CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, and all the rest
This might be wrapping the CD up? There are other things to talk about in the realm of optical discs, but I think I've said all there is to say (or at least most of it) on the compact disc itself.
The next two videos will be much simpler in scope. And the second of the two will kinda-sorta be related to optical discs, as you'll see.
I'm in a bit of a time crunch so almost nothing is done aside from the video itself. This thumbnail will surely be replaced, and the description, cards, and other stuff are on the way. But for now, enjoy!
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet... (YouTube)
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Your videos are like a good, informative, entertaining lecture from everyone's favorite hilarious teacher
CD-ARRR
Also the data + audio cds were rather common in video games, I remember Rayman using the format, for both pc and playstation
That’s data first then audio, which you couldn’t put in CD players of the time, without the risk of frying the speakers. Enhanced CDs had the data at the end, which audio players didn’t read, but computers could. They usually included a music video, or an offline website there.
I kinda expected Myst, as they were pioneers for the use of the CD, cool anyway
I bought my first CD burner in 1998. Back then 650 MB / 74 min CD-Rs were easily available and 700 MB / 80 min was hard to find. In fact some software/games intentionally had more than 650 MB on the disc just to make it harder to copy them. Also 650 MB CDs were more reliable and older CD-Players could read them better than 700 MB CDs. I still have TDK CD-Rs burned in 1998 that work fine while almost anything I burned in 2000-2003 is unreadable. - CD-Text was a neat idea but for a long time it was only used on Sony/Columbia Audio-CDs and it took a long time for other labels to use it - maybe they had to pay Sony to use it? I think Sony developed it. Today almost any Audio-CD you buy has CD-Text but most people don't notice because the CD player they have can't read it and on a PC the titles are automatically downloaded from the internet. But almost all newer car stereos support CD-Text - if they still can play CDs...
FIRE LASER!!!! I remember my first Iomega ZipCD CD-R drive.
I'd love to see the SACD gone further into, it's just such an oddball format that's still pretty popular in certain circles and the whole concept of DSD audio is something i'd love your take on since it's made so over complicated by everyone else who tries to describe it
Were all the images on the screen put in post, because I genuinely can't tell if you just perfectly kept the mouse in the same spot, filmed a black screen the whole time, or masked different parts of the frame.
All the filming had to be done with the computer off. It's quite loud. So, I worked with masking. Immediately after I filmed the talking head, I switched on the computer and filmed what I needed. The desktop portion is just a still image, with chromakeying done on the background the change the color.
I love the bloopers . great job very informative
We used to call the multi session ones CD+R (plus r). Vs the cheaper CD-R (minus r).
Im curious how the GD-ROM for the dreamcast operates different from the purple book standard. I wonder if the only difference between them is just pit density.
If I may be additionally pedantic: Your PC isn't misrepresenting anything, it's just not using a standard board's preferred redefinition. "Kibibyte" and friends didn't exist until 1998, and a Kilobyte was 1024 before then technically, although some manufacturers used multiples of 1000, particularly megs and gigs, incorrectly. If you think about it in context of a CD-R, if the CD-R was printed before 1998 it would be 700*1024*1024. It's absurd to expect the manufacturers to change the packaging. The choice to not use Mebibyte for 1000*1000 feels more like a marketing decision, as that was the undefined value, and I think it's logical that it's caught on so poorly over the past 2 decades.
That pirate joke was amazing because it's a double entendre. "Arrrr" like a traditional pirate and also a computer pirate because before there was broadband internet the best way to pirate games was to burn them to CD-Rs.
Man, that offhand delivery of the pirate joke... Perfection.