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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/Snack_Memories/status/1588498665072906240?s=20&t=3xfifLJ5fjg-iqey2_CKyA I just had a powerful sensory memory of opening one of those clear plastic video cases.
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Where do people get old, obsolete tech online nowadays? I want a compact video camera with RCA out to use in a live streaming setup, and eBay isn't what it used to be.
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I see some BetaCam gear on Nextdoor's classifieds.
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I’m having much better luck with Facebook marketplace than eBay these days.
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I don't know that it would be an improvement but I hate Ebay with a passion and want to see it burn. Please buy it Elon!
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Chainclaw posted:Where do people get old, obsolete tech online nowadays? I want a compact video camera with RCA out to use in a live streaming setup, and eBay isn't what it used to be. Do you live somewhere with an active Craigslist?
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Chainclaw posted:Where do people get old, obsolete tech online nowadays? I want a compact video camera with RCA out to use in a live streaming setup, and eBay isn't what it used to be. I get all kinds of neat stuff from shopgoodwill.com
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Arrath posted:Analog vs digital tv, it's still a radio signal, the antenna will pick it up fine. Whether the cord coming off that antenna fits the DTV port on your new TV (I don't see many of the wirenut pigtail connectors on tvs anymore god that's so cool
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Now I wonder if there's people restoring the less fascinating bits of the past: old dot matrix printers, obsolete modems, cable TV boxes and even fax machines.
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Porfiriato posted:as can be seen from the link above, 150 pages of it is pinouts for wiring cables to connect various types of printers with various types of computers I'm guessing 50% of that is for RS232 printers, because holy gently caress do serial printers LOVE using non-standard wiring, abusing the handshaking pins, and just generally being weird for the sake of it.
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My company's newest box now uses RJ45 connections! Yay! They're still doing RS232 and then converting with a USB box. Dammit...
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By popular demand posted:I don't know that it would be an improvement but I hate Ebay with a passion and want to see it burn. Please buy it Elon! he could buy PayPal and call it X dot com
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IN THE BEGINNING was the D-subminiature port. And the spirit of RS-232 moved over the face of the pinout, and said, "let there be a paper jam." And there was a paper jam. And it was annoying.
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The one thing I miss about the ancient dot matrix is that a paper jam was pretty much all that could fail. YES I AM LOOKING AT YOU MODERN INKJET! YOU DISAPPOINT ME.
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The one good thing about going to the DMV was hearing the dot matrix printers
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Recently stayed at a cheap casino/hotel in Nevada and I think I should have spent a bit more on the room. No inputs other than a type-f connector, received a dozen or so channels. I carry a cheap Roku in my bag to use in hotels since most have TVs with at least one HDMI port, but was out of luck this time.
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By popular demand posted:Now I wonder if there's people restoring the less fascinating bits of the past: old dot matrix printers, obsolete modems, cable TV boxes and even fax machines.
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Are malls technology? I can't answer right now because I'm off to Record Town to buy some Memorex dBS cassettes. https://twitter.com/Snack_Memories/status/1534509090382266368?s=20&t=pYkVxAJugJ3QR64PVV8_TA  Direct link to the PDF: https://t.co/vUSYgCeLLR Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 13:52 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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That mall building still exists, but it now appears to be apartments, a community center, and a "medical careers" college now.
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I think they had a public library and a community college satellite campus in there at various points. They also built a Target in the parking lot, sealing the fate of the building. I'm the space frame erection system.
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Even for 1990 I'm impressed that mall had a B. Dalton and a Waldenbooks AND what seems to be an independent bookstore. (Plus both an Electronic Boutique and a Babbage's.)
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I had a co-worker who had one of these. I offered him my copy of Pulp Fiction to see what would happen. He declined. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiXg6H_FycI
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I watched that earlier today and that just seems insane. What movie is there that has profanity you wouldn't want your children to hear but doesn't also have questionable visuals or themes as well? He mentions they have newer devices that support HDMI. It looks like it requires a device that ouputs both HDMI and RCA. I'm guessing that they are still reading the line 23 closed captions on the RCA video, checking for profanity, and then muting the HDMI audio. They specifically say that the cheaper LT box does not do close captions, so I assume the more expensive box injects new captions into the HDMI signal based on the RCA video. Maybe that's just the easiest way to do it, but you'd think someone would have a machine learning application that could listen for fucks and shits in the audio and mute only those words. We already have automated closed captioning you can add to your live stream on twitch, surely they can do it for this. Cojawfee has a new favorite as of 02:10 on Nov 10, 2022 |
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Cojawfee posted:I watched that earlier today and that just seems insane. What movie is there that has profanity you wouldn't want your children to hear but doesn't also have questionable visuals or themes as well? I dunno, Terminator if you cut the part where you can see Arnold's little governator? Edit: no I'm wrong, there's a sex scene later in the film. Kwyndig has a new favorite as of 02:08 on Nov 10, 2022 |
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Cojawfee posted:I watched that earlier today and that just seems insane. What movie is there that has profanity you wouldn't want your children to hear but doesn't also have questionable visuals or themes as well? There was a company that would rent edited DVDs with all the naughty bits removed. They got sued out of existence.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I had a co-worker who had one of these. I offered him my copy of Pulp Fiction to see what would happen. He declined. so he was literally scared of curse words?
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Mister Kingdom posted:There was a company that would rent edited DVDs with all the naughty bits removed. They got sued out of existence. Of course they did, I'm assuming they were some Christian rights group who thought they could do anything as long as God willed it.
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LifeSunDeath posted:so he was literally scared of curse words? He was super religious and didn't allow ANY profanity in his house.
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Kwyndig posted:Of course they did, I'm assuming they were some Christian rights group who thought they could do anything as long as God willed it. Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks
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Mister Kingdom posted:He was super religious and didn't allow ANY profanity in his house. But obscenity was fine, right?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:But obscenity was fine, right? He would rarely rent/buy an R-rated movie if it had a lot of sex scenes.
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Mister Kingdom posted:He was super religious and didn't allow ANY profanity in his house. oof
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We got along reasonably well and he never got pushy when it came to religion.
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My hobby: quoting the edited for TV versions of movies and watching the film nerds twitch. "Yippie-ki-yay, Mr. Anderson."
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rndmnmbr posted:My hobby: quoting the edited for TV versions of movies and watching the film nerds twitch. This justifies the existence of those versions IMO.
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rndmnmbr posted:My hobby: quoting the edited for TV versions of movies and watching the film nerds twitch. Thought it was "Yippie-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon."
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