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Robnoxious posted:Well, "Brothers In Arms" was the first fully digital produced studio master, so there is something to using any track on that album. It was a pain to track down, but a year or two ago I replaced my Phillips "Digital Classics" of Beethoven's 9th conducted by Bernard Haitink because it is far and away my favorite concert recording, and it was done fully digital - recording, mastering, and pressing. It looks like the copy I have now might have been stolen from the Houston public library, but I ain't giving it back. It's a truly phenomenal recording.
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r u ready to WALK posted:I'd love to own a giant stupid old stereo rack from the 90s if people weren't trying to sell them for $texas It's been on Finn (our Craigslist) for years. It's all low-end components that just look very impressive when stacked.
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Since we're on stereos, BeoSound 9000  https://i.imgur.com/ERLcjCr.mp4
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the sickest thing about that cd player is that it stops the disc in the same position it picked it up so that the text on the cd labels can stay right side up
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The music is on the shiny side though, does that mechanism reach around the back? Or does every slot have its own laser bits?
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snorch posted:The music is on the shiny side though, does that mechanism reach around the back? Or does every slot have its own laser bits? Yeah the whole cd player mechanism is like a U shape that wraps around the front and back of the disc tray
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My BeoCenter 1 only plays a single CD or DVD but hey, for $50 i'll take it https://i.imgur.com/qp9C19k.mp4 big fan of the weird claw loading mechanism that stays completely hidden unless you know the secret handshake
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r u ready to WALK posted:My BeoCenter 1 only plays a single CD or DVD but hey, for $50 i'll take it Has it ever asked you to feed it a stray cat?
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I just found out that in 2008, Alienware made a 49” widescreen CRT monitor that featured a 2880x900 resolution and a 0.02ms response time. It sold for $8,000.   
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Is that a projection TV? That's the only way i can imagine them making a CRT curved like that without investing several hundreds of millions of $ in R&D and retooling factories.
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Yeah it was multiple DLPs synced together inside one box iirc
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2880x900 with any kind of a decent frame rate seems like a reeeeeeeal big ask of a 2008 graphics card.
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Porfiriato posted:2880x900 with any kind of a decent frame rate seems like a reeeeeeeal big ask of a 2008 graphics card. Especially in loving Crysis of all things. I first played it in 2012 with a 670 and even then maxing it out at 1920x1200 made the framerates towards the end of the game where it gets ridiculously crazy with all the poo poo going on stray towards the high 20s. Especially that final boss. Didn't really bother me much since the spectacle was amazing plus I was finally playing Crysis at max settings after years of wondering what it would be like. Game itself was surprisingly good too.
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Gonz posted:I just found out that in 2008, Alienware made a 49” widescreen CRT monitor that featured a 2880x900 resolution and a 0.02ms response time. That's not as impressive as big bertha res-wise, given the 2008 vintage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors It also looks washed out as hell.
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2008 seems very late for something like that. I'd be surprised if they sold many.
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Necrothatcher posted:That would be a terrible place to put a coke mirror! I counter with Cymatics and finer powder than Nigel used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFAcYruShow
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Crossposted from Yospos, because its really more relevant for this threadJim Silly-Balls posted:funy tech poo poo I was just reminded of: floppies are really slow Jim Silly-Balls posted:that poor compaq up above gets to format all of these:
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Gonz posted:I just found out that in 2008, Alienware made a 49” widescreen CRT monitor that featured a 2880x900 resolution and a 0.02ms response time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngy9TIbREJE
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I'm kind of impressed with how good that seems to have been, even with the obvious downsides.
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Hoping one of these actually exists in the wild and someone's crazy enough to restore it to its former glory (?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DNqvFSpzdE
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Trabant posted:Hoping one of these actually exists in the wild and someone's crazy enough to restore it to its former glory (?): for a mere $32k you too can live like a trucker!
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Techmoan has buyer's remorse 40 years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqzrm_4_B94
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Now i can watch all the original Star Wars on Laserdisc at the same time!
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Humphreys posted:Now i can watch all the original Star Wars on Laserdisc at the same time! Getting serious Videodrome vibes from that thing.
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flavor.flv posted:That thing fucks *your back up with its triple CRT action!
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There’s no way even the world’s strongest person could lift that thing. That TV must instead be moved around by means of forklift on a huge wood pallet of some kind.
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I vaguely recall seeing these at several elderly relatives’ homes back in the day, plugged into various lamps and whatnot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnJZSk4JHFM
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We use similar but newer digital ones to control plant lamps. They also have a randomizer function to turn on and off on varying intervals between IIRC 22:00 and 06:00, to simulate someone being home and moving between rooms.
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I have one of those old analogue-style ones controlling the lights in my vivarium. If it ain’t broke, etc.
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In my 20s I used the analog ones to turn on lamps and my coffee maker in the morning. Looks like you can still pick up something similar at Target: https://www.target.com/p/ge-indoor-mechanical-timer-24hr-with-2-outlets/-/A-14440327#lnk=sametab
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I use something like that to turn off a camera at night : I have an old Nikon DSLR on wall power* connected to a laptop for a building site timelapse, and those things are not really meant to be on for months at the time. Sure, it may be possible to tell it to restart over USB, or to add some sort of electronic control over the power - but a cheap mechanical timer is more reliable and less work to figure out. * Nikon sells what looks like a laptop power brick, though at whatever low voltage the LiIon battery uses. The cable ends in a battery shaped shell you stuff in the battery compartment, and the camera has a small rubber flap in the battery door to let the wire out. It's the most overcomplicated "We don't want to add another socket" design I've ever seen.
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Computer viking posted:I use something like that to turn off a camera at night : I have an old Nikon DSLR on wall power* connected to a laptop for a building site timelapse, and those things are not really meant to be on for months at the time. Sure, it may be possible to tell it to restart over USB, or to add some sort of electronic control over the power - but a cheap mechanical timer is more reliable and less work to figure out. I'm pretty sure all SLR cameras use dummy batteries like that. All my Canons too at least. I think now they're finally moving to a USB-C power though.
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mobby_6kl posted:I'm pretty sure all SLR cameras use dummy batteries like that. All my Canons too at least. I think now they're finally moving to a USB-C power though. That's my impression too. I did look into buying a cheap used mirrorless, like a Sony NEX, but all the old ones can either charge or take pictures over USB (depending on the power switch position), but not both at the same time. Feels a bit arbitrary, but at least they do seem to be moving in a more sensible direction now.
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Gonz posted:I vaguely recall seeing these at several elderly relatives’ homes back in the day, plugged into various lamps and whatnot.
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I discovered over the holidays that my boomer parents are still using a couple of those that date from my childhood to automatically turn the family Christmas tree lights on/off in the evening. It's simple, it works...
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Dr. Quarex posted:Oh man. Mildly traumatic memories of being unable to turn on the lamp in our living room if we were about to go on a trip and Mom was in full "automate the lights to make it seem like someone is home" mode Yeah, my parents did this too. Everyone in Suburbia was so paranoid that someone would break into their house and steal everything while they were away. The most valuable thing we had was a Macintosh, hardly worth breaking into a house for. CaptainSarcastic posted:In my 20s I used the analog ones to turn on lamps and my coffee maker in the morning. I'm pretty sure I had one on my coffee pot in the early 00's too.
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A lot of landscape lighting still uses them too, simple and rugged enough for outdoor temperature and moisture swings
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