Gimai ga Douyara Yandere Datta Hanashi - Ch. 64 - Once Upon A Time... Part 6

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I just can't get it on time, can I? It was up almost instantly tonight. As always, I'll be here until 11:00, in case you want to ask questions about obsolete media formats or something.
Edit: Look who showed up! Nice to see you!
 
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And that's how Yua turned into the "Remember me?" girl of big bro's dreams. :dogewow:

Bruh, I'm old enough that I lived through the Beta vs VHF wars. The failure of laserdiscs outside of libraries. Don't speak of the elder video codecs to me.
 
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Bruh, I'm old enough that I lived through the Beta vs VHF wars. The failure of laserdiscs outside of libraries. Don't speak of the elder video codecs to me.
Aw man... Now you've done it. Have you ever heard of the other, (kind of) third contestant in the video format wars, Video 2000? It was Philips' answer to the video format war (only in Europe, though.). There was also the "original" home format (albeit in a small capacity) U-Matic. And before that you had open reel video tape in the 60's, I believe. I've spent way to long researching this kind of thing. Not to mention all the time I've spent finding all these machines.
 
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I just love playing around with formats and devices that were way too expensive for most people to afford at the time. Example: My Panasonic AG-7500A retailed for over $6000 in the 80's. I bought it for $35. And the fact you can get a Sony BVW-75 Betacam SP VTR for under $500, when it retailed for about $36000 in the late 80's. Still on the hunt for others, like DAT, DCC, a decent three-head cassette deck, a PCM adaptor to try digital audio recording on video tape, along with W and D-VHS VCRs. Plus any more that I'm forgetting.
 
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Aw man... Now you've done it. Have you ever heard of the other, (kind of) third contestant in the video format wars, Video 2000? It was Philips' answer to the video format war (only in Europe, though.). There was also the "original" home format (albeit in a small capacity) U-Matic. And before that you had open reel video tape in the 60's, I believe. I've spent way to long researching this kind of thing. Not to mention all the time I've spent finding all these machines.
No clue on Video 2000, but I remember the U-Matics were even bigger than the first gen pop-up VHS players. On reel to reel, well, that's all in the realm of 8mm and 16mm film. Nearly everyone in my generation has had to sit through vacation slides and grainy, vertigo inducing home films shot on a Super 8.
 
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Here's what that Sony consumer video tape recorder looks like. Came out in 1965. (that's apparently a prototype, but the consumer one's look similar enough.)
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And I've seen some of the big U-Matic VTRs. I have a little U-Matic SP portable recorder that's way smaller than the big ones, since the tapes are physically smaller.
 
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Well, looks like the old video format talks have crept past 11:00. I'll see you all tomorrow! Gal Peace!
 
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Smol Yua, don't be sad. You'll see him again in the not so distant future
 

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