2025-08-13 17:39 UTC
Replies (22)
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@ThaMunsta@mastodon.nervesocket.com 2025-08-13 17:42
@TechConnectify@mas.to Can't wait till someone is making a holodeck VR hologram about mp4 files in 100 years 🤣
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@jackeric@beige.party 2025-08-13 17:46
@TechConnectify@mas.to can I play it on a betamax player
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@cordova5029@dragonscave.space 2025-08-13 17:46
@TechConnectify@mas.to I haven't yet clicked on it yet, but did you cover all the versions of them? I also uh... no offense, hope you actually spoke rather than just, put a montage of pictures :) ocularly challenged viewer :)
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@miiamustang@eliitin-some.fi 2025-08-13 17:46
@TechConnectify@mas.to Babe, wake up! Technology Connections made a video about video formats again!
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@BorrisInABox@fwoof.space 2025-08-13 18:08
@TechConnectify@mas.to Well, cool. Now I know what camera was used in Back to the Future... except it made queue and review noises like a beta machine in the movie. OOPS... Never knew a VHS machine to do that.
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@maddy@akkoma.queernerd.club 2025-08-13 18:17
@TechConnectify@mas.to Ahhhh, excitedly watching this over my lunch! I got a hand-me-down VHS-C camcorder when I was a kid, and I'd use that thing for making silly videos with my friend! I always found those cassette adapters fascinating!
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@Drayventhal@mastodon.social 2025-08-13 18:34
@TechConnectify@mas.to Thanks for your video. The VHS-C adpater is a very cool device I never heard of before. But for what is the second, smaller hole?
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@SHODAN@mas.to 2025-08-13 18:42
@TechConnectify@mas.to I want your shirt so badly.
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@klausman@mas.to 2025-08-13 19:17
@TechConnectify@mas.to Love your videos! (and totally get why engaging on Mastodon is not your fave activity).
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@Johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu 2025-08-13 19:37
@TechConnectify@mas.to what I'm seeing are formative moments about the fascination with the refrigeration cycle :neofox_lul:
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@jernej__s@infosec.exchange 2025-08-13 19:37
@TechConnectify@mas.to Small mistake in subtitles around 14:03: "VHS-C cassettes also have a right protect tab."
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@gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu 2025-08-13 19:58
@TechConnectify@mas.to I enjoyed watching it a lot! As a techie I had vIdeo8 and DV.
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@casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de 2025-08-13 20:37
@TechConnectify@mas.to Ohh, maybe you should make a video on U-Matic which had different tape sizes without such complicated adapters. They just had a groove in the cassette which would guide a small cassette in a large VCR. BTW the tracking system, which removed the linear tracks apparently came from the standard consumer VCR system "Video 2000".
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@rrustema@mastodon.social 2025-08-13 20:53
@TechConnectify@mas.to a video that won't disappoint surely.
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@ItchyDemon@mastodon.social 2025-08-13 21:11
@TechConnectify@mas.to You are right to say it's technically supposed to be a "VCR", but let's be honest -- who still uses the "R" function of their VRC? I will happily admit that I am a weirdo who still uses floppy disks, rotary phones, and typewriters, but my VCR only ever plays VHS tapes since it can't record modern digital broadcasts (I delegate that task to a DVR), thus mine is more of a VHS Player than a Video Cassette Recorder. But I won't die on that hill 🙃
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@Karcsesz@equestria.social 2025-08-13 22:15
@TechConnectify@mas.to Recently ran across a set of these while going through some old family relics, and I was absolutely floored at how elegant of an idea they were. Especially the adapter! ...I should finally archive them before they perish
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@flame_broiled@sw.byps.social 2025-08-13 22:54
@TechConnectify@mas.to hoo boy, the amount of times I had to tell people that 8mm and VHS-C were different formats. No, there is no adapter available because 8mm is not compatible with your VHS VCR. They'd then get mad at me and tell me that either their friend has an adapter or that they'd take their business elsewhere since I was so rude to them, usually both!
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@Crovanian@mastodon.social 2025-08-14 00:11
@TechConnectify@mas.to yay, more media gubbins!
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@dat@social.g33ky.de 2025-08-14 06:27
@TechConnectify@mas.to I love how tables turned with Digital8 you bought VHS-C, because of the hardware you previously bought. And you bought Digital8, because of hardware you previously bought. When your 8-camcorder broke, you were left without a device able to play your old tapes, because your home-vcr can't. Sure, there were better storage solutions for digital video, but that Digital 8-camcorder plays your old tapes!
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@remywhisker@mastodon.social 2025-08-14 13:29
@TechConnectify@mas.to The history of VHS is an excellent lesson in the power of established ecosystems
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@f4grx@chaos.social 2025-08-15 09:47
@TechConnectify@mas.to a pleasure to watch, thank you.
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@recantha@mastodon.social 2025-08-24 17:11
@TechConnectify@mas.to Ah yes... Ah remember eet well...