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JnnyThndrs posted:Yeah, I remember when planetariums had those laser shows that always seemed to be set to Dark Side Of The Moon for all the stoners to oooh and ahhh over. My high school had a little planetarium, and a friend of mine took the astro class and helped out the teacher. So he had the keys and knew how to work the dome projector. A few of us had to stay late to work on a project and the school had emptied out, so we went to the planetarium and lay on the floor in the dark while my friend was at the projector controls, taking us on a tour through the galaxy, the stereo blasting Mike + the Mechanics "Silent Running." 
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Dick Trauma posted:My high school had a little planetarium, and a friend of mine took the astro class and helped out the teacher. So he had the keys and knew how to work the dome projector. A few of us had to stay late to work on a project and the school had emptied out, so we went to the planetarium and lay on the floor in the dark while my friend was at the projector controls, taking us on a tour through the galaxy, the stereo blasting Mike + the Mechanics "Silent Running." If I ever accidentally become a zillionaire, item number one for the dream house is that the master bedroom is under a full planetarium dome. Sleep under the stars every night.
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Powered Descent posted:If I ever accidentally become a zillionaire, item number one for the dream house is that the master bedroom is under a full planetarium dome. Sleep under the stars every night. The Soviets just slept outside
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Pham Nuwen posted:The Soviets just slept outside They got eaten by bears and then their car were towed by tractors. It was raining and they got stuck in the mud, that's why the slept outside in the first place.
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So that's what happened that time in the Dyatlov Pass
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:So that's what happened that time in the Dyatlov Pass They say sunflowers are growing there each summer.
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Any good videos on the vcd format? Youtube's search algorithm is unhelpful as usual
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Pham Nuwen posted:The Soviets just slept outside Lmao neither of you goobers has heard of a thing called "skylight".
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Lmao neither of you goobers has heard of a thing called "skylight". That's neither obsolete or failed
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Kamrat posted:That's neither obsolete or failed Elon Musk put an LCD in your skylight.your
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Kamrat posted:Any good videos on the vcd format? Youtube's search algorithm is unhelpful as usual I have one of these... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYNHnmCdmjI
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I have one of these... Wasn't really the type of video I was looking for (I was looking for a more general overview of the format) but it was interesting nonetheless, thanks for linking it 
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I fell asleep at an Inn way out in the middle of Nowhere, Indiana. It was very clean and pleasant, but in the middle of the night in my first day there I woke up and saw a weird glowing blue light in the sky. I oriented myself and realized it was really on the ceiling. The alarm clock has a little projector arm on it that could show the time on walls or ceilings. It weirded me out after being disoriented and exhausted from work.
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Last week my co-worker and I acquired a VHS->DVD-R recorder so we could rescue a bunch of old VHS tapes we'd found in our employer's archives that need to be kept for one reason or another. So first we had to find a TV in the building that even had an RCA or coaxial input (a challenge in itself) but then, once we found one, the recorder rejected all of our blank DVD media. It was then that I had cause to remember something I had known 20 years ago but hadn't had cause to think of in almost as long: DVD+R and DVD-R are not synonyms or interchangable terms. All our media was DVD+R, while this recorder required DVD-R.
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Imagined posted:Last week my co-worker and I acquired a VHS->DVD-R recorder so we could rescue a bunch of old VHS tapes we'd found in our employer's archives that need to be kept for one reason or another. That was the worst thing about recorders for DVD, they were very particular about which formats they would accept, and some of the players were like that too. So you could buy a player that only takes one format, and a recorder that only takes the other format, and your scream of frustration once you learn this will disturb astronauts on the ISS.
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Collateral Damage posted:A challenger appears. Challenge accepted.  He played harmonica for The J Geils Band.
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Lurking Haro posted:They say sunflowers are growing there each summer. We know a remote pass in the Ural Mountains. Every July, sunflowers grow there.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Challenge accepted. I see your Magic Dick and raise you 
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Randallteal posted:I see your Magic Dick and raise you I got more Dick than you. 
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Kwyndig posted:That was the worst thing about recorders for DVD, they were very particular about which formats they would accept, and some of the players were like that too. So you could buy a player that only takes one format, and a recorder that only takes the other format, and your scream of frustration once you learn this will disturb astronauts on the ISS. this stuff all got easier with a desktop PC, with capture cards and more powerful cheap CPUs becoming common around the same time, but yeah for a while I had a DVD-R only reader/writer that got relegated to DVD-ROM duty alongside an external DVD+-R device can't remember exactly when I stopped using DVDs to back things up- around the time a TB of storage got cheap whether we're talking hard drives or a remote server? These days I just have a very old pre-DRM DVD-ROM that I don't think I've used in five years
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I still have a DVD-RAM drive and discs (in their cartridges), I've never used it.
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Kamrat posted:Any good videos on the vcd format? Youtube's search algorithm is unhelpful as usual Techmoan has this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7PbQTlv5ig Surprised he doesn't have a video specifically for VCD
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You Am I posted:Techmoan has this video: Probably because there's not really all that much content there to talk about. It's basically just MPEG-1 video on a CD. I don't even think they have a menu system, you just pop the movie in and go or maybe skip to certain chapters.
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I don't want to clutter up the thread with horrible new technology but I bought a Sony MHC-V13 "bluetooth speaker" last year. It is that same black color of 90's audio equipment. It has quite a few buttons and a remote. It has a short power cord. It weighs a ton. It is neither dustproof nor waterproof. It has an AM/FM radio and a CD player. It was released in 2020.
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You Am I posted:Techmoan has this video: I'm also surprised since he mentions having a VCD video planned in this video that was released 6 years ago ishikabibble posted:Probably because there's not really all that much content there to talk about. It's basically just MPEG-1 video on a CD. I don't even think they have a menu system, you just pop the movie in and go or maybe skip to certain chapters. You could say the same about a lot of formats, but in most formats improvements where made, new players released with new functionality and there's always the reason why it was made and why it had an impact in certain markets. Even if it is just an MPEG-1 on a CD there might be a way to improve the quality of the film by tweaking aspects of the source to get the most out of the MPEG-1 encoding for example.
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Kamrat posted:I'm also surprised since he mentions having a VCD video planned in this video that was released 6 years ago I have legit commercially released VCDs, and from memory, they had some rudimentary menu. I have 3 Amigos, Born of Fourth of July and a sealed collectors boxset of Harry Potter movies. None are bootlegs from the usual sources.
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ishikabibble posted:Probably because there's not really all that much content there to talk about. It's basically just MPEG-1 video on a CD. I don't even think they have a menu system, you just pop the movie in and go or maybe skip to certain chapters. Oh so it's miles better than DVD and Blu-Ray.
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Humphreys posted:I have legit commercially released VCDs, and from memory, they had some rudimentary menu. I have 3 Amigos, Born of Fourth of July and a sealed collectors boxset of Harry Potter movies. None are bootlegs from the usual sources. At first I read 3 Amigos as in the mobility scooter, like you own 3 of them, and then kept reading the rest of it like you were just describing the type of person you are, as if that's a type of person you'd expect to own commercial VCDs. It's stupid but I like that idea.
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I have some box sets of Asian series on VCD. (They have to be box sets because there's like 40 000 discs to each one.) If only they had subtitles or dubbing in some language I understand, I'd enjoy them much less.
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Kamrat posted:I'm also surprised since he mentions having a VCD video planned in this video that was released 6 years ago At that point though you're more talking about the intricacies of MPEG-1 compression than you are VCD as a format  And even then, 'how companies optimized their usage of a compression standard' isn't really the most exciting topic to make a video about. Re: players, you might be able to do something with that but it'd require a pretty extensive collection to show. The whole draw of VCD was that it was cheaper than DVD, so I can't imagine there were that many exciting players that came out for the format. And even the ones that are, there's still the question of how interesting they actually are since functionally they're just going to behave mostly the same as a DVD player. IMO the only really interesting thing you could talk about with it might be like, digging into it as a format for lost or rare media. It's been around for so long and was so readily accessible both on the producer and consumer end that I can't imagine there's much out there that doesn't have a VCD release, either official or bootleg.
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I have a lot of 80s and 90s Chinese TV series on VCD (including the incredible 84 episode Romance of the Three Kingdoms). A lot of the time they would have Cantonese on the left channel, Mandarin on the right, and have burned in English and Traditional or Simplified Chinese subtitles.
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ishikabibble posted:At that point though you're more talking about the intricacies of MPEG-1 compression than you are VCD as a format All I'm saying is that there are things to talk about regarding the format, I pulled some examples out of my rear end since I'm not familiar with the format myself. It's not like these retrogeek channels like techmoan, technology connections and the like haven't covered worse formats and gone into intricacies of those so I just wanted to watch a video on the format because I was curious, with such a long history and it being alive today there's bound to be some interesting bits.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I have a lot of 80s and 90s Chinese TV series on VCD (including the incredible 84 episode Romance of the Three Kingdoms). A lot of the time they would have Cantonese on the left channel, Mandarin on the right, and have burned in English and Traditional or Simplified Chinese subtitles. now i want to watch it with everything turned on at once and just get gangbanged by five different languages/scripts at the same time
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I have a lot of 80s and 90s Chinese TV series on VCD (including the incredible 84 episode Romance of the Three Kingdoms). A lot of the time they would have Cantonese on the left channel, Mandarin on the right, and have burned in English and Traditional or Simplified Chinese subtitles. It's a shame these are hard to find these days because the subtitles are actually in Cantonese. Also having English and Cantonese subtitles at the same time is great for learning.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I got more Dick than you.  Dick Best. The man who sunk the Akagi.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I have a lot of 80s and 90s Chinese TV series on VCD (including the incredible 84 episode Romance of the Three Kingdoms). A lot of the time they would have Cantonese on the left channel, Mandarin on the right, and have burned in English and Traditional or Simplified Chinese subtitles. How's that work, were you expected to just pull one of the audio plugs to get your desired audio track?
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Zenostein posted:How's that work, were you expected to just pull one of the audio plugs to get your desired audio track? In software, yes
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Thomamelas posted:
well, now that we've found the best we can put the derail to bed
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Zenostein posted:How's that work, were you expected to just pull one of the audio plugs to get your desired audio track? Pretty much
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flatluigi posted:well, now that we've found the best we can put the derail to bed Not until this king gets his recognition. 
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