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Radio Help posted:
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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# ? Aug 25, 2013 07:35 |
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Radio Help posted:I don't get this deign concept on a fundamental level. Why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZ7lAk-BdQ
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# ? Aug 25, 2013 09:57 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 16:45 |
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I want a laserdisc so bad. 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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 16:48 |
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grainy16mm posted:And speaking of VHS, I just recently completed my dead-format tower of power: Yessss, it is... beautiful 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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 17:20 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 17:22 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 17:36 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 17:42 |
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Code Jockey posted:I want a laserdisc so bad. I have a laserdisc copy of Spaceballs, and I dunno, I just think it's a really cool format. 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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 17:52 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 17:54 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 18:06 |
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I just used my LaserDisc player no more than an hour ago... there are still some movies that never made it to DVD.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 18:39 |
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grainy16mm posted:I give you: Snappy Video Snapshot. 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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 18:39 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 19:49 |
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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 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 19:59 |
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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?
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 20:04 |
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I miss being able to listen to TV audio on a plain analog radio scanner.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 20:06 |
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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!
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 20:13 |
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ebilflindas posted:It was kind of pointless and none of the stations came in too well but it was an interesting feature.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 20:16 |
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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. 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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 20:45 |
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Monkey Fracas posted:I want a laserdisc for no good drat reason- those record-sized CDs are just so intriguing... 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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 22:20 |
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Heh, amateur
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 22:24 |
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I will never not love this video.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 22:28 |
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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 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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 22:59 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 23:03 |
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Did you have to turn the Video2000 tape around to get the other side like a cassette tape?
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 23:04 |
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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)
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 23:18 |
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A Pinball Wizard posted:You could listen to channel 6 if you had a FM radio that would tune low enough: 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 |
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A Pinball Wizard posted: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.
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# ? Sep 17, 2013 05:26 |
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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...
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# ? Sep 17, 2013 05:43 |
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It was really useful if your parents had a "no televisions in bedrooms" rule.
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# ? Sep 17, 2013 05:54 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 17, 2013 09:09 |
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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. 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.
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# ? Sep 17, 2013 09:28 |
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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. 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.) 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.
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# ? Sep 17, 2013 14:59 |
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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.
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# ? Sep 18, 2013 00:18 |
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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. They were an ABC affiliate up until 1996
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# ? Sep 18, 2013 03:09 |
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Goober Peas posted:They were an ABC affiliate up until 1996 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.
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# ? Sep 18, 2013 03:21 |
FM radio adapter for your 8-track.
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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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