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Grassy Knowles posted:I betcha Humphreys could carry the thread alone A Laserdisc thread would be my very own echo chamber! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvqzBQIVMwc
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Humphreys posted:About 15 years ago I got a Steadicam Merlin and it was a fucken huge piece of poo poo. I used up building my own gyro stabilizsation system using big old heavy Hard Drives spun at full speed mounted in different axis'. Do you have any documentation on that build or similar? It'd be ace as both an ex camera op and current school teacher to use for science.
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Oct 12, 2023 08:59
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Anyone here ever see a video 2000 machine? I remember finding a stack of like 5 or six movies next to the beta section at the video store back in the day and being like what the gently caress does this thing even play in.
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XTimmy posted:Do you have any documentation on that build or similar? It'd be ace as both an ex camera op and current school teacher to use for science. LOL I didn't document a single damned thing as was my standard way of doing things. What I said in my previous post is about it. Just HDDs mounted on a frame of scrap steel I welded up, with a standard camera tripod top hacked onto it. HDDs were powered by a shoulder slung 12VDC Sealed Lead Acid battery. Wiring was custom, can't remember what I did about speed of drives though, but I do remember shock sensing SMT components were removed along with the heads internally.
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No, but it reminds me of the Australian video rental chain Video 2000, something I haven't thought about in an obscene amount of time.
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Oct 12, 2023 10:47
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monolithburger posted:No, but it reminds me of the Australian video rental chain Video 2000, something I haven't thought about in an obscene amount of time. Every so often the old Movieland jingle plays in my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0grzgcd6xE
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coldpudding posted:Anyone here ever see a video 2000 machine? I remember finding a stack of like 5 or six movies next to the beta section at the video store back in the day and being like what the gently caress does this thing even play in. Never heard of it, but yeah I think there was at least one or maybe a chain of Video 2000 stores around me when I was younger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_2000
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Oct 12, 2023 11:38
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We had Melmac Video here who had Alf as a logo. The dude that ran it was sketchy as gently caress, and let us kids get whatever tapes we wanted on our parents accounts but with the title names changed on the ledger. (Yes we are talking the tapes behind the curtained isle)
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Oct 12, 2023 12:33
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coldpudding posted:Anyone here ever see a video 2000 machine? I remember finding a stack of like 5 or six movies next to the beta section at the video store back in the day and being like what the gently caress does this thing even play in. Never seen one in person, but like so many things Techmoan has a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeSz6MoX00Q
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Humphreys posted:We had Melmac Video here who had Alf as a logo. The dude that ran it was sketchy as gently caress, and let us kids get whatever tapes we wanted on our parents accounts but with the title names changed on the ledger. (Yes we are talking the tapes behind the curtained isle) So boring porn, gay porn or ultimately very sad porn?
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Oct 12, 2023 12:35
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By popular demand posted:So boring porn, gay porn or ultimately very sad porn? All of the above, plus the horror section. It was funny that my parents would allow me into that section and guide me to ONLY LOOK AT THIS SHELF DO NOT TUERN AROUND so I could choose a scary/gory movie but not Hottub Group Sex
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Oct 12, 2023 13:47
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XTimmy posted:Do you have any documentation on that build or similar? It'd be ace as both an ex camera op and current school teacher to use for science. Spin 3 discs, one on each axis XYZ. HDD will spin with DC applied to the 4 pin so you can literally just splice into a molex daisy chain connector for all 3.
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Oct 12, 2023 20:36
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Humphreys posted:All of the above, plus the horror section. It was funny that my parents would allow me into that section and guide me to ONLY LOOK AT THIS SHELF DO NOT TUERN AROUND so I could choose a scary/gory movie but not Hottub Group Sex Is your mom a porn hound? No judgement.
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Wasabi the J posted:Is your mom a porn hound? No judgement. Porn mule, read the avatar text, jeez
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:Betacam (the beta used by Hollywood that dumb nerds like to talk about) is a different format in a different form factor and is completely incompatible with consumer Beta devices. Betacam and Betamax are the same physical size and in a pinch you can use a betamax tape on an (analogue) betacam machine but the way they record video onto that tape is completely different.
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ookiimarukochan posted:Betacam and Betamax are the same physical size and in a pinch you can use a betamax tape on an (analogue) betacam machine but the way they record video onto that tape is completely different. You are correct that there is a physical form factor overlap, but the data on the tape is laid out differently and so they are incompatible. Form factor is probably not the right word, but please don't correct my English as I do not respect this language 
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I have an actual Philips Video2000 player in my attic right now. The only physical memorabilia I have of my great grandma, in fact. Correction; It is a Grundig Video 2×4. Still a Video2000 player, but not a Philips. Nidhg00670000 has a new favorite as of 12:06 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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Oct 14, 2023 12:00
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oh god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99z6dBhONFc
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It’s actually p dope particularly for a bible product
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Grassy Knowles posted:It’s actually p dope particularly for a bible product Well made, good documentation and spare parts inside? That thing is really impressive, except for the whole cranking the handle to listen to Bible tapes.
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Oct 14, 2023 13:32
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For all your post apoc needs Someone mod this character into Wasteland 3
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Nocheez posted:Well made, good documentation and spare parts inside? That thing is really impressive, except for the whole cranking the handle to listen to Bible tapes. Seriously. As much as I want to dunk on it I can't because it's just too drat good at it's job.
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How hard would it be to put a small rechargeable battery in there so you don't have to crank the whole time? I'm assuming you could grab a li-on with a charging circuit with the right voltage and wire it in, yeah?
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At the time it was designed rechargeable batteries sucked in every way so it makes sense why it has none but yeah, nowadays it's extremely easy and cheap. By popular demand has a new favorite as of 18:10 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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By popular demand posted:At the time it was designed rechargeable batteries sucked in every way so it makes sense why it has none but yeah, nowadays it's extremely easy and cheap. Also batteries, of any chemistry, do have a shelf life. That thing looks robust enough to last for decades with occasional maintenance (which will be much easier thanks to the parts kit and the local-language teardown/troubleshooting guide). Besides, it does have a DC socket for an external battery pack (which might also power other devices), and I'm sure rechargeable varieties of those packs exist. I'm not a fan of this kind of proselytizing effort, but whoever designed that player had their head screwed on straight, engineering-wise.
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Oh yes, satisfying to see some robust yet user friendly engineering. Not enough to convert me to Christianity but satisfying all the same.
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 https://twitter.com/HumanoidHistory/status/1713241496202158112?s=20 EDIT: I found this one fascinating. https://twitter.com/StoliarSteve/status/1713224941393613107?s=20 Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 23:30 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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I really hope those are welding glass and not them misunderstanding the pinhole eclipse viewer concept.
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Dick Trauma posted:
drat! It's dope she would reply to something like that, and remember too.
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My grandmother turned 96 today and her memory of the great depression is still pretty keen but memories of the last decade not so much.
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GreenNight posted:My grandmother turned 96 today and her memory of the great depression is still pretty keen but memories of the last decade not so much. Lucky her.
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GreenNight posted:My grandmother turned 96 today and her memory of the great depression is still pretty keen but memories of the last decade not so much. My grandmother died in 2006 at 98, and in her last couple of years she would think that I was my father (who passed in 2001) and ask my uncle if he walked or rode his horse to school that day.
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My grandmother just turned 90, and she keeps making jokes about how my grandfather isn't doing so well, and if I knew any "foxy young men maybe in their 70s or 80s."
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empty baggie posted:My grandmother died in 2006 at 98, and in her last couple of years she would think that I was my father (who passed in 2001) and ask my uncle if he walked or rode his horse to school that day. Haven’t gotten to that point yet. She still knows everyone’s names and isn’t confused. Thankfully. Hoping my mom ends up the same way.
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How about we stop with the loving life destroying dementia chat in what was once a happy thread
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Old people with dementia are both obsolete and failed.
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that's a p gross post to follow a very reasonable request. it would be a gross post without that context too.
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Grassy Knowles posted:that's a p gross post to follow a very reasonable request. it would be a gross post without that context too. it’s black humor about the thread title/subject. Out of context sure it might be gross, but here it’s just bringing it back on topic.
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 I found a collection of player piano rolls at a thrift store recently, it was neat to see a technology step in person
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