Patreon Q&A #1 

I think I already mentioned this on Discord, but I think your channel is like Action Button, or Ross Game Dungeon, or Technology Connection, whose supporters are happy with relatively scarce output because they know it's the price to pay for having well-thought, high quality videos that are actually meaningful to watch. I believe that the vast majority of your viewers (and, most importantly, Patreon supporters) would be perfectly happy with just one monthly "big" public video and perhaps some weekly low-effort stuff (streams, mail calls, q&a, etc). At least I know *I* would be.

I can’t believe you have less than 100k, honestly. I absolutely love your content so much.

13:29 Quintonreviews is the perfect cautionary tale about abandoning passion in order to go all-in on making mediocre, trend-chasing RU-vid content. I admire your integrity, awareness of your strengths, and commitment to producing quality videos. Your genuine interest in what you cover is palpable and a big part of why you're one of my favourite channels.

I pay my measly pocket change for the simple fact you’re genuine. And man oh man that’s so rare these days from a channel. And you’re open about things that might be holding you up or that you don’t know yet you’re willing to take a stab at it or teach your viewers the parts you do know. I dig your content as there isn’t much of it at this Caliber and you’ve grown a bunch in your filming and content. I know we all appreciate your hard work and I hope more people are able to contribute to the Patreon which benefits us directly and doesn’t just go towards toys for you to have but devices you may develop a great narrative on. Please just keep the balance so you don’t burn out, and I’ll keep doing my part as a viewer. Watch and share. Congrats on a growing channel! And simply put, just thanks.

You would always burn to M-Disc blurays. They're supposedly indestructible.

I discovered your channel a couple of months ago and I gotta say it's quickly become one of my favorites. Whenever I see a new video I get a little bit excited about watching it right away.

Holy shit, i thought my question was garbage..... I just about died when you put the polyurethane mold on the screen with a go pro shoved into it :D Thanks so much for giving me what seemed to be more than 10 minutes of thought to answer my question You are a treasure!

Some very soul-searchy answers here. I appreciate the introspection! It seems my relationship with technology is more complicated than I thought lol Also, definitely do that series about computer parts. It'd be interesting to hear your take on graphics cards and their current implementation!

I don't even know much about this science stuff and yet I watch your videos and enjoy the cool stuff you share. So cheers. And ignore negative haters

Also, I would totally watch a video where you rant against contemporary PCs. There is a lot I don't like about contemporary tech but I don't think I'd be able to put it in words and I would love to hear someone else do it. It would also probably get pretty good views.

RU-vid themselves are not 100% certain how the algorithm works... that should tell you something. Keep up the great work. I really enjoy your videos.

just wanted to chime in on the whole output/support thing: personally if i'm supporting somebody's output, i want them to produce their best outfit in the way that is the best fit for their health. if it means something once a month, i'm down. something every three months, i'm down. what's important is somebody is creating for a living and comfortable doing it. not everybody is a machine and not everybody works predictably. some of us are like moths to the flame of passion, swooping in and burning out. i just don't think the goods/services/sales mentality carries over to these fields at all. anyways, that's not to bully you into feeling any way or whatever, just providing some input from the ether.

I'm always looking forward to new videos about stuff that I didn't know existed, or might have seen, but is revisited. It's also amazing at how even old tech now is going to for so much money. I really think it's people being nostalgic about how fondly they thought of their pasts because of their current situations.

You have an excellent speaking voice and you're adorable. Keep doing what makes you happy and you will succeed. Always remind yourself and critics that ART IS SUBJECTIVE. You create what you love, if others love it as well, that's a bonus.

Back in the day, what my dad did with Mini DV footage was feed it into our Sony Vaio through an RF adaptor. The Sony was a "Media PC" so it came with some Direct to DVD movie editing software, so he'd shove it into there in real time and burn DVDs. Then take the hard drives and back them up. All of our less tech savvy relatives knew this and got him to do it for their home movies too. Minus the backing it up part. they just got DVDs.

Others have said it but yeah, I think you've found the right mix of fact and opinion without ever misrepresenting one as the other which is important. Having the story focused format (either personal or the item(s) history) is how we as humans always traditionally exchanged thoughts and facts and so works super well and you put the effort in to keep out the cruft while the little 'equipment setup transitions' you do act like full stops and pauses for breath for the viewer. So I've said it before but I hope your channel continues to grow as it more that deserves it! And one last thought, the 'loneliness' of being on a PC pre-web days is definitely something I remember. If something didn't work, that was it. I don't miss not having access to all of humanity and it's knowledge in my pocket. But it takes an active mental effort to set it aside to be personally productive and it's something we should probably be teaching the younger generations as a skill.

Re: piracy. Back in the early 80s, when I was a kid, my mom got me a TRS-80 CoCo 3, and signed me up for a local “CoCo Club”, which basically was a huge pirate club. The owner had tons of games and other software on disks and cassettes, and we could pay him to make “mixtapes” or “mixdisks” that contained whichever programs we wanted. Lists came on huge piles of continuous form paper (the ones with the holes for dot matrix printers).

Love your content. Keep it awesome and detailed. Frequency doesn't matter. Some of my most cherished channels sometimes don't post in a year. :)

Thanks for doing this Q&A and for your fantastic answer to my weird question!

You are my most likeable favourite RU-vidr i know here. You put so much effort and research in your work that it impresses me every time. Best regards from Hamburg Germany

So glad I found your channel I selfishly want you to hit that magic number so you can focus on these videos and be like technology connections. Occasional videos with fascinating subjects, you are so good at this.

We tried making skake videos in the early 00’s…they were 240p shot on my moms 2002 (I think) Sony cybershot point and shoot. The only video that I could find from that camera is a 20 seconds clip I took or my grandma in her kitchen, all she says is “turn that thing off” lol kills me every time.

I really loved the extended Jeff Rosenstock shout-out in this video. I got into your content for the deep-dives on old tech, and as you surely have experienced, an interest in old computers is never a guarantee that someone won't turn out to be some kind of right-winger or something. I respect and understand why you don't focus on politics and identity very heavily in the content you make, but the little glimpses you give are very refreshing.

I think one of the reasons HD camcorders don't get dropped off at thrift shops is they make good hand-me-downs and secondary cameras. I'll admit I'm part of the problem-I still have my first HD camera from 2009.

the only channel i've whitelisted for ads. i cant do anything on patreon but i love the content my dude. good luck and keep doing you :D

37:28 it is not gone, my father used to have the wifi shut off at 9:00 pm, and after that I had to be very creative to entertain myself with the limited couple of things on my computer.

early HD television is truly one of the more fascinating things. there's one youtube channel that uploads wvhs recordings of 90s test music programing, staid and elegant as one would expect of a show aimed at people who could afford the 30 000 dollar TV sets. it's fascinating to see the bizarre motion compression artifacts combined with the sharpness of detail. it's certainly got a very specific look

...same phenomenon with microcassette answering machines virtually never found at thrift stores any more... those artifacts of someone's outgoing announcement and maybe a handful of messages. No more, with digital.

We truly appreciate your integrity. Keep up the good work

Sir, I want to thank you! I don't think I've ever listened to - let alone watched - a 45 min Q&A about any topic without pausing or rewinding or just accepting that I have missed something. And still the time flew by. I always seem to let things distract me or maybe it's just that I've not encountered many people (online) that could enthral me in that manner with sheer talking (being subscribed to > 400 channels). I guess that's the consequence of people's craving for more and more content to consume and the inevitable drop in quality. So I'm glad that you plan on sticking to your line of attaching a story to the topics and devices you present. As a German, I would also like to compliment you on your articulation, which - despite you talking quite fast - makes it super easy to follow. I'm happy you've not become a broadcast cameraman but have found your place in front of the camera. Keep up the great work!

i wish to know more about the monitor lizard but also- it’s not a surprise that an AJJ fan isn’t an audiophile

Glad someone else realises the Mouth albums are high art.

Wow! Shout out to the Ramshackle Glory reference at around 30 minutes in! I always pegged you as someone open minded but it means a lot as a young(ish) ex-folk punk to see anyone mention it outside of my (what I assumed) very small bubble of folk-punk fans.

To start, love the channel! I always learn something while watching your videos, and i really like your attitude on the preservation of history. Not all tech is exciting (like you said in your Omnishare video), but that doesn't mean it should be forgotten about completely. I'm a musician and an audio engineer myself, so I share in your love of vintage tech like reel to reel tape and vintage studio tricks like tape flanging and doubling. I feel like alot of the limitations of older equipment in any field of study can actually be helpful, because it forces the user to make decicions and work around the limits of the device to make something great. I really enjoy your well researched videos, but i also really enjoyed the PC Mag livestreams you did with Toni (would love to see them back on to do some more tech reading with you as you guys make a really good foil for one another). Being an audio guy myself, I'd love to see a video on consumer home recording tech. People seem to think home recording studios only became a thing after the invention of A/D converters and DAWs, but ive found that isn't really true. Boston's first album was all recorded in a home studio, as was Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk". Maybe talk about important machines like the Revox 77 line of reel to reel and how people would do things like make demos at home in the mid 70s. Anyways, love the channel, keep being yourself, and keep up the exellent work!

To be completely honest with you, Your channel wouldnt be the same if you were to do it full time and made filler content. I like your videos because of the grand story and narrative, like you said thats how you like to make content. Theres something about when youtubers genuinely enjoy making the content thats just... chefs kiss. This channel is a perfect example of that.

Thanks for the thorough answer! Edit: Agree on Neil Cicierega.

Tapes go bad as well, especially if they're high-density like DV, especially if you don't store them in a specifically controlled environment. And Film gets lost as well, we don't have any copies of about 90% of silent films. And later non-celluloid film in lower percentages.

Oh man. Some of these questions are a whole conversation waiting to happen. I love it. That bit about giving away the monitor -- I can't echo that sentiment enough. I had a lapse of judgment a few years ago and thought I would succumb to the desire of my missus to de-clutter the place a little bit. I had a bunch of PC stuff I was hanging onto from the late 90s and onward. She found some Facebook group where you could give stuff away, and I thought.. sure.. why not. Here's an aluminum Cooler Master case, a couple Epox Pentium III motherboards, some early Sony LCD monitors that cost like $600 at the time, a collection of IDE hard drives, and so on. Most of it got snatched up by one lady with a filthy old station wagon, that looked like she had absolutely no clue what to do with computing hardware, but it was free, so why not take it? It breaks my heart to this day. I like to think they went home and gave it to a kid or other family member who researched the heck out of it, and assembled a fantastic collection of retro battlestations. But I fear some of it ended up in an outdoor shed to rot, or smashed to bits for fun, because it had no value. That was an experience I thought would fill me with warm fuzzy feelings as I gifted someone else with treasures that meant a lot to me, but instead just felt like I was sending it off to be destroyed by someone who didn't know or care about it at all. Never again.

Generally the best way to simulate retro footage quality (at least for tape-based mediums) is to shoot it normally, then pass it through a recorder that accepts composite input, then digitize that.

I enjoy your program very much, thanks!

I absolutely love that VX Legacy dummy camcorder. Ergonomics really count for something! (And Sony has IMHO been pretty good about them, more often than not.)

I use Spotify and RU-vid Music for music because i pay for premium I use AIMP for local music, because it's the same application on both my phone and my computer, and it's a perfect representation that old programs can still be viable today if they're given love and attention by the devs. also thumbs up that aimp literally runs on car stereos that run android, and you can skin them to work as such as well. just so versatile

20:00 I ordered a lot of about 20 minidiscs from Japan off ebay and when they came they weren't blank, and all the discs had labeling and were all full of late 90s early 00s jpop mixtapes. I couldn't bring myself to delete them so I had to buy more

You are my new favorite RU-vidr! Keep up the good work and also free Palestine 🇵🇸

Man, you are a creative with good instincts and heart - you may be right about the downsides of RU-vid full time, but you don't have to do RU-vid. You can live on you skill, creativity, and humor, but you have to be creative about it.

Damn now that is a beefy Q&A full of nothing but top tier questions. Here are my 2 cents. Several times. - First off, old tech and thrift stores. You know it, I know it, we all know it. Thrift stores are greedy as all hell nowadays. Most of the Goodwills I've ever been to were crap, but even ones that were good two, three, four years ago are just junk now. I had the good thrifting fortune to live in a town with an EXCELLENT Goodwill and I started going in... late 2016? early 2017? Around there. For about two years until we moved away that store was solid gold. My targets were mostly older games and I used to be able to get anything and everything for bargain prices. Game Boys of all sorts of models for $5-10 a pop, often with games and cases? Sure. N64 with Mario Kart 64, GoldenEye 007, a few minty controllers and some PS2 YPbPr cables for $30? Eat your heart out. A friend of mine getting expensive and soguht-after GameCube games for $2 each? Sold. I went there at opening time at least once a week for over a year and was able to get a mountain of games and such, but nowadays that store has at most some sports games on the shelf. Every single other thing presumably just goes straight to their online store where it's sold at auction to the highest bidder with a wallet just burning a hole in their pocket. Random technology at least sticks around a bit and there's still music, but it's mostly just stuff that only I could care about. It bums me out since it was one of the best parts of the hunt. I also had a pretty damned good hold on the local market on Letgo, where if I wanted something I could pretty much get it for pennies on the dollar due to a lack of competition at the time, but Letgo went down the shitter and FBM and Craigslist are too competitive. At least independent resale shops can be better, but Goodwill has barely any excuse since they take basically everything in via donation and turn it into pure revenue. They pushed independent shops out of the market and then burned the market anyway and we're left with whatever the hell we can find kicked underneath the shelves. Garage sales have also been crap for AGES because, let's face it, smartphones ruined everything about them. Anybody can have a thing they want to sell and, within less than a minute, have a "market value price" (usually inflated since they don't know that eBay buy-it-now listings that haven't sold AREN'T market value) and toss it into their driveway for that much money. I think I can count the good yard sale deals I've gotten on at most two hands but probably only one. I get that sellers should be able to get at least some money for things, but it's just a feedback loop of worse and worse prices. - I think you didn't quite answer that filmic look question from around 21:28 in its entirety. You addressed the video side but not really the film side. Video, in most respects, has been a series of objective upgrades for a couple decades. Once we moved past VHS it's just been more dynamic range, higher resolutions, etc etc, and there's certainly validity in emulating this because it's very easy to get a more-or-less perfect result. Faking bad dynamic range takes nothing, downscaling a clip is even easier, and a near-perfect VHS filter exists for an affordable price. As for film, it's quite on the other end of the spectrum. Faking the filmic look is very difficult, even in post-production, and honestly I don't see much value in it. Faking it won't look quite right because there's more to it than just simple graphable improvements. Every film stock was unique, every frame had its own noise, and film had a wildly different dynamic range than digital has today, leaning heavily into the bright side of things. It forced directors and hobbyists to shoot in a particularly thoughtful and planned manner, and I feel like no matter how many filters you layer on and no matter how close you get to that look you will never have the sort of 1:1 feel where the filmmaker took the time to get plan everything out, get it right, and execute it on the spot. Nowadays people will just redo to no end and change things on the spot. Shoot, delete, shoot, delete. The filters have merit, sure, but I feel that they will never replace film. - Man, I wish I were around for things like the classic games of the 80s and 90s, the golden age of HAM radio/television, the old electronic culture that the 8-bit guy brushed on about his electronic stores videos, early online games, 60s car culture, radio before it was crap, etc etc. I'm a product of the 2000s and by then most things like these were pretty much dead in the water or on steep decline. HAM radio? Barely exists now. HAM TV? Well, NTSC was officially basically eliminated the other week, so... dead. Electronic culture? Just buy it online. Radio? iHeart. Cars? Regulations getting tighter by the minute and for most people the intimacy has been gone for decades. I'm glad I got to experience what I did but hot DAMN there's a lot of stuff that's just... gone and I'll never get to live it. I do think that some of these things are possible to somewhat experience in our current times but you will pretty much never get an accurate culture surrounding it. Take Pokémon for instance. EVERY kid was playing it in 1998-2001. It was a phenomenon and nowadays it's just sort of... not? It certainly doesn't seem earth-shattering like it once was. I hear that the same thing happened with Super Mario 64, Final Fantasy 7, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and several 8-bit and 16-bit games, but nowadays every game just seems to come and go without much fanfare or with huge negative backlash. At least you can get a group of your buds together and experience an old game at any time in life and have a good experience, but things like the playground rumors and the feeling of every single soul around you being into it are just gone. - The last thing I wanted to toss my hat into the ring about was the old monitor and the RGB bug. Man, didn't it used to be about the games? I hear about people grabbing their first CRT, be it their first in a decade or the first one that they've ever used, and I've got to wonder just why the hell they see it necessary to buy a professional piece of kit. It's such a pet peeve of mine since I see it quite literally everywhere. Everybody wants the thing that Real McGamerton told them is the best and that anything less is just second-rate. Everybody wants the latest and greatest thing without deciding first whether they actually personally care. The prices of professional monitors make me sort of sick nowadays since they're so over-hyped by everybody. Sure, pro sets are nice, but their benefits are blown so far out of proportion that people are, in some cases, paying over MSRP for an obsolete piece of professional gear that a decade ago you couldn't give away. Deals that were absurd not even a year ago are now standard and that cycle has been on repeat for years. It bugs me how deep some people's pockets are with this sort of stuff and that it pushes people who are genuinely interested and passionate and took the time to form their own real opinion away because of overprice, overhype, imposter syndrome or otherwise.

holy shit, that first question was a gut punch-not because of my own connection to things, but what i’ve witnessed through hfe, ebay, and helping hoarders. going to need time to process that one. wow. i agree about the difficulty of pursuing a narrative on a weekly basis, and i think that one way you could accomplish that is with fine art/crafts where every project does have a unique story. i'm considering starting up a weekly stream myself along those lines, and i'd like to discuss this more with you on the telegraphs. as someone who grew up in the supposed glory days of vidcons, i think what made it special was not only the novelty, but the fact that it was social for so many participants--we were all still living at home, near our neighborhood friends. while it's true old games lack novelty, there are still options to create new novelty. for example, i play mario maker 2 for the switch, i just finished creating my first level (SLL-140-K8G), and a friend of mine basically chatted with me back and forth as she struggled with and dissected it, making the experience both new and exciting. when you posted a picture of your storage unit, that was definitely a marv moment. in the spirit of getting things to the right home, have you considered dedicating a section on your site to listings of objects, where people could apply to take ownership for like, the cost of shipping? i did something kind of like this once, where i gave away an expensive router for free on craigslist to the person who gave me the best story of how it would be used, and i felt pretty secure it wasn't resold immediately.

I was starting to think there was no good software but then u had to go and remind me of foobar2000

I really do wish it could be quieter again.

Would be fun with some challanges, goodwill run and find a camera and do some sort of evaluation. More goodwill and other second hand videos is always nice!

Man, I love this channel! Really awesome to get to know you and why you are so passionate about tech. I would love to see you with a million subs. Your channel reminds me of a mix between LGR and Technology Connections. I really like the Q&A-style video format in this video and the candid approach. And don't listen to that nasty hate mail. That stuff bums me out. Not that I think you take it seriously, but that there are people out there that are THAT miserable. Those people are most likely deeply unloved. They're just jealous that you have a really cool channel.

Super happy to see your channel starting to get some attention 😁 Also totally didn't expect a dril tweet but it was perfect for the occasion. If you do your livestreams on a separate channel it might be good to just link them in the description of all your videos, so it still gets some exposure and isn't hard to find for anyone watching one of your not-livestream videos. I've seen a couple speedrunners do it and LMG does something similar. Also wanted to say, I find it funny that I have a wide variety of music I like, and of course, ABBA is also in the mix 😆

Experiencing the 90s console games as they came out would be pretty neat. I was born in 1990, so I pretty much got that with the PS2 era and early PS3 maybe (even though I didn't even play too many of the new PS2 games, but I read about them at the very least in magazines). But playing GT4 or FF12 when they were still new, that was still pretty special, although there is always the question whether it was just because I was young back then and everything was kinda new to me.

Re: 90s console video games. Man, it was a heady time. I was a super console gamer back in the 90s and even one of the first women to work at Electronics Boutique in the state. The predominantly male clientele would dismiss my attempt to offer assistance until inevitably one of my male coworkers would have to direct the customer back to me since I knew nothing about computer games but basically everything about console ones. 😄 Man, I loved watching them need to come back to me for answers! It was an amazing time and I'm grateful to have been in high school in the early 90s and the in my early 20s late 90s so I was really at the prime age for that massive explosion in console gaming. Between my whole friends group, I played every major console at the time (and yes, that includes things like Sega CD, Virtual Boy, 3D0, Jaguar and more!) To see wipEout for the first time on PS1 was the most amazing thing and hard to express if you didn't experience it new at the time.

I love your videos and listening to your opinions! What got me into old video was buying a PixelVision camera on Ebay back in 2000. Then a Sony AVC-3400 fell into my hands in 2008 and got my creativity going again! Examples of which I have on my channel. As much as I like looking at old video, and using it's limitations in an artistic way, I feel the same way as you with wanting video quality to be better! As a funny aside I didn't own a decent video camera until the mid-2000s and the only video camera I had was the PXL-2000. I wanted to document live music in my town so I would show up to shows with a VCR, C64 monitor and VCR and plug my PixelVison in and record shows. I realized this was completely unpractical, but I was dedicated to documenting. I eventually got a Sony miniDV of some type that I can't remember and a wide angle lens. Keep up the great videos, I always look forward to watching them!

just saw this and it's still relavent and i find it an interesting reflection

CRT dude, do a video on the PXL 2000! I can lend you mine

my family used a VHS-C camera and disposable cameras up until the mid to late 2k's, by then my dad purchased a canon point and shoot that we had for years, and it chugged through batteries like nobody's business, we would literally have to carry a 20 pack of energizer lithium batteries and that was what you needed to get through the day at the drag strip or something, and that was mostly photos

My question would have been "Do you like trains?" but then I didn't post it because it seemed too random. I mean, not too random for me but for this channel, uh. ....aaaaand this brings me to another Q regarding Q&A: Is it ok to ask anything or should we keep it business as usual?

On the subject of finding someone's old media, I found some disks with old photos in a lot of floppy disks I bought once. One of them was someone's 90th birthday party and it seemed to be from the early 2000s. Meaning that person is certainly passed now and probably dearly missed by their friends and family. The photos showed the house where the party was happening so I had a house number, and there was clearly a name on the cake, but it wasn't legible. Touches on the real shame of standard-definition content as these photos seemed to have been taken on an old Mavica. Such a shame because with a house number and a first name, I could probably have tracked down who they belonged to and get that family a copy of these pictures of their dearly departed relative. Unfortunately, I have no way of identifying them and it still bugs me that I can't get those back to the family who took them. Maybe they have another copy and this is all moot. But maybe they don't. I think about this at least once a month.

It's actually quite easy to replicate the experience for those older games. It's just a mindset thing. Sit down for a moment and think about what the world looked like before television. Really paint a picture and think about what you would have done for entertainment. If you do that properly and then turn on a crt and play Super Mario, (btw I find it concerning that the spelling correction on my computer shows a red line under crt...) you will have a complete different appreciation for what you are capable of doing. In fact the effect is even amplified because back then we didn't really appreciate it. We grew into it. My greatest wow things I had when I saw the trailer for Zelda 64 and then later the one for World of Warcraft. I didn't give much thought to the stuff that came before. Now I do and now a Gameboy excites me much more than it did back when they where new. It's all just in your brain, time doesn't matter. Live in the now. That's all.

Agreed with you completely on the demise of videotape as a reliable medium-term offline storage medium. "Digital dark age" is the usual term for this sort of thing, and we're probably sort of screwed as far as being able to watch home videos being taken in 2021 in the year 2050. As I have pointed out to many people, anything worth saving for the future needs to be on paper or film (still or motion-picture) if it is to have any chance of surviving more than a decade or two. Digital storage is great for access, but terrible for long-term preservation. Unfortunately, many people will not learn this until it is too late.

Nothing at all wrong with just using Spotify. The quality is decent, and let's face it, if you just want to listen to music and aren't interested in collecting media, it's much easier than collecting CDs and records.

I actually do buy new SD cards instead of reusing then (generally) because I just shoot digital photos as a hobby and it’s worth it to me to have an easy-to-carry and store backup other than everything on HDD or cloud storage.

9:10 - I have a main channel and an 'alt' channel. I post content that I really care about on my main channel and then misc footage/experiments/general interest things on my alt channel. I do link between them in video descriptions so the hope is that they are the same, but different. Really enjoyed this Q&A!

"noone is gonna bother to preserve it" well its on my harddrive atleast

About digital media / personal data perservation, LTO would be a very good choice. But right now its price is still far from the average consumer's reach.

dude you like pat the bunny too! , You're doing a great job on the channel.

A thing that we lost with changing to digital is the feedback like in the bohemian rhapsody video.

Tbh I think that U.S and most of the countries had reasons to simply don't go HD sooner. The Japanese standard, although impressive was inefficient, it consumed more bandwidth and most of the countries wanted not only better quality but more efficiency.

Bro PLEASE listen to Snowing, Algernon Cadwallader, Castevet, Camping In Alaska, Brave Bird, Mom Jeans, and The Front Bottoms - in that order

I had no idea about that high definition laser disc, definitely gonna check that out, but talking about the HD techs being developed earlier than what we got it reminded me of HD-MAC which was being developed as an alternative TO the Japanese Hi-Vision. It kinda infuriates me because this tech was ready by the early 90s and it took over a decade before we really started getting stuff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-MAC

10:37 Wiled !!!! So have you thought about going into competition w/ minute maid 😂😂😂😂 exactly !!! LMAO !!!

Lmao your monitor ate your monitor

HD in the 80's? France was broadcasting 736i in 1944.. to tiny CRTs that could display maybe half that. Plex might do the handoff thing like spotify, imma try that pretty soon. I miss dialup BBS games and chat before the internet, but graphics are alright I guess :P

first digital camera was in the 1990's and they used a digital camera for a claymation pc game neverhood.

That's actually a really cool concept. What if [tech enthusiasts] could make some sort of tech library for rare/vintage/older electronics. Everyone pays a small fee each month and can borrow certain items (with some sort of collateral of course). Need some oddball PC from the 70s to get grandpa's data off those tapes? No problem. Really want to hear if that specific CD player really does sound better? No prob. Need some weird micro-firewire cable but don't want to pay $30 on ebay to use it for a grand total of 3 minutes?

Brother, you are one hell of a cool dude.

I don't think abstracting from media is a bad thing for preservation. The fact that whenever you share a video or picture, you produce copies that end in other devices and the cloud makes it likely that the last picture of a person in existence is going to be in their friends phones

Hateful Eight 2015 was shot on film..........Arriflex 765.

17:18 Pretty sure the reason the price is high is because of eBay. Someone could probably write a hundred page essay on why and someone probably already has.

20:10 not only does nobody does this, It's literally impossible, flash memory fades over time if not refreshed, just very slowly. in fact some people are dealing with this already, the WiiU used flash that was really not great, so if you didn't touch your wii u in 8 years you'd come back to a bricked console, and some Samsung android phones in the late 2k's and early teens would just stop working a few years after you bought them because of a bad string of chips. SSD's are only rated to last 2-3 years unplugged before everything on them is a question to whether it'll still be there in tact.

Protip: Splintering your viewership with two different youtube channels has issues with metrics, even if one is just for streaming, this issue seems to be mitigated by using a different platform for your streaming. Using Twitch for example and then posting regular videos here. There are ways to streamline your streamed content into youtube uploads as well if that's a concern. The theory behind this is mostly the illusion of "this is my youtube, it's for videos, this is my twitch, it's for steaming" versus "here's my youtube channels, this one is for this and this one is for that." For some reason the first gets you more engagement, I think people dislike the idea of following multiple channels on the same platform for the same content creator; your guess is as good as mine as to why

8:50 I don't work at youtube but i do have a back ground in computer science (usually the type of people who created the algorithm for youtube), and all i can say is, if you want to stream, just do it. Because you'll miss 100% of the shots you don't make. You're already building a core following, and you have patron backers. As long as you do what you're already doing, you won't go backwards. Only forward. Also, if the streams don't work out, they don't work out. If you're still worried about streaming, you could stream at Twitch and just promote the channel through this one. The RU-vid algorithm is almost without a doubt a machine learning/AI based and what works today (i.e. youtube shorts), wont work tomorrow (notifications bell). Its always changing and constantly learning, on top of the tweaks RU-vid does to it. Don't become a slave to trying to figure it out, just do things and you'll find your stride. Use the data provided and comments to make more informed decisions (as you probably have been doing).

Hello buddy, could you please make more videos about the DVCPRO and P2card system? Thank you so much!

also damn do you have any of your photos posted anywhere? really really dug the first and last ones you showed here!

I know youtubers (big clive) that film exclusively on budget phones, because they're cheap, all in one devices that are able to edit and upload the videos all within the device. plus big clive wrecks his phones all the time, and secondhand, android phones cost almost nothing

I feel you on the "what do I do with all this stuff" thing.. I'm not there yet but I know I will get there with console dev kits someday. Something i care about, but I also don't want to sell to someone that's just gonna hord it, I would sell it to a retro game dev that's gonna use it or donate it to a school that can teach with it. but yeah not there yet.

The "waiting for the right person to give to" comment gives me pause. I've been thinking lately on how could we sidestep the market and reach a system we can all use for any purpose that doesn't rely in the profit motive (or rather, that makes it very difficult to be driven by profit) and I think it should be moneyless, and not barter but instead a gift economy. I would love to just plop a bunch of listings with the crap I have, and if more than one person wants something in a given time frame (or if it's something special) I can decide who gets it (if anyone) depending on who needs it more, what listings they had, how many things did they already get recently, who is physically closer, etc.

I think videos get watched more now that they're stored digitally. My family never watched our childhood VHS tapes, but now that they're all on Google Photos and shared between all of us we watch them all the time. Same thing goes with slides. My grandmother didn't even have a slide projector. I scanned all of her slides with an Epson v600. Now her TV (with Google TV) displays all of her slides when it's idle.

In response to your point about trying to release more videos more regularly would require filler content aside from your normal deep dives. I think you could pull off high quality content on a more regular basis with the following thought train. I actually believe you spoil your viewers with long videos all at once. It might be worth considering breaking some of your longer high quality scripts/stories into multiple standalone parts that also work together as a complete narrative. I feel like that format might lend itself super well to your style. A lot in your videos you stop yourself from diving more into something so that the hour long video doesn't turn into a 2 hour video. Just a thought, huge fan of your content and please don't take this as any criticism, I love your current format as is.

I would love to have your extra stuff but I don't have a salt mine to keep it in. I worry about storage conditions a lot. The stuff you own owns you.

I loved it.... "I'll think about it" Hahaha.

The VX legacy. A fleshlight for gopros.

Your comment about the fading association of VHS quality video with the 90’s is very interesting and I never ever thought of it in such a way before. The only way that association is societally retained is if the entertainment and movie industry thinks its profitable to continue to proliferate it, which is a crazy thought. Consider early 1950’s home movies, those cameras were pretty awful and I don’t think they even shot at an FPS that wasn’t horribly janky, yet no one associates jank, sub 30 FPS video with the 1950’s, as anyone who had nostalgia for films at that quality is now the societal minority or dead. Today someone might shoot a movie or documentary on VHS to emulate the 90’s yet no one with a sane mind would shoot a modern movie set in the 1950’s with a 1950’s jank camera because it isn’t popular or profitable to do so because the societal intrigue and attachment is nonexistent, which will happen to 90’s vhs footage too one day

I remember the Commodore 64, 98% of the games my brother had were copies. He had at least 500 of them at one point before he got an Amiga... Hmm, I'm getting old.

Issue with early HD adoption, such as in Japan, was the absurdly high price of such systems (Im thinking along the lines of MUSE Hi-Vision, though that may be debatable on being exactly what one would call HD)

I totally think that this audience would absolutely be cool to support them without them needing to make weekly videos. They’re supporting you for doing what you’re doing, how you’re doing it now I mean, put in whatever extra effort you feel would justify to yourself the support people are giving you, pay some ppl to help you with editing or research or whatever… Don’t think you need filler content. and if you feel like a schedule would be good for making your art, there’s always no-weekly or monthly instead of weekly. Hell, some of your “filler” could be livestreams and such. You don’t have to fix what ain’t broke, is all. (

holy hell, did not expect some Beborn/VNV references!! are you into Assemblage 23 at all? He does shows in Seattle pretty regularly still, iirc

How about making an usb adapter so you can use cheap NES usb controllers on Pc engine and Turbografx 16 similar to Brook Super Converter.