On the record (an extra vid)
I have a couple of proper videos almost ready to go, but something fun and unusual turned up in the post, so I've made a quick video about it.
There will be a new looooong video along at the weekend.
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Where did you get that shirt?
That was from Joe Browns: <a href="https://bit.ly/2JpMFk7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2JpMFk7</a>
Pretty darn neat and creepy indeed. I would have thought that the outer edge of the 12" vinyl would have contained significantly more 'data' than the inner grooves at the same 45 rpm speed so the quality might have been a tad better.
This is an awesome follow up!
Tres cool, but what was on the other side? Also, any chance you'll upload the whole capture (including awesome blurry Patreonage) to the secondary channel?
I will upload it in full when I get a moment. The other side....I have to keep that one a secret.
The vinal video inseption made me smile! Thanks!
that is so COOL!
This is great, what a nice little surprise!
Love the way the outro music sounds being played on the vinyl video
A vinyl video about a vinyl video. Then you made a video about it. Excellent. Maybe I'll make a video about me watching the video about the vinyl video about the vinyl video. I think it might be time for one of my little pink pills...
I think the video quality perfectly matches the format, it reminds me of the film Iron Sky where technology is mostly stuck in 1945 but has been evolved and hacked in interesting ways to modernise it somewhat.
What fun! I'm so glad they responded with this offering, and I hope they get a few more sales as a result. It's how the internet works, after all. By the way, as for the creepy aspect of the vinyl video, it reminds me so much of a haunting dream sequence, such as from the story Solaris. Maybe some film maker could make use of that one day.
I think I'll cope with not being able to read my name :)
We’ve been immortalised on a record! Just need to get it re-pressed in gold and we can send it into space so the whole galaxy knows :-) Ewen
That's really cool.
That's just about the coolest thing I've seen! There is a wonderful spooky quality that reminds me of found footage or ancient Eastern European cartoons or perhaps the Quay Brothers.
Found Footage you say...
Fantastic! Anything on the other side? :)
I still managed to spot my name
Very cool. I’d be curious to see if they release a video encoder/decoder utility for the format. Would be fun to play with. It looks like it takes a stereo audio track off of the record and splits them to use one track for audio and one for the video. Would love to see a waveform of the audio it or get a raw pcm chunk to have a look at.
In the YouTube video description text box you’ll find a link to a pcm recording from this disc.
That's just cool! One of the muppet videos would be a hit on vinyl!!!
This made me grin so much.
No apology needed for our names being too fuzzy to read. The important thing is that there is a vinyl record in existence that has all of our names encoded inside it as an analog video signal. That is a whole different level of reward than has ever been promised.
I didn't think about it on that level. You must be in sales. ;-)
Great stuff. 😁
This is the best thing, haha.
Awesome, nice one!
Thats awesome Mat, what a way to say thanks. I understand the heavy drop in video quality but why does the audio suffer so much?
I suppose it's just the limitations of the signal bandwidth - no doubt they made the audio good enough to understand and then used everything that was left over left over for the video.
Kewl!
Snake's eating its own tail! I love this. Had a huge grin on my face when the record started playing.
Oh my word, that is SO meta. Now what they need to do is make a vinyl video of THIS video of you playing the vinyl video of you playing the vinyl video ........ better stop before my head explodes!
"a new looooong video"... This coming from Matt, I've reserved most of coming Sunday for watching it, hope it'll be enough..
Pack a lunch.
Bugoga. Firstly, we are writing videos onto Compact Cassette, now we are going onto new level - vinyl video - the new generation of NeverVision today. Whats next? Audio on punched cards? I know the answer! Audio on paper tape! With optical head to read. Named as "Speaking Paper", or 'Govoryashaya Bumaga' but it's really rare thing by the pre-war 1930's. World have really 1 working museum device of this technology, and a little copies of records, in state archives too.
*translated via google translate*: In 1931, engineer B.P. Skvortsov created the “Speaking Paper” recording device of that time. The sound from the microphone after amplification was fed to an electromagnet, which vibrated a pen with black ink under which a paper tape was being pulled. After the tape was passed through the photocell, directing the light from the powerful lamp to the paper. The recorded oscillations caused changes in the voltage at the output of the photocell, amplified and fed to the loudspeaker, which reproduced the recorded. The phonograms were easy to copy by printing method in any typography and without the slightest loss of the quality of their sound. The first vehicles were released in 1941, but the first installation series was released only in 1944 in the amount of 500 copies. Another 500 tape-drive mechanisms were released to the Voronezh Electrosignal plant for use in radios. At the end of the issue, as the magnetic recording developed all over the world.
I think I may take a DVD copy of an old 8mm Kodachrome family movie, and ship it off to the Vinyl Video guys to have it reverted into 1940s-ish black & white.
Haha, how very meta! Yes, I was wondering if there would be any Muppets making snarky regards about the format they were on....
Your muppet show would go well on one of these!
Yes their high contrast and low detail features would transfer to the low res format about as good as anything.
You've got top be chuffed over receiving this. Well deserved.
You should probably send them a video of the "childish, unfunny and idiotic" puppets 🙂
If I think of a good idea, I’ll certainly do that.
This all reminds me of that format from a while ago that uses audio cassettes on a specific tape unit that records a video signal onto the tape at really high speed, black and white as I recall. You've probably even already made a video about that.
You guess right <a href="https://youtu.be/u_si3xAoTeM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/u_si3xAoTeM</a>
That is awesome, your own video record of you. Well done.👍
Wow, what a cool thing for them to do! I think it’s such a great project. It’s always fun to get records in the mail, but this takes it to a whole other level!
Very nice! Good work. Artist helping artist. I feel like my patronage is being multiplied!
Now *that* is a nice gift
How cool is that?!? Congratulations - I see this as a true honor. I love this!
I thought it was a really nice gesture of them.
That's awesome, Mat - love the fact they've generated a new disc from the Youtube review. I bet that was a nice surprise!
It's a great bit of fun. Apparently it took a bit of effort to get the whole video on because it exceeded the normal maximum length.
Retro, meta, and lots of fun. Thanks for sharing that, Mat. How about a hint regarding the topic of the long video this weekend?
It's a review of modern tech...so nothing too amazing. However you really need to see the outro I've made for it...