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Jedit posted:Just over 30 years ago, the UK only had three channels. I personally remember Channel 4 launching and watching the first ever edition of Countdown. My mother, who is 60 in April, remembers when BBC2 launched in 1964, and my stepfather at 63 is just old enough to remember when the UK had only one TV station, ITV having launched in 1955. I remember channel 5 launching and being excited about it only to discover I lived in an area where it wasn't available, even Freeview has only just been made available in my town in the last year so we've been stuck with 4 terrestrial channels or SKY. It's not like I live in a remote area either....
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Flipperwaldt posted:I may be missing some intricacies of the UK situation or misunderstand your timing, but I've been watching British channels for almost four years now on satellite. Subscription free. From Belgium, of all places. This is possibly the thing called Freesat? So I think you could have had more than four channels earlier, is my point. Except in some places like where I live, freeview was only made available earlier this year and we never received channel 5 via terrestrial aerial just bbc1,bbc2,itv and channel4.
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That thing sounds like it was used to soundtrack every 70's European horror movie ever...
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KozmoNaut posted:Haha no, I'm only 28, I was an IT/electronics apprentice from 05 to 07. However, I did work on the setup software for the Beo5 remote, this thing: God those Beo5's give me nightmares I used to work for a pre-owned B&O Dealership still at least it can't be used as a weapon like the Beo4.....
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spog posted:
I personally dislike that blu-Rays update trailers etc one of the great things about revisiting old VHS movies is watching the old trailers. It's part of the charm.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I thought that for at least several years into the DVD lifecycle there was one company that mainly owned the rights to the VCD patents and they were expecting royalties from any DVD machine producer to have that feature included. My first DVD player was the Samsung 709 it cost about £300 at the time and was easily converted to a multi region machine which is what sold it to me, It would also play VCD but only retail version's home burnt VCD's would get spat out unless they we're burnt onto one specific brand of CD-R. I remember spending hours working out how to rip a DVD and convert it into a VCD format (practicing first on a short clip from Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff video from the "Rollin" DVD single, my excitement when I put the disc into my Samsung and after a few seconds of loading that 30 second clip played flawlessly. I figured I'd cracked it and went about the same procedure for a full movie, a procedure that would take somewhere in the region of 100 hours, it was a glorious time before DVD Burners became the norm. Ironically that DVD player wouldn't even consider a burnt DVD so I had to purchase a new player, some cheap piece of poo poo that played DivX as well, it died within a year but the Samsung that lasted a full 10 years I loved that machine.
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JediTalentAgent posted:. Could have sworn some players actually even had macrovision on/off codes, too. Yup I had the Macrovision turned off, that combined with multi-region capabilities meant I could run VHS copies off to loan to friends etc who didnt have DVD players. Also Region 1 DVD's would come out considerably earlier than region 2, on quite a few occasion's I'd have a movie on DVD whilst it was still in cinema's.
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I'd love to get lasik but I can't as I have keratoconus (distorting of the cornea) I've had some surgery done on my eyes to stop it getting worse and also have an intac ring fitted in my left eye to reduce the keratoconus but I'm still going to have to use glasses/contacts for the rest of my life, I am quite lucky though as many who have this condition require rigid lenses which are incredibly uncomfortable, I get pretty bad ghosting in my left eye and slight ghosting in my right eye it's very weird and can be a problem when driving at night.
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beato posted:I had both and I can confirm my DVD player (Philips DVD711AT) bought in 1999 cost way more. It was loving huge too. I got a PS2 as a DVD player mostly as it was simple to use discs from any region on it just required a special CD that you would put in, select your region then the drive would pop open and you put in your CD. I can't recall why exactly I did this as I had a multi-region Samsung DVD player at the same time.
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Horace posted:Oh, I love these. I'd forgotten all about them until a couple of months ago when I found some magazines from the early 00s. Here's an ad picked at random: At least the 3210 had programmable ringtones, I spent hours using a program to convert Midi files into usable code which then could be converted to key presses in another program to be put into the phones ringtone composer. It was a pain in the rear end but I managed to make some good ones. My favourite being genocide by the offspring and Bro Hymn by pennywise.
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KozmoNaut posted:Speaking of tape recorders, my mom brought me this little thing the other day, because they were cleaning out some old stuff at the school where she's a teacher. I am within arms reach of a similar thing right now, UK police forces only very recently stopped using them to record interviews.
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Lowen SoDium posted:
There were a few different types of VCD floating about I remember being able to download KVCD files which would burn onto one CD and would usually fit a full length single film in pretty good quality, i think me and my housemates wore out a few copies of Tony Jaa's film Tom Yum Goong in that format. They were pretty convenient and would play on my cheap DVD Player that also played DIVX so when DVD burners became more prominent I would stuff 5-6 movies on a disk. .
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GreenNight posted:I remember my Terminator 2 DVD had a secret button code that allowed you to play a longer version of the movie. If it was the same as my one then it had 3 versions on the disc, Theatrical, Directors cut then a 3rd cut that was accessed by the date of judgement day this cut had some alternate ending on it if I remember correctly.
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I picked up a pretty decent Panasonic 14" CRT TV just yesterday (From a charity shop) and was suprised at how heavy that little sucker turned out to be, I've got it rigged up to a PS1 and a DVD/Video combo I still maintain that good CRT's produce a significantly more pleasing picture than any modern LCD in standard definition.
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah, it's a pretty rad setup you've got there. The MX's are great little Tv's but if I had the space I'd buy an avant I fell in love with them back when I used to work for lifestyle-av (a pre-owned B&O specialist they often list older TVs on their eBay page). The holy grail being the black DVD avant. Beovision 3's are pretty dope to, I'd also love a pair of mark 3 Pentax speakers.
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I personally still love VHS........I mean the quality is crap compared to modern video formats but I'll be dammed if VHS didn't have a certain charm to it. Yes I still have a VHS player (2 actually) and a shitload of tapes although I've reduced my collection to Big Box horror releases and old punk/metal tapes/bootlegs.
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Computer viking posted:Ah, good. Some of the not-current B&O stuff had a reputation for being a bit more about the design than the sound, so to speak. I'll check Finn next time I want a small sound system. For a long time I worked for a large B&O Reseller in the UK (they've since gone bust) called LifeStyle-AV and it always amused me how much the mark-up on those things we're I distinctly remember a B&O Plasma Television called a BeoVision 4 was essentially a Panasonic Plasma Screen with some custom electronics and a polished frame added, the panasonic sold for around £1000 the B&O screen was closer to £8000 from what I recall. I did have alot of fun hooking up 8 BeoLab 5 speakers together in a chain and blasting some Slayer in the warehouse that was close to £60'000 worth of speaker's and jesus christ was it loud.
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One Nut Wonder posted:drat, I ordered a BD-ROM for my desktop 10 years ago. And a USB BD burner a few years after that. They both cost less than $100. Plus the BD burner has that funny 2-headed USB cable because it needed extra power. I bought a BD-Burner recently so that I could burn some upscale versions of old local wrestling shows and also so I could watch blu-rays on my laptop at work (as I’m one of those people that still loves physical media) it cost way more than expected, the write up said it could be connected to a tv I got excited about this but clearly didn’t read it right, it doesn’t act as a stand-alone player instead it connects to USB and acts as a data drive so you can play video files off data discs.
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There was a bunch of different VCD formats that we’re about, I remember there being SVCD and KVCD. KVCD was notable as it made it possible to fit an entire movie onto one disc I’m pretty sure I at one point went through the effort of creating a Lord of the Rings extended cut KVCD as you can imagine it didn’t look the prettiest but was still watchable on a CRT. I don’t know if it was ever used for retail releases, I may even have some old images stashed away on a hard drive somewhere.
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stevewm posted:Just about every off-brand player could do this. The more expensive name brands never did, even though they had the hardware for it. I have fond memories of my first DVD player it was the legendary Samsung 709, I paid £230 for it plus an additional £20 to make it region free and remove macro vision(which at the time ruled as I worked at a place that could import US discs at cost so I’d record new movies onto VHS for friends) It was built like a brick shithouse and lasted well over 10 years I loved that thing If I still had it I’d Chuck the PiZero2 in there that I’m using as a “DVD Emulator” and give it pride of place on my shelf. I later got some off brand player that did DIVX but I kept my 709 as it was just sturdy as gently caress.
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