Video Oddcast June 2020

these nose free spays get you addicted the longer you use them. If you stop, it's hell for a few days but eventually you can get rid of them.

You mention that you wasnt very happy with the videos past month, not enough meat on the bones etc... Hello! Bloody Nora, 95% of all videos on YouTube has less content and "meat" than any of your videos. Thats what I love about your channel, the quality, sound, light, content. Few channels I have seen reach this quality and those who do are basically company supported large teams. Thanks for all good work.

Those terrible ads are spreading. I hadn't seen those "experts are going crazy for this new thing" ad when Techmoan first mentioned them. Now I'm seeing them all the time!

ps I also like the kitchen gadget videos and they provide a service - either if somethings good and better still highlighting when some item doesnt really turn out as it intended.

Hi, very enjoyable ramble, and didnt reakise that Minidisc was chopped off at the knees so thakns for pointing that out. Regarding Patreon dont guilt yourself into feel you need to do extras , I took the view that what you provide is at the very least interesting and sometimies facinating. It relates to home tech and dead formats and part of the cultural history and daily life of the last 70 yrs and this stuff is not covered in any print or TV media. So I take the view that I used to pay a magzine subscription it used to be £3.99 a month, it was only in one narrow field and it was not easy to connect with the mag or suggest new items or topics to cover in the real way a you tube channel can - so hey ho $5 a month works out to about the same so hence the sub. So carry on without feeling obliged at receiving subs - your channel is the payback for us. One final comment, My hovercraft is full of eels. ( doesnt make sense but yo said you hated comments you could see coming a mile off.) hopefully you didnt see this one.LOL More power to you and keep on trucking.

40:00 I recall there being Home Hifi CDR recorders but they would only record onto special, more expensive copyright paid, Music CDRs as opposed to the Data ones you could buy in any computer shop. https://www.manualslib.com/manual/340685/Philips-Cdr795-Annexe-1.html?page=6#manual

Rolling in the aisles over here. Me an the Mrs listening to your trials with the old biddy ads. Love the rambling. Doubled my patron contrib. Keep on keeping on mate.

Great, Mat. Enjoyable chat as always. Can you get Anders to cut that version of Cuba Baion onto a piano roll for my DuoArt pianola?

Oh. Now that was a treat!

Thanks for making content! It's tech channel and isn't the modern tech world and consumer gadget market a big old mixed bag? That's what makes it fun and horrifically overwhelming, and yet you still make us appreciate it all and have that connection. I've said it before that it's like Christmas when you get to see some of those items we only heard about or couldn't get at the time but now we can enjoy or realize we weren't missing 😆. If you don't answer, it stinks for a second, but you are a person with limits and that's very relatable! Keep up the variety and content!

Thanks Mat 😊

Great video as usual Mat, would love the midi of the Cuba Baion tune - would be interested how it would sound on the Genos! The one you sent out before sounds great :-)

I think the "Karapiano" cover of Niji is meant to imply this is a kara, ie "empty" piano track (instrumental sans vocals) to serve as the backing for a choir, perhaps for a recital practice or a school music class. The word is probably a play on Karaoke meaning "empty orchestra."

Anyone else getting loads of YouTube ads for earwax removers? Not video ads, just ones like Mat's lovely invitations from mature ladies! I click on the 'X' to say I'm not interested, but they always return!

Thanks for the update Mat. Keep up the excellent work and great job Anders. Every time you say Grand Sega I hear Grand Seiko.. Lastly, how about some sort of automated reply explaining that you're grateful for them getting in touch but can't always reply?

What a great 90 mins that was. Loved every minute of it. It's like being in a pub with mate (remember those days!) shooting the breeze.

We throw into the tip jar as a thank you for the interesting and thoughtful videos. 🙂 And to keep you in allergy medicine and 7 Up! I sure hope June sees you through a little better than May.

first I was just surprised about the Patreon tax issue, then alarmingly looked down on my NAS consisting only Seagate Barracuda drives and finally had a good laugh on the story on that mature lady haunting you in the ads. What an emotional rollercoaster

You caught me not smiling for your picture!

About those green screen credits: had to keep an eye out for them in the latest Vectrex video, and sure enough my name is still there. 😃 But, I also noticed that fellow patron WWW.APCG.SE has their name apparently hyperlinked as it is underlined. Auto-hyperlinking is quite an annoying "feature" of many office programs...

I was a huge fan of the Oximeter video, maybe put it in a private playlist somewhere instead of taking it down entirely? Really sad to see the entitlement of commenters pushing you to the point to where you had to take it down. Don't let it get to you you're great!

If you feel that an external monitor might be useful then it's worth looking at the devices from Atomos. I recently bought a Ninja V for 4K capture from my PC (threw some clips up to demonstrate) but its real purpose is as a field monitor and recorder. It will do 4K at 60FPS at broadcast quality which is overkill for most people, me included, but it does make a very nice off-camera monitor for HDMI devices. I see what look like Sony batteries behind you on the lamp and those are what it uses, along with a mains adapter. Used, older devices are available and might fit the bill. Regarding hard drives, I've seen lots of Seagate Barracuda drives fail at work compared to very few WD drives in the same environment and would always recommend against them. It's a running joke now. WD Red have treated me well for years and my server is loaded up with them using a Windows storage space as I don't trust NAS operating systems, as others have said see if SMR drives concern you going forward. LTO4 tapes and drives are fairly cheap now and the tapes hold between 800GB and 1.6TB each, I got an old SCSI drive from work and it's great for mass backup, not sure you have a way to integrate it but could be worth considering. I'd be more than willing to help. Great work by Anders at the end there.

I'd like to apologize to you and your family for contributing towards your lack of living space! :P

Me - I pay good money to watch this old rubbish - I can't get enough of it! Much as I enjoy your main videos, these Oddcasts are the icing on the cake - and whilst icing on its own wouldn't work, layered on the regular output, it really brings it all together - for me anyhow. No, Mat, please don't be in any doubt how much value these Patreon extras add to the Techmoan experience.

Hi Mat, there's a lot to be said for NAS and drives for them - from professional experience it's the luck of the draw. I've had failures of drives from different manufacturers. some sold as NAS and some not. If you're serious about your data though, I've heard ( and seen ) bad things with the Drobo over the years. I use ( and recommend to clients ) QNAP and install drives off their 'approved' list and all drives match ( as with many things, you definitely get what you pay for with NAS ) Happy to test those drives out for you to see if they have actually failed, or if it's just early warning

We've been paying VAT on Patreon in Europe for years.

Yeah, I am also all over the place when it comes to units. I can't do people's weights and heights in anything other than stones, pounds, feet, and inches; for anything else I tend use metric measurements. Except road distances and speeds which use miles. Baking I switch between ounces and grams depending on what the recipe is in. Temperatures I pretty much always work in celsius; except when I was doing A-Level physics many moons ago when I would also use Kelvin (which is a special case anyway, 'cos it's still a metric unit, just not one people generally use).

Well, they haven't taxed... thingy. You know.... thingy.

I can't believe I'm only 16 min into a 1 hr 32 min video. I'm an hour in, Why is he talking about his hair?

Thanks for the long ramble. A welcome distraction as the world continues to become unhinged.

Another fun LCD-side chat. I re-arranged my Patreon this month. Put my faves back where they were and kept the ones where I'd redistributed the wealth (moved my donations from creators in nations with rational healthcare to US-based creators because COVID-19). *My* job appears safe (at least until the new fiscal year in 28 days!) so it's not like I'm short on cash. I also wanted to make up for the hit some will take on the %&^QQ#**@ sales tax thing (which is not the fault of Creators or Patreon). It's getting out of control in parts of the US. Income tax is being cut and made up by increasing sales taxes (state, county, and city in my case). The burden is shifting from the wealthy, who can easily hide income from the tax man and on to the poorest people who can't hide from the sales tax. Ridiculous. ANYWAY ... THANK YOU for another fun video. Especially enjoyed your righteous rant about RIAA. :-)

RE : 'Obvious' comments on the Sega Pianist video. I was going to do the "12 inch pianist" joke, but I thought "SURELY someone's done that already in the comments somewhere".

Just skimmed through the comments but didn't see anyone mentioning this, but those 6GB Seagate are possibly SMR-drives? I had the misfortune to buy a couple SMR drives for my old NAS that it wasn't happy with, before I even knew that shingled recording was a thing. Luckily the store took them back and sold me a pair of PMR drives instead. Same price even. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording

I'm sorry to hear you're having a rough month and to hear people are being a little too blunt on your appearance\age. If it's any consolation I think you look just fine - pretty normal looking to me lol. I hope you get back in the groove and start feeling like you are producing things more on your terms. From my point of view your content is seem as consistant (not repetaive), informative, and entertaining as it has been over the years. Do what makes you happy and feel free to take a break. I'll still be hanging around for you next video.

I loved listening to you whilst relaxing in the sun this aft. Picked up two more quad 8 tracks this week. Have you seen the film on 16mm so wrong its right re 8 tracks (https://youtu.be/B7nva7meVv0).

Just a quick comment to say thank you so much for taking the time to do these. I do really enjoy watching them. This is what I consider to be sane side of the internet (not that I’m necessarily sane mind). I’m afraid I was one of those that had to reduce my pledge for a while due to these interesting times, however they will increase again as finances allow.

You had plenty to get off your chest Matt. I used to be a Decimal Training Officer in 1966 and thinking back to when I lived in Darwin for a month developing a tolerance to high temperature and people saying it's 140 degrees in the shade ! all I knew was it was hot. Many years latter I was working in 47 degrees Centigrade rather than Fahrenheit and it was still hot. When I worked in the Hi Fi trade we had to pay for a copyright licence so we could play music for demonstration purposes. I can't remember the cost. Sony found themselves in a predicament when it came to making copies of music because they had there own record label and had to be seen to be against making copies of music. Not hat it stopped most people. My staff were always making copies of vinyl records from a Linn turntable to a very expensive Nakamichi cassette deck. You did make me look at Minidisc and I picked up one for £6. All I need now is a portable CD player with an optical output so I can make a direct copy of a CD

Not only do I get the ads for dating mature women, I'm also getting ads for adult incontinence underpants and one does get tired of seeing them as well. I've got more than 10 years on Mat, but not ready for those yet. Mind you, if I do need them sometime, I'll definitely use them, but YouTube will probably be showing me ads targeted to young people by then.

Another super video, I love these Oddcasts, never too long. You're doing a great job Mat, shame about the comments, if only people could be nicer and think of feelings of others a bit more. The tape recorder is model 309as and CondensOR is spelt same way on the cardboard box too, how did they miss that! Lovely design though and the speaker grill is a thing of beauty. All the best👍. Drrrrrooooobooo😅

Since March I have been on lockdown. The three best things I've watched:- THIS!!! MINIDISC UNWRAPPING VERSION LONGUE And erm OZARK (I don't think you worked on that one....?) 93 minutes of Mat saying all the niggles nestling in my head. I love these. They're funny, informative and prove you're not alone in thinking the world (and especially the internet!) is truly insane. As long as you keep doing them and never bow to pressure to keep them shorter, it will cement my place as one of your many patrons and I know I'm not alone.....

Any amount of tax is fine to me as your videos are priceless, but I can't afford any more than 70p a week at the moment.😀. Also you have to remember that the recording industry of America saw Sony as a competing record label, another reason for the xenophobic lobbying.

Sometimes you can't trust uploading videos to check for content match. When I did that cover of Axel F. I uploaded just the music portion to YouTube for about a week. It did get a content match as a "cover song" and said I was still allowed to monetize it. So, I continued on with the video. When I released the full video, with that EXACT same music in it, it had a content match again, but this time it matched differently. It was the same song, but said it was licensed by a different record label. This was was ineligible for monetization. I opened a case with YouTube about that, and they still haven't responded other than "we're looking into this."

Well, I thought this video was a hoot! At first, I wondered if you'd changed some medication, or perhaps that was Mt Dew in that bottle, because you were speaking quickly and perhaps more off the cuff (ooh! shiny!) than usual. You did have me laughing in a few spots! Thank you for what you do for your pat followers!

Thanks Mat for another diverting video - I really enjoyed relaxing in the sunshine watching that. Hope you are keeping well and staying alert, whatever the hell that means!

Thanks a lot again Mat, many times, you speak fully from my heart: I really like the promotion idea instead of shutting down videos with the content matching, but I know a bit of background information from the Netherlands, the BUMA/STEMRA, the Dutch copyright management institute: those people really don't know where they're talking about unfortunately, trying to make things exorbitantly difficult for people wanting to show bits of copyrighted stuff on the web... And yes, the health thing, I don't understand why people speak about that like that, as if everybody deliberately chooses to be unhealthy or not. I hope you stay healthy enough for a long time to have a happy life, and entertain us with your videos! I also get the strange ads in YouTube, usually wanting to warn me about bad food or also "finding a woman of my age"... I just ignore them. I'm happy with my girlfriend and she with me ;-). Then about the hard drives: funny and sad that apparently Seagate Barracuda drives are still causing problems... You would think that either they improve them, or people stop buying them?!? With the WD Red, I actually never had any trouble, they're also quieter and run less hot than the Barracuda.

Auto content match is totally out of control. NASA's stream of the Crew Dragon launch was briefly taken down, because of a copyright claim from National Geographic... who had rebroadcast NASA's feed.

I did wonder if that might be the reason. Suffering for your followers, divine!

Mat, don’t you pay for you-tube Premium? I gladly pay it to never be bothered by adverts ever, and to listen to YouTube with a locked screen. Worth it for those alone in my mind.

LOL. "You look MAHvelous." Carry on.

Your justified rant about commenters hits home. I teach at a university, and we have course evaluations at the end of the term, where people can leave comments. Although they are anonymous, some students make it pretty clear who they are, and a pattern quickly emerges: the ones who complain the most, who make needling comments about how you speak, dress, etc, are always the ones who put in no effort, skip class, don't seek out help, etc. I'm sure the YouTube haters come from the same place: unhappy people who think they can lift themselves up by putting others down. Thanks for all the great videos.

I suspect that some people have a Patreon "budget" and they maybe move their allegiances around based on what interests them at that point in time.

I love these videos! Don't feel obliged to respond to any of this! Still, also from 1971? And yes, unfortunately, I'm also one of those where my health dropped off a cliff after 40 and stuck in the house. Well, perhaps less than I should do ;) I also used to own a Drobo and I loved it to bits! But I also couldn't find them when mine broke, so I switched to QNap. Works, but I miss some stuff that the Drobo does well (using mismatching disk sizes for instance). Oh, in the Netherlands, there has always been tax on Patreon, so nothing new. Did get devorced, but if you really can't spare $1 per month for your well loved channels.... (obviously, if you just lost your job, probably not, especially if you live in the best country in the world: the US).

A certain percentage of my monthly Patreon pledge is made simply for the ineffable joy of hearing you refer to your wife as "the missus."

What a terrific ramble! You certainly covered a lot of topics here. I'd like to comment on each of them, but I think I'm overloaded with content right now (sort of like your Drobo). Anyway thanks to you, Mat, to Mr. Jensen and to Mr. Drabek.

You really nailed my main gripes with these video conferencing days. Another favourite is when you just see someone's forehead! Don't they know they can see their own broadcast image in the corner of the screen? 🙄 Also, I think I've seen enough kitchens with motivational posters to last me several lifetimes by now...

I really enjoyed listening to you fan. It must be an high-end audiophile fan. It has extremely low distortion. ;-)

I know I am preaching to the choir, but the YT content match is frankly disgusting. Hearing a song on YouTube in its entirety, will have that affect sales? Yes. Someone may choose youtube over spotify etc. Hearing 30 seconds of it in someones video as they talk about it, is that going to replace hearing it? No. Never. If anything, someone may look for it based on that. My biggest problem is that they know youtubers are using the music as PART or their video. Not as the video. I dont get why they can't let you buy the rights to use a small amount of song in your video. Example "youtube has detected you have used under 30 seconds of (INSERT SONG). For £5 you can purchase the right to keep it in this video.". Most youtubers would say "yes let me do that" as oppose to losing ad rev on the video forever or cutting the song entirely.

I looked at images of the PANASONIC RQ-309DS and I can see condenser spelled both ways on the same product. Mainly it seems to be spelled correctly.

OCDC - Bock In Block

I'm scarred for life ;-)

Just seen the thumbnail, can't wait to see what Steve Howe has to say!

Best thumbnail yet! Oscar style make up! Love the oddcasts! Was watching an old one yesterday 😂