The 1997 DVD-ROM Upgrade Experience: Creative Encore Dxr2
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2017
- Installing a Creative Encore DVD-ROM! Back in 1997 DVD tech was an huge step up from CDs. And the setup was a bit more involved than just plopping in a drive -- you needed an MPEG-2 card like the DXR2!
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For the morbidly curious among you, here's the full Creative DVD-ROM demo video:
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WAit wait wait wait wait... Was that a reference to Steve from MRE Info with the "Nice hiss"? I once earlier thought (can't remember the exact video) you made the "Nice!" reference with jumpcut and all like what he does! Didn't say anything cause I thought I just overthought it back then and It couldn't possibly be a reference to a MRE reviewer of all things!
Is it possible to get a G-Drive link to the original VOB?
Thanks as always Clint great video. I felt your pain from the cable management here in your neighboring state lol. Love the screensaver nice to be reminded that like me many other men didn't mature past 12 years old.
What's that chip that got removed from the DXR2 board? It's present on the box-art.
Lazy Game Reviews how the hell did you get this 20+ year old brand new DVD drive?? You must know time travel.
This video had everything: technojargon, action, suspense, comedy and a happy ending.
think that is what he ment with a happy ending
@@daansken93 n i c e
Don’t forget the screen saver
I didn't get my egg roll tho!
The Steve reference threw me for a second fr
Man that screensaver is *CREɅ̲TIVE*
👌
*P E N I S E S*
It is the ORIGIN of comedy
@@poble Wasn't it is a little bit too inappropriate?
@@adrianmardianto7681 nah
"Nice Hiss, Let's get this Drive out onto a Tray"
"Nice!"
6:15
Looked through all the comments just for this one :D
Fucking MRE
Marf I did as well. Lol
@@jaythatguyyouknow5135 me too!
Me too lol
21:10 Wang Commander IV: The Penises of Freedom.
Sounds like the name of an actual p0rn parody film.
The screen saver popup was pure gold.
Watching Clint use the button to close the tray made my day. As a young person I HATED when anyone would push on the CD tray to close it. It still makes me cringe. Not that you see people using optical media much anymore.
Yup, that was my take away from this vid as well. My biggest pet peeve is pushing the tray to close. @AdmiralSpeedy any force used is bad for the internal gear. They made it do that cuz they knew most idiots would push it, so it better retract on pressure to mitigate damage. An electronic button that sends a signal to the motor is the preferred way. Even Open/Close command send from the software is better than pushing on the gear.
My computer's optical drive doesn't even have a button, so I made one in software instead.
Holy shit THANK YOU!!!
I had a friend that would always shove the disc tray of my Xbox closed as if he was trying to shove Toothpaste back into the tube.
Like holy fucking shit dude, it's a piece of plastic with some weak plastic gears and shitty motor, WTF are you forcing it shut for? Just press the fucking button and wait the extra 0.002 seconds for it to close FFS.
They are designed to be closed with a push, what you're not supposed to do is give it more of a push than it needs to start closing on it's own, it won't hurt it more than normal wear unless you force it.
@Hadwell - It's a gear and motor. It was NOT designed to close with a push. They made it activate with resistance so it will be less likely to break. When the gear encounters resistance they allowed it to send a safety signal to the motor. You can avoid this entirely by sending the signal directly with the button. BUTTONS are DESIGNED to be pushed.
20:53 - "Goodbye!"
Best moment
It does not shock me that going from Win98 to Win98SE fixed everything. Win98SE was a massive improvement behind the scenes and native DVD support was one of the categories that got the most of it. In fact, back in the day my upgrade from 98 to 98SE made my daily life a whole lot easier. I probably had about 95% less blue screens and freezes in general after the upgrade.
For me it was the USB support that was the game-changer.
As a young teen I thought 98 SE was just a cash-grab along the same lines as Plus! and ignored it without a second thought. Not until years later did I learn that it in fact incorporated significant changes under the hood and was the best DOS-based Windows. So much trouble I could have saved myself.
Yeah Win98 First Ed. was a total train wreck. They had to rush SE out to fix a bunch of issues cos everyone was getting blue screens and also USB issues I remember. Of course this was pre-broadband too so you had to buy a new physical copy (from memory I think MS offered $$$ back deals for people who bought First Ed).
Andrew Wallington back then was an upgrade 98SE. I was lucky my first computer I choose a P3 450 96MB ATI all in wonder Pro agp 8MB. Toshiba 6x dvd. Never had issues. I upgraded to pioneer A03 DVD burner it had a fan added 1 inch longer Aug 31 2001.
@@AnnabelleTheRose I was going to correct you then I did the calculations
OMG I forgot how slow dial-up was haha
6.5 days for 544MB :o
I remember when my 56k broke and I only had a 14.4k to hand XD
@@snetmotnosrorb3946 cash grab? It was a free upgrade.
Clint that was the best screensaver ever lol
I have never laughed so hard at a LGR moment. That was absolutely classic. :D
Yah I cringed tbh. Then I start wondering why that was a priority.. I mean.. yano
Excellent video nevertheless :)
Surprise penises! XD
You mean that reflection of himself? :-p
@@MrFungi69 Clint loves penises. And sandwiches. And Duke Nukem. Let the man live his dream
>Shit's not working for no clear reason.
>System freezes.
>Reinstall all the shit.
>All the software feels like it's made without any quality control.
THAT is what i call the TRUE late 90s experience!
Yeah "Computers help us to solve problems that we didn't know before."
It's just Win98. I had the DXR2 kit back in the day and it always worked great.
Blue screen.
Super long loading times.
Blue screen again.
You know it's the ultimate DVD experience for your computer when the packaging has 6 F-15s on the front.
*90S INTENSIFIES*
I'm disappointed, there's clearly room for more fire and planes
In the 90s, I've learned how to draw jets cause I'll always see them all the time back then. Nowadays ,I just notice SUVs
Mine only had 5 planes so there was some stuttering on the video
A Michael bay approved packaging
I think I just found my favorite LGR episode. From the 90's-ness of everything, the number of connections it required, to the MRE Steve reference, and the screen saver...it just keeps going. Nice work!
I was only passively watching, but "nice hiss" totally grabbed my attention :P
Reinstalling Windows 98 is the ultimate late 90s upgrade experience. Solved 99% of computer problems.
Molo9000 That’s still the norm, unfortunately it is with one of the most crappy OS: Windows 10.
I don't know man. I've been running Win10 since release. No reinstall, nothing. I remember the old days when I'd reinstall Windows on a regular basis.
FischOderAal I guess you got lucky, in Windows 10, drivers are automatically downloaded off Microsoft servers. However, it tends to download outdated versions, which had caused me a variety of video card driver crashes and sound pops. Even if you installed them manually yourself, Windows Update would keep bugging you to install the “latest” version of the driver. Unable to block Windows updates is a big no no for me. Luckily I don’t have to deal with that on Windows 7.
Win2K as we called it was the first really stable Windows. At least for me and the people I knew. I was so reluctant to upgrade from that but Microsoft has this way of forcing upgrades. I honestly can't see what people are moaning about nowadays. The hardware is generally so good across the board and the OS's from everyone are stellar. At least compared to how it was win95 kinda days.
Remember how you'd play a game for a while then get that itch to save because you knew it had been a while and you were due for a crash! lol its not like that anymore thank the broadband gods
Win 98 SE was OK. But I was soooooo glad moving from Windows ME to Win2k...
In the future there will be flying cars and jetpacks
2017 --> excited to watch someone install a DVD drive
YES DVD!
Also in 2019
@@jesuskareemmedinadominguez3237 Now 2020 Haha!
2020 still.
Can confirm that living in the post-Blade Runner future of 2020, revisiting the simple, innocent pleasures of 1990s home computing has become one of my favourite pastimes, and way better than any current "entertainment" on offer.
14:30 “Just some loser at his computer”... well who am I to talk. I died laughing especially because you can see your reflection in the monitor. 😂😂💀💀
😂😂😂
It's so weird seeing DVD-quality video playing on such an ancient computer.
Actually an AMD K6-2 333 MHz allowed smooth DVD-Playback without a dedicated hardware decoder. It came out mid 1998.
Is it?
That screen saver killed me ahahaha oh man... Hahahahah ,😂😂😂
rip
Same. But, it almost killed me. Also, will I be seeing your name in the obituaries?
The best of Windows 98 :)
"Goodbye!"
Hahaha best screen saver.
"I feel like I should say nice hiss"
I get that Steve1989MREInfo reference
Haha I got it too. xD I expected him to lay it all out on a tray and go "NICE!". And then eat the DVD card.
Theres a ffew different channels that have made references to him.... more popular than I thought
that was so unexpected
Nice!
It amazes me how many youtubers make Steve1989 references
That screensaver was a wonderful moment.
Ok. That's 2 Steve1989 references I've caught today... Let's get these references out on a tray. Nice! Okay!
2 years later and I came straight to the comments to see if anyone else got the Steve reference! 😂
I came to the comments as well for the same reason. Nice.
OMG IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!!! who knew there was such an overlap there 😂
6:15 alright let's get this out on a tray
*NICE*
I was thinking the same thing! Apparently LGR watches Steve as well.
All I could think of was the way steve would make a video like this after hearing that lol. I also said nice reference after he said nice hiss lol.
"Let's get this CD out onto the tray."
"Nice."
lol man, if he had actually put the dvd onto a tray I woulda lost it. I only watched steve in the first place because of LGR
steve is my hero
"...some loser at his computer...who am I to talk?" Funniest thing I've seen all day! Thanks for your passion, Clint.
Should have breathed in 1997 air. Anti-aging.
13:16 "Could that get any more 1997" ... he reboots ... plays demo video... It DOES get more 1997 HAHAHAH
Imagine that... somewhat 20 years ago, some people working at Creative were packaging this box. Buried like a pirate treasure in a carton treasure chest. Wandering around the world, sitting on a shelf or buried somewhere in a storage unit only to be discovered and unpacked 20 years later by Clint.
20 years ago or so I worked on an assembly line in a factory making CD Audio cables for Dell and other manufacturers. There is a *slight* possibility I could have soldered those cables together as I believe Creative also had a factory in Ireland and could have bought our cables :-) Also - Penises!
NightShader1 his name is Clint? I thought it was LGR
That's kinda cool! Btw, I've seen your comments on synth videos a lot. Hardware electronic instruments + vintage computers = great taste (no sarcasm)
Cheers mate! Yup synth and retro pc nut here! Have a great weekend! :-)
Thanks, you too!
Watching a DVD upgrade video in 2017...
id104335409 Now all we need is for him to unbox an HD DVD drive.
Funniest thing is that some people dont got a clue about what a DVD is..(I know a few people that hang on to VHS on a 50 inch LED TV...)
Back then, this stuff was really neat. Adding a CDROM drive was cool. My friend bought a CD burner for 450$. Oh yeah! Sweet! He copied some CDs for me.
damn, I have the top comment on this one. (oh, wait - cable management seams to bug most people)
Well, I have some sweet memories on DVD, CD and VHS - we all do, if we were born last century.
Let's celebrate our lone island -our last stand - our manhood - something that no other newborn or alien species would understand - WE WERE HERE ONCE!
Just think how weird people in 2050 will think it is.
the best thing about the screensaver bit is that at a quick glance, you see this silver thing spinning on a black background, and it totally fits the preceding scene of a ship spinning in space
"Tomorrows Technology at Tomorrow's Prices Today!"
*laughs while ordering a $20 8x DVD burner*
They said tomorrow, not 20 years from [then]
And a top of the line one at that.
$30 256GB USB drive
I think the real question is here, why were you still burning DVDs in 2018?
@@Howlingd0g Because they want to?
You just let 1997 air out of the bag
Lol.. I know, right? Such a waste of vintage air.
don't breathe this
It's worth more now because of inflation. Geheheh.
Wow you guys are so creative!
Nice hiss
"Nice Hiss"
Nice reference!
Nice to know I'm not the only crossover old computer/ration fan.
Nice
"Let's get this DVD drive put on a tray!"
(JUMP CUT)
"Nice, Mckay!"
Let's get this out onto a tray, nice!
At least he did not try to eat it.
20:54 the instant reaction, of...huh..what's up with the game?? Followed up by the reflection in the screen showing embarrassment but in a hilarious awesome type of way, and then @ 20:58 the loud burst of laughter and how it continued for the next few seconds and then for the next few seconds...and then for the next few sec.....
PRICELESS!
I love you LGR!!!!!
I just keep coming to this video to see the "penises" screen saver and your laughter. You should post the complete video of that laughter to the screen saver, that's just pure gold!
I do it too. :D
Challenge to LGR: How many different video passthrough cards can you put into a single PC?
"Just some loser at his computer, but who am I to talk?" Man, that made my day :D
I'm super impressed about the fact that you had even customize the screensaver during the stressful fresh win 98 reinstallation
When LGR said, "Yay, DVDs!" I died, so precious
I do not miss this sort of cable management.
I do miss Windows start up sounds.
It looks pretty tidy compared to all wiring closet i have been in.
Back then, just opening up the computer to perform an add-on like this made you a computer expert in most of your family member's eyes. Good times.
Those damn flat cables, the awful case designs of that era, fucking around with jumpers, fires from shitty PSU's that turned your PC into an actual F-18 that was slapped into every PC component box ever and so on.
Times sure have gotten easier on that end. Good cases, no cables to be seen anywhere, good reliable components.
I do kinda miss the cheesy designs on GPU boxes especially. Those continued pretty far into the 2000's but eventually disappeared. If your GPU box had a FLAMING DEMON DUDE on it, you knew it was fast.
"good reliable components" That's not what get better since old times, quite the opposite in fact.
Those fighter jets flying out of the computer screen are AWESOME
20:54 **the laugh of eternity**
This was so wholesome. It really makes me feel more confident about getting into Computer building & retro computer/software exploring & imagining. With thought in mind for others who will surely wanna get in on the fun just as much as I have. As someone who was a late bloomer of 2002 that was not alive & "connected" in that era. With links, molex cablezzzz or a plug of course.
I know it would make more sense for me to post this on the PC Build advice video you made but this just feels RIGHT.
One of the places I'd love to start would be with a 2000's Laptop which could lead into a budget Windows 7 Personal Build. I worry about what I say man. Cause I imagine that it's just so easy to end up making something sell quicker than intended with the amount of demand that it found.
I'm sure there is a fair few niche PC games where that applies
& I *sincerely* hope for the Best
Listening to all the sounds of an old computer gives me all the nostalgia vibes.
Knowing you I would've expected that screensaver to say "FARTS" but I guess you're even more delightfully immature than I expected.
Which everybody knows that makes It so much more classy!Gotta love Clint and his sense of humor.Hope he'll never change :).
Love Catching Up with your videos occasionally, especially the old 90s tech! Keep up the good work!
I had one of these.
Every time i want to play a DVD from another region, i had to change the region code via some kind of "firmware".
Had no idea i only could change it 5 times... (Proud owner of a region 2 PAL DVD drive)
@@ProtoV33MK1 EXTRA POWER MOVE: have 6 different computers with a drive for each region.
1997 air!
Yeah, it reminds me of the time someone tried to sell "One Direction concert air" on the local classifieds
That's just.... NICE!
that happened? seriously?
Kyle Stawicki Now lets get this onto a tray.
And he didn't even try to smell it!
Great LGR! I bought this in 1998, a nice trip down memory lane!
I don’t remember having any install issues, and I definitely didn’t have the same screen saver problem!
Another great review!
Love your videos! they give me flashbacks and a warm feeling when i watch things that i remember as a kid.. keep up the good work!
you had some premium 1997 air in that bag that's now gone :(
It is still around, most likely you also got some molecules from it by now.
But its now all disgusting from the 18+ years of toxicity that has been around since then. Could have sold it for $40 a hit
Anyone else read that as Pentium 1997 air? 😂
1997 farts
Chris Shields I actually did
1997 feels just like 20 years ago
Wockes Totally, still have plenty of my late 90s to early 2000s games but no hardware of the era to play them on. Windows 10 really hates CD games.
Wockes True. Hard to believe it was 40 years ago. Time flies. Feels like yesterday.
Narata I hope this is sarcasm.
This is one of the first times where I felt 1997 was truly dated by this point.
It's kind of amazing that DVD's resolution is so low that even 1997 monitors needed upscaling to make it look good. I remember seeing 1600x1200 monitors in the late 90s that totally blew my mind.
carmack had a 1080p monitor in 1995
@@Kasperx138 Really? Did they even exist then? I remember a friend of mine had a 1080p LCD monitor in 2003 and I thought it was incredible, I think it cost $2500.
@@QuantumBraced My dad bought a 40 inch 1080p tv and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I think it was like $4500 bucks. It lasted a really long time. We had to replace it last year when it finally broke.
DVDs only displayed at 480p/576p for 30fps/25fps, and if you try getting 60fps/50fps then you'll have to use interlacing instead (which was never part of standardised PC resolutions) so you had to have a proper deinterlacer or else you would get that "flicker" (which is more like a shimmer, since it's different to CRT flicker) that he mentioned while watching the cutscenes in Claw.
If you had set your monitor to 480p then it would probably look fine but most people used higher resolutions which is why they needed some kind of scaling.
LGR you are awesome! You bring so much nostalgia...its priceless! Thank you!
Omg, seeing you play Claw brought me back to my kindergarten days in Romania when we had a single Win 98 PC in the classroom and we'd play Claw and Alladin on it.
I totally forgot Claw was a game then the memories came flooding back
*Tomorrow was a while ago...*
I love these kinds of videos! Sharing this experience. I'm from '96 so I never had the opportunity (or necessity) to install one of these in my computer, by the time I got into PCs it was already standard, so it's cool to see how things were done back in the day! Love the channel man
I actually owned one of these cards. They were also sold separately.. I bought it because my DVD drive (a sony one) was PIO and not DMA. So the CPU couldn't cope. Fantastic piece of kit. Brings a tear to my eyes just seeing that.
Ah... the days when wiping and reinstalling the OS was the answer to many problems! I don't miss them. I do remember drooling over this DVD player in the stores but I couldn't afford it. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I love how Tex Murphy Overseer had a really expensive DVD version bundled with its cds to promote the platform.
Love the cross-over shout-out to Steve1989. You two are truly some of the best souls on UA-cam. Cheers.
Oh man. This whole vid is just me in 1998. I bought that kit when i was a 16yo kid. I had to do it all by myself, bc no-one else had the knowledge to help me. But i manage to get it work without any mistakes. Such a lot of nostalgia! I had a couple of extra dvds, bc i worked in a store where we sold cds and dvds/laserdisc etc.
Thanks for taking me back in time 👍
Great video. Slight correction. DVDs didn't increase in density. Double sided DVDs were replaced with dual layer DVDs where both layers were accessible from one side of the disc (one layer was transparent to the laser via focusing control). This removed the need to flip the disc halfway thru the movie, yay!
I love how Clint treats every computer like they're his babies no matter how old and/or shitty they are.
Except for the part where he is stabbing it with the screwdriver in its "face". :)
That screensaver moment was the hardest I've laughed all week. Thanks for that!
That was absolutely hilarious! You're knowledgeable, articulate and great to watch and listen to! My favourite UA-cam channel! Keep up the excellent work..
Dude I was almost asleep (always watch videos until I fall asleep lol) and then that Penises screensaver came on and now I'm fully awake because I had to laugh so hard, that was great!
I was just same yesternight
It's 1AM and this just happened to me lool
ohhh yeeeeessss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
same lmao LGR is ASMR
Same
Thanks for the great memories. I bought the dxr3 version in 1998 with my pocket money as a 16 year old. Growing up in country Australia is had to go to the city to buy it and it cost $600 aud. It ended up being the only DVD player in our home for a year or so and I would use it to transfer movies back to tape so my parents and friends could watch them. I still have the drive but sadly there has been a disc stuck in it for about 10 years now. Great times.
cosmicrdt so open it and remove the disc
Can’t believe I am seeing this! I bought one of these for my first build in 1998 and the hardware decoding portion was a HUGE pain in the ass. Never got it right, and I finally threw in the towel and got a regular Sony DVD drive in 2002.
I had one of these. It was a pretty good package. It lasted me quite a while. I forgot about that over-acted demo video CL added to show the capabilities. Thanks for doing the demo - it brought back a lot of memories!
aw man, I forgot how much Jet fighters were used in 90s PC aesthetics.
Ironman1o1 at the Best Buy in my old hometown, the video most often used for DVD demonstrations on the huge monitors was Top Gun. Jets. Jets everywhere.
I just say Saab xD
Wow, I remember having that exact model. Your channel is like a trip down memory lane, I love it!
This will go down as my favorite LGR episode to date! My gawd Clint, that was a hilarious surprise LMFAO
I'm so glad you kept in the screensaver legit made my night seeing that rofl
The box could use a few more jets.
"I've got to stop now or I'm just going to play Wing Commander."
Do you really think anyone that watches this channel would complain about that?
MarioFanaticXV he needs to do an LGR plays wing commander iv
Personally I'd prefer III, but any of the first four would be great.
I bought one of these in 1998 as my first DVD player. Constant conflicts with other drivers. Frequently had to reinstall Windows to get it to work, just like you did! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Things used to suck so bad.
I wasn't even alive in 1997 but these old hardware videos are weirdly fascinating for me!
Zoraine same
Troubleshooting windows Software & hardware was painful. Specially for me know it all trash talkers.
The guy make this video never knew windows 95 DVD rom was compatible.
May 1997 a IBM portable DVD laptop with windows 95 Pentium 66 64 MB ram 4.3 GB hard drive $7000 Canadian.
Does it mean you were dead in 1997?
@Powerful Panda He would have been 4 in 1999. I have some veg memories from when I was 4.
I haven't seen anyone else mention Digital Audio Tape except Techmoan!
It never took off in the consumer market and stayed in the audio recording industry. I assumed no one outside the recording industry would know much about it
Techmoan is such a great channel.
8 Bit Guy for retro console gaming + retro keyboards + 8 bit computer systems
LGR for DOS gaming + Oddware + 90's Computers and accessories (and Sims reviews)
Techmoan for retro audio + audio formats + tech reviews
It did find a bit of a niche as a PC backup device for a while - you could back up your files to DAT.
I use to use it simply because my DVD ROM had a digital audio out and my sound card had a digital audio in. Can't say it sounds any different from the analog, though I would assume its easier to post process the stream on your sound card via DA.
I had a musician friend that was so into DAT. He kept getting into all kinds of trouble with the hardware and trying to manage it in his studio. He'd ask me as I was the techy but I had to shrug when it came to DAT, it was just so alien and I knew nothing about it apart from it was fascinating to play with, like future tech now.
Great video mate, love the old stuff you use
Just that screen saver, never try to comment or like videos, but the screen saver made this all worth it. And wasn't planned. Awesome! New sub for certain now.
Clint please upload that included creative vob file. It's comedy gold. When he punched I was half expecting him to break the screen and start screaming while a disclaimer from creative appears. So much meme potential.
What hapen if you disconect the vga bridge cable whild playin a dvd
the same thing that happens when you unplug a monitor from a video card
FYI: The 'dat' connector on the back of the drive is just a straight S/PDIF digital signal, which, with a little bit of circuitry can be also be converted to an optical TOSLINK connection.
Really love coming back to this video from time to time
I love seeing these cool old 90's hardware videos. I have a Dxr2 card my brother gave me, along with the Claws and Wing Commander dvd's. I never used the card. I had a Sigma Designs RealMagic Hollywood Plus mpeg 2 decoder card I used in an old P2 233 system. Great memories.
Windows 98 Second Edition certainly added a lot of hardware support and newer versions of Windows components/software, so I wouldn't be surprised if that difference alone is why you had problems with the original Windows 98 install.
I don't think it was the driver, but Windows 98 SE also included its own MPEG-2 Codec. Last but not least newer DVDs contained copy protection systems that are not compatible with older versions of Windows.
im just impressed windows 98 can run dvds
Neat thing about that card was it meant you could watch DVD on linux. This was prior to the break in the DVD encryption.
Jeff Smith I guess that's technically true but, I mean, who actually used Linux as 1997? Even as someone who's been using Linux as my main OS since '11, was Linux even realistically usable in 1997 without a degree in computer science?
I was using Linux as my primary OS at the time.
That old school ad is so perfect. Today I have too many examples of man/computer love being a bad thing for that moment to not feel wacky.
Crazy to think you had to do all this work back then. Nowadays computers come with DVD drives that work right out of the box. Also, that screensaver bit may have made this my favorite LGR video.
That part where you had to reformat windows to make new hardware work triggered my PTSD.
ahahahahah I know that feel
Packard Bell PCs were just the worst. They weren't strictly whitebox; they had fiddly proprietary bits in them that had a way of not working. Most of the PB PCs I saw on store shelves were busted and wouldn't go past the BIOS POST.
I bought this when it first came out, it's hard to describe the upgrade in video that it represented. Hooking this up to a tv was so amazing at the time.
Previously you had either old VHS or VCD quality and this was such a step up
HOLY SHIT THAT BOXART IS SO 1990’s! It also looks kinda legit too! The linedoubling and interpolation is really cool, considering it was only 1997!
man, reminds me when you had to connect your cd rom to the soundcard with that little jumper thing.
scottaw1981 AFAIK that let you play CDs without the computer turned on!
only if you wanted redbook cd audio.
Not a "jumper thing", it's the audio cable. This was back when optical drives had a built-in CD audio player and a DAC, so a "CD drive" wasn't just a CD drive, but a full fledged CD audio player that works on its own with just power, no computer required. Nowadays, a CD drive really is just a CD drive as it can only reads the bits off the disc and requires an attached computer to do something with those bits.
eh, at one point they weren't even needed, which is probably why I don't recall using it more than once..in fact I may of detached one to reclaim a CD rom and was like, whats this for?
scottaw1981 That's because starting with Windows 98, there is an option in the Device Manager for the CD drive to enable "Digital Audio Extraction", so instead of your 1990s era CD drive decoding the CD audio into analog audio and sending it to the sound card through the analog audio cable, the digital audio data from the CD is sent to Windows 98 through the PATA cable and playback is decoded in software by your CPU. By the 2000s, you had no choice but to use Digital Audio Extraction as CD/DVD drives ceased to have a built-in CD audio player, following the path of the softmodem/winmodem of cutting all the hardware out and having everything done in software by your CPU.
8:14 was an excellent how to basic moment.
I worked as a 17 year old at circuit city as a computer sales guy, I saw this box on the shelf and remember it so clearly looking at it for hundreds of hours as you sat on the floor for 12 hour shifts several times a week. Thank you for the throw back, so cool! Now at 39 its so funny to be reminded of how far we've come today over 20 years.
Vintage ware for a vintage-y voice! Awesome channel, thank you Clint.
"Penises" --- Follwed by hysterical laughter. Classic LGR!
4:53 "A big old chunk of cardboard that is filled with nothing whatsoever." *Stuffs packing peanuts in*
Excellent review, I can't stop smiling, it's like a trip back in time, I would have just loved to see what the experience would be like with a CRT TV, since at the time, video cards with RCA output never worked well, almost always the power supply of the PC, introduced polluting electrical noise into the image, or the image was towards one side or the other. Thank you very much for sharing the experience of returning to the 90s.
My pleasure, I’m glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for sharing this, I bought this box in early '98, I was 16 at the time and rembember like it was yesterday, it was the early days of the DVD era.
That is the best screensaver ever.
uh.... well timed