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loving SACDs, did they ever release more than a handful of those things?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:loving SACDs, did they ever release more than a handful of those things? thousands
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Nov 27, 2020 01:05
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:thousands huh I never remember seeing more than a few in the back of record stores, then again in the UK the players were insanely expensive so maybe there was less of a market
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Nov 27, 2020 01:23
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they still come out with them. some are amazing.
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Nov 27, 2020 01:27
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did u know? itunes supports lossless audio but only as ALAC. every time I want to import FLACs I have to run them through XLD. as far as I know this is the only extant application of ALAC.
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Nov 27, 2020 01:30
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for a while (maybe still?) the only/best way of copying an SACD was a hacked ps3, so you had audiophile people buying old ps3s and hacking them just for sacd rips there was also dvd-audio which i think was much less successful than sacd, and there was also bluray audio which i think was even less successful than that
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Nov 27, 2020 01:47
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:for a while (maybe still?) the only/best way of copying an SACD was a hacked ps3, so you had audiophile people buying old ps3s and hacking them just for sacd rips you can always sell to deranged audiophiles but most people don’t have the equipment or hearing to tell where the extra money goes beyond compact discs. if you do all of your audio consumption on a sidewalk over airpods and your iphone it’s moot anyway.
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Nov 27, 2020 01:53
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Midjack posted:you can always sell to deranged audiophiles but most people don’t have the equipment or hearing to tell where the extra money goes beyond compact discs. if you do all of your audio consumption on a sidewalk over airpods and your iphone it’s moot anyway.
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Nov 27, 2020 02:06
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oh my god please do not turn this into another audio epistemology argument
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Nov 27, 2020 02:19
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lots of CDs were released as a dual CD/SACD thing like, layers
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Nov 27, 2020 02:56
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pee is stored in the SAC, D
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Nov 27, 2020 03:07
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5.1 tool mix ftw
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Nov 27, 2020 04:19
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more like SUCDeez nutz lmao got em
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Nov 27, 2020 04:28
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just remembered those square records you’d get in cereal boxes that you supposed to cut round yourself with scissors. the only one I specifically remember was one promoting either ghostbusters 1 or 2. it makes me assume most of these things were purely just lame marketing material. i think it was like 2-5 minutes of lame dialogue/jokes with the cast, then 30 seconds of the theme song(any longer than that could cut into soundtrack sales!) like a proto-hitclipz.
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Nov 27, 2020 05:47
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Why would you need to cut it round? As long as the groove is spiral, the record player doesn't care.
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Nov 27, 2020 06:12
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http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/COCX-38295 enjoy your favorite NES themes in perfect Blu-spec quality 
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Nov 27, 2020 07:00
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why would you need to cut it round? As long as the groove is spiral, the record player doesn't care. that said, not putting in a proportionate amount of effort towards the whole thing is, if anything at all, just plain disrespectful and rude as there’s no purpose more sincere and down-to-earth than satisfying the urge to consume as much cocaine as physically possible before the wheels fall off the gravy train or your heart explodes from orgasming too hard from a well timed tongue punch to the prostate by a dolphins cheerleader during a sex party on dan marinos houseboat.
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Nov 27, 2020 07:20
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ok
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Nov 27, 2020 07:24
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sorry. sometimes my time-release painkillers hit all at once. on an empty stomach it’s a recipe for disaster aka my poasts.
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Nov 27, 2020 07:31
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echinopsis posted:I used to leave my dialup on 24/7 as I paid for a dedicated line and had huge collection of 700mb movies when i was a kid i convinced my mom to let me leave dialup running overnight so i could download the 50mb diablo trial installer. the download completed but was corrupted so i didn't get to play diablo.
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Nov 27, 2020 14:17
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look at this scrub who didn't know how to get a keygen for GetRight 
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Nov 27, 2020 14:35
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I used HotLine to download my warez and it could resume downloads so  Also a couple times I exchanged CDRs with foreign nationals, which was probably doubly illegal. We all printed jewel case covers and everything. I think I have the psd file somewhere still, it was terrible
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Nov 27, 2020 20:13
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echinopsis posted:when I first got half life 2 and it needed to install steam and then update before I played. it was a physical disk that I then needed to update before I could even play? god that’s bullshit I had to return my DVD copy of UT2004 and get the CD version instead because the DVD drive I had kept puking reading the disc for some reason. That was 5 install discs plus the "play disc" and came in a massive cardboard box the size of a decent hardback book.
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Nov 28, 2020 00:42
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Carthag Tuek posted:I used HotLine to download my warez and it could resume downloads so My dad lived in Hong Kong for a while around 2000 ish and would send /bring me random discs from the markets, like I think I remember one being various versions of autocad as I wanted to study engineering (i never used it) I think I also bought a pirate copy of 3ds max from a street vendor in Bulgaria in 2002 neither was directly useful for actual engineering, but messing around with 3ds and a demo of truespace did mean I was a bit ahead of the game when we came to using a real Cad package. It was just unfortunate the one we learned on was incredibly niche (I-DEAS if anyone cares)
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Nov 28, 2020 00:49
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also I just remembered using the trial version of truespace I got on some demo disc to do a 3d model of the desk I built for my technology course at school circa 1999 and the teacher's mind was *blown* the demo version was time limited to like 45 minutes, I got really good at mocking that desk up quickly.
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Nov 28, 2020 00:53
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codecs developed fast right around then i remember i had a vcd of the matrix that looked pretty good, but like a half year later, i got another one that was uh variable bitrate vcd? iirc only some hardware could play it as opposed to regular vcd, which could generally be played big image quality difference tho what was that about, i guess some manufacturers gave less of a poo poo / supported more codecs? i wonder if those lovely old "vbr vcd"s are divx or something
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Nov 28, 2020 00:56
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:My dad lived in Hong Kong for a while around 2000 ish and would send /bring me random discs from the markets, like I think I remember one being various versions of autocad as I wanted to study engineering (i never used it) Hah, we had some wanky CAD software at my secondary school that I lost the name of. It was incredibly basic but still had the essential CAD feature of randomly puking fatal errors with no option to save. We had to model something from home so I did my og boxy PS2 because it was right there next to my computer and people's minds were blown because I'd used things like the pattern tool for the front face and made it vaguely the right colour. Eventually a teacher and I puzzled out using the loft tool and I made an incredibly bad fan in the back of it. I really wish I remembered what that software was. It was insanely bad but I almost want to fire it up for nostalgia's sake and wonder how I ever did anything in it.
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Nov 28, 2020 01:09
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well, the ntsc vcd standard was strictly 352x240 at 1150 kbps video bitrate in mpeg1 then u had SVCD which was mpeg-2 at 720x480 (or 352x240 i think) with a constant or variable bitrate up to like 2500 kbps so maybe thats what ur talking about but there were a lot of people loving around with the vcd standard just for fun (easy enough to increase the bitrate etc) or making their own random offshoot "standards" and some vcd/dvd players would still play them without any issue u probably went from VCD to SVCD which would def have a big quality difference and i wrote this all from memory so dont be nitpickin
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Nov 28, 2020 01:10
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some players probably had low end hardware decoders that only did the standard or well known profiles while other players either used software or had higher end hardware decoders that were more parameterized also CPUs were getting faster then at an insane rate so even just getting a new computer might let someone enable universally-supported codec features that would have taken forever to encode on a previous generation CPU the better you parameterize your encoding, the better the quality you can get for the same bit rate—people still gently caress around with all that today in trying to save space on Blu-Ray and stream rips or whatever (if they’re poors who can’t save the raws)
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Nov 28, 2020 01:18
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the real question is what now magneto optical drive should i decide to *start* using for the first time this coming year, in 2021? floptical? UMD?
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Nov 28, 2020 01:25
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:the real question is what now magneto optical drive should i decide to *start* using for the first time this coming year, in 2021? I always wanted a beartato drive
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Nov 28, 2020 01:54
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Bernoulli
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Nov 28, 2020 01:54
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umd is straight optical.
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Nov 28, 2020 01:54
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:the real question is what now magneto optical drive should i decide to *start* using for the first time this coming year, in 2021? 12-inch magneto optical using a Sony WDD-931 use it for backup of course
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Nov 28, 2020 02:39
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:and i wrote this all from memory so dont be nitpickin hell yeah svcd was definitely a thing. god what a mess my parents got a c&d letter like a decade ago so im not allowed to download movies at their house anymore lol tbh its better that way cause getting the right subs was a massive chore. i did my best, but even if i managed to sync them up (literally, with uh the app that has a parrot as an icon, i changed runtimes and stuff), but the translations were just very bad and obviously written by some teenager and i had to narrate the movie for my mom anyway
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Nov 28, 2020 02:45
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eschaton posted:12-inch magneto optical using a Sony WDD-931 oh drat they made a multi-disc changer too, about the size of a microwave oven...  
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Nov 28, 2020 05:35
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and it’s a standard SCSI peripheral using the standard command set so you can hook it up to pretty much anything
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Nov 28, 2020 05:45
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eschaton posted:and it’s a standard SCSI peripheral using the standard command set so you can hook it up to pretty much anything and it won't work
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Nov 28, 2020 05:48
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JK SCSI isn't any worse a world than any other.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I always wanted a beartato drive 
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