The 1997 DVD-ROM Upgrade Experience: Creative Encore Dxr2 

WAit wait wait wait wait... Was that a reference to Steve from MRE Info with the "Nice hiss"? I once earlier thought (can't remember the exact video) you made the "Nice!" reference with jumpcut and all like what he does! Didn't say anything cause I thought I just overthought it back then and It couldn't possibly be a reference to a MRE reviewer of all things!

Is it possible to get a G-Drive link to the original VOB?

Thanks as always Clint great video. I felt your pain from the cable management here in your neighboring state lol. Love the screensaver nice to be reminded that like me many other men didn't mature past 12 years old.

What's that chip that got removed from the DXR2 board? It's present on the box-art.

Lazy Game Reviews how the hell did you get this 20+ year old brand new DVD drive?? You must know time travel.

think that is what he ment with a happy ending

@@daansken93 n i c e

Don’t forget the screen saver

I didn't get my egg roll tho!

The Steve reference threw me for a second fr

Yeah "Computers help us to solve problems that we didn't know before."

It's just Win98. I had the DXR2 kit back in the day and it always worked great.

Blue screen. Super long loading times. Blue screen again.

👌

*P E N I S E S*

It is the ORIGIN of comedy

@@poble Wasn't it is a little bit too inappropriate?

@@adrianmardianto7681 nah

Looked through all the comments just for this one :D

Fucking MRE

Marf I did as well. Lol

@@jaythatguyyouknow5135 me too!

Me too lol

Yup, that was my take away from this vid as well. My biggest pet peeve is pushing the tray to close. @AdmiralSpeedy any force used is bad for the internal gear. They made it do that cuz they knew most idiots would push it, so it better retract on pressure to mitigate damage. An electronic button that sends a signal to the motor is the preferred way. Even Open/Close command send from the software is better than pushing on the gear.

My computer's optical drive doesn't even have a button, so I made one in software instead.

Holy shit THANK YOU!!! I had a friend that would always shove the disc tray of my Xbox closed as if he was trying to shove Toothpaste back into the tube. Like holy fucking shit dude, it's a piece of plastic with some weak plastic gears and shitty motor, WTF are you forcing it shut for? Just press the fucking button and wait the extra 0.002 seconds for it to close FFS.

They are designed to be closed with a push, what you're not supposed to do is give it more of a push than it needs to start closing on it's own, it won't hurt it more than normal wear unless you force it.

@Hadwell - It's a gear and motor. It was NOT designed to close with a push. They made it activate with resistance so it will be less likely to break. When the gear encounters resistance they allowed it to send a safety signal to the motor. You can avoid this entirely by sending the signal directly with the button. BUTTONS are DESIGNED to be pushed.

Sounds like the name of an actual p0rn parody film.

Molo9000 That’s still the norm, unfortunately it is with one of the most crappy OS: Windows 10.

I don't know man. I've been running Win10 since release. No reinstall, nothing. I remember the old days when I'd reinstall Windows on a regular basis.

FischOderAal I guess you got lucky, in Windows 10, drivers are automatically downloaded off Microsoft servers. However, it tends to download outdated versions, which had caused me a variety of video card driver crashes and sound pops. Even if you installed them manually yourself, Windows Update would keep bugging you to install the “latest” version of the driver. Unable to block Windows updates is a big no no for me. Luckily I don’t have to deal with that on Windows 7.

Win2K as we called it was the first really stable Windows. At least for me and the people I knew. I was so reluctant to upgrade from that but Microsoft has this way of forcing upgrades. I honestly can't see what people are moaning about nowadays. The hardware is generally so good across the board and the OS's from everyone are stellar. At least compared to how it was win95 kinda days. Remember how you'd play a game for a while then get that itch to save because you knew it had been a while and you were due for a crash! lol its not like that anymore thank the broadband gods

Win 98 SE was OK. But I was soooooo glad moving from Windows ME to Win2k...

rip

Same. But, it almost killed me. Also, will I be seeing your name in the obituaries?

The best of Windows 98 :)

"Goodbye!"

Hahaha best screen saver.

😂😂😂

For me it was the USB support that was the game-changer. As a young teen I thought 98 SE was just a cash-grab along the same lines as Plus! and ignored it without a second thought. Not until years later did I learn that it in fact incorporated significant changes under the hood and was the best DOS-based Windows. So much trouble I could have saved myself.

Yeah Win98 First Ed. was a total train wreck. They had to rush SE out to fix a bunch of issues cos everyone was getting blue screens and also USB issues I remember. Of course this was pre-broadband too so you had to buy a new physical copy (from memory I think MS offered $$$ back deals for people who bought First Ed).

Andrew Wallington back then was an upgrade 98SE. I was lucky my first computer I choose a P3 450 96MB ATI all in wonder Pro agp 8MB. Toshiba 6x dvd. Never had issues. I upgraded to pioneer A03 DVD burner it had a fan added 1 inch longer Aug 31 2001.

@@AnnabelleTheRose I was going to correct you then I did the calculations OMG I forgot how slow dial-up was haha 6.5 days for 544MB :o I remember when my 56k broke and I only had a 14.4k to hand XD

@@snetmotnosrorb3946 cash grab? It was a free upgrade.

I have never laughed so hard at a LGR moment. That was absolutely classic. :D

Yah I cringed tbh. Then I start wondering why that was a priority.. I mean.. yano Excellent video nevertheless :)

Surprise penises! XD

You mean that reflection of himself? :-p

@@MrFungi69 Clint loves penises. And sandwiches. And Duke Nukem. Let the man live his dream

Actually an AMD K6-2 333 MHz allowed smooth DVD-Playback without a dedicated hardware decoder. It came out mid 1998.

Is it?

Haha I got it too. xD I expected him to lay it all out on a tray and go "NICE!". And then eat the DVD card.

Theres a ffew different channels that have made references to him.... more popular than I thought

that was so unexpected

Nice!

It amazes me how many youtubers make Steve1989 references

I was thinking the same thing! Apparently LGR watches Steve as well.

All I could think of was the way steve would make a video like this after hearing that lol. I also said nice reference after he said nice hiss lol.

"Let's get this CD out onto the tray." "Nice."

lol man, if he had actually put the dvd onto a tray I woulda lost it. I only watched steve in the first place because of LGR

steve is my hero

*90S INTENSIFIES*

I'm disappointed, there's clearly room for more fire and planes

In the 90s, I've learned how to draw jets cause I'll always see them all the time back then. Nowadays ,I just notice SUVs

Mine only had 5 planes so there was some stuttering on the video

A Michael bay approved packaging

I was only passively watching, but "nice hiss" totally grabbed my attention :P

YES DVD!

Also in 2019

@@jesuskareemmedinadominguez3237 Now 2020 Haha!

2020 still.

Can confirm that living in the post-Blade Runner future of 2020, revisiting the simple, innocent pleasures of 1990s home computing has become one of my favourite pastimes, and way better than any current "entertainment" on offer.

2 years later and I came straight to the comments to see if anyone else got the Steve reference! 😂

I came to the comments as well for the same reason. Nice.

OMG IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!!! who knew there was such an overlap there 😂

Lol.. I know, right? Such a waste of vintage air.

don't breathe this

It's worth more now because of inflation. Geheheh.

Wow you guys are so creative!

Nice hiss

id104335409 Now all we need is for him to unbox an HD DVD drive.

Funniest thing is that some people dont got a clue about what a DVD is..(I know a few people that hang on to VHS on a 50 inch LED TV...)

Back then, this stuff was really neat. Adding a CDROM drive was cool. My friend bought a CD burner for 450$. Oh yeah! Sweet! He copied some CDs for me.

damn, I have the top comment on this one. (oh, wait - cable management seams to bug most people) Well, I have some sweet memories on DVD, CD and VHS - we all do, if we were born last century. Let's celebrate our lone island -our last stand - our manhood - something that no other newborn or alien species would understand - WE WERE HERE ONCE!

Just think how weird people in 2050 will think it is.

I do it too. :D

20 years ago or so I worked on an assembly line in a factory making CD Audio cables for Dell and other manufacturers. There is a *slight* possibility I could have soldered those cables together as I believe Creative also had a factory in Ireland and could have bought our cables :-) Also - Penises!

NightShader1 his name is Clint? I thought it was LGR

That's kinda cool! Btw, I've seen your comments on synth videos a lot. Hardware electronic instruments + vintage computers = great taste (no sarcasm)

Cheers mate! Yup synth and retro pc nut here! Have a great weekend! :-)

Thanks, you too!

They said tomorrow, not 20 years from [then]

And a top of the line one at that.

$30 256GB USB drive

I think the real question is here, why were you still burning DVDs in 2018?

@@Howlingd0g Because they want to?

Nice to know I'm not the only crossover old computer/ration fan.

Nice

"Let's get this DVD drive put on a tray!" (JUMP CUT) "Nice, Mckay!"

Let's get this out onto a tray, nice!

At least he did not try to eat it.

I do miss Windows start up sounds.

It looks pretty tidy compared to all wiring closet i have been in.

Back then, just opening up the computer to perform an add-on like this made you a computer expert in most of your family member's eyes. Good times.

Those damn flat cables, the awful case designs of that era, fucking around with jumpers, fires from shitty PSU's that turned your PC into an actual F-18 that was slapped into every PC component box ever and so on. Times sure have gotten easier on that end. Good cases, no cables to be seen anywhere, good reliable components. I do kinda miss the cheesy designs on GPU boxes especially. Those continued pretty far into the 2000's but eventually disappeared. If your GPU box had a FLAMING DEMON DUDE on it, you knew it was fast.

"good reliable components" That's not what get better since old times, quite the opposite in fact.

Which everybody knows that makes It so much more classy!Gotta love Clint and his sense of humor.Hope he'll never change :).

Yeah, it reminds me of the time someone tried to sell "One Direction concert air" on the local classifieds

That's just.... NICE!

that happened? seriously?

Kyle Stawicki Now lets get this onto a tray.

And he didn't even try to smell it!

carmack had a 1080p monitor in 1995

@@Kasperx138 Really? Did they even exist then? I remember a friend of mine had a 1080p LCD monitor in 2003 and I thought it was incredible, I think it cost $2500.

@@QuantumBraced My dad bought a 40 inch 1080p tv and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I think it was like $4500 bucks. It lasted a really long time. We had to replace it last year when it finally broke.

DVDs only displayed at 480p/576p for 30fps/25fps, and if you try getting 60fps/50fps then you'll have to use interlacing instead (which was never part of standardised PC resolutions) so you had to have a proper deinterlacer or else you would get that "flicker" (which is more like a shimmer, since it's different to CRT flicker) that he mentioned while watching the cutscenes in Claw. If you had set your monitor to 480p then it would probably look fine but most people used higher resolutions which is why they needed some kind of scaling.

@@ProtoV33MK1 EXTRA POWER MOVE: have 6 different computers with a drive for each region.

Wockes Totally, still have plenty of my late 90s to early 2000s games but no hardware of the era to play them on. Windows 10 really hates CD games.

Wockes True. Hard to believe it was 40 years ago. Time flies. Feels like yesterday.

Narata I hope this is sarcasm.

This is one of the first times where I felt 1997 was truly dated by this point.

It is still around, most likely you also got some molecules from it by now.

But its now all disgusting from the 18+ years of toxicity that has been around since then. Could have sold it for $40 a hit

Anyone else read that as Pentium 1997 air? 😂

1997 farts

Chris Shields I actually did

*am i going to be shot?*

Ironman1o1 at the Best Buy in my old hometown, the video most often used for DVD demonstrations on the huge monitors was Top Gun. Jets. Jets everywhere.

I just say Saab xD

cosmicrdt so open it and remove the disc

Except for the part where he is stabbing it with the screwdriver in its "face". :)

It never took off in the consumer market and stayed in the audio recording industry. I assumed no one outside the recording industry would know much about it

Techmoan is such a great channel. 8 Bit Guy for retro console gaming + retro keyboards + 8 bit computer systems LGR for DOS gaming + Oddware + 90's Computers and accessories (and Sims reviews) Techmoan for retro audio + audio formats + tech reviews

It did find a bit of a niche as a PC backup device for a while - you could back up your files to DAT.

I use to use it simply because my DVD ROM had a digital audio out and my sound card had a digital audio in. Can't say it sounds any different from the analog, though I would assume its easier to post process the stream on your sound card via DA.

I had a musician friend that was so into DAT. He kept getting into all kinds of trouble with the hardware and trying to manage it in his studio. He'd ask me as I was the techy but I had to shrug when it came to DAT, it was just so alien and I knew nothing about it apart from it was fascinating to play with, like future tech now.

MarioFanaticXV he needs to do an LGR plays wing commander iv

Personally I'd prefer III, but any of the first four would be great.

Jeff Smith I guess that's technically true but, I mean, who actually used Linux as 1997? Even as someone who's been using Linux as my main OS since '11, was Linux even realistically usable in 1997 without a degree in computer science?

I was using Linux as my primary OS at the time.

Zoraine same

Troubleshooting windows Software & hardware was painful. Specially for me know it all trash talkers. The guy make this video never knew windows 95 DVD rom was compatible. May 1997 a IBM portable DVD laptop with windows 95 Pentium 66 64 MB ram 4.3 GB hard drive $7000 Canadian.

Does it mean you were dead in 1997?

@Powerful Panda He would have been 4 in 1999. I have some veg memories from when I was 4.

One of the places I'd love to start would be with a 2000's Laptop which could lead into a budget Windows 7 Personal Build. I worry about what I say man. Cause I imagine that it's just so easy to end up making something sell quicker than intended with the amount of demand that it found. I'm sure there is a fair few niche PC games where that applies & I *sincerely* hope for the Best

put one in it or get a external ;)

I was just same yesternight

It's 1AM and this just happened to me lool

ohhh yeeeeessss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

same lmao LGR is ASMR

Same

What hapen if you disconect the vga bridge cable whild playin a dvd

the same thing that happens when you unplug a monitor from a video card

ahahahahah I know that feel