The long range monitor switching test footage gave me flashbacks of our old friend, the Max Headroom mask wearing crazy person.

@Red_Savarin

2 жыл бұрын

*hums the theme to Clutch Cargo* I still see the X!

@louiseogden1296

2 жыл бұрын

He was about 33 years ahead of his time in wearing a scary mask on TV!

I loved my VCR Rabbit. I had the wired version. I used it to get cable in my bedroom. This was back when it was against the law to use splitters.

Benny boy! You made another mistake! The 1990 version is only to be used under a crescent moon! It has to be waning, though.

I remember learning of this device because of the FCC case. My uncle came around talking about it one evening. For some reason the idea fascinated me and I never stopped thinking about it. I still remember that evening. It ended with the idea that we'd have to wait to see if they could re-design it in a way that would pass the FCC and even though it felt like waiting on the next Star Wars or something I never mentioned it to anyone again. I just thought about it often and waited. I never stopped thinking about it, actually, and I thought something like this would be a cool device to market to consumer electronics enthusiasts as a way to watch era specific broadcasts on their old t.v.s and radios. The idea came from the time we got an old radio and the first time we turned it on some modern (it was the 80s) music started playing and me and my dad laughed and he said "wouldn't it be cool if it started playing music from the 20s like in that Twilight Zone episode?" At some point I put two and two together and thought of trying to make some kind of in-home broadcasting device like this for that purpose. Obviously it would be digital media sources, though, so it wouldn't be pure analogue stuff, but if it was at a really high quality so that wasn't too noticeable it would be much more fun than what's actually there when you turn such a the thing on as it stands currently. Then again, you could go crazy and hook up several tape machines and have an all analog feed too. I figured such a set up would not be affordable enough to sell as a product because it would be too expensive to produce but I'm obsessed with the idea still and want to do it for my own house at least. Turning on the transistor radio in the bathroom and it's 60s music, etc...It would be beyond a novelty to me. I wonder if anyone would buy such a product if it existed?

What Ben did not mention is that the second he turned on the wireless VCR Rabbit, the FCC MiB showed up and the remainder of the video DID NOT HAPPEN.

That's really spooky - i was just rewatching the VCR rabbit episode yesterday and now you upload this.

Those darn wabbits.

Had one of the wired ones. Worked fine for about five years until it died.

Man do I ever see some Halloween episode ideas in this.

I saw a Rabbit Double Play in the wild the last time I checked Goodwill. I didn't pick it up but it looks like something the OA would appreciate.

Didn't understand the older episode, but this clears things up better than the pictures from the Rabbit lol

Wi-Fi router interference is always a valid criticism. My router lives on my desk and frequently causes problems with my cassette player and computer speakers.

Another look at outdated technology courtesy of Oddity Archive. ⚛

Oh, come on! You should have given us a quick fair-use clip of "Night of the Lepus" for irony sake!

@OddityArchive

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't "Night of the Lepus" Public Domain?

@racecar_spelled_backwards868

2 жыл бұрын

@@OddityArchive even if it is, knowing the overzealous nature of KZread's content match algorithm, it would probably be flagged as a clip from, "The Matrix."

The claim of stereo is very dubious, simply because almost no VCR's actually had Stereo enabled RF modulators in them so the RF output was always mono. Let alone the rabbit would need to have a MTS Stereo enabled tuner to pull the stereo audio from the RF input which would have added a lot to the cost. I did a lot of work back then with distributed video for C-Band and DSS systems and to get stereo sent down an RF channel you needed to spend way more money on a professional agile stereo equipped modulator like a Blonder Tongue. The only way to get stereo output out of nearly ANY VCR, or Sat Receiver was via the RCA jacks. Some cable boxes did pass it through, but even that wasn't 100%, as lot of them didn't. Most people never noticed, or cared. All those RCA and GE TVs with RF only inputs and Stereo functionality, would only ever get stereo if they were hooked to basic cable (and if your cable company spent the dough on the stereo modulators at the head end, which they often didn't, or sometimes only on a few of the popular channels) or over the Air antenna.

@wdavem

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds right to me. I started fixing vcr's 25 years ago and vaguely recall only one vcr that said something like "STEREO tuner RF output!!!" on the front like it was a big deal. It wasn't a low end machine either. I want to say it was very late 90's vintage.

Oh, geez, I was going to use the "hare" reference in my own pun-laden remark, but you got in ahead of me.

Yay another archive my favourite channel one of them

The way Ben switched between the camcorder feed and the Duck and Cover episode straight up looked like a Blair Witch inspired indie-horror movie scene... Late Fees, coming out in two-thousand-never, folks.

You also want to unplug your OnTV box too. LOL

The DIY cursed video kit.

@JSSMVCJR2.1

10 ай бұрын

True Analog Horror Kit.

@JSSMVCJR2.1

10 ай бұрын

(Although it doesn't necessarily have to be Horror)

They’re multiplying…

The 1986 rabbit is the same as the 1985 version with the missing antenna and capacitor off the board. Its still silkscreened on the board but not populated. The wire is effectively a physical connection of the transmitter and receiver.

Dunno if it's very effective within a coaxial network. On our digital age my ISP is on cable and it covers 20 square miles with a single injection of Gigabit internet and digital TV signal

At 2:15, should've been, "let's hop to it!" :D

If it were hastily made and released, wouldn't it be possible to restore that box to the wireless variant?

No point in it only working when you're not in the room...!

I know in the UK, we didn't get the VCR Rabbit, but we did get the AEI DigiSender which worked wirelessly by sending analogue TV transmissions over the 2.4 GHz band (the same band used by WiFi, Bluetooth and microwave ovens) meaning the devices were hit heavily by interference. I wish I still had my DigiSender, just so I could send it to you. Though you may have had problems getting it to work, the devices only had had wired SCART plugs and no sockets at all for anything, including RCA plugs for composite video. Would have been intertesting to see if it worked with standards other than PAL.

A few years back I saw one of them new in the box at a thrift shop wish I would of grabbed it

VCRs at school let you play recode/control up to 4 VCRs and they had no copyright bs chip, if you did play a coped tape it would look normal in them. Could you buy this model retail are only schools?

I think I could hear some cellular interference in the signal dropouts.

is the center channel speaker on your vcr shielded?

@OddityArchive

2 жыл бұрын

I doubt it--it's just a cheap Yamaha set. For what it's worth, the results are the same whether it's around the speakers or not and regardless of what source format I'm using.

How big was the pre-laserdisc system most used for the replay of sports? It only did 30 sec in color. I think it was like the worm drive so part cd part hardrive best way to put it.

What synthesizer you use?

@OddityArchive

2 жыл бұрын

Moog MG-1. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oGufq8-Qlq61oaQ.html

By piercing the membrane, you automatically voided the warranty. Sorry...

Ok for real though, I would have killed for something like this growing up.

Bennyboy is still using windows 7...?

@OddityArchive

2 жыл бұрын

For transfers and the final OA edits, yes. That laptop dual-boots Windows 7 and 10.

I do not know how you coped without SCART leads or sockets, RF was so fugly.

I was starting to think the COVIDS got you!

@OddityArchive

2 жыл бұрын

Why's that?

@c.l.7525

2 жыл бұрын

@@OddityArchive haven't seen you in a while!

@OddityArchive

2 жыл бұрын

Then YT must be burying me again because I've had a new video of some sort out all but one week this year.

@c.l.7525

2 жыл бұрын

@@OddityArchive yeah I just looked and you've been putting content out consistently but I haven't seen it. You're not the only channel that's happening too.

@michaelcarpenter2498

2 жыл бұрын

KZread, where we hide you.

hmmm rabbet

This is unwatchable. There's war footage more stable than this.