Actually, thanks to the fine folks at Red Letter media, we've been lucky enough to find out that the K.T.C. warning was also on the sequel to Cat Sitter... Dog Sitter.
You know the first thing that comes to my mind about Abbot and Costello is the fact that these two giants of the industry really began as a team back in 1936. Of course that time I was just a baby. Really!
+Zircon 40 Put a chicken wing in your VCR - that'll break it. (I called it Kentucky Tarred Chicken, forgetting that North Carolina is the Tar Heel state, not Kentucky.)
I'd love to see what the board room was going for with the whole KTC thing: Let's not technically make any copy protection; let's use the scare factor to scare them into thinking a tape can destroy a VCR if it is copied. This will teach these cat-loving video pirates!! If you really want to screw up a VCR, do what I did when I was like 3 or 4: Stick a feather in the VCR!! (BTW, I just about lost it with your peanut butter joke at the end!)
For your infomation, the Stop-Copy only engages if you mess around with the tracking on a VCR. The signal on these tapes were made intentionally weak, so it only really worked with early VCRs that had no AGC circuit unlike the later ones. Then again, having a AGC circuit also means it is vulnerable to Macrovision, so yeah. As for KTC, stuff only really happens when you record over the content, I believe.
Oh my god. The animal sanctuary I volunteer at has that EXACT cat sitter tape. Pretty sure they've had the thing since they opened shop in 1996. They play it on loop in the cat house sometimes, on a small mid-90s TV mounted to the wall that- somehow- hasn't been peed on by Henrietta, who regularly sits atop it. After enough times hearing the "THIS VIDEO WAS TESTED BY SDASDKLKDJH" monologue, I can almost recite it by heart lol. Never paid enough attention to the actual video to see the warning, though! Kinda miss it. They haven't used the TV in a while, idk if it's broken or what. Maybe it's the K.T.C. Or maybe Henrietta did pee on it, after all.
Just found this video while doing some research on KTC, and I can confirm that there was at least one other tape that claimed to use this technology. I learned about it from Red Letter Media's "Best of the Worst #7" episode, where they watched a video called "Dog Sitter". Seems to have been made by the same company that put out "Cat Sitter" so it's not too surprising. It's such an obvious bluff that the folks watching in that episode immediately reacted to the warning with, "Was that a lie? That sounded like a lie." I enjoyed this video, totally subscribing. :)
So if this K.T.C. stuff actually exists and/or does anything, wouldn't it only do something if you tried to *record over the original tape*? That sounds more useful for making home-recorded tapes record-once-only. Useful mainly for threatening siblings that regularly taped over your stuff ("Susie, if you try to record General Hospital over my 120 Minutes with *this* tape, it'll KILL THE VCR and I'll tell MOM!"). Most of the Fotomat "buildings" in my area have been left in place and repurposed as other drive-up-friendly businesses -- gourmet coffee/espresso is a particularly popular choice, and there's at least one cupcake place.
anyone with half a brain would realise the coating would have to be on the tape you are recording TO and not the original! Like you said it was just to scare people
That actually doesn't sound too far out of the question. Think of when this would've come out, not everyone would've been as experienced with VHS as we are today. If it was your very first VHS deck and didn't know all the ins-and-outs of copy protection, you might well feel tempted to "play it safe" and thus NOT try copying these tapes... Although why ANYONE would think Cat Sitter and Dog Sitter would need even the THREAT of copy-protection I'll never know...🙄😬😵😅
Much like how some versions of the UK's "Beware of illegal videocassettes" VHS warning claimed that pirated videos could potentially damage the user's VCR...another scare tactic!
Ah, the ole' cute kitten technique.. Soon, I'll be bragging to fellow youTubers about how I got in on the ground floor of the cultural phenom that is OddityArchive. My hat's-off to you sir. Keep up the fine work.
I tried finding information about KTC and i found two kind of information. One is redundant and it cites this video. And other is a old newsgroup that explains nothing and makes joke about the nature of the video (cat sitting?).
About your being the last generation to know about Fotomat: Fotomat kiosks will forever be immortalized in the first _Back to the Future_--it's what the Libyans crash their very 60s van into when Marty goes back to 1955.
Nicholas Tosoni in addition to Fotomat, Pittsburgh had a similar thing called Foto Hut, with little storefront locations, I'm sure it was a local thing, but from what I understand it was used in "That 70s Show".
Related to this discussion, there was an old "Fox Photo" kiosk down a ways from where I live... by the late 90's / early 2000's it closed, and it's now a cheap (read, somewhat ghetto) cell phone place. They actually did developing there, so it was a little bigger than the average photo place. Kind of cool, or at least the idea would be to me if I had been old enough back in the 90's to appreciate such.
That Abbott and Costello tape looks too recent to actually have Stop-Copy on it. Most early Warner and Paramount, and 1979-80 Magnetic Video tapes had it- it was also on Beta unlike Macrovision.
in case anyone is wondering when you type in the cat video website in the url a placeholder website called pet sitter dvds comes up with a site maintenance message. so interesting i guess...
Is that where the libyans crashed into? In the First Bank in feature film? With a few of that 70 shows episodes in a photo mat? I joke I still go to those in the summertime. We still have one of those where I live. It's only open during the summer. They love me.
I think this K.T.C. warning was more of a deterrent than anything. Especially since there's no solid evidence that it even exists. Most people at the time could never have been certain if the tape did or didn't have that chemical on it and they wouldn't be willing to risk their expensive equipment because of it.
WARNING: IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ. The program portion of this tape has been coated with a new substance called K.T.C. to prevent illegal copying. K.T.C. only reacts when subjected to the magnetic head fluctuation caused by the record mode. If you have already started to record this tape, we are required by law to inform you that the K.T.C. process may damage your VCR. K.T.C. will not affect your VCR in the play mode. The tape coated with K.T.C. does not begin for another 15 seconds. STOP RECORDING NOW. Thank you for purchasing this video. Enjoy the show!
I know why for the KTC warning - the cat sitter tape were so crap that it was cheaper than BLANK TAPES! They put KTC in to stop you buy a bunch of those tapes to use to record crap off of the TV.
If you use anything from 84’ on up stop copy will not work. You need a analog video signal circuit. Most after 84’ were digital so the weak vsync signal was worthless copy protection.
Try recording OVER the cat sitter tape; I think it was less a scare tactic than a technical oversight, the company not realizing that recording over the tape isn't how you illegally copy the tape.
Hey there! I have two stop copy tapes that function. The effect that occured back when I attempted to dub them caused the picture on the screen to turn from colour to black and white, and upon playback of the dubbed tape, the picture was scrambled, with the horizontal going nuts.
It seems like pretty much everywhere I see someone talk about "KTC," they say that "Cat Sitter" is the only tape that has this "copy protection" on it... does that mean that RedLetterMedia's copy of "Dog Sitter" is a rare VHS tape? Good thing they didn't destroy it.
The only copy gard I know that actually worked was when recording the original, They would not record the horizontal and or vertical sync at full height. So it would deteriorate enough so that the copy would lose sync and not be very watchable. But my friends and I had video stabilizer and color enhancer equipment to by pass that.
Your equipment was too good for Stop Copy lmao It's literally just a weak vertical sync, the presumption seemingly being that the inferior quality would destroy what little v-sync it had.
The 1980s were awesome with; "Are you Beta, or that other system"? We had them both! It wasn't until 1990 or so that I ever Dubbed a Home Movie. Living just outside of town, we didn't have cable. That big old VHF Air-Guitar Antenna cable--- went straight from the wall into the VCR! Lordy, I just saw a guy on YT use a Paper Clip to replace that big Antenna for heaven's sake! I'm still shaking my head in amazement! He got a signal by turning the Allen Key Like paper clip in 1/4 turns from 12 o'clock! You want to know how it worked kiddies? We didn't have a TV Top Box, so no RCA cables to connect there. The VCR is a Tuner/Receiver, and will capture AIR Wave Signals through that coaxial cable or whatever you can find an auxiliary for. What were the connections; Cable In, Cable Out from each unit, then ending at the TV? The TV had to stay on Channel 3, and we would use the VCR's remote to cruise the Air Channels. Old Tech isn't anything like the capture cards of today I'll tell you young whipper-snappers! You, high-definition devils! Best part was you could watch the live show at the same time you were recording! Not anything like the multi monitor choices of today I'll tell you! I'm pretty sure my almost, totally modern VCR has a set-up menu for that old system! Wow, what would it be like now to go cable-less? Now, what was I saying?
I believe the KTC was put on there so you don’t overwrite the original videotape. Try your experiments again by recording over the original tape and see if the KTC ignites. 👍🏾📼
Wow. More Fotomat info...ver cool , strange that UA-cam actually recommended this to me on my homepage considering I just asked you about it 2 or 3 days ago
Hey Ben, I've got an odd suggestion: try putting some tape over the record tab on the KTC tape, try recording something with it on a VCR (that you don't mind if it gets damaged, in case they're serious) and see what happens.
@@LiEnbyIf what they said was true (and let's be real, it isn't), if this mystery substance "reacts to the magnetic field fluctuations caused by the Record head," the only way it would have a reaction is if someone tried to record onto it. So yeah, overwrite protection.
I was wondering that too. I think Ben would do a test if he had another copy of the tape, but considering he implied he'd say "Fuck You!" to them I doubt he's inclined to go out and look for another copy.
How do you only have a lil over 12000 subs? Well add another sub and hopefully you'll get more and more subs. Thank for all the trips down memory lane and teaching me what i didn't know about all that old school tech.
But wait... If the Cat Sitter cartoon is the "master" recording, then the blank tape is in a second machine and thus unaffected...Duh! Oh, you've covered that... Entschuldigen Sie bitte!
1. When you had the KTC warning on the box, I could have sworn that you were ripping off XTC's "Go 2." 2. If I'm understanding this right, the only thing that could possibly cause the KTC tape to damage a VCR is attempting to record over it.
Oddity Archive pulling off an XTC gag, huh? This is an ODDITY ARCHIVE gag. This writing is the DESIGN upon the cardboard box. The DESIGN is to help MAKE Ben funny. We hope to draw your attention to it and encourage you to guffaw. When you have done that maybe you'll be persuaded to laugh more at the gag. Then we want you to WATCH the show. The idea being that the more of you that watch this show the more money Ben and Ed will make. To the aforementioned this is known as PLEASURE. A good GAG is one that attracts more fans and gives more pleasure. This writing is trying to pull you in much like an eye-catching picture. It is designed to get you to READ IT. This is called luring the VICTIM, and you are the VICTIM. But if you have a free mind you should STOP READING NOW! Because all we are attempting to do is to get you to read on. Yet this is a DOUBLE BIND because if you indeed stop you'll be doing what we tell you, and if you read on you'll be doing what we've wanted all along. And the more you read on the more you're falling for this simple device of telling you exactly how a good commercial design works. They're TRICKS and this is the worst TRICK of all since it's describing the TRICK whilst trying to TRICK you, and if you've read this far then you're TRICKED but you wouldn't have known this unless you'd read this far. At least we're telling you directly instead of seducing you with a beautiful or haunting visual that may never tell you. We're letting you know that you oughta watch this show because in essence it's a SHOW and SHOWS are to be consumed and this is a good SHOW. We could have written the show's name in special lettering so that it stood out and you'd see it before you'd read any of this writing and possibly have remade it anyway. What w are really suggesting is that you are FOOLISH to buy or not buy an album merely as a consequence of the design on the gag. This is a con because if you agree then you'll probably like this writing - which is the gag - and hence the show inside. But we've just warned you against that. The con is a con. A good gag could be considered as one that gets you to watch the show, but that never actually happens to YOU because YOU know it's just a gag for the show. And this is the GAG.
Announcer speed talks the first part of the warning, then slows right down to say STOP... RECORDING.... NOW! After that he whispers, "if you are still recording this tape, I will visit you while you sleep and destroy your VCR." :D
Ben, do you have a dual VCR recorder to test this tape with? I mean, the only thing I can THINK of is a single VCR unit with two decks, perhaps the only way a VCR can actually know when a separate deck is recording, but even then, I don't think it would convey that to the actual tape itself. All in all, I do believe it was a bluff for the easily concerned/scared.Part of me wishes it was real though. :P
A little ambient lighting like some candles on your VHS would be nice and then there would fire on your VHS which is better than your VHS on fire. Oh, go ahead and groan.
Could you test it by recording over "cat sitter" and see if that bs does anything? :D Just a nice "letting you know", I could read the copy write warning just fine in 360p from a 3 foot distance on my 15" laptop screen, and I'm almost blind :D. What I mean to say is, you're video quality is far above standard :).
I mean that would be the only way to activate it since they mention play and record mode, but they mention it's specifically used for copy protection which means it needs to be in the play mode for you to copy it. It was obviously just to scare people.
Those are called pillar boxes. If you turn your television to a program with standard definition of 4:3, those pillar boxes will appear (except on an old CRT television set). The Pillar Boxes serve a purpose. on all newer flat screen tv's it's to fill out the screen.
My apologies, I misunderstood the question. THOSE black boxes are for censorship to prevent the companie's phone number to be put out. I do apologize for the misunderstanding. He's done this kind of censorship before...for example, Epsode 24, and his Technical Difficulties episode.
The company that made the Cat Sitter video...is STILL IN BUSINESS! petsittervideos.com/ As of when I posted this comment, the site is down for maintenance.
And I do have to thank you. This channel has brought back so many memories of things that I would have forgotten about, and when I try to talk about them well, everyone else has forgotten about. The other day I brought up the odessy and colieco (sp) and no one remembered them. I was born in 78 and people older than I still couldnt remember. So thank you again. Its nice to know someone is into niche nostalgia like I am. (But has better spelling lol)
Ben got into a copyright dispute with Disney about using their name and material. Now, as a joke all mention of the name and word Disney is censored!
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If you are or have ever been a Disney employee and you report (to Disney) any questioned use of a Disney trademark, service mark or copyright, you get paid.
Actually, thanks to the fine folks at Red Letter media, we've been lucky enough to find out that the K.T.C. warning was also on the sequel to Cat Sitter... Dog Sitter.
The KTC was scraped off all the cat sitter tapes in 1995 and sold as an hallucinogenic at raves.
That was actually a bit funny.
That really fast KTC warning creeped me out for some reason, especially the end- "STOP. RECORDING. NOW. THANKYOUFORPURCHASINGTHISVIDEO! ENJOYTHESHOW!"
It's only a matter of time before the RIAA starts trying to coat MP3s in KTC.
"Stop. Downloading. Now."
You know the first thing that comes to my mind about Abbot and Costello is the fact that these two giants of the industry really began as a team back in 1936. Of course that time I was just a baby. Really!
Yum, I love putting Kentucky Toasted Chicken into my VCR!
+Zircon 40 Put a chicken wing in your VCR - that'll break it. (I called it Kentucky Tarred Chicken, forgetting that North Carolina is the Tar Heel state, not Kentucky.)
I was thinking the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
I'd love to see what the board room was going for with the whole KTC thing: Let's not technically make any copy protection; let's use the scare factor to scare them into thinking a tape can destroy a VCR if it is copied. This will teach these cat-loving video pirates!!
If you really want to screw up a VCR, do what I did when I was like 3 or 4: Stick a feather in the VCR!!
(BTW, I just about lost it with your peanut butter joke at the end!)
After the epic fail that was KTC, it was later reformulated as the fat substitute Olestra.
For your infomation, the Stop-Copy only engages if you mess around with the tracking on a VCR. The signal on these tapes were made intentionally weak, so it only really worked with early VCRs that had no AGC circuit unlike the later ones. Then again, having a AGC circuit also means it is vulnerable to Macrovision, so yeah.
As for KTC, stuff only really happens when you record over the content, I believe.
extremely late, but KTC was not a real thing. It was a by-product of manufacturers breaking the law to prevent people from breaking the law
@@pokemaster2129 Figured as such. Sounded like an empty threat to me.
@@TremiRodomi completely off topic, but 5 years later and this is the time both of us are online, what are the chances?
@@pokemaster2129 It just happens, I guess. :P
Oh my god. The animal sanctuary I volunteer at has that EXACT cat sitter tape. Pretty sure they've had the thing since they opened shop in 1996. They play it on loop in the cat house sometimes, on a small mid-90s TV mounted to the wall that- somehow- hasn't been peed on by Henrietta, who regularly sits atop it. After enough times hearing the "THIS VIDEO WAS TESTED BY SDASDKLKDJH" monologue, I can almost recite it by heart lol. Never paid enough attention to the actual video to see the warning, though! Kinda miss it. They haven't used the TV in a while, idk if it's broken or what. Maybe it's the K.T.C. Or maybe Henrietta did pee on it, after all.
Just found this video while doing some research on KTC, and I can confirm that there was at least one other tape that claimed to use this technology. I learned about it from Red Letter Media's "Best of the Worst #7" episode, where they watched a video called "Dog Sitter". Seems to have been made by the same company that put out "Cat Sitter" so it's not too surprising. It's such an obvious bluff that the folks watching in that episode immediately reacted to the warning with, "Was that a lie? That sounded like a lie."
I enjoyed this video, totally subscribing. :)
So if this K.T.C. stuff actually exists and/or does anything, wouldn't it only do something if you tried to *record over the original tape*? That sounds more useful for making home-recorded tapes record-once-only. Useful mainly for threatening siblings that regularly taped over your stuff ("Susie, if you try to record General Hospital over my 120 Minutes with *this* tape, it'll KILL THE VCR and I'll tell MOM!").
Most of the Fotomat "buildings" in my area have been left in place and repurposed as other drive-up-friendly businesses -- gourmet coffee/espresso is a particularly popular choice, and there's at least one cupcake place.
There was no copy protection at all on those tapes. The producers of them just wanted to scare you out of copying the tapes. Nothing more.
RedLetterMedia called bullshit on the Dog Sitter tape.
anyone with half a brain would realise the coating would have to be on the tape you are recording TO and not the original! Like you said it was just to scare people
That actually doesn't sound too far out of the question. Think of when this would've come out, not everyone would've been as experienced with VHS as we are today. If it was your very first VHS deck and didn't know all the ins-and-outs of copy protection, you might well feel tempted to "play it safe" and thus NOT try copying these tapes...
Although why ANYONE would think Cat Sitter and Dog Sitter would need even the THREAT of copy-protection I'll never know...🙄😬😵😅
Much like how some versions of the UK's "Beware of illegal videocassettes" VHS warning claimed that pirated videos could potentially damage the user's VCR...another scare tactic!
K.T.C. substance was a result of false advertising. Ben I think the guys who came up with this got sued for that.
Doubtful. Cat owners are usually the ones getting sued. Sadly.
@Florentina GabrielaNo its not. So they are breaking the law trying to stop you from breaking the law.
@@daveb5041 Over cat tapes? Really? Has ANYONE ever been that truly worried about bootleg cat tapes? 😵😬🙄😅
Ah, the ole' cute kitten technique.. Soon, I'll be bragging to fellow youTubers about how I got in on the ground floor of the cultural phenom that is OddityArchive. My hat's-off to you sir. Keep up the fine work.
When the announcer said "STOP. RECORDING. NOW." it scared me half to death.
Why?
***** The way he said it, all angry and threatening. Sounded like he might as well have been waving a glock in my face.
Tmanstext still more threatening than "K.T.C" protection :D
***** Might as well coat the tape with that guy's voice! Even THAT'S more threatening!
+MonitaLeaf12 I found it hilarious how he went straight from his melodramatic "STOP. RECORDING. NOW." to "Thanks for buying our product."
Ol' Miltie clearly said "friensd" instead of "friends" and they didn't make him to a retake?
What is it with everyone in this circle thing! I love your videos and these and the uxw bill ones too lol
VWestlife "KEEP ROLLING!"
Honestly, that copyright warning about KTC that Ben read out actually made me laugh out loud!
ah i'm so happy you kept your original theme
I tried finding information about KTC and i found two kind of information. One is redundant and it cites this video. And other is a old newsgroup that explains nothing and makes joke about the nature of the video (cat sitting?).
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Ed, your censor bars came in a little late there.
About your being the last generation to know about Fotomat:
Fotomat kiosks will forever be immortalized in the first _Back to the Future_--it's what the Libyans crash their very 60s van into when Marty goes back to 1955.
That was Photofox, but good point.
Nicholas Tosoni in addition to Fotomat, Pittsburgh had a similar thing called Foto Hut, with little storefront locations, I'm sure it was a local thing, but from what I understand it was used in "That 70s Show".
Related to this discussion, there was an old "Fox Photo" kiosk down a ways from where I live... by the late 90's / early 2000's it closed, and it's now a cheap (read, somewhat ghetto) cell phone place.
They actually did developing there, so it was a little bigger than the average photo place. Kind of cool, or at least the idea would be to me if I had been old enough back in the 90's to appreciate such.
I always remember them from that one episode of dexters lab where they go to a fotomat thing
I really enjoy these Oddity Archive videos! To me, they are so interesting! Keep 'em coming, Ed! :D
"I guess John Moschitta wasn't available." I busted a gut at that part. :P
That Abbott and Costello tape looks too recent to actually have Stop-Copy on it. Most early Warner and Paramount, and 1979-80 Magnetic Video tapes had it- it was also on Beta unlike Macrovision.
in case anyone is wondering when you type in the cat video website in the url a placeholder website called pet sitter dvds comes up with a site maintenance message. so interesting i guess...
Is that where the libyans crashed into? In the First Bank in feature film? With a few of that 70 shows episodes in a photo mat?
I joke I still go to those in the summertime. We still have one of those where I live. It's only open during the summer. They love me.
Love your quirky channel! Keep those VHS pictures stable!
Super sad thought :all of those cute kitty cats are now deceased. :(
I wonder what KTC stands for.
Kill The Cat?
Yeniaul Adrianad Probably lol.
TheGamerWithMore probably one of those abreiviations for some chemical names I'm guessing
My guess was "Kentucky Toasted Chicken"
Probably something suitably fake sounding, like, "kietheline themro-chromate" or something
I thought kit-t-cat
I kept bracing myself for some kind of ring like thing to pop up during the K.T.C. testing. It being October and all.
The KTC "copy protection" sounds like a real-world equivalent to Star Trek's Corbomite Maneuver to me
I think this K.T.C. warning was more of a deterrent than anything. Especially since there's no solid evidence that it even exists. Most people at the time could never have been certain if the tape did or didn't have that chemical on it and they wouldn't be willing to risk their expensive equipment because of it.
WARNING: IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ.
The program portion of this tape has been coated with a new substance
called K.T.C. to prevent illegal copying. K.T.C. only reacts when
subjected to the magnetic head fluctuation caused by the record mode. If
you have already started to record this tape, we are required by law to
inform you that the K.T.C. process may damage your VCR. K.T.C. will not
affect your VCR in the play mode. The tape coated with K.T.C. does not
begin for another 15 seconds. STOP RECORDING NOW.
Thank you for purchasing this video.
Enjoy the show!
nice Yang pfp
I know why for the KTC warning - the cat sitter tape were so crap that it was cheaper than BLANK TAPES! They put KTC in to stop you buy a bunch of those tapes to use to record crap off of the TV.
I remember Fotomat! Ours was up until '04-'06 though, IIRC...
If you use anything from 84’ on up stop copy will not work. You need a analog video signal circuit. Most after 84’ were digital so the weak vsync signal was worthless copy protection.
Try recording OVER the cat sitter tape; I think it was less a scare tactic than a technical oversight, the company not realizing that recording over the tape isn't how you illegally copy the tape.
Hey there! I have two stop copy tapes that function. The effect that occured back when I attempted to dub them caused the picture on the screen to turn from colour to black and white, and upon playback of the dubbed tape, the picture was scrambled, with the horizontal going nuts.
I want to produce a video for giraffes! With solar radiation!
That seems like a very niche market, but I guess living in Africa, giraffes WOULD potentially get sunburned
Hey, it's Dan Wilson, owner of Iowa's largest wildlife preserve!
It seems like pretty much everywhere I see someone talk about "KTC," they say that "Cat Sitter" is the only tape that has this "copy protection" on it... does that mean that RedLetterMedia's copy of "Dog Sitter" is a rare VHS tape?
Good thing they didn't destroy it.
When oa gets big, I'll be proud to say I've been here since the beginning.
Channel + - becomes tracking control during playback of cassettes on 90% of VHS VCRs made after 1999.
Anyone remember a Fotomat-type place in a Dexter's Lab episode? I swear I have faint memories of one...
Did the guy who voiced the ktc warning also voice the 1900 quiz show ad where the answer was New Orleans?
Abbott and Costello was a team
The only copy gard I know that actually worked was when recording the original,
They would not record the horizontal and or vertical sync at full height. So it would
deteriorate enough so that the copy would lose sync and not be very watchable. But my friends and I had video stabilizer and color enhancer equipment to by pass that.
Your equipment was too good for Stop Copy lmao
It's literally just a weak vertical sync, the presumption seemingly being that the inferior quality would destroy what little v-sync it had.
The 1980s were awesome with; "Are you Beta, or that other system"? We had them both!
It wasn't until 1990 or so that I ever Dubbed a Home Movie. Living just outside of town, we didn't have cable.
That big old VHF Air-Guitar Antenna cable--- went straight from the wall into the VCR!
Lordy, I just saw a guy on YT use a Paper Clip to replace that big Antenna for heaven's sake!
I'm still shaking my head in amazement! He got a signal by turning the Allen Key Like paper clip in 1/4 turns from
12 o'clock!
You want to know how it worked kiddies?
We didn't have a TV Top Box, so no RCA cables to connect there. The VCR is a Tuner/Receiver, and will capture AIR Wave Signals through that coaxial cable or whatever you can find an auxiliary for.
What were the connections; Cable In, Cable Out from each unit, then ending at the TV?
The TV had to stay on Channel 3, and we would use the VCR's remote to cruise the Air Channels.
Old Tech isn't anything like the capture cards of today I'll tell you young whipper-snappers! You, high-definition devils!
Best part was you could watch the live show at the same time you were recording!
Not anything like the multi monitor choices of today I'll tell you!
I'm pretty sure my almost, totally modern VCR has a set-up menu for that old system! Wow, what would it be like now to go
cable-less?
Now, what was I saying?
XD The EBS Logo in the intro! I'm an EAS/EBS FAN!
I believe the KTC was put on there so you don’t overwrite the original videotape. Try your experiments again by recording over the original tape and see if the KTC ignites. 👍🏾📼
The KTC warning on the box was completely readable to me.
Wow. More Fotomat info...ver cool , strange that UA-cam actually recommended this to me on my homepage considering I just asked you about it 2 or 3 days ago
KTC: Kopy That Crap.
KTC: Kat That Copies
MaxFrequency9000 KTC: Kentucky's Tastiest Cats
Hey Ben, I've got an odd suggestion: try putting some tape over the record tab on the KTC tape, try recording something with it on a VCR (that you don't mind if it gets damaged, in case they're serious) and see what happens.
That would be total fail tbh. Instead of copy protection it's overwrite protection .. xD
@@LiEnbyIf what they said was true (and let's be real, it isn't), if this mystery substance "reacts to the magnetic field fluctuations caused by the Record head," the only way it would have a reaction is if someone tried to record onto it. So yeah, overwrite protection.
I wonder what would happen if you tried to record over the K.T.C. tape.
I was wondering that too. I think Ben would do a test if he had another
copy of the tape, but considering he implied he'd say "Fuck You!" to
them I doubt he's inclined to go out and look for another copy.
How do you only have a lil over 12000 subs? Well add another sub and hopefully you'll get more and more subs. Thank for all the trips down memory lane and teaching me what i didn't know about all that old school tech.
You should do an episode on policy trailers.
But wait... If the Cat Sitter cartoon is the "master" recording, then the blank tape is in a second machine and thus unaffected...Duh! Oh, you've covered that... Entschuldigen Sie bitte!
1. When you had the KTC warning on the box, I could have sworn that you were ripping off XTC's "Go 2."
2. If I'm understanding this right, the only thing that could possibly cause the KTC tape to damage a VCR is attempting to record over it.
Oddity Archive pulling off an XTC gag, huh?
This is an ODDITY ARCHIVE gag. This writing is the DESIGN upon the cardboard box. The DESIGN is to help MAKE Ben funny. We hope to draw your attention to it and encourage you to guffaw. When you have done that maybe you'll be persuaded to laugh more at the gag. Then we want you to WATCH the show. The idea being that the more of you that watch this show the more money Ben and Ed will make. To the aforementioned this is known as PLEASURE. A good GAG is one that attracts more fans and gives more pleasure. This writing is trying to pull you in much like an eye-catching picture. It is designed to get you to READ IT. This is called luring the VICTIM, and you are the VICTIM. But if you have a free mind you should STOP READING NOW! Because all we are attempting to do is to get you to read on. Yet this is a DOUBLE BIND because if you indeed stop you'll be doing what we tell you, and if you read on you'll be doing what we've wanted all along. And the more you read on the more you're falling for this simple device of telling you exactly how a good commercial design works. They're TRICKS and this is the worst TRICK of all since it's describing the TRICK whilst trying to TRICK you, and if you've read this far then you're TRICKED but you wouldn't have known this unless you'd read this far. At least we're telling you directly instead of seducing you with a beautiful or haunting visual that may never tell you. We're letting you know that you oughta watch this show because in essence it's a SHOW and SHOWS are to be consumed and this is a good SHOW. We could have written the show's name in special lettering so that it stood out and you'd see it before you'd read any of this writing and possibly have remade it anyway. What w are really suggesting is that you are FOOLISH to buy or not buy an album merely as a consequence of the design on the gag. This is a con because if you agree then you'll probably like this writing - which is the gag - and hence the show inside. But we've just warned you against that. The con is a con. A good gag could be considered as one that gets you to watch the show, but that never actually happens to YOU because YOU know it's just a gag for the show. And this is the GAG.
Announcer speed talks the first part of the warning, then slows right down to say
STOP... RECORDING.... NOW!
After that he whispers, "if you are still recording this tape, I will visit you while you sleep and destroy your VCR." :D
NO,NO,NO!!! Never put a KTC coated tape in a perfectly good SVHS deck!😨 LOL!
Ben, do you have a dual VCR recorder to test this tape with? I mean, the only thing I can THINK of is a single VCR unit with two decks, perhaps the only way a VCR can actually know when a separate deck is recording, but even then, I don't think it would convey that to the actual tape itself. All in all, I do believe it was a bluff for the easily concerned/scared.Part of me wishes it was real though. :P
i just found this channel. why are you hiding behind a box?
that phone number on the vhs tape about cat sitting, i called it, and it says that the number is no longer in service.
You should try recording on the cat sitter video tape. That might activate the K.T.C. Substance!
A little ambient lighting like some candles on your VHS would be nice and then there would fire on your VHS which is better than your VHS on fire. Oh, go ahead and groan.
Could you test it by recording over "cat sitter" and see if that bs does anything? :D
Just a nice "letting you know", I could read the copy write warning just fine in 360p from a 3 foot distance on my 15" laptop screen, and I'm almost blind :D. What I mean to say is, you're video quality is far above standard :).
What is the meaning of the letters KTC???
Imagine if there was an episode dedicated to the Malw- Copy protection known as Starforce
so... this video is new enough to have a website shown on it.
As bad as this special may be, what little I got from Milton Berle's opening shows me that at least the people who made it gave a crap.
As for the KTC copy protection method, SOUND THE BULLSH*T ALARM!!
Ah, yes, the famous Go Cat Toy Lines, available at PetSmart and Petco. BTW, I'm pretty that website doesn't exist anymore.
Does the "Television Code" logo creep anyone out as much as me? It creeps me out when I was a child and I still get a shiver...I'm weird.
The KTC added 2 black boxes to the playback portion!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(yeah, I know you were just blocking the contact info)
so, benny boy, hows your expectations holdin up? those cats raking in the views?
i belive they dont mean copying the tape, but instead recording OVER the tape
I mean that would be the only way to activate it since they mention play and record mode, but they mention it's specifically used for copy protection which means it needs to be in the play mode for you to copy it. It was obviously just to scare people.
12:13 What are the black boxes for? They clearly have been added in post production.
Those are called pillar boxes. If you turn your television to a program with standard definition of 4:3, those pillar boxes will appear (except on an old CRT television set). The Pillar Boxes serve a purpose. on all newer flat screen tv's it's to fill out the screen.
newstarcadefan
in the middle of the screen, not the sides
My apologies, I misunderstood the question. THOSE black boxes are for censorship to prevent the companie's phone number to be put out. I do apologize for the misunderstanding. He's done this kind of censorship before...for example, Epsode 24, and his Technical Difficulties episode.
OMG photomat booth *nostalgiaspasms*
friendsd?
how did they not have him do a retake
4:31
Is that James Quall?
Was anyone else disappointed when the vcr didn't burst into flames?
I feel unwarranted shame stemming solely from the fact that my middle initial is, in fact, T.
11:32
Was that guy on speed or something?
Methinks you might've "pussed" your luck with the Cat-Sitter vid, but I bet you had a feline I'd say that, fur cryin' out loud!
The company that made the Cat Sitter video...is STILL IN BUSINESS!
petsittervideos.com/
As of when I posted this comment, the site is down for maintenance.
+DanielWS424 Still is down for maintenance 12/21/15. Is KTC so expensive they can't afford to redesign the site?
+Amber Flowers I guess... :P (maybe they were having trouble putting KTC on the DVDs)
I have watched many of your videos. But, what is that last segment with a supposed hobo wobbiling around from. Looks very familiar.
It's from "Manos: The Hands of Fate". archive.org/details/ManosTheHandsofFate
@@OddityArchive thank you!
And I do have to thank you. This channel has brought back so many memories of things that I would have forgotten about, and when I try to talk about them well, everyone else has forgotten about. The other day I brought up the odessy and colieco (sp) and no one remembered them. I was born in 78 and people older than I still couldnt remember. So thank you again. Its nice to know someone is into niche nostalgia like I am. (But has better spelling lol)
StopCopy That Floppy :P
Come on Guys!I thought ya knew better!
REDLETTER MEDIA
Nothing happened because the Copyright for the video has expired. The dates were encoded into the chemical.
Where can I get that cat sitter tape?
Is "magnetic head fluctuation" a thing? It sounds like jibberish, but I'm not very technologically inclined.
Amber Flowers Sounds like Star Trek technobabble.
Can I ask why Disney is always censored.
Disney are notorious copyright Nazis.
I think he's doing this to troll them.
Ben got into a copyright dispute with Disney about using their name and material. Now, as a joke all mention of the name and word Disney is censored!
If you are or have ever been a Disney employee and you report (to Disney) any questioned use of a Disney trademark, service mark or copyright, you get paid.
HuskyGamersUNITE, hey, ever heard of sarcasm and jokes? Because, Ben knows Disney won't sue him just for saying "Disney" it's more of an inside joke.
It's satire about Disney's hardcore copyright stuffs.
May I ask why do you bleep Disney?
Its a running gag. Its poking fun at Disney's super strict copyright.
it says it activates when the VCR is in record mode, so clearly you should be trying to recorder over the cat sitter video- Duh
If the idea is to keep you from making copies of the Cat Sitter video, that makes no sense whatsoever.
@@OddityArchive no shit. but its the only way what they say remotely makes sense
Sarcasm doesn't always work in text form (especially if I don't know the person). My bad.
recording over the tape is verboten... hokay
Why don't you try taping over the Cat Sitter tape?? As far as I know, it could be less "scare tactics" and more "plain old shoddy engineering".
It actually gives your cats feline leukemia! Take that you cat loving video pirates! 🙀
Lol loved the ending