Oh gosh, this AV machine has been haunting my thoughts for years. I half thought I made it up. I’ve only ever seen one once-It must’ve been first grade, our school librarian showed us a movie about a library book that wasn’t cared for properly.
Yes. The ones at my school were the projector type, but I remember watching filmstrips at school. I picked up a few more filmstrips since publishing this. I was thinking about doing a followup, but they ALL suffer from reddening.
@@ThriftyAV I remember seeing both the monitor and projector types in my school. I can even remember the Dukane's with a record player. Yep, I'm old! 🤣
Great piece of gear. I'm thinking it would be fun to make my own film and audio. But might be tricky in this day and age to get the correct materials etc. I love how it has 'Auto-Man' on the back. Reminds me of a TV series starring Chuck Wagner from the 80s
I just bought a Dukane VP Matic viewer/projector. The tape player and fan work when the unit is powered on but the bulb does not work. Any idea where I might be able to obtain a fuse for the projector?
I doubt McGraw Hill is as aggressive about copy protection as Sony Music, but I think it should be pointed out that making a video about a filmstrip viewer would not be very interesting without media to use with it... When media is being used to demonstrate hardware, it seems pretty clear that it falls under "fair use", but we'll see if this one gets a copyright strike.
Never underestimate the neuroticism of educational institutions, nor people that manufacture for those prisons (or legalized tax havens) called "schools". One college student named Aaron Swartz did and look what happened to him...
@HALF MT I've heard of stranger. Some UA-camr uploaded a video of cats purring and that got DMCA'd as a dubstep song that it wasn't. There's also the expensive price of educational materials generally. I have a suspicion that educational publishers do that to gouge those that sign a vendor lock-in contract. I've worked IT for a school district, so I'm aware how that works.
1987 is certainly a plausible date of manufacture for one of these. The elementary school I was in at the time didn't get its first VCR until 1988 or so. p.s. The term "rip/ripping" only applies to digital media (CDs & DVDs). With analog media you dub or transfer it, not rip it.
My high school had VCRs... But we had better gear than the little kids... Glad I got one of the newer ones! And thank you on the venacular, encoding in real time is certainly more work than "ripping"!
photo film is positioned where the long side of the frame is parallel to the sprocket holes. Filmstrips are positioned where the long side of the frame is perpendicular to the sprocket holes, so if I tried to use this as a 35mm viewer, it would be sideways with the edges chopped off. I recently picked up a film scanner that is better for this type of stuff, so stay tuned for that video!
I remember my elementary school had one of these one of our books had both the film reel and casette
Oh gosh, this AV machine has been haunting my thoughts for years. I half thought I made it up. I’ve only ever seen one once-It must’ve been first grade, our school librarian showed us a movie about a library book that wasn’t cared for properly.
Man I completely forgot about these! What a memory trip! 👍
Yes. The ones at my school were the projector type, but I remember watching filmstrips at school. I picked up a few more filmstrips since publishing this. I was thinking about doing a followup, but they ALL suffer from reddening.
@@ThriftyAV I remember seeing both the monitor and projector types in my school. I can even remember the Dukane's with a record player. Yep, I'm old! 🤣
Excellent review.
Great piece of gear. I'm thinking it would be fun to make my own film and audio. But might be tricky in this day and age to get the correct materials etc. I love how it has 'Auto-Man' on the back. Reminds me of a TV series starring Chuck Wagner from the 80s
I just bought a Dukane VP Matic viewer/projector. The tape player and fan work when the unit is powered on but the bulb does not work.
Any idea where I might be able to obtain a fuse for the projector?
What JVC deck did you use? Also, I couldn't make out what the USB adapter was? Do you have any recommendation's for what you would use today?
I doubt McGraw Hill is as aggressive about copy protection as Sony Music, but I think it should be pointed out that making a video about a filmstrip viewer would not be very interesting without media to use with it... When media is being used to demonstrate hardware, it seems pretty clear that it falls under "fair use", but we'll see if this one gets a copyright strike.
Never underestimate the neuroticism of educational institutions, nor people that manufacture for those prisons (or legalized tax havens) called "schools".
One college student named Aaron Swartz did and look what happened to him...
@HALF MT I've heard of stranger. Some UA-camr uploaded a video of cats purring and that got DMCA'd as a dubstep song that it wasn't.
There's also the expensive price of educational materials generally. I have a suspicion that educational publishers do that to gouge those that sign a vendor lock-in contract. I've worked IT for a school district, so I'm aware how that works.
Thank you.
1987 is certainly a plausible date of manufacture for one of these. The elementary school I was in at the time didn't get its first VCR until 1988 or so. p.s. The term "rip/ripping" only applies to digital media (CDs & DVDs). With analog media you dub or transfer it, not rip it.
My high school had VCRs... But we had better gear than the little kids... Glad I got one of the newer ones! And thank you on the venacular, encoding in real time is certainly more work than "ripping"!
That was really cool. Did you try it with photo film? It would be interesting to see how it works with Kodak ektachrome slide film.
photo film is positioned where the long side of the frame is parallel to the sprocket holes. Filmstrips are positioned where the long side of the frame is perpendicular to the sprocket holes, so if I tried to use this as a 35mm viewer, it would be sideways with the edges chopped off. I recently picked up a film scanner that is better for this type of stuff, so stay tuned for that video!
You are underrated
Think you for the kind words. I'm working on changing this! Feel free to share any of my vids that you like on your favorite forums...