Not me - but Miikshi...and me

Cute!

I knew straight away this production was Canadian. It's reminiscent of the Muppets, like Lamb Chop & Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas. It's delightful.

That was so good.

That BBC snippet was awesome! Will be keeping a look out for more on their channel.

Just watched some more Miikshi. I'm shocked that there aren't any TV networks anywhere that have picked it up; it's that good. I can't speak for other countries, but the main kids channel here in Australia (ABC Kids) shows a lot of Canadian stuff alongside Aussie and British stuff. Being one of the millions of Aussie taxpayers that helps fund the ABC, I'd be stoked if they spent some of the money it makes from Bluey on getting Miikshi made into a series. If they've got money to spend on a Monkey Magic reboot, then you'd think Miikshi would be a no-brainer.

Thank you for these videos! And in fact, if you find similar interesting ones, I encourage you to share them with us, as I was enjoying both of these very much. :)

Adorable show, but if it's a show, where can I find other episodes? Am I missing something very obvious here?

Well there's a new thing for me to watch.

Was the giraffe modelled on the security guard that was seen on YouTube? https://youtu.be/5Td_Ce1fiL0

Just watching this again, only this time from the beginning... I lost it when Dr Crumpet was boasting about his Crumpetdore 64 computer. 🤣

That was fun and super charming. Incredibly well made! Bravo Miikshi!

Techmoan at 6:10.

I love Dr Crumpet 👍🏻

Bravo!

Don't think I've heard a Brummie accent on such a thing before! Well done

Miikshi looks like the sort of programme CBBC, ABC Kids or whatever the publicly funded kids TV network in one's country would show. It'd slot in seamlessly between Peppa Pig and Octonauts (and would have been the sort of thing I watched a lot of had it been around 12-15 years ago). BTW if this makes it to series, I'd love to see the disinterested giraffe become a recurring character.

Awww wuv it, so cute

That was fantastic!

Delightful!

I was planning to watch 30 seconds or so, but they had me at “sheep scientist”. What a beautifully made show!

aww i love it. never seen this before. it's so cute in a furries do thunderbirds kind of way

The pre-DCC video is interesting. 8 tracks to record digital audio onto a cassette. Based on 44.1 kHz 16 bits stereo without compression, that would require a bit rate of 176400 bits per track per second, plus error correction data, plus data such as that text screen. To get that kind of a frequency response with ordinary metal audio tape, you'd have to run it at probably 20x the speed of analog cassette. It kind of looks like Philips may have taken some inspiration from the system, but by 1988 (when they started on DCC), they had MR heads so they could use 8 heads for audio on each side (plus a 9th track for markers). They invented PASC (now known as MPEG 1 audio) to do 4:1 lossy compression and 10-to-8 modulation to fit all the information on a tape that runs at the same speed (with 96 kHz of bandwidth per track including modulation and error correction; twice as much as the 384 kbps MPEG data stream), and chrome video tape as medium.

Phantasmagoric! :-)

Ho boy, I love that giant tape model. The moment it started moving... Those tech demos on the BBC archives channel are wonderful. And thank you for voicing Brent in the new Miikshi, Mat!

Thanks for sharing!

Quite adorable!

Ah, couldn't Brent have ad-libbed, "Flippn' Heck!", when he realized he let the wrong Miikshi take the sub?

That's so good! Thank you so much Mat. Didn't know anything about Miikshi (despite being a physicist in another life) I love this channel/Patreon! Always learning new things.

That's made my day! Excellent.

This is fantastic, I hope there is more to come... I knew nothing about this. New series I presume

Bother all you like, I don't mind at all. No Brent... it's not Miikshi, it's the evil henchpuppet Dr. Crumpet! I am always amazed by puppets that can portray emotive facial expressions when they can't actually do so. I need to watch more of this series. What I liked the most: the check engine light on Crumpet's sub. 😅

That made me smile more than a moody middle-aged man should be allowed to smile at puppets. Very cool, Mat.

Good call on the riaa. I had to pause and look it up. I had no idea about that.

Techmoan voicing a giraffe puppet called Brent! The Tuesday gift I didn’t know I needed!

thanks mat, great lunchtime viewing for me and the kid. (there is no kid)..

DCC could have been lossless like DAT was but they clearly didn't want to use a complex helix scan head system. Would have made backward compatibility tricky too. That digital tape player there seems to use a very long tape. I imagine the tape speed is very quick.

Mat, I know you've already done some good illustrations in your garage of how tape recordings work, but now I [hope😉] you'll build some oversized models of cassettes as seen in the BBC video--they were very clever. Anyway, good on ya for sharing these items.

What an incredible production… the amount of work that’s gone into all the sets and models is amazing! Love everything about it. And I’ll tell you what, that giraffe is going places.