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Varance
Oct 28, 2004

Ladies, hide your footwear!
Nap Ghost

Radio Help posted:


I'm sure they exist in some other form, nowadays, but I haven't seen this particular style in many years. I loved the gently caress out of these things when I was a little kid. Mom all yellin at me for wasting paper when I came back with a huge stack of "Buy two gallons of clamato juice, get one package of cream cheese free" coupons. Also, the little blinky light on the side. Ahh, good times.

Saw one of these in Publix the other day. This is the modern version:



They really want you to buy that creamer...

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mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Radio Help posted:

I don't get this deign concept on a fundamental level. Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZ7lAk-BdQ :pervert:

Brexit the Frog
Aug 22, 2013

I give you: Snappy Video Snapshot.


You could hook up a video source (via RCA) and take stills from it.
I remember using this to make avatars for members of a George Romero / horror film forum in the early 2000s, screencapping my two-tape Anchor Bay Director's Cut VHS copy of Dawn of the Dead.

And speaking of VHS, I just recently completed my dead-format tower of power:

S-VHS, Betamax, CED, and Laserdisc.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free
I want a laserdisc so bad. :smith: I have a laserdisc copy of Spaceballs, and I dunno, I just think it's a really cool format.

Still kicking myself hard for passing one up at Goodwill years ago.

Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer

grainy16mm posted:

And speaking of VHS, I just recently completed my dead-format tower of power:

S-VHS, Betamax, CED, and Laserdisc.

Yessss, it is...

beautiful :unsmigghh:

I want a laserdisc for no good drat reason- those record-sized CDs are just so intriguing...

I guess they're not really "C" Ds at that size, though. More like "Gigantic"Ds. GDs.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free
I just noticed the PS3 up there, ha!

Also, I love the jog-dial VCR. I've had one or two of those, and always liked being able to fast forward and rewind that way.

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit
Speaking of Laser dics, I picked this up for 15 dollars yesterday: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Panasonic-LX-600-Laser-Disc-Player-/310736657028?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item4859591a84
Panasonic LX-600. He even had the remote. It was some old guy getting rid of all the expensive entertainment stuff he had from the 90s. Pretty pristine.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
One of the interesting things about laserdiscs is that it is an analog format, so it acts more like a VHS tape than a DVD in a lot of ways.

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



Code Jockey posted:

I want a laserdisc so bad. :smith: I have a laserdisc copy of Spaceballs, and I dunno, I just think it's a really cool format.

Still kicking myself hard for passing one up at Goodwill years ago.

I got a Laserdisc player a few months ago, just watched The Princess Bride on it last night in fact. Try posting on Craigslist in the "wanted" section. I did and got a guy offering me the player (a good one) and about 40 movies for free, within the first day of posting! Admittedly I'm in the SF bay area, but there are people out there with these things in their attics who'll probably sell them for $10 or whatever.

I have the laserdisc Spaceballs too... and A Clockwork Orange, kind of a pain being on multiple discs.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.
I was in the thrift store the other day and thought I saw a LaserDisc player, but it turned out to just be a 5-disc CD player.

Brexit the Frog
Aug 22, 2013

DrBouvenstein posted:

I was in the thrift store the other day and thought I saw a LaserDisc player, but it turned out to just be a 5-disc CD player.

This would happen to me so much when I still on my quest for a LD player. I feel your pain.

driguy
Feb 16, 2009

In The Pit!
I just used my LaserDisc player no more than an hour ago... there are still some movies that never made it to DVD.

Snackmar
Feb 23, 2005

I'M PROGRAMMED TO LOVE THIS CHOCOLATY CAKE... MY CIRCUITS LIGHT UP FOR THAT FUDGY ICING.

grainy16mm posted:

I give you: Snappy Video Snapshot.


You could hook up a video source (via RCA) and take stills from it.
I remember using this to make avatars for members of a George Romero / horror film forum in the early 2000s, screencapping my two-tape Anchor Bay Director's Cut VHS copy of Dawn of the Dead.

Haha, holy crap a fourth version of it? I worked at a local computer store in high school, and borrowed a Snappy (maybe the 2.0?) to digitize some friends to make a fighting game!

Of course I had no blue screen, so I videoed them against a white sheet, captured the moves frame-by-frame from VHS via the goddamn Snappy, and finally had to manually erase the backgrounds in Photoshop 3.0 (before multiple undo had been implemented).

Also I made a robot in 3D Studio 4.0 for DOS:





That was seventeen years ago. :psyduck:

ebilflindas
Sep 16, 2013

About a decade ago I had a portable CD player with a "TV" function that let you listen to audio from TV stations. It was kind of pointless and none of the stations came in too well but it was an interesting feature.

Zonekeeper
Oct 27, 2007



ebilflindas posted:

About a decade ago I had a portable CD player with a "TV" function that let you listen to audio from TV stations. It was kind of pointless and none of the stations came in too well but it was an interesting feature.

If I'm not mistaken you could pick up the audio from television broadcasts on AM. I distinctly remember discovering this and played the audio for ABC's saturday morning out of the TV and Radio simultaneously once.

Edit: I'm probably wrong, VHF and AM frequencies are very different. I guess that means my local station broadcasted the audio simultaneously on AM.

Zonekeeper has a new favorite as of 20:01 on Sep 16, 2013

sleepy gary
Jan 11, 2006

Zonekeeper posted:

If I'm not mistaken you could pick up the audio from television broadcasts on AM. I distinctly remember discovering this and played the audio for ABC's saturday morning out of the TV and Radio simultaneously once.

You are mistaken.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Could it have just been a simulcast? Didn't they do that back in the day (presumably because TVs didn't have audio outs back then), or am I mistaken?

eddiewalker
Apr 28, 2004

Arrrr ye landlubber
I miss being able to listen to TV audio on a plain analog radio scanner.

Zonekeeper
Oct 27, 2007



Germstore posted:

Could it have just been a simulcast? Didn't they do that back in the day (presumably because TVs didn't have audio outs back then), or am I mistaken?

That seems like it was it. Looking it up, simulcasts were also used as a way to broadcast TV in in stereo - you'd mute the TV and listen to the stereo audio from the FM Radio broadcast instead. They did that with Zappa's halloween shows on MTV and the Live Aid concert.

Not only cool, but an obsolete technology worthy of this thread to boot!

minato
Jun 7, 2004

cutty cain't hang, say 7-up.
Taco Defender

ebilflindas posted:

It was kind of pointless and none of the stations came in too well but it was an interesting feature.
It's great for listening to sports broadcasts when you don't have access to a TV. Not so useful for sitcoms.

Crankit
Feb 7, 2011

HE WATCHES

Zonekeeper posted:

If I'm not mistaken you could pick up the audio from television broadcasts on AM. I distinctly remember discovering this and played the audio for ABC's saturday morning out of the TV and Radio simultaneously once.

Edit: I'm probably wrong, VHF and AM frequencies are very different. I guess that means my local station broadcasted the audio simultaneously on AM.

It's possible you have misremembered this, I think most(maybe all) analog TV transmission is FM, if you had a radio that could tune out of normal broadcast bands it would be possible to receive the audio, for example a VHF television broadcast with a foreign radio might be possible.

Also VHF is a set of frequencies 30-300MHz, AM & FM are modulation types, you can find out more about frequencies and modulations in the amateur radio thread.

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Monkey Fracas posted:

I want a laserdisc for no good drat reason- those record-sized CDs are just so intriguing...

I guess they're not really "C" Ds at that size, though. More like "Gigantic"Ds. GDs.

I've had a laserdisc player for over 20 years. Still have the original unmolested Star Wars trilogy (thanks Columbia House Laserdisc Club!). I'll scan ebay now and then looking for oddball stuff.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010


Heh, amateur :smug:

sleepy gary
Jan 11, 2006


I will never not love this video.

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Zonekeeper posted:

If I'm not mistaken you could pick up the audio from television broadcasts on AM. I distinctly remember discovering this and played the audio for ABC's saturday morning out of the TV and Radio simultaneously once.

Edit: I'm probably wrong, VHF and AM frequencies are very different. I guess that means my local station broadcasted the audio simultaneously on AM.

:science: You could listen to channel 6 if you had a FM radio that would tune low enough:

Wikipedia posted:

The analog audio for TV channel 6 is broadcast at 87.75 MHz (adjustable down to 87.74). [...] As a result, FM radio receivers such as those found in automobiles which are designed to tune into this frequency range could receive the audio for analog-mode programming on the local TV channel 6 while in North America.

Of course, that was before the DTV transition.

Smoke
Mar 12, 2005

I am NOT a red Bumblebee for god's sake!

For tapes, there was another format in Europe. Video 2000! Technically superior but late to the market, and a pretty big failure overall. However, they did offer dual-sided four hour tapes, which was quite remarkable.

I had a teacher in college in the early 2000s who claimed it was a shame Video 2000 lost the format war.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Did you have to turn the Video2000 tape around to get the other side like a cassette tape?

Smoke
Mar 12, 2005

I am NOT a red Bumblebee for god's sake!

Yep. Philips liked to do weird things with their formats, so there's also an unused data track on the tapes, and the article also mentions plans for a digital videotape format in the late 80s(Not to be confused with DCC, which was a digital audio tape format introduced in the early 90s, also from Philips)

effervescible
Jun 29, 2012

i will eat your soul

A Pinball Wizard posted:

:science: You could listen to channel 6 if you had a FM radio that would tune low enough:

Of course, that was before the DTV transition.

And nearly 20 years later, I finally understand why an episode of "Lois & Clark" was playing on my clock radio. 12-year-old me was mystified.

effervescible has a new favorite as of 16:42 on Sep 17, 2013

Zonekeeper
Oct 27, 2007



A Pinball Wizard posted:

:science: You could listen to channel 6 if you had a FM radio that would tune low enough:

Assuming I wasn't listening to a simulcast, this could be the explanation! This happened when I was like 5, so I'm probably forgetting most of the details - the part that sticks out was the same audio coming out of my clock radio and TV at once.

(Again, assuming I didn't unknowingly tune in to a simulcast) It looks like I was wrong about which channel it was - channel 6 in Birmingham (where I lived when this happened) is a Fox affiliate.

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON
I can recall in the early - mid 90s radios that had a "TV station audio" function were a thing, granted relatively useless unless you were blind/liked pretending you were blind/didn't mind awkward pauses where you had to see what was going on to follow what was happening in the show.

Of course these are completely obsolete today with the advent of digital over the air...

eddiewalker
Apr 28, 2004

Arrrr ye landlubber
It was really useful if your parents had a "no televisions in bedrooms" rule.

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Smoke posted:

For tapes, there was another format in Europe. Video 2000! Technically superior but late to the market, and a pretty big failure overall. However, they did offer dual-sided four hour tapes, which was quite remarkable.
My best friend when I was about 7 or 8 had a Video 2000 player. The VR2020 shown in the wikipedia article looks familiar, so that was probably it. I recall watching Star Wars for the first time on it.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Geoj posted:

I can recall in the early - mid 90s radios that had a "TV station audio" function were a thing, granted relatively useless unless you were blind/liked pretending you were blind/didn't mind awkward pauses where you had to see what was going on to follow what was happening in the show.

Of course these are completely obsolete today with the advent of digital over the air...

One legitimate use case would have been people who only have a TV in the living room 'watching' day-time soap operas while doing house work. They are mostly still radio programmes with talking heads.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

Geoj posted:

I can recall in the early - mid 90s radios that had a "TV station audio" function were a thing, granted relatively useless unless you were blind/liked pretending you were blind/didn't mind awkward pauses where you had to see what was going on to follow what was happening in the show.

Of course these are completely obsolete today with the advent of digital over the air...

Yup, I had a cassette player/radio that had this functionality. The band selector had three choices: FM, AM, and TV, and likewise, the frequency bar had a few spots for TV stations.

I was only ever able to get one station in pretty clear, which was also the case the few times I tried to get a TV station with the old TV and a pair of rabbit ears. We were slightly too far and on the other side of a mountain from the other 3 broadcast stations, the one we could get was in the other direction across the lake.

Of course, like I said, I only tried that a few times for funsies, since my family had cable as long as I can remember (born in '82.)

:smug:

I still remember when The Disney Channel was considered "premium." I don't think think it was as much a month as HBO, but it generally wasn't part of the standard package for a long time, except when the cable companies did those "free week/weekend" promos with the good channels.

I also remember a time when, for some random reason, we started getting free Cinemax and Showtime (but not HBO) for about half a week. I know it wasn't a scheduled "free weekend" because during those times, they ALWAYS had ads telling you such, and they also typically played less softcore porn on the free weekends. When this happened, I was 14/15, so you bet your rear end I stayed up late and popped a blank VHS into that VCR every night we had that deal going. :fap:

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

If you listen to NPR in the SF Bay area, they broadcast the PBS Newshour over their radio station.

It makes some of the stories unintelligible, but the "brought to you by CSX" promo at the end of the episode is so much cooler when you just hear the music and the freight trains are in your imagination.

Goober Peas
Jun 30, 2007

Check out my 'Vette, bro


Zonekeeper posted:

Assuming I wasn't listening to a simulcast, this could be the explanation! This happened when I was like 5, so I'm probably forgetting most of the details - the part that sticks out was the same audio coming out of my clock radio and TV at once.

(Again, assuming I didn't unknowingly tune in to a simulcast) It looks like I was wrong about which channel it was - channel 6 in Birmingham (where I lived when this happened) is a Fox affiliate.

They were an ABC affiliate up until 1996 :science:

Zonekeeper
Oct 27, 2007



Goober Peas posted:

They were an ABC affiliate up until 1996 :science:

Well poo poo. I guess I didn't remember wrong, then! I moved away from the area in late 1996, probably right before the changeover in September.

Armyman25
Sep 6, 2005
FM radio adapter for your 8-track.

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my turn in the barrel
Dec 31, 2007

Armyman25 posted:

FM radio adapter for your 8-track.



I know they also made these for standard Cassette decks.

Which reminds me of the discman car kits with power and that 3.5mm to cassette adaptor or the soundfeeder fm xmitter and cdplayer power cable combos.

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