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Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

Humphreys posted:

Imagine how much their inner feelings were twisted when Sony brought this bullshit out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO-vbzLPwSc

I don't know, maybe it actually almost makes sense. All the electronic components, including the memory card, are going to radiate some noise, and while the noise might not bother the digital circuits, there's got to be some analog somewhere before it gets to your ear, so I guess now this SD card won't generate as much noise. I have no idea how much noise an SD card would have to make for you to like hear a buzz when you're playing music on your MP3 player though, although I kind of bet it's 1000x more than any SD card has ever made anyway.

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Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

Keiya posted:

An enjoyable human being of sticks? What?

This post explains everything (not really) (there's different censorship when you're logged in, at least in GBS).

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

mystes posted:

Great, the stupid "records have higher quality than CD's" myth has now completely spiraled out of control. Next time I get drunk with my coworkers I'm going to try to convince them that wax cylinders are the only good recording medium.

The medium with the highest audio fidelity is pianola rolls :mrgw:

Redrum and Coke
Feb 25, 2006

wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

Keiya posted:

An enjoyable human being of sticks? What?

A human being is a bundle of sticks. It probably refers to that.

Truck Stop Daddy
Apr 17, 2013

A janitor cleans the bathroom

Muldoon
LD is vastly superior compared to VHS in every way possible (apart from discs having to be turned), and that is what mattered. I guess it could be argued that some of the LDs it had better audio than the very earliest DVD's but that's about it (not that I would hear the difference anyways).

I essentially download everything I watch these days, but I'm still a collector/hoarder at heart. LDs soothes that itch much better than DVDs, with their huge covers and inherent strangeness. Essentially, they look cooler on my shelves

titties
May 10, 2012

They're like two suicide notes stuffed into a glitter bra

Is it now obsolete to know the difference between a disk and a disc smdh

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Diskettes are where it's at.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

I call hard disk drives umpilevyasema (enclosed disk drive) instead of the normal kiintolevyasema (fixed disk drive) because that's what IBM called them in Mongolian back in the day and my dad only bought IBM PCs. My vocabulary is obsolete.

Then again I'm not the only one:

Kopijeger
Feb 14, 2010

Jerry Cotton posted:

...because that's what IBM called them in Mongolian...


Not even close.

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

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

JediTalentAgent posted:

I know in the early days of DVDs there were some specific disks that people said looked horrible, even for pretty well-known movies.

A good example being Outland. The DVD looked like poo poo. I had an out-of-rental VHS that looked better. Thankfully, they made up for it with the BR.

titties
May 10, 2012

They're like two suicide notes stuffed into a glitter bra

Jerry Cotton posted:

I call hard disk drives umpilevyasema (enclosed disk drive) instead of the normal kiintolevyasema (fixed disk drive) because that's what IBM called them in Mongolian back in the day and my dad only bought IBM PCs. My vocabulary is obsolete.

catsup

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Kopijeger posted:


Not even close.

Oh well those Mongols what do they know.

Lincoln
May 12, 2007

Ladies.

Jerry Cotton posted:

The medium with the highest audio fidelity is pianola rolls :mrgw:

And that's a digital format!

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Kopijeger posted:


Not even close.

Jerry Cotton is one of those sauna-bathing, knife-fighting, mämmi-eating Mongolians :finland:

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


Mods please change my username to Хатуудиск. thanks

GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice

Mister Kingdom posted:

A good example being Outland. The DVD looked like poo poo. I had an out-of-rental VHS that looked better. Thankfully, they made up for it with the BR.

Virus (the 1999 one with Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, and a Baldwin) looked like total rear end, too. poo poo looked like a 4th-generation copy of a worn-out rental cassette. Every time I watched the drat thing I was expecting tracking lines to start dancing across the screen any second.

Pingiivi posted:

There updates are small DRM security updates. PowerDVD has been a bit lovely with staying up to date with these but I haven't had any problems with PS3/PS4.

They may be small, but on some machines, they take several minutes to apply, and require the machine to restart at least once. Heh, my analog LD player never needs a firmware update to provide warm, rich sound and video :smug:

(seriously, why is the solution to piracy still "inconvenience and frustrate paying customers as much as possible" in 2016)

evobatman
Jul 30, 2006

it means nothing, but says everything!
Pillbug
I remember an anti-piracy campaign that had details on how to identify a pirate DVD:

-Lower price than retail
-Goes from theatre to DVD faster than normal movies.
-Lacks non-skippable ads and FBI warnings before the movie.

So basically, they advertised the advantages of piracy.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Buttcoin purse posted:

I don't know, maybe it actually almost makes sense. All the electronic components, including the memory card, are going to radiate some noise, and while the noise might not bother the digital circuits, there's got to be some analog somewhere before it gets to your ear, so I guess now this SD card won't generate as much noise. I have no idea how much noise an SD card would have to make for you to like hear a buzz when you're playing music on your MP3 player though, although I kind of bet it's 1000x more than any SD card has ever made anyway.

My phone's SD card is definitely contributing to noise. For some reason my mp3s stored on it are slowly being degraded, bit by bit.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Tunicate posted:

For some reason my mp3s stored on it are slowly being degraded, bit by bit.


What now?

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Buttcoin purse posted:

I don't know, maybe it actually almost makes sense. All the electronic components, including the memory card, are going to radiate some noise, and while the noise might not bother the digital circuits, there's got to be some analog somewhere before it gets to your ear, so I guess now this SD card won't generate as much noise. I have no idea how much noise an SD card would have to make for you to like hear a buzz when you're playing music on your MP3 player though, although I kind of bet it's 1000x more than any SD card has ever made anyway.

Sadly most people don't understand even the basics of electricity, and while there are ways to reduce RF noise, anything with a current in it is going to produce some kind of RF interference. You have no idea how many times I've attempted to convince people that the massive amount of power running through thing A, is what is interfering with thing B.

Also, chances are if you're listening to it on headphones, the odds are it's the wire on those that's picking up the buzz.

evobatman posted:

I remember an anti-piracy campaign that had details on how to identify a pirate DVD:

-Lower price than retail
-Goes from theatre to DVD faster than normal movies.
-Lacks non-skippable ads and FBI warnings before the movie.

So basically, they advertised the advantages of piracy.

Would you download a car?

Tunicate
May 15, 2012


Apparently it's a lovely enough microSD card that it's slowly corrupting all the data stored on it. Samsung apparently isn't what it used to be.

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Iron Crowned posted:

Sadly most people don't understand even the basics of electricity

Speaking of the basics of electricity, I just ran into a guy on another forum who insists that the sound on his stereo goes all dull and flat and loses almost all treble when he plugs the power plug in the wrong way around, thus switching the polarity on the primary coil. Never mind the rectifier and stuff that turns it all into DC anyway.

Apparently I'm the luckiest guy in the world, because I've played around with stereos for decades, and somehow I've never managed to plug one in "the wrong way around" :rolleyes:

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.
I remember everyone being disappointed that virtually no movies other than The Matrix* really made use of the multiple angle creature.

*And porn, of course.

Instant Sunrise
Apr 12, 2007


The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

DrBouvenstein posted:

I remember everyone being disappointed that virtually no movies other than The Matrix* really made use of the multiple angle creature.

*And porn, of course.

I think some movies used it for having different language versions of text that was on screen. I know that Star Wars did it for alternate language versions of the opening crawl.

empty baggie
Oct 22, 2003

You saw multiple angles pretty frequently in concert movies.

taiyoko
Jan 10, 2008


Tunicate posted:

Apparently it's a lovely enough microSD card that it's slowly corrupting all the data stored on it. Samsung apparently isn't what it used to be.

I have one with that problem too. My phone would keep saying "SD Card unexpectedly removed" even when the phone itself hadn't even been touched. New microSD card, and no problems at all.

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

HairyManling posted:

Legitimate question here, not being smarmy. Has this really been 'a thing'? Are these updates to the firmware of the player before a Bluray can be played? I admit to having very little experience with Bluray.

I adopted DVD pretty early and built a decent collection of disks. And then bought a small handful of Blurays when I bought a PS3 in '09, but by about a year later I had no data caps and Amazon/Netflix became viable and I pretty much never looked back. Basically what I'm asking is, was there really a time when it was like, "gently caress, I can't watch this Bluray I just bought without downloading some huge file to my Bluray player?" Was I just spoiled because these updates were already part of whatever system updates to my PS3?

Full honestly, I'm not much of an expert as I missed most the issues on both ends (except for a firmware update that bricked my player for a while). But with Blu-ray I seem to think Avatar was the most memorable of people buying it when it came out only to find their players wouldn't work.

http://www.thewrap.com/avatar-blu-rays-have-some-buyers-seeing-red-16828/
It wasn't unique to just a single make/model/movie, though, and now it seems to have become a non-issue in the last 5 years.

Along those likes, with DVDs you had some similar issues. This old post gives some examples:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/79291-fixing-dvd-player

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

Pingiivi posted:

I remember that there was a VHS version of Gladiator that had some "EXCLUSIVE EXTRAS NOT ON THE DVD VERSION" sticker on it. It had some extras after the end of the movie.

I remember seeing a special edition of Scream on VHS that apparently was the film with a commentary track playing over it.

Pretty good
Apr 16, 2007



I just spent five very confused minutes googling trying to find out what a "multiple angle creature" is and why such a thing would turn up in porn :(

What multiple angle stuff did The Matrix dvd have and how does that feature work? Is it a window that sits in the corner of the frame showing the same scene unfolding from a different point of view or what? It's not something I've ever heard of.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

sinking belle posted:

I just spent five very confused minutes googling trying to find out what a "multiple angle creature" is and why such a thing would turn up in porn :(

What multiple angle stuff did The Matrix dvd have and how does that feature work? Is it a window that sits in the corner of the frame showing the same scene unfolding from a different point of view or what? It's not something I've ever heard of.

You push a button on the remote to change the video shown on screen (it doesn' t actually have to be a different angle because the DVD player can't tell what it is showing anyway). Of course no-one would ever use it while watching a regular movie because :lol: why would you?

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


taiyoko posted:

I have one with that problem too. My phone would keep saying "SD Card unexpectedly removed" even when the phone itself hadn't even been touched. New microSD card, and no problems at all.

According to my Samsung parts rep (and for the record I don't do anything related to phones), there was a problem with some micro SD sockets. They had a little 'give' in the pins and the 'push-push' locking mechanism that would cause disconnections. I don't know if he is telling the truth and I tend not to believe it.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

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

sinking belle posted:

I just spent five very confused minutes googling trying to find out what a "multiple angle creature" is and why such a thing would turn up in porn :(

Ha, heck of a typo.

And I imagine there's got to be some hentai out there that uses what could be described as a multiple-angle creature. :cthulhu:

Horace
Apr 17, 2007

Gone Skiin'

Jerry Cotton posted:

You push a button on the remote to change the video shown on screen (it doesn' t actually have to be a different angle because the DVD player can't tell what it is showing anyway). Of course no-one would ever use it while watching a regular movie because :lol: why would you?

Also one downside - my DVD player had a massive CAMERA 1/4 icon on the screen all the time when multiple angles were available, making the movie look like security camera footage. Actually switching between angles brought the movie to a jarring halt for a couple of seconds so it wasn't as if you could have played amateur director jumping from camera to camera anyway.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Horace posted:

Also one downside - my DVD player had a massive CAMERA 1/4 icon on the screen all the time when multiple angles were available, making the movie look like security camera footage. Actually switching between angles brought the movie to a jarring halt for a couple of seconds so it wasn't as if you could have played amateur director jumping from camera to camera anyway.

That was what always pissed me off about the feature. I knew the reason behind the jarring but it made me hate it.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


HairyManling posted:

Legitimate question here, not being smarmy. Has this really been 'a thing'? Are these updates to the firmware of the player before a Bluray can be played? I admit to having very little experience with Bluray.
New discs can require firmware updates (and early players were notorious for not being able to be upgraded,) and new discs can disable a software player or brick a physical player by revoking encryption keys if a manufacturer's key has been compromised and revoked.

rndmnmbr
Jul 3, 2012

DrBouvenstein posted:

And I imagine there's got to be some hentai out there that uses what could be described as a multiple-angle creature. :cthulhu:

The many-angled ones live at the bottom of her Mandelbrot set. :quagmire:

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together

DrBouvenstein posted:

I remember everyone being disappointed that virtually no movies other than The Matrix* really made use of the multiple angle creature.

*And porn, of course.

I remember an article from some PC magazine right before DVD came out that promised all this pie in the sky bullshit for the format. Like, the entire Star Wars trilogy on one disc. The multiple angle stuff. Different versions of the film (like, TV edits for parental control).

twistedmentat posted:

I had someone not too long ago go on how laserdisks are better quality than blurays or Hd streaming. Somehow I think that's not true. The main draw of laserdisk collection is to get rare stuff like the unaltered versions of Star Wars in decent quality, or special features on films that were only available on the LDs.

I like how the commentary for Chasing Amy starts out with Kevin Smith saying "gently caress DVD" because it was recorded originally for LaserDisc

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Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


ElwoodCuse posted:

I remember an article from some PC magazine right before DVD came out that promised all this pie in the sky bullshit for the format. Like, the entire Star Wars trilogy on one disc. The multiple angle stuff. Different versions of the film (like, TV edits for parental control).


I like how the commentary for Chasing Amy starts out with Kevin Smith saying "gently caress DVD" because it was recorded originally for LaserDisc

I cannot remember which one of Kevin Smiths DVD extras it was, but one of them had him showing dailies on set and he was using AVID Media Composer. It made me feel a little better that I too used AVID (and the associated hardware FPGAs known as Mojos) and not go the FCP route.

Here's a pic of one of the newer setups we had before I left for greater opportunities:



We were still reliant on tape as you can see behind the monitors, the Decks were still serial and SDI/HDSDI from another desk.

EDIT:

I've posted this guys videos before but this video about the different chemical types of cassette tapes is quite interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA

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RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Here's a comedy sketch that celebrates the only pure music out there: 1920's megaphone crooners as heard from a miniature Victorola.

https://youtu.be/SzaskxXkWXs

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Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



RandomPauI posted:

Here's a comedy sketch that celebrates the only pure music out there: 1920's megaphone crooners as heard from a miniature Victorola.

https://youtu.be/SzaskxXkWXs

Has anyone heard anything more about the new Mr. Show episodes for Netflix? Like when it's going to happen? The only thing I can find just says "maybe this year".
thank you

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