used to very very very different standards of communication on the Inetret. Look I'm sorry. It sounded like a very cynical way of saying what you reinforced was your more positively stated point later. I honestly haven't considered potential generational gaps either. I'm sorry. Platystemon posted:The Radiant Control toaster is an engineering masterpiece. I felt like the benefits of the automation are a little over stated while understating some of the drawbacks and dangers of the old model. I was rather excited to research it more and I'm a huge fan of the thermostat design, but I'm hesitant in some of the potential work and drawbacks. Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 08:54 on Apr 22, 2019 |
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Wasabi the J posted:I felt like the benefits of the automation are a little over stated while understating some of the drawbacks and dangers of the old model. It’s not the automation. I think most of us have the energy to push down the toast lever. It’s the cleverness in how that automation was achieved. Most of the flaws seem trivial to fix.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I have format that he hasn't done (that I didnt see after a search) that is also non-existent. They existed for a bit in the 80's and disappeared. For some reason, the Fargo library invested heavily in them and there were stacks of movies available to check out along with the player. They were read with a stylus like a record and you put them into a caddy to play them. If you ever let sun touch them, they would warp and be useless. The parents of one of my best friends in high school decided to buy a player when it first came out in the '80s and a bunch of movies. It is unclear as to why they did this and they cannot explain it either. They made a special cabinet to keep them out of the sun so they stayed even temperature. The only one that survived by the time we played with it in the mid '90s was Top Gun. I think it was on something like 3 disks. You had to flip the disks like crazy and it was atrocious quality. It was kind of light fighting with an old school Nintendo cartridge. Lot's of blowing on it and re-trying. It was better than VCD though. That was a real piece of poo poo format.
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You're thinking of CEDs, which are hilarious in their very existence.
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Platystemon posted:The Radiant Control toaster is an engineering masterpiece. Technology Connections kind of does this a fair bit. He's well researched but he very much loves his hyperbole.
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A computer parts liquidator stocked a bunch of vcd movies that worked with my DVD player in the early 2000s. They looked to be officially pressed but they weren't regular cases, just plastic CD envelopes and they cost like $2. Looked about the same quality as VHS on our late-80s TV. That is my vcd ramble thanks for reading
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Grand Prize Winner posted:A computer parts liquidator stocked a bunch of vcd movies that worked with my DVD player in the early 2000s. They looked to be officially pressed but they weren't regular cases, just plastic CD envelopes and they cost like $2. Looked about the same quality as VHS on our late-80s TV. I ripped Fellowship of the Rings down to single side VCD size and it was absolutely terrible quality. Also thanks for those who answered my question about CDVs.
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ishikabibble posted:Technology Connections kind of does this a fair bit. He's well researched but he very much loves his hyperbole. To be fair the fully-automatic toaster and its hilarious ability to electrocute absolutely anyone stupid enough to insert a knife into it is a pretty cool thing. I respect and enjoy that the thing is only a melted bit of rubber away from being a complete deathtrap.
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Humphreys posted:I ripped Fellowship of the Rings down to single side VCD size and it was absolutely terrible quality. I recently went back and looked at some old movies I'd had on my hard drive since college... god drat, a 20" CRT smoothed over an awful lot of problems compared to a 42" LCD.
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Back when I lived in Mongolia, my parents bought a stereo system explicitly because it had VideoCD support, which was pretty much the only film format you could get over there in the late 90s. It was pretty huge in Asia, I always found it kind of strange how europe stuck with VHS until DVD eventually took over.
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SubNat posted:Back when I lived in Mongolia, my parents bought a stereo system explicitly because it had VideoCD support, which was pretty much the only film format you could get over there in the late 90s.
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My first DVD player (from 2001) supported Video CD. When I figured out that there was a format I could play on my DVD player which I could burn using my boring old CD burner (didn't get a DVD burner for a long time) I burned some music videos I  d with Gnutella onto a VCD. The videos were pretty poor quality so I don't think anything was lost by putting them onto VCD! If I'd been really cool I would have just had a PC hooked up to my TV via S-Video.
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I remember downloading movies split into two 700mb chunks intended to be put onto VCD. The last movie I saw this way was There Will Be Blood, surprisingly enough. I mean, I had a CRT, why would I spend the hard drive space on anything more? 
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I used to copy all my NetFlix DVD's using DVD Shrink. I tried to copy them as fast as possible so I could get the next movie from my queue, so I usually never watched the movies I paid to rent and spent hours duplicating. I'll still stumble across my rips and think to myself, I really should get around to watching this.
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VCD was mpeg1 so even at two cds per movie it was terrible quality. I'm sure it was more convenient to bootleg than vhs tapes, but it's no surprise that the format didn't take off in places where bootleg vcds weren't commonly available.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I used to copy all my NetFlix DVD's using DVD Shrink. I tried to copy them as fast as possible so I could get the next movie from my queue, so I usually never watched the movies I paid to rent and spent hours duplicating. I'll still stumble across my rips and think to myself, I really should get around to watching this. I would have my laptop rip overnight only movies in my car while getting my haircut or do shopping and return before an hour and swap for another movie. I'd also rent like 5 PS2 games and dump them to my PS-HDD
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When I first got an iPod Video I ripped Blade Runner down to the appropriate screen size to watch it on there just because.
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Dick Trauma posted:When I first got an iPod Video I ripped Blade Runner down to the appropriate screen size to watch it on there just because. I watched the entirety of Clone High on a fat iPod Nano. The entire time deluding myself that this was somehow a good experience.
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mystes posted:VCD was mpeg1 so even at two cds per movie it was terrible quality. I'm sure it was more convenient to bootleg than vhs tapes, but it's no surprise that the format didn't take off in places where bootleg vcds weren't commonly available. Yeah, but it made grabbing them off of Hotline and Carracho that much easier.
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Obsolete: Watching tv or movies on a screen larger than your wrist.
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ryonguy posted:Obsolete: Watching tv or movies on a screen larger than your wrist. You have some fat wrists
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SubNat posted:I always found it kind of strange how europe stuck with VHS until DVD eventually took over. Because VCD looked like dogshit and you had to swap discs in the middle of the film?
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Maybe the VCR craze skipped Mongolia and they only jumped in around the time VCD's came out. In Western countries everyone had a VCR and a particle board shelf full crammed full of VHS tapes plus tens of thousands of retail locations dedicated to selling or renting us more tapes. No one was going to switch formats to a disc based system that was clunky and looked the same or worse. They already tried it with a disc based system that was clunky but looked better and no one wanted it. I only ever saw VCD's at the local Electronics Boutique and even the official ones sold at mainstream stores looked like crummy bootlegs.
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Sweevo posted:Because VCD looked like dogshit and you had to swap discs in the middle of the film? The last time I looked at a VCD was probably in 2001-2002, so I have the barest rememberance of how the quality was. They were fine enough in an age where I put up with anime the size of postage stamps, encoded in RealMedia video. How well did recorded VHS stack up against it? Krispy Wafer posted:Maybe the VCR craze skipped Mongolia and they only jumped in around the time VCD's came out. Extremely possible, the modern, democratic Mongolia only really emerged at the start of the 90s, so it's not impossible that VHS just never got a foothold there due to economic or communist reasons before that.
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On a mid 90s CRT TV using composite video the quality difference between a VCD and recorded VHS wasn't that large and VCDs were far more convenient to make and play (except for disc swapping, admittedly). From 1999-2003ish I used VCDs a lot to play converted divx movies on my DVD player, once DVD burners and DVDRs started becoming affordable I switched to those. Even that was pretty short lived though, once I got an XBOX, modded it and installed XBMP/XBMC I only ever burned stuff for other people.
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According to Wikipedia, VHS had a resolution of approximately 333x480 for NTSC and 335x576 for PAL (though, being an analog format, digital resolution equivalents depend a lot on the quality of the equipment and recording). VCD was 352x240 for NTSC and 352x288 for PAL. In practice, on period-appropriate displays, they do appear to be pretty close despite VCDs having half the vertical resolution. Techmoan has a video where he compares VCD to UHD BluRay. Apparently they still make official VCDs for some markets in Asia, like Hong Kong where he imported his example VCD from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7PbQTlv5ig Edit: for some reason that video reminded me of his 2017 April Fool's day video where he demonstrated the difference between standard HD and UHD... using a Fisher Price PXL-2000 as his camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_si3xAoTeM Mr.Radar has a new favorite as of 21:29 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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I legit was surprised when I saw that VCD was just a format, and not just what you called porn from Japan, because that was literally the only thing I ever saw on it. Gaming Historian released a video today that made me think of this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvws5tOHsEE Will the parade of failed NES addons ever end?
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twistedmentat posted:I legit was surprised when I saw that VCD was just a format, and not just what you called porn from Japan, because that was literally the only thing I ever saw on it. Porn from Japan already has its own TLA.
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