I changed my mind. this is now my favorite episode of code lyoko

@itzspencerr1403

8 жыл бұрын

There's no escape from Code Lyoko.

@DrewberTravels

8 жыл бұрын

+snorky 33 I might watch that episode 91 - Bad connection. It actually sounds like a title of a Oddity Archive episode too.

@Malkmusianful

8 жыл бұрын

+snorky 33 0/10, there's no aelita in this shit

I had a similar thing to the Rabbit back in 2000 to get cable TV to my bedroom (because my bedroom had no cable hookups). The transmitter and receiver had flat plastic antennas and looked kind of like tiny satellites. The transmitter was connected to a VCR in the living room, which was connected to analog cable. (I was the only person in the house who didn't have a digital cable receiver.) I also had a set of pyramid shaped devices to transmit the remote signal to my VCR to change the channel. One problem with that setup was that I would have to run to the other side of the house to put a tape in the VCR. :P The picture quality was pretty good and was (mostly) free of interference. Occasionally, I would have to wiggle the antenna around, but that wasn't too common. The other problem I had with that setup was that there was interference whenever anybody would walk across the signal path. Not too bad for something that transmitted across an entire house through several walls.

I just grabbed an UNOPENED Rabbit from my garbage room of all things... Strange events DO happen some times ;) and judging by the copyright notice on the bottom. its the 1985 version :D

I figure the interference is because the wiring is old as hell or just too thin a gauge to carry such a high signal like AV. It looks to be smaller than 22 AWG, try some 18 or 16 gauge wire if it'll fit, and see if you can get some shielded wire, you may have better results.

@MrARM

3 жыл бұрын

I have a feeling some older capacitors have some play in the bad signal.

@delusionnnnn

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it might be the wire, but I also wonder if that section of spectrum is just subject to more household and extra-household interference now than in the 1980s. Also, even though these units look to be in good condition, some components don't age well - capacitors in particular, and I wonder how much performance degradation due to capacitors degrading might be at play. It'd be interesting to play with for someone used to re-capping boards.

We had a similar thing called a "video sender" here in the UK. I remember having one at home around 1989/90 and like the VCR Rabbit it was just awful. Lots of flickering and interference, and a complete waste of money. I think we used it about twice. I remember hearing about an incident with one of these. Someone who lived near a TV transmitter repeater owned a video sender. It interfered with the single broadcasting from that repeater. A whole town had the BBC's Sunday night religious programme "Songs Of Praise' replaced temporarily with a hardcore adult film which was being sent through one of these.

@iaincowell9747

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris Johnson www.amazon.co.uk/Nikkai-SCART-Audio-Video-Sender/dp/B00264AVUMI had a system very similar to this.

@louiseogden1296

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha. Just the best ever escapade.

My father used this setup to record radio stations into vhs in ssp getting 8hrs of playback. Then we had portable vhs player (that would hook up to a huge camcorder and battery pack) but he would hook it up in his truck and play music in the truck when we were out in the middle of nowhere where there's no radio signals.. He was a mad scientist

Interesting video! The sputtering and farting is due to wifi signals also on 2400mhz. this was obviously not a problem when the thing was new.

The Part 15 compliant wireless Rabbits operate on the license-free 900 MHz. band, which is shared with a ham radio band. Hams occasionally repurpose them for ATV transmission.

@5:54 Damn Ben, plug some more cords into that power strip, hook up some of those 4 plug adapters, run that shit. power company can't tell us what to do.

I had to cringe when I saw all the melted into Styrofoam pieces and parts, this means everything you had was kept in a nice hot location every year, more than likely someone's attic. Seeing as this stuff is 20+ years old, and the heat placed on them, the caps are certainly 100% shot and dried up, and I think the root of many of this things problems. I can only imagine the wired version sent 24VAC or so down the tiny speaker wire with a superimposed version of the A/V signals on top of that, which is how this engineer would've done something like that to keep things cheap. You'd need good caps on the other end to be able to undo that mess in filtration to separate each signal again (power, sound, video). If you're handy with an iron, all that stuff should be through board and mouser has plenty of cheap electrolytics to replace that stuff. I bet you'll find they work better. The wireless version clearly had some nasty cap noise and interference with something nearby in the 900mhz band those supposedly used.

Never even heard of this kinda thing over in the UK I do remember back when we had I think satellite TV but could have been cable, my sisters TV in her bedroom (which did not have sat/cable) would actually on a certain channel pick up the audio of the TV downstairs whatever it was watching. Never been able to replicate it since. Just thought I'd share, was quite odd to us.

Man, that speaker wire was woefully inadequate. I wonder how it'd work with coaxial sockets soldered in instead of the crappy speaker wire...

Code Lyoko recommendations. What the hell now, Oddity Archive!?

@bathroomshy

8 жыл бұрын

Lmao me too. XD

@TheHunterPersian

8 жыл бұрын

Ben answered the questions he got about the code lyoko recommendations in a recent Q&A

@HappyJigg

8 жыл бұрын

+DEFF FACTORIE KZread would rather give you something more popular than what you really want to watch.

@sheddinator

8 жыл бұрын

HappyJigg I'm watching it now lol.

@BirdKingJay

8 жыл бұрын

+DEFF FACTORIE Weird how it only started happening AFTER he mentioned it in his Q&A video

VCR Rabbit was a noble idea, but probably could have stood some improvement in execution. Happy New Year!

Dj Khaled says "you can use the vcr rabbit to hook up your vcr to another tv! And another one, and another one..."

Does anybody recall a clock radio made by Penney's or Emerson that had a cassette,8track,Am-fmh and a recorder on it?

When I was young, VCRs were affordable enough that we could have one for both of the TVs in my house (though I think it was mostly so we could record more than one show at once). Consequently, the whole concept of the VCR Rabbit is completely alien to me.

This seems kind of similar to a Radio Shack composite video sender I got back in the early '00's for Whole house PC gaming on TV, the video quality was better than the VCR Rabbits (as they were, of course, a newer technology), though they still suffered slight video interference, for some reason though, I could never get the IR blaster to work, the IR blaster seems to work quite well on the VCR rabbit though

I think many people would have been better just slotting a coax Y-Splitter in to their video recorder output socket and running a length of plain coax cable to the second room. Certainly that is what we did when I was young. At maybe twenty-five feet the reception was more than good enough and this setup actually lead outside the house to re-enter through my bedroom window frame. I suppose the - wired - 'Rabbits' boosted the signal to some degree and attempted to clean it a little, which was probably handy. Otherwise it doesn't seem the earliest models had much to recommend them. I am surprised the wireless setup did not do better. I'd guess you've got at least one dead electrolytic or maybe tantalum capacitor in your 1990 transmitter which is causing the picture roll.

SEND FOR SEECH

Ben does all he can to make the little details in his show stick out...

I like this distorted VHS style version of your intro. BTW, Happy New Year 2016!

That intro is fraking BEAUTIFUL!!! WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE INTRO?!??!

I've had to do this kind of setting up and tuning an antenna in the last week or so. I've ended up with a flat antenna stuck to an open window to get a watchable picture without a direct connection to the rooftop aerial in the bedroom. I'm going to have to get a bloke in to put a feed in so I can shut the window. This kind of testing and trying set up after set up would drive me absolutely nuts. Moreso than I am already. It would end with a pile of smashed electronic gizmos on the path below my windows. Ben, you have the patience of a saint.

I still have my VCR rabbit. However, it's nonfunctional. It was the one that use the wire. I used it because I only wanted one cable box but I had two TV's. Back then they say you still could get in trouble for splitting your cable. Technically, I was splitting my VCR. I have a big blue Rubbermaid box full of stuff that I called my radio shit box. Are you in need of any old obsolete parts?

TIN FOIL, TIN FOIL... Ben. Tin Foil always worked when getting a weak signal from an antenna. Awesome episode, love what you do! Keep on Keeping on!

Love the opening on this episode.

The colax hookup, is the best

The "sputtering" during the '92 model tx/rx test could possibly be a result of interference from a nearby wi-fi router. I have an X-10 brand wireless video receiver/sender set that operates around 2.4Ghz with 4 channel variations (ABCD), and had a very similar type of interference. Changing the wi-fi channel on the router did the trick there. I assume the rabbit operates on a much different band, possibly somewhere in the low band VHF range, but it's still possible it may be picking something up nearby, maybe even an FM radio station or over-the-air digital broadcast signal. As for the '90 model receiver, it seems the video level and RF levels are out of whack. It may be possible to fine tune some variable pots inside the unit to clear things up.

Fun Fact! That lazerdisc noise is also used by the CIA to torture people.

And in the wireless tests,take the box off the top of the TV. The magnetic interference from the TV tube is messing with the signal. And if not that, something in your room or the surrounding area is (like a modem).

Happy new year to you too, Ben. :)

Outstanding video!!!

you can also use a UHF modulator kzread.info/dash/bejne/mWSqsdeSfKu_j7Q.html

I don't want to be that guy, but a snazzy little ending would have been to tack on the first few seconds of this very video being transmitted (Inception noise). Yadda yadda editing, I know.

I got the Radioshack mini rip off of the wireless ones. coax + ywr AV option, channel 3/4. Super small, built in antennas.

to terminate fig 8 cable, try twist, fold, twist also for gods sake get a tripod

I don't know why you care so much about the camera not being on a tripod. I've never used a tripod in my entire life. Also you cut off WAAYYYYY too much insulation on the speaker wires.

Whaaaaaat? A YT presenter who presents *material* instead of him/herself? You know the type---the endless selfie posing, cut shots, self-attentive editing, etc etc etc where you always get the creepy feeling that s/he really just made the video as an electronic way of looking at themselves in the mirror making silly faces and posing....Anyhow, thanks for the quality content, OA.

It appears as if he dubs different generations of vhs for each of his intros, if not that would be kinda cool to see how long it takes (or how many episodes)to degrade

That 'tick tick tick tick tick BRAP! tick tick tick tick BRAP' at 25:45 sounds like RFI from a poorly designed switching power supply....

We had them back in the day. The 1990 version. Not bad but not great.

A E S T H E T I C

Could you use this with a cable box w/ only a coax output?

I think part of your issue with poor picture in the 90's models may have been related to confusing the RF "coax" Input Channel selector 3-4 for a transmit channel selector, to be used in conjunction with the actual transmit channel selector A-B-C. I recognize that no color, all hiss picture from VCR/nintendo setup days. You could still switch the betamax to talk on channel 4 but it would give you the same results across your choice of 3 frequencies. Somone else mentioned wifi and that also makes a lot of sense. We have more radio waves flying around then ever, at least compared to 20 years ago

@MrWolfSnack

8 жыл бұрын

+codemsan And if you have a transformer near your house. I have one in my backyard and my 1986 Radio Shack Porsche cars will not respond correctly unless I either go inside my house or garage, or about 20 feet from the transformer. They are very sensitive.

Wonder if this is what hotels used for in house movies back in the old days

Is there anything like this product that actually works? Looking to pimp my signal

Anyone watching in 2019

@louiseogden1296

4 жыл бұрын

2020!

I saw one at a thrift show recently. Didn't buy it.

7:54 Important Safety Instructions: 1. Read instructions. ...but if you don't read them, how do you find out you have to?

I always wondering if you could get a clean picture if it would bypass macro vision.

Oh my, R.I.P headphone users.

That "transformer" is called a "balun" (balance/unbalanced).

hey, I have a super betamax almost like yours.

Why are pretty much all of the suggestions for Code Lyoko?

@bonkboi420

8 жыл бұрын

wtf

@xbopgamer

8 жыл бұрын

+BNSF1995 lol

@Malkmusianful

8 жыл бұрын

+BNSF1995 because an episode was named "a space oddity" and oddity archive is the name of ben's show so apparently an episode where odd has to hide his dog while fighting a supercomputer virus UP ON A SATELLITE is similar enough to ben's tv show

Wounder what you get with Better Wire? a lot people use lamp cord wire for there speakers.

@MrWolfSnack

8 жыл бұрын

+TuthHurts911411 Lamp cord? Better? I suggest you study electrician classes and electrical resistance. Just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's right. It's idiotic, and does not work. Putting lamp cord as speaker wire is like filling your car tires with concrete.

@TuthHurts911411

8 жыл бұрын

OK? I am fair solder and have general under standing electrical resistance have been repairing PC motherboards for years. longer wire more resistance. Lamp Cord thing come from Audio site and even come up at music shops from time to time. General end up that there is no detectable difference between wire of same wire gauge vs branded audio cord and lamp wire. Hence similar wire has similar physical/electrical property. I was figuring that video quality improve when upgrading Coax cable so the Rabbit may show improvement. I now think issue with the video may have more do with shielding there a lot more radio interference now then when Rabbit came out everyone has WiFi these days.

Keep it up yo..i loove this chnl... beagal and tea morning... at least 1 of your shows are on my vp9000 high band Umatic...if you come here...your usualy above 25... whos got a tube cam..! Me

Surprised you have issue with speaker wire.

why not just use 1 speaker wires on each hole?

also nice vid

am I the only one wearing headphones that started to feel weird at the noise around 30:00? I know he said it was loud but it really wasnt to me, just made me feel weird.

Have you tried fine tuning? Because mostly these TV sets do not pick up signals as flexibly. That's how I get almost HD picture with RF on my Megadrive.

@B5DIN

8 жыл бұрын

+AfterBurnerTeirusu I know, I just like streching things. :-) But it looks really good on my TV. (LCD and CRT, thu my Panasonic VCR). imgur.com/a/D7c21 (Not much to say, I'm not able to get one A/V, let alone RBG cable for my MD. It's just pointless for me right now.)

@B5DIN

8 жыл бұрын

+AfterBurnerTeirusu Not much to say, I have the second model. Looks impressive, though! Do you have a Megadrive personally?

@B5DIN

8 жыл бұрын

+AfterBurnerTeirusu Yeah. Twatty power buttons, twatty distortion of audio, twatty mono, twatty protection and stuff. I still bloody love it, but I like my Gameboy Color better. So whatever! :) As long as I'll play music on Walkman and play and watch Pokémon on VHS, I don't mind. ;P Luck for two'o'sixteen to ya'!

Why the box? Was his face burned by acid or something?

@waterandafter

8 жыл бұрын

yes

@MrWolfSnack

8 жыл бұрын

+Steven Hildebrandt No. He just hides his face for whatever stupid reason.

@emolovetree

7 жыл бұрын

on the website he says his camera auto focus just doesn't recognize his face and starts constantly trying to refocus

@dorourke105

6 жыл бұрын

Watch episode 89.5 frequently asked questions. Might not clear everything up but, it's one explanation

Fix your damn machine

bad or leaky caps cause rolling, nice vid though.

no VCR Duggar

anyone ever say you kinda sound like Curtis armstrong?

@REexpert44

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah

2016...What will the world be offended by this year???????

please do not adjust your set

Wabbit :v

First

@TheEScrapMan

8 жыл бұрын

Blue Shell.