Scifi Hifi 

Hello and well done. Do you know anything about the battery for him?

holy moly! pretty nice work honestly, for something so relatively limited at such an early time it's very usable and pleasant

It looks great!

Very beautiful interface! Excellently done!

So interesting!!!

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Momomo

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Same!

Cool to see you here!

I'm curious how the internet's absence would have caused that...

@@dragon-id5uj Most people on the internet grew up in a world which always had internet. The dark ages which came before - no internet, no smartphone, no social media - would be unimaginably backward and primitive.

@@pwnmeisterage Plus no LED lighting system.

@user-wj2um9sr4i because nobody uses hard media anymore.. everything is streaming via Spotify or "pandora" ect... no reason to have a huge media player when your phone can control any Bluetooth speaker

@@pwnmeisterage I don't get the cynicism. Without the internet there would be less of a likelihood smart devices like smart phones existed meaning there wouldn't just be app replacements for real hardware, in my opinion that would be better. Hi-fi like this would be a premier choice for a long time.

I am actually unimpressed by the fancy interface remote. It was a marvel for its era but it could easily be duplicated and improved upon with hobby-grade computing boards, display screens, etc. What does impress me is the audio system itself. They still built pure analog in many high-end systems back then. The sound quality might be top tier, even better than many HiFi systems on market today. Sadly, the focus of this video review was the novelty remote. And, as it points out, there's few surviving examples and essentially no documentation, manuals, specs, or datasheets to be found for this product anymore.

@pwnmeisterage what stupid logic. You're unimpressed because 24 years later you can make something similar/better with hobby grade parts? That's an outrageous standard to have... considering this was designed in 1994 and manufactured in 1999 and didn't have standardized parts to go pick up at your local Amazon website.

@@randybobandy9828 it has a navigation system VERY similar of the first iPod which was released 5 years later...

Squimpus McGrimpus

yo!

criminal

:D

Yes

honestly, with a modern bluetooth module and some tweaks, it'd be pretty decent

@@j377yb33n Honestly though it would be much more convenient nowadays to use a bluetooth speaker with your phone unless you specifically want to use physical media

@@zeppie_ yea just 3d print a holder for your phone and glue a qi charger on your bt stereo set and there you go.. maybe some sw to have some stick on spinny knobs work for volume and stuff.

@@zeppie_ bluetooth is doodoo (mostly) perfectly fine for most casual spotify listeners nowadays, not suitable for hifi (imo)

In the long run, this control keyboard is the number one suspect for failures. Been there. Membrane keyboards and rotary encoders from the 1990s go down one by one. But hey, a compact stereo was not supposed to last for centuries.

Hi @mat!

may I ask what your contribution was? there's several other commenter stating they worked on it as well.

@@dragon-id5uj I was part of Mark roslton's team at the time. Several designs were presented and mine was ultimately chosen. Like most projects, we work as a team which is why several people say they designed it. But it started with my design. I worked thrugh the interactions, created the graphics, and a style guide for the engineers. At some point I left and the team continued to take it the rest of the way to production.

Car audio systems was the first thing I thought of when I saw it!

Wow so many forgotten memories are now flooding back....

Same with his segmented display vid. I can't get enough

same here!

Fourth!

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Same! His voice is so soothing like ASMR I could listen to it forever.

Thank you mr. Cole for the fantastic work that had been put into this little piece of machinery.

Thank you for working on it. I really enjoyed the design and the GUI!

I'd love to hear more about the history behind this design, and how it ended up how it did!

Hi @collin!

Thank you for your service, sir!

Same colour as my ‘Alba’ 14 inch CRT television I played Dreamcast on!

Get your hands off my game boy advance, SP, blue edition…..

@@kowhaifan1249 I can't say I'll resist if an _accident_ happens you know...

Hi, thanks for this cool video! Some Philips VCRs came in a similar shade of silvery pale grey-blue in the early 2000. And a Citroën Berlingo van too!

fabulously bad, as there was nothing to indicate that was a button, and the design is mirrored on all the other components but the button is not. and the button that looks like a standby button but isn't, and they couldn't be arsed including a 3v battery to remember the time after it was pressed.

Which person?

Don't be a dick, tell us who it is.

@@riccardoorlando2262 I don't know I can't even come up with a guess Gary Busey? Clive Sinclair?

I really wish they still made smartwatches with B&W transflective displays D:

@@ToxNano pebble watches were so good

It's called a Chromecast. The remote is your phone :D

They're here in the comments section lol rate reddit moment on RU-vid

if another comment is to believed, this did actually happen

At least two are already here lol

I’ve found at least four people in the comments involved in the original design, development and production of this. Amazing!

@@CassettePlaya1 only on the Internet, Go future!

Your like baiting will not succeed

I was wondering why there were seemingly two "Dual" brands that I grew up with - I remember seeing a really well-made Dual stereo in a vintage turntable/stereo shop in my city, and thinking "hm this can't be the same brand as the cheap stereo I saw in Walmart last week" lol

I have a Dual turntable from the mid 70s and that thing is super high quality. Sad that most Americans know it for cheap crap from Walmart

@@tonybaloney5331 So, dual Dual?

probably by hoping for the best

They invested in tech like this while Jeff Bezos invested differently for his bookshop Amazon. :-)

You had to get into the new tech with something with your engineers. Amortizing could come from other contracts.

Considering that Karstadt is a state of failing since th 2000s I guess they didnt

@@Shrrrg I really miss shopping at Karstadt, they had everything.

Posy hmu I’m giving you my collection of first press Rolling Stones vinyl

I said the same thing about it looking postmodern/Art Deco. It's very tasteful in my opinion. However I still love the older systems. It all depends on the theme of your decoration in the room the equipment is to be set up in. In my front room I've gone with an early 2000 midway minimalist with my Kenwood Series 21 Tower of Power as a centrepiece of the room. It just sits in the corner intimidating my guests with it's huge size and features waiting to blow the pants of anyone who dares criticise it's awesomeness. In another room I have a B&O Overture With some Penta Speakers and a pair of beolab 8000's. I'd love to make an 80's bedroom and put in an 80's Sony or a Kenwood Spectrum Series in it. It's all about the character you want to build in the room you are putting it in and it's also an expression of your personality. If it goes with the room and you like it who cares what other people think. Just go with it.

I actually love that early to mid 90s black bubbly plastic design, but it's true that there often lacks variety. But such style of design was just starting to become dated by the late 90s, which was when this hifi was released.

"90s bubbly plastic design"... yes, never liked it, I clearly remember the change in style from the 80s "professional straight lines look" into the rounded "bubbly" style of the 90s (for example the walkman WM2 VS the FX153) even cars became "bubbly" (96 ford taurus even the dash is "bubbly")... such a shame but at least now I see many new products taking design cues from the 80s using straight lines and a "clean" look. the 90s were kinda like a "transition" period were grunge finally "killed the 80s" and that cynicism of "grunge" finally set it and we got "stuck" there is no "futurism" anymore... now we only have "retro-futurism" the past looks more like the Future than our Present could ever imagine...

That wasn't always the case, the 'bubbly' plastic style only really came in the mid to later 90s(Aiwa seemed to kick off the excessive bulbous, flashing systems), and much moreso on midi systems. They were fun as a teenager(probably the main market), but they were far from beautiful. Rack systems pretty much always used traditional designs, and earlier 90s midi systems, discmans, etc were generally reserved, black, using either metal or flat matte plastic, with numerous buttons, and ample but subtle displays, etc. Micro systems also took the opposite route to midi systems, being relatively subtle, often using metal systems with wooden speakers - which I think started with Denon. eg 1998: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qmP7Qxy4PRL5b4PG267PdJ-970-80.jpg.webp Micro systems are still sold which look nearly identical. Systems with unique designs such as in the video were fairly common for higher end/boutique companies. The Bose lifestyle series for example. It was fun looking in high end audio stores at the time. Personally I think the early 90s had some of the most appealing looking systems ever made, along with being high quality(largely made in Japan) and very usable. I loved looking through catalogs at the time. Panasonic tended to exemplify this style, eg this 1990 mini system: i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4MAAAOSwZXRfP9lB/s-l1600.jpg Even when stuff just started to get curvy/bulbous, it could still look nice, eg: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1DAVN-QVxyo.html

Thank you :)

Dankpod😂

My mom has an LG with that remote. I think they call it Magic remote or Magic wand or something like that. The cursor part of it works pretty decentlæy for a smart TV with apps and so on, but the buildquality is horrible to the point where everyone who dares to use it Will curse it to Hell😊

@@magnuswf nah magic remote is nice

In general smart TVs are awful. outdated hardware -> buggy ui, long waiting times, old os

Hate smart TVs too! You must wait for it to finish booting completely before you can change the volume on some Sonys and on my LG you must wait a while and probably press the wrong button to get to HDMI or composite 😡😡😡

@@lachlanlau Yeah, the pointing part of it is nice, navigating the apps and All, but it has very few buttons, so you have to open Up the tv menu/homescreen for most things that isnt volume, channel +/- and power. Also the scrollwheels rubberring has become so loose that its pretty much impossible to get a grip and get it to scroll. Much prefer a normal style remote anytime

Considering the period this was produced in, pretty much impossible. In the 90s the semiconductors industry still hadn't boomed yet, and processors were still very expensive, so most integrated circuitry more closely resembled an ASIC, i.e. hardware specifically designed to execute a certain task.

@@JohnnoNonno I see some motorola chip in there, could be a 68k? On the other side of that board there's also a socketed chip with a version number on - probably stores the program.

Well, there's a RS-232 port on the back. Although I never dared to play around with that.

this dude's content really stands out; so personal, so stylish

Let’s not forget the acting 😉👍

The WiiU gamepad actually had decent battery life, for what it was. I thought it was a fantastic idea and I wish more games actually took advantage of it. Even for games like Zelda, where having the map on a separate screen and being able to drag items to specific buttons while you're walking was super cool. And it's still the most comfortable game controller I've ever used, with all of the buttons and joysticks exactly where I want them.

No, Princess Carolyn.

The GA version had wireless satellite speakers. So it actually had ... (puts down sunglasses) ... Wireless Fidelity.

It's already not very energy efficient while using infrared, let alone if it used radio waves. Low energy radio waves is basically Bluetooth, and you'll have to wait until 1999 for that.

@@JohnnoNonno It was a mature technology already in the early 1990s, google for Uniden UST-4500, the first results will give you the pdf scans of its user manual. Its remote control used 4 AAA batteries and they never complained (my friend or his late dad) about the remote control being power hungry. It worked flawlessly and it had a range that bluetooth can only dream about it. According with the user manual, they used UHF to accomplish it. I remember that the receiver had a small thin antenna in its main back panel. So, yes, that DUAL system, being itself a Premium audio system, could have offered a more 'premium' user experience with a less clunky interface and a remote that does not require the user to always direct the remote controller to the front of the receiver by using radio like Uniden did years ago in its UST-4500 satellite receiver.

@@JonGallon Using radio waves would've meant to buy frequency licenses in Europe and also I wouldn't want to control my neighbour's stereo. Or in the case you have two in the same house, you wouldn't want to control the stereo in the next room at the same time. And using different frequencies would mean more costs in licensing fees. Using infrared was the right choice here. The remote has 4 (or 5?) IR blasters and the main station also has 4. It worked fine even in larger rooms.

@@mbirth About interference: this was also solve in the 1980s by using different channels. Wireless phones did that by auto selecting a non conflicting channel in the frequency range, like any current router does today in the 2,4 and 5Ghz. So you could have more than one device at same time without conflicts. About licensing: again, that Dual was not a cheapo budget stereo, it was meant to be premium and to has premium features. As the video shows, if you sit by side of the main unit, the remote will not work. And before you ask how could a long range remote controller could be useful on that Dual stereo: since the amp has A and B set of speakers, you could put the B set of speakers in a totally different room like a bedroom or even in a upstairs located room and fully control the system being far from the unit that you left located in a living room with the A set of speakers.

We pushed hard for radio during the design of this in 1994. It was too expensive and the power requirements were too high.