I think I used these when I went to Ford Auto Tech school. We had to take courses on outdated laser disk that didn't work very well. I remember them being in special cases.
Lol people complain to YOU about 40 year old cgi somebody else goofed lol omg now you got to perfect articulation perfect for unfamiliar words my God political correctness society lol omg
As 42 years old Japanese man, I must say this demo disc is Real Time Machine to my childhood. This saves the mood of 80s era perfectly... and Logo DECO made me scream!
Focusing on AHD. Last year I bought a 1985 TEAC A-919 DC amp. It was a bit of a blind purchase because I had no information about it, but it turned out to be brilliant. This amp has a dedicated AHD line, color highlighted like the CD one (I figure to make them special somehow). They call these: digital outputs. Since I had no clue what AHD was, I tried some 33-year-old customer support from TEAC. Amazingly enough they replied. They fed me information from one of the Japanese engineers who built this amp, and it turns out that, back in 1984, this amp was part of the AHD plan for Europe. When launched at Christmas 1985, they already knew AHD was not going anywhere near Europe, which also rendered this amp obsolete at the beginning of 1986. Since the A-919 DC was the very top of the range, and no other TEAC amp has the AHD output, I can only assume they were planning to market AHD in Europe as better than (or at least as good as) CD. I apologize for the long comment, I believe this was my first comment on RUclips anyway. Ever. Probably the last, because I tend to bore. :)) Cheers.
Techmoan Really appreciate that. Actually bought that amp for those 3 tape lines. Later I found out from one of your videos that I could just have added an extender.
I've collected Laserdisc for more than twenty years, got into it just before DVD came out. I think Lasaerdisc's biggest advantages over its competitors had a lot to do with form-factor and packaging. At the time that Laserdisc debuted as a premium video format, vinyl records were still the generally best quality for audio for casual methods to play music. Audiophiles that weren't into reel-to-reel were already used to handling and storing 12" discs with paper jackets, and many Laserdiscs had jacket artwork as elaborate as anything you'd get with a record. Packaged Laserdiscs are thicker than vinyl records, but of the three formats they were the thinnest. More movies can fit on a linear distance of shelving due to the lack of caddy. And then there's the video tape angle. CED didn't offer enough advantage over VHS and came with some pretty serious drawbacks for player reliability, and if the picture quality wasn't especially better than VHS then there wasn't a lot of reason to adopt it. Laserdisc was essentially broadcast-quality, and players are pretty reliable (both my players still have all their original parts, no new belts or anything) so if one could afford it, LD had some perks for higher end simply not readily available through any other medium. EDIT: As for DVD, it took off in part because of marketing, but in part because it was priced right. LD titles frequently cost $50 or more new (mine were literally all used) and VHS was around $20. DVDs launched for less than $30, often $24.99, and prices fell dramatically. Additionally as better TVs became the norm, people wanted to replace older VHS titles with DVD quality, and the rightsholders responded, putting lots of older titles out on DVD and for lower prices than new releases.
It's always great to start my Sunday with a bowl of sugary cereal and watch a British guy prattle about obscure video disc formats for half an hour. Thanks for making my morning something just a little bit more special.
Mat, the more you talk about this system and it's discs, the more I want to invest in it for the nostalgic value, and I NEVER had interest in Laser disc or the RCA system (though I also love your coverage of those formats as well). Thank you for your continued focus and dedication to obscure, unknown and under-appreciated formats.
The 3DO system was involved with this and Matsushita, (later). The Thunderstorm game looks like a redo of the laser disc arcade game Cobra Command. A game from the same time period and system as Dragons Lair. Also, the clip of the movie effects shot with the blood spray, has a very young effects wizard Tom Savini in it with his trademark mustache. He did tons of horror effects in films.
Actually it's exactly the same content as Cobra Command, not a re-do. When Data East made the discs, they included two title screens -- possibly a hedge so they could switch titles without re-making the discs. Somewhere I have a VHS copy of the entire game, with both title screens "Cobra Command" and "Thunder Storm," but someone has undoubtedly posted it on RUclips somewhere too. Interestingly, "Come in Cobra Command" would be mentioned in the soundtrack even when if the Thunder Storm title had been shown. For an example of that, see ruclips.net/video/MVDNYWVC1bE/видео.html
Scott Elliott The FMV game Cobra Command eventually did get a north american release in 1992 on the Sega CD. I had it! It was definately one of the better FMV games. The Easter Island level was my favourite,
your videos get more and more exciting each time i watch them just because you go out of your way to find physical copies of films and the players to play them on while also managing to enjoy yourself at the same time.
@@electrictroy2010 It's called Momoco Club. It basically seems to be one of those Japanese "teen idol" shows/groups. Like an 80s/90s version of AKB48 and similar current groups. ruclips.net/video/bVegEp4TuR8/видео.html ruclips.net/video/mPylv_0dpcc/видео.html
If you have an old DVD reader, particularly those found inside laptops, you'll see in BIOS and low-level hardware descriptions that it's named MatsushitaDVD. Well, ehm a friend of mine glanced over it quickly and asked me why does it say matsu-shit-a-DVD?
Hiro Matsushita used his family’s Panasonic money to buy into Indycar racing in the 1990s. The American TV commentators could never settle on a correct pronunciation of his name, either. (His nickname was “King Hiro:” he had a habit of getting in the way of faster drivers, who would then complain about him over their voice-activated radios, which would cut off the first syllable of their epithets.)
@@StrongOneX That sounds like my mom and her "shy take" mushrooms because she couldn't think of any other way to say shiitake without sounding rude. But seriously, isn't leaving out the I in Matsushita more of a dialect thing, like how some say you shouldn't pronounce a U after an S even though native speakers do it all the time? They aren't really hard vowels like in English, but some do leave a hint of them in when the speak.
No - I don't think so? (maybe to the royal family), do you do, anything over the weekend to mark it, (is it just the one day, or the hole weekend (Saturday - Sunday), here in the UK, Queen Victoria's birthday would have been next week on May 25, (Saturday), but it just a normal weekend day here. any help. :-)
Arabesque was great! Beginning of Sandra's career. She had successful solo career as well as being voice in her then husband's Enigma project. And she still continue her career.
Its neat to see all the various formats you uncover. I honestly must have lived in a cave in the 80's and 90's because except for laser disk I had no idea the other formats could have been.... Trouble with laser disk was it was darn expensive compared to the first affordable VCR machines that I kind of remember costing around $350 circa 1984.
When you played the clip from the Thunder Storm game. It reminded me of ‘Cobra Command’ that came bundled with the SEGA Mega CD 2 it looks the be the same game even had the same start sequence and voice. Great video as always.
Yes! Cobra Command was its name in the US. It was a LaserDisc arcade game and later ported / adapted to other platforms. I played this a fair amount as a kid in the arcades but it was pretty hard and unforgiving. It was basically trial and error on position and timing until you memorizeed the hit boxes and cursor movements.
Yup its the same game that came out on the Sega CD as Conra Command. I had it! My favourite level was the easter island level. I used to play through the game all the time (yes i could routinely best it), it had about 10 levels as I recall.
I just finished up binging the Oddity Archive and *his* thoughts on CED and other obsolete, screw-up media. I don't know why I was surprised, but it was a surprise to see Techmoan in the end-slate Patreon list. Old tat makes great bedfellows.
How can people dislike this content? Anyway Techmoan keep trucking on. All the best to you I can't wait till you hit the 1 mill subscribers mark, you deserve it!
Cliff Richard did have some success in the U.S. in the late '70s-early '80s, with "We Don't Talk Anymore" and "Dreamin'" both cracking the Billboard Top 10.
You know I think your channel's videos now need to start with that "You are now in the VHD world" splash screen, but have it say Techmoan World imstead.
Great video, and I'm kind of surprised that it came this close to launching in the US, only reason why I even knew what VHD even was came from looking into MSX stuff one day really bored when I was looking into collecting for the system. Although I have nearly bought a RCA CED a couple of times as I've ran into players with discs like 4 times now in just the last few years.
Born in the US in 1982. The only laser disc player i've ever seen was in a dark corner of my middle school library. Only a few people knew about it. I spent a more than a few rainy lunch periods watching movies like back to the future. It was considered a relic by the mid 90's, so that figure of ownership peaking in 1998 is surprising.
VHD wound up being more interesting than I expected. I knew the MSX could hook up to a laserdisc but I never expected VHD, let alone having Time Gal on VHD! I also just found out two anime were created specifically for the 3D shutter glasses for VHS: Dead Heat and Scoopers. You can find both on RUclips but only in 2D and wow would I love to see them in their early 3D glory. All of this is also interesting because my family owns two CED players which took me years to find out what they were called since we just called them "VideoDisc players that aren't Laserdisc". And yeah we bought them back in the day. They were a huge and mysterious part of my childhood. So finding out there was a sort of better Japanese alternative to CED is super interesting. ...and then finding out just how OLD Laserdisc is! Egad! I still can't believe it actually predated the CED! Anyway, great video as always. Keep up the good work!
Again you bring a smile to m face Matt. I can't remember how many reps came into my shop offering this and that when it came to new formats. Customers were always asking me which format was going to win and all I could say was probably none of them.
My friends father had All newest tech of the Times..he passed away and when clearing the house i Found a VHD player with 12 videos. Die hard etc. At that time i junked it.. kicking myself now...I didn't Know how Rare it was. Wouldn't load the Candy.
We all do silly things without knowing. I would kick my 21 old self the day he brought an Amiga 1000 with hundreds of floppy and an 8086 emulation card to the recycling plant.
Don't feel too bad, we all do exactly that one good time without knowing. When I was 10 I purchased an entire 286 Commador system just in parts with a few small things missing. I had no idea what it was. Originally I thought it was an apple 2 or something. It sat in a box for another 7 years before I just tossed it. Realized what it was another year later.
I laughed so hard at the lackadaisical British model saying “Entertainment” with the Japanese woman immediately sighing after. Brilliant audio editing! Thank you, Matt.
Thorn EMI put me through university, paid for my driving lessons and paid me a wage throughout all that (mid '80's), then made me redundant almost immediately as they closed the arm I officially worked for. Must have cost them a fortune !
Another excellent deep dive. I love this kind of stuff, especially when you can actually find media produced for a format. This isn't too related to VHD, in which I mean not in the slightest, but I wonder if you've had a look at the HitClips format? Since you did Pocket Rockers a while back, this might be worth a look.
Aww, that mystery disc was a bit of a let down, but oh well, at least it's an actual disc... :D As for faxing JVC, I could do with some tech support on my Ferguson portable VHS recorder, seeing as they made it, I think......
I’d have no interest at all in nearly all of the things you cover if it weren’t for the fact they’re in videos made by you. Your videos are well-produced and well-researched. You also have a fantastic camera manner and a passion for what you’re talking about that shows and is infectious. Great content.
@@jayqueue6784 No one would say that was an example of toxic masculinity, at most they would say it was male gaze - but lots of lesbians get on their case for acting like the world is only straight. There's definitely not any kind of consensus there, certainly not for you to worry about. (Also I feel it worth pointing out that that phrase is meant to get across that being masculine isn't itself inherently bad. The word toxic is a modifier, like milk or dark for chocolate.)
A fantastic insight into another forgotten format. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make these 2 videos. btw, I love the Kickstopper video and appreciate the effort taken to compile it.
Orange Harrison I can also pick it out. I love geography and I live in the USA. It is true though that most Americans don’t have too much understanding of the world around them! It’s not their fault, it’s the fault of the public school system in the USA. I was taught about geography and it made me interested in Shortwave among other things. Politics is not my thing though.
Love those mystery reveals like the one at the end of this video. Closest I'll ever get to that is a box of mystery blank VHS tapes in a box from ebay/car boot.
Blimey, this is like the demo of the century part 2 (RIP Doug Englebert). But seriously, this format had so many applications it's just fantastic. Thanks for this video, superb detail and a joy to watch.
its a shame the players these days are not too reliable what with the timekeeper battery issue unless you get to the battery via cutting out the battery on the ceramic chip but im sure mat would have that sorted.
WOW, Zenith, my first TV (CRT) as a child and it still had the heavy 'Clickity Klakity Click & KLAK' ... Heavy-Duty Twisty Knobs for swapping channels... I have been buying UP all the plasmas I have seen and BEEN filling the house with a Panny, GT50 and was so GOOD that grabbed the last one and one UP from it, the ZT65 (or may be a ZT60, same difference though) as well as the debated the BEST plasma of all time "KURU" which I only ever knew as a rare protein disorder in the brain from eaten human flesh, LOL... Plasmas are the best and ended up using my GT50 by Panasonic for my Computer Monitor, my home one that is daily driver! ... Anyway, seeing one of the clips here in your video reminded me of Zenith and I have been trying to find the Zenith Plasma for sale somewhere used and within reach to drive to get her, no dice thus far! ... WE need a China sort-of-WiKi website to KNOW which American and "used to be popular" brands are now just a junky CHINESE Brand...
Thank you for this entertaining and informational video. The end was the best, as I was really curious about what was on that disc inside the clear caddie.
random semi-related trivia about the pronunciation thing, Japanese companies will often have multiple "official" pronunciations of their name as naturalised for different regions. For example, "Nikon" as below: - In Japan: "Ni-kon" - In American: "N-eye-con" - In Europe: "Nick-on"
It's easier to just roll with some level of pronunciation changes, when you're dealing with radically different phonemes and syllable structures. American companies do the same in Japan. IIRC McDonald's is something like 'ma.ki.do.na.du', for instance.
@@keiyakins Ma-ku-do-na-ru-do (or Makku for short, sorta like Macca's in Australia), but yeah! I find it interesting to see how pronunciations can differ, even among Anglophone countries. Some are pretty straight forward, like Nissan: Japan: Ni-ssahn US: Ni-sawn (rhymes with tree brawn) UK: Nih-san (rhymes with kiss sand) Others are real head-scratchers, like Hyundai: Korea: Hyuhn-deh US: Huhn-dey (rhymes with Sunday) UK: Hai-uhn-dai (???) There does seem to be a general trend of UK renderings trading long vowels for a short vowels (in addition to the aforementioned Nikon and Nissan examples, compare UK vs. US pronunciations of pasta, taco, etc.). Wonder why that is?
Thunder Storm was called Cobra Commander here in the US. Was one of my favorite games back in 1985. Dragons Lair, Space Ace, and Badlands were some of the other Laser Disk-based games you would see in an Arcade in 1985.
I think you’re right about VHD not making it in the US. In the 1980s, it was VHS 📼! And I believe that the main advantage VHS had over VHD was the fact that you can record programs on your television 📺, or from cable, or even from another VCR (which I did quite a bit in the 1980s). Another great Techmoan production, sir. Thank you 🙏.
Even in Japanese, you are technically pronouncing "Matsushita" correctly. The audio clip you found of the pronunciation is actually a contraction. Japanese contractions like this were actually frowned upon into the 1980's according to my various Japanese grammar books. But all language changes over time and by the late 80's, they realized they weren't going to stop it no matter what they did.
@Adrian Stevens So, exactly what expertise do you have regarding Japanese spoken prior to WW1? The oldest of my grammar books has a copyright date of 1908. I'll take its word over the word of someone who would need to be in excess of 130 years old to have legitimate experience to say otherwise.
@Adrian Stevens Your confusion stems from the fact that I have 70+ years of documentation in textbooks pointing out that those contractions aren't acceptable. Just as in American English, "Ain't" is unacceptable, but we hear it all the time.
@@solarstrike33 Mr/Mrs Stevens deleted the posts made from that account. Couldn't argue his point against actual grammar books. I've forgotten the specifics, but he was arguing about contractions in Japanese.
Translation from 22:03 Girl: Ah~ What are you doing? It's amazing! Man: With 60 minutes on each side of the disc, videos and sounds are recorded in a very high density. Then the personal computer will pick up the exact data and that allows us to manipulate videos freely! It is only possible to play this "Game of Dream" since the basic design and interface of VHD system is firmly made! Also, there are a lot of discs in which computer program itself is written onto the disc itself, so it allows us to have "EXCITING" game experience with live audio and video. VHD have totally changed the game itself! Girl: Oh, look! Gotcha! Isn't it amazing? Man: You weren't listening, were you? Girl: Of course I didn't!
WOW!! And here I thought DVD was the forerunner of branching content technology. Love these tech history videos!!! And yes, I re-pronounce it “Mat-soo-sh’tah” in my head every time you say Matsushita. 🤣🤣
@@tubester4567 And "We Don't Talk Anymore" got to #7 on the US charts in 1979-80. Cliff Richard was well-known enough to US top 40 radio listeners like me in the late 70s/early 80s that when the Young Ones references started surfacing on MTV a few years later, with the 50s sound of "Living Doll" and "The Young Ones", I had to wonder if they were talking about the father of the Cliff Richard I knew from the radio.
Cliff didn't do too bad on USA Top 40 and Adult Contemporary radio in the early 80's. That he never did a huge tour of North America or opened for someone like Olivia or Elton here probably kept him from having more hits.
HAHAHAHA curse of oak island joke is a good one. i really get mad when i hear it. every sentence he says has a question mark in the end and the answers to those questions are always NO. Love your videos keep them coming !
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I think I used these when I went to Ford Auto Tech school.
We had to take courses on outdated laser disk that didn't work very well.
I remember them being in special cases.
Lol people complain to YOU about 40 year old cgi somebody else goofed lol omg now you got to perfect articulation perfect for unfamiliar words my God political correctness society lol omg
turn on cc during the japanese dialog for as laugh
I hope these links have all been re-capped. :D
@@fortitude9932 political correctness?
As 42 years old Japanese man,
I must say this demo disc is Real Time Machine to my childhood.
This saves the mood of 80s era perfectly...
and Logo DECO made me scream!
I faxed my complaint to JVC in 1980. They replied with a cave drawing on a piece of slate. It was rather vulgar.
Are you sure you didn't accidentally fax it to JCVD?
@@tentringer4065 That old pervert.
Written in vulgar latin?
whoops, sounds like you mishandled a capacitative disk. Better luck next time
There are always those problems with sending faxes ... Are you sure you sent it to 1980 AD or to 1980 BC ?
Focusing on AHD. Last year I bought a 1985 TEAC A-919 DC amp. It was a bit of a blind purchase because I had no information about it, but it turned out to be brilliant.
This amp has a dedicated AHD line, color highlighted like the CD one (I figure to make them special somehow). They call these: digital outputs. Since I had no clue what AHD was, I tried some 33-year-old customer support from TEAC. Amazingly enough they replied.
They fed me information from one of the Japanese engineers who built this amp, and it turns out that, back in 1984, this amp was part of the AHD plan for Europe. When launched at Christmas 1985, they already knew AHD was not going anywhere near Europe, which also rendered this amp obsolete at the beginning of 1986.
Since the A-919 DC was the very top of the range, and no other TEAC amp has the AHD output, I can only assume they were planning to market AHD in Europe as better than (or at least as good as) CD.
I apologize for the long comment, I believe this was my first comment on RUclips anyway. Ever. Probably the last, because I tend to bore. :))
Cheers.
Thanks for the info, that’s fascinating. I’ve found a picture of the inputs here images.app.goo.gl/w5ixqvfkxhsb4yf86
Techmoan Really appreciate that. Actually bought that amp for those 3 tape lines. Later I found out from one of your videos that I could just have added an extender.
Some photos of the front: instagram.com/p/Bq-bn2ygeDe/?igshid=1oy3xsbxgckqw
Always love these background stories
I've collected Laserdisc for more than twenty years, got into it just before DVD came out.
I think Lasaerdisc's biggest advantages over its competitors had a lot to do with form-factor and packaging. At the time that Laserdisc debuted as a premium video format, vinyl records were still the generally best quality for audio for casual methods to play music. Audiophiles that weren't into reel-to-reel were already used to handling and storing 12" discs with paper jackets, and many Laserdiscs had jacket artwork as elaborate as anything you'd get with a record. Packaged Laserdiscs are thicker than vinyl records, but of the three formats they were the thinnest. More movies can fit on a linear distance of shelving due to the lack of caddy.
And then there's the video tape angle. CED didn't offer enough advantage over VHS and came with some pretty serious drawbacks for player reliability, and if the picture quality wasn't especially better than VHS then there wasn't a lot of reason to adopt it. Laserdisc was essentially broadcast-quality, and players are pretty reliable (both my players still have all their original parts, no new belts or anything) so if one could afford it, LD had some perks for higher end simply not readily available through any other medium.
EDIT: As for DVD, it took off in part because of marketing, but in part because it was priced right. LD titles frequently cost $50 or more new (mine were literally all used) and VHS was around $20. DVDs launched for less than $30, often $24.99, and prices fell dramatically. Additionally as better TVs became the norm, people wanted to replace older VHS titles with DVD quality, and the rightsholders responded, putting lots of older titles out on DVD and for lower prices than new releases.
Techmoan - Arabesque’s accidental PR manager!
Ironic that Arabesque's success comes from a revival by Techmoan
They may be awkward, but at least they were hot.
The people who posted their stuff on RUclips must be so confused right now...
I think the video calibration table would of been a better surprise.
I always liked Sandra Cretu, who would course go to a solo career and the voice of Enigma. Also she is hot!
It's always great to start my Sunday with a bowl of sugary cereal and watch a British guy prattle about obscure video disc formats for half an hour. Thanks for making my morning something just a little bit more special.
The best sunday mornings!
Its always good to start my Sunday with a bowl.
Loved that New Zealand map correction :-D
Mat, the more you talk about this system and it's discs, the more I want to invest in it for the nostalgic value, and I NEVER had interest in Laser disc or the RCA system (though I also love your coverage of those formats as well). Thank you for your continued focus and dedication to obscure, unknown and under-appreciated formats.
I recognize that "Thunder Storm" game. It came out on the Sega CD as "Cobra Command". One of the better FMV titles.
It was also ORIGINALLY an arcade laserdisc game (believe it or not) just like the *Dragon's Lair* franchise!
I think "Dragon's Lair" was also a Sega CD game as well at one point if I can recall correctly.
Nathan Andrew Davis yup, I owned Dragon's Lair on Sega CD
During the video, when you said "So that's it", my brain expected to hear "for the moment, as always thanks for watching"
The 3DO system was involved with this and Matsushita, (later).
The Thunderstorm game looks like a redo of the laser disc arcade game Cobra Command. A game from the same time period and system as Dragons Lair.
Also, the clip of the movie effects shot with the blood spray, has a very young effects wizard Tom Savini in it with his trademark mustache. He did tons of horror effects in films.
Actually it's exactly the same content as Cobra Command, not a re-do. When Data East made the discs, they included two title screens -- possibly a hedge so they could switch titles without re-making the discs. Somewhere I have a VHS copy of the entire game, with both title screens "Cobra Command" and "Thunder Storm," but someone has undoubtedly posted it on RUclips somewhere too. Interestingly, "Come in Cobra Command" would be mentioned in the soundtrack even when if the Thunder Storm title had been shown.
For an example of that, see ruclips.net/video/MVDNYWVC1bE/видео.html
Scott Elliott The FMV game Cobra Command eventually did get a north american release in 1992 on the Sega CD. I had it! It was definately one of the better FMV games. The Easter Island level was my favourite,
your videos get more and more exciting each time i watch them just because you go out of your way to find physical copies of films and the players to play them on while also managing to enjoy yourself at the same time.
Some of the release titles are great. "Everything you always wanted to know about sex", "How to avoid being cheated at cards". Amazing.
"Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex" is a Woody Allen film from c.1972.
yes I was hoping for California Girls as the unlabeled VHD , great video sir and best of luck on your channel.
@@electrictroy2010 It's called Momoco Club. It basically seems to be one of those Japanese "teen idol" shows/groups. Like an 80s/90s version of AKB48 and similar current groups.
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ruclips.net/video/mPylv_0dpcc/видео.html
you should just say "Matsus***ta" with a censorship bleep, so nobody can complain
That’s a good idea.
If you have an old DVD reader, particularly those found inside laptops, you'll see in BIOS and low-level hardware descriptions that it's named MatsushitaDVD. Well, ehm a friend of mine glanced over it quickly and asked me why does it say matsu-shit-a-DVD?
Hiro Matsushita used his family’s Panasonic money to buy into Indycar racing in the 1990s. The American TV commentators could never settle on a correct pronunciation of his name, either.
(His nickname was “King Hiro:” he had a habit of getting in the way of faster drivers, who would then complain about him over their voice-activated radios, which would cut off the first syllable of their epithets.)
@@StrongOneX That sounds like my mom and her "shy take" mushrooms because she couldn't think of any other way to say shiitake without sounding rude.
But seriously, isn't leaving out the I in Matsushita more of a dialect thing, like how some say you shouldn't pronounce a U after an S even though native speakers do it all the time? They aren't really hard vowels like in English, but some do leave a hint of them in when the speak.
It would be fun to start emailing eastern you-tubers and point out how the butcher western words ;)
That Thunder Storm footage is gold. The MSX never ceases to surprise me.
New video from Techmoan. Great for a calm Sunday.
Amen
No - I don't think so? (maybe to the royal family), do you do, anything over the weekend to mark it, (is it just the one day, or the hole weekend (Saturday - Sunday), here in the UK, Queen Victoria's birthday would have been next week on May 25, (Saturday), but it just a normal weekend day here. any help. :-)
better than Cames Jharles and Wati Testbrook
Arabesque was great! Beginning of Sandra's career. She had successful solo career as well as being voice in her then husband's Enigma project. And she still continue her career.
It's about 3 mins 28 seconds.
About one minute 15 seconds into this caught my eye: ruclips.net/video/tz0R6f-Txmc/видео.html
Its neat to see all the various formats you uncover. I honestly must have lived in a cave in the 80's and 90's because except for laser disk I had no idea the other formats could have been.... Trouble with laser disk was it was darn expensive compared to the first affordable VCR machines that I kind of remember costing around $350 circa 1984.
This VHD video series has been brilliant. Thank you for producing it!
Glad you liked them
20:51 I write it here because no one is writing here.
Her name is Yasuha, the daughter of the famous Japanese Rakugo comedian Hayashiya Sanpei I.
I know that I'm late, but two thumbs up. I learn more from you and Technology Connections than a majority of you tube channels
When you played the clip from the Thunder Storm game. It reminded me of ‘Cobra Command’ that came bundled with the SEGA Mega CD 2 it looks the be the same game even had the same start sequence and voice. Great video as always.
Yes! Cobra Command was its name in the US. It was a LaserDisc arcade game and later ported / adapted to other platforms. I played this a fair amount as a kid in the arcades but it was pretty hard and unforgiving. It was basically trial and error on position and timing until you memorizeed the hit boxes and cursor movements.
Yup its the same game that came out on the Sega CD as Conra Command. I had it! My favourite level was the easter island level. I used to play through the game all the time (yes i could routinely best it), it had about 10 levels as I recall.
I just finished up binging the Oddity Archive and *his* thoughts on CED and other obsolete, screw-up media.
I don't know why I was surprised, but it was a surprise to see Techmoan in the end-slate Patreon list.
Old tat makes great bedfellows.
Another super video about a format I'd never heard of and have no interesting in owning. Love it
How can people dislike this content? Anyway Techmoan keep trucking on. All the best to you I can't wait till you hit the 1 mill subscribers mark, you deserve it!
I've never heard of the Eatles before. Were they like the Beatles but with a fast food addiction?
Flippin 'Eck! You never heard of their first release: 'Elp?
"All My Oven"
"Lucy in the Pie with Diamonds"
"Let It Cheese"
At last I see...
Nah, the Eatles had classics like Motel Colorado.
and Hello Submachine
Don't forget a Bay in the Knife. I cry every time at the knife sharpening sounds at the end of it
Cliff Richard did have some success in the U.S. in the late '70s-early '80s, with "We Don't Talk Anymore" and "Dreamin'" both cracking the Billboard Top 10.
Yup, and "Devil Woman" still gets airplay on classic rock stations -- though I never do remember who the artist is.
This is definitely one of the very best channels on RUclips. Great work.
You know I think your channel's videos now need to start with that "You are now in the VHD world" splash screen, but have it say Techmoan World imstead.
This episode is approved by the New Zealand Geographical Society.
Okay, band meeting...
Poor New Zealand. Forgotten by so many mapmakers.
@@bhull242 Maybe that's a good thing.
i wonder if it was an early attempt by peter jackson to show off his beloved country
There's a lovely subreddit: Maps Without New Zealand
Great video, and I'm kind of surprised that it came this close to launching in the US, only reason why I even knew what VHD even was came from looking into MSX stuff one day really bored when I was looking into collecting for the system. Although I have nearly bought a RCA CED a couple of times as I've ran into players with discs like 4 times now in just the last few years.
Born in the US in 1982. The only laser disc player i've ever seen was in a dark corner of my middle school library. Only a few people knew about it. I spent a more than a few rainy lunch periods watching movies like back to the future. It was considered a relic by the mid 90's, so that figure of ownership peaking in 1998 is surprising.
Rising incomes, that allowed to buy that.
0:59. Thank you, Techmoan, for giving us a fifty-first state!
Can't wait to see your evaluation of it!
I noticed that too!
As usual, I came for the obscure tech but stayed for the lowkey shade throwing.
VHD wound up being more interesting than I expected. I knew the MSX could hook up to a laserdisc but I never expected VHD, let alone having Time Gal on VHD! I also just found out two anime were created specifically for the 3D shutter glasses for VHS: Dead Heat and Scoopers. You can find both on RUclips but only in 2D and wow would I love to see them in their early 3D glory.
All of this is also interesting because my family owns two CED players which took me years to find out what they were called since we just called them "VideoDisc players that aren't Laserdisc". And yeah we bought them back in the day. They were a huge and mysterious part of my childhood. So finding out there was a sort of better Japanese alternative to CED is super interesting.
...and then finding out just how OLD Laserdisc is! Egad! I still can't believe it actually predated the CED! Anyway, great video as always. Keep up the good work!
extremely informative and entertaining. i learn new things with every video
Again you bring a smile to m face Matt. I can't remember how many reps came into my shop offering this and that when it came to new formats.
Customers were always asking me which format was going to win and all I could say was probably none of them.
My friends father had All newest tech of the Times..he passed away and when clearing the house i Found a VHD player with 12 videos. Die hard etc. At that time i junked it.. kicking myself now...I didn't Know how Rare it was. Wouldn't load the Candy.
We all do silly things without knowing.
I would kick my 21 old self the day he brought an Amiga 1000 with hundreds of floppy and an 8086 emulation card to the recycling plant.
I hate it when the Candy doesn't load!
LOAD"CANDY",8,1
?LOADING ERROR
READY.
Buddy Clem
Don't despair. Just recalibrate the 1541's read/write head.
Don't feel too bad, we all do exactly that one good time without knowing. When I was 10 I purchased an entire 286 Commador system just in parts with a few small things missing. I had no idea what it was. Originally I thought it was an apple 2 or something. It sat in a box for another 7 years before I just tossed it. Realized what it was another year later.
@@frankschneider6156 A little isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab should do the trick.
I laughed so hard at the lackadaisical British model saying “Entertainment” with the Japanese woman immediately sighing after. Brilliant audio editing! Thank you, Matt.
Thanks for giving New Zealand the respect it deserves :D (from a kiwi)
Very interesting video, amazes me how many technologies failed to even get released in the US back then
Cliff Richard was all over the radio in the early 80's here in the states.
Cliff Richard was quite popular in the US, with hits reaching back to 1959. In 2012, he was #371 all time of Billboard’s Top 500 artists.
Thorn EMI put me through university, paid for my driving lessons and paid me a wage throughout all that (mid '80's), then made me redundant almost immediately as they closed the arm I officially worked for. Must have cost them a fortune !
Oh God ... your lavish life style killed Thorn Emi.
Lol well it might have doomed DER anyway 😂
Utterly fantastic half hour of entertainment. Thanks Matt for bringing the forgotten formats to life.
Just want to say how well produced and interesting all your videos are. This is better than most TV nowadays.
Lovely presentation as well.
I could listen to a middle-aged guy talk enthusiastically about old technology all day.
Great vid. I wish you good luck on finding more of those VHD discs. Maybe even the prototype USA VHD player.
Another excellent deep dive. I love this kind of stuff, especially when you can actually find media produced for a format.
This isn't too related to VHD, in which I mean not in the slightest, but I wonder if you've had a look at the HitClips format? Since you did Pocket Rockers a while back, this might be worth a look.
Arabesque!-) being a fan of your channel for about a year, enjoying it very much each episode!! More of it!!!
Aww, that mystery disc was a bit of a let down, but oh well, at least it's an actual disc... :D
As for faxing JVC, I could do with some tech support on my Ferguson portable VHS recorder, seeing as they made it, I think......
The plot-twist in the end was awesome! Who could`ve imagined what`s on that blank disk you showed on the previous VHD video!
I got a bit nervous when you were cracking open that case at the end. If I damaged a disc that rare I'd be devastated.
Even with it being what it is
your sark and British wit never ceases to make me chuckle when I watch these!
I’d have no interest at all in nearly all of the things you cover if it weren’t for the fact they’re in videos made by you. Your videos are well-produced and well-researched. You also have a fantastic camera manner and a passion for what you’re talking about that shows and is infectious. Great content.
The song she is singing @20:38 is 越冬つばめ (Etto Tsubame) originally by Mori Masako. One of my favorite enka tunes.
That "California Girls" disc cover though....obviously meant high quality inside.
Kurt Stedman Ha! What a cover!
Oh, do I miss the 80s. A time that will never come again.
Before SJWs ruined everything imagine that in a product promotional video now people would be screaming about toxic masculinity
I'm thorougly amused looking at all those magazine ads from the 80/90's, with boobage advertising everything. Miss those times...
@@jayqueue6784 No one would say that was an example of toxic masculinity, at most they would say it was male gaze - but lots of lesbians get on their case for acting like the world is only straight. There's definitely not any kind of consensus there, certainly not for you to worry about.
(Also I feel it worth pointing out that that phrase is meant to get across that being masculine isn't itself inherently bad. The word toxic is a modifier, like milk or dark for chocolate.)
It's not for your channel, these obscure audio and video formats that you profile would never be known to me. Thank you so much for sharing.
18:31 - That old school anime style. :)
I like that You are always including "adjusted for inflation" when mentioning prices. It is really helpful !
i would love a video about those early HD tube TVs
A fantastic insight into another forgotten format. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make these 2 videos. btw, I love the Kickstopper video and appreciate the effort taken to compile it.
"Doc! We gotta go back to 1980! They didn't put Guam on the map!"
"Marty, no American can point out Guam on a map anyway."
Well I'm 25 and can point it out, it's out by it's lonesome somewhere between the Philippines, Japan, and Hawaii.
Orange Harrison I can also pick it out. I love geography and I live in the USA. It is true though that most Americans don’t have too much understanding of the world around them! It’s not their fault, it’s the fault of the public school system in the USA. I was taught about geography and it made me interested in Shortwave among other things. Politics is not my thing though.
Loving the content. Thank you! These old format videos you do are quite interesting on what ideas we had years ago.
"Please fax your complaints to 1980" hahahaha
Love those mystery reveals like the one at the end of this video. Closest I'll ever get to that is a box of mystery blank VHS tapes in a box from ebay/car boot.
I forgot about the Disc Lord... Greatest marketing in history!
@@davidjames579 ...and I bring you!
@@davidjames579 You're luck my LD collection is in the next room or it would have heard you and accepted it as a challenge.
Blimey, this is like the demo of the century part 2 (RIP Doug Englebert). But seriously, this format had so many applications it's just fantastic. Thanks for this video, superb detail and a joy to watch.
But it didn't have a mouse
If only C5 channel (UK TV) had been this good I would still be watching it, interesting and excellent.A big like from me .
Looking forward to the CD-I video.
its a shame the players these days are not too reliable what with the timekeeper battery issue unless you get to the battery via cutting out the battery on the ceramic chip but im sure mat would have that sorted.
Love the size of your New Zealand overlay, proud Kiwi watching down under
wow... there was actually blue moon (astronomical occurrence) just today... and this video is called "once in a blue moon"...
WOW, Zenith, my first TV (CRT) as a child and it still had the heavy 'Clickity Klakity Click & KLAK' ... Heavy-Duty Twisty Knobs for swapping channels... I have been buying UP all the plasmas I have seen and BEEN filling the house with a Panny, GT50 and was so GOOD that grabbed the last one and one UP from it, the ZT65 (or may be a ZT60, same difference though) as well as the debated the BEST plasma of all time "KURU" which I only ever knew as a rare protein disorder in the brain from eaten human flesh, LOL... Plasmas are the best and ended up using my GT50 by Panasonic for my Computer Monitor, my home one that is daily driver! ... Anyway, seeing one of the clips here in your video reminded me of Zenith and I have been trying to find the Zenith Plasma for sale somewhere used and within reach to drive to get her, no dice thus far! ... WE need a China sort-of-WiKi website to KNOW which American and "used to be popular" brands are now just a junky CHINESE Brand...
"california girls" looks pretty spicy, woah momma
Thank you for this entertaining and informational video. The end was the best, as I was really curious about what was on that disc inside the clear caddie.
Commenting so someone will complain about why I commented before the video was out.
Replying to this comment because I haven't seen the video yet either...
Evil my dude
@@yuristocat you are evil
Dude my dad died again from your comment.
Greetings from the Space Year 2019!
Great job on adding New Zealand onto that map! I couldn't tell the difference between the addition and the original VHD screenshot.
"The Man Who Loved Animals" until he got caught at it.
He started an ideology/death cult - it's called Islam.
@@davidjames579 Sounds like you recognize where I got that. :-)
@@davidjames579 Mary had a little lamb.
I hope that didn't come bundled with "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex"
Ekusaitingu gemu desu ne! Man, I love wasei-eigo. Great video yet again, Mr. Moan.
random semi-related trivia about the pronunciation thing, Japanese companies will often have multiple "official" pronunciations of their name as naturalised for different regions.
For example, "Nikon" as below:
- In Japan: "Ni-kon"
- In American: "N-eye-con"
- In Europe: "Nick-on"
It's easier to just roll with some level of pronunciation changes, when you're dealing with radically different phonemes and syllable structures. American companies do the same in Japan.
IIRC McDonald's is something like 'ma.ki.do.na.du', for instance.
@@keiyakins Ma-ku-do-na-ru-do (or Makku for short, sorta like Macca's in Australia), but yeah! I find it interesting to see how pronunciations can differ, even among Anglophone countries. Some are pretty straight forward, like Nissan:
Japan: Ni-ssahn
US: Ni-sawn (rhymes with tree brawn)
UK: Nih-san (rhymes with kiss sand)
Others are real head-scratchers, like Hyundai:
Korea: Hyuhn-deh
US: Huhn-dey (rhymes with Sunday)
UK: Hai-uhn-dai (???)
There does seem to be a general trend of UK renderings trading long vowels for a short vowels (in addition to the aforementioned Nikon and Nissan examples, compare UK vs. US pronunciations of pasta, taco, etc.). Wonder why that is?
@@PaplooTheEwok Don't forget Top Gear prounouncing it "Day-see-ya" and then they started advertising their cars as "Dats-ya". It was too late by then!
Thunder Storm was called Cobra Commander here in the US. Was one of my favorite games back in 1985. Dragons Lair, Space Ace, and Badlands were some of the other Laser Disk-based games you would see in an Arcade in 1985.
I think you’re right about VHD not making it in the US. In the 1980s, it was VHS 📼! And I believe that the main advantage VHS had over VHD was the fact that you can record programs on your television 📺, or from cable, or even from another VCR (which I did quite a bit in the 1980s). Another great Techmoan production, sir. Thank you 🙏.
Really enjoyed this. I appreciate the time you have spent on this research. This channel is perfect for me
Old technology is something that I never knew I would love so much
A lot of smug and wit when dealing with (stupid) complaints from previous videos... I love it, keep it up.
2:20 @World Maps Without New Zealand
13:35 Saxon - Live Innocence!
I was not expecting that to pop up in this video. Cool!
Wow, you guys know about Oak Island.....
It's fun seeing Old/New media looking like it pretty much did out of the box. Those discs looked like they were properly stored.
Even in Japanese, you are technically pronouncing "Matsushita" correctly. The audio clip you found of the pronunciation is actually a contraction. Japanese contractions like this were actually frowned upon into the 1980's according to my various Japanese grammar books. But all language changes over time and by the late 80's, they realized they weren't going to stop it no matter what they did.
@Adrian Stevens So, exactly what expertise do you have regarding Japanese spoken prior to WW1? The oldest of my grammar books has a copyright date of 1908. I'll take its word over the word of someone who would need to be in excess of 130 years old to have legitimate experience to say otherwise.
@Adrian Stevens Your confusion stems from the fact that I have 70+ years of documentation in textbooks pointing out that those contractions aren't acceptable. Just as in American English, "Ain't" is unacceptable, but we hear it all the time.
@Adrian Stevens LOL. You miss the point, just because something is done doesn't make it right.
@@danajorgensen8943 What happened here?
@@solarstrike33 Mr/Mrs Stevens deleted the posts made from that account. Couldn't argue his point against actual grammar books. I've forgotten the specifics, but he was arguing about contractions in Japanese.
Great work great review love your work ❤
Translation from 22:03
Girl: Ah~ What are you doing? It's amazing!
Man: With 60 minutes on each side of the disc, videos and sounds are recorded in a very high density. Then the personal computer will pick up the exact data and that allows us to manipulate videos freely! It is only possible to play this "Game of Dream" since the basic design and interface of VHD system is firmly made! Also, there are a lot of discs in which computer program itself is written onto the disc itself, so it allows us to have "EXCITING" game experience with live audio and video. VHD have totally changed the game itself!
Girl: Oh, look! Gotcha! Isn't it amazing?
Man: You weren't listening, were you?
Girl: Of course I didn't!
WOW!! And here I thought DVD was the forerunner of branching content technology. Love these tech history videos!!! And yes, I re-pronounce it “Mat-soo-sh’tah” in my head every time you say Matsushita. 🤣🤣
The only people in the US that knew about Cliff Richard in the 80's heard about him from watching bootleg copies of The Young Ones lol
Devil woman went to number 6 on the US charts in 1976 or 1977.
@@tubester4567 And "We Don't Talk Anymore" got to #7 on the US charts in 1979-80. Cliff Richard was well-known enough to US top 40 radio listeners like me in the late 70s/early 80s that when the Young Ones references started surfacing on MTV a few years later, with the 50s sound of "Living Doll" and "The Young Ones", I had to wonder if they were talking about the father of the Cliff Richard I knew from the radio.
He did have a few hits, like "Devil Woman" and "We Don't Talk Anymore", but while I know those songs, I didn't know the name.
Cliff didn't do too bad on USA Top 40 and Adult Contemporary radio in the early 80's. That he never did a huge tour of North America or opened for someone like Olivia or Elton here probably kept him from having more hits.
I was genuinely on the edge of my sit when you started playing the mystery VHD.
*instantly googles Momoco Club*
"Mr Rogers on Feelings" The mind boggles as to what's on this disc. Plus - seeing Gerry Mulligan on the sales brochure: that would have convinced me!
Just wait until I perfect my punch card digital video player
HAHAHAHA curse of oak island joke is a good one. i really get mad when i hear it. every sentence he says has a question mark in the end and the answers to those questions are always NO. Love your videos keep them coming !