I bought a CD player last year. It was from 1993 and sounds fantastic. Good to listen to those smaller bands who didn't appear on streaming services for various complicated licensing reasons.
Also most streaming services don't match cd quality. The ones that do, like Tidal and others charge the artist a premium to have their songs stream at CD quality so a lot of smaller artist can't afford to have their songs at a higher quality. Whereas they can print CD's and have their songs at much higher quality.
I still buy CDs when it’s cheaper than buying a digital copy. I hate paying for streaming because budgeting and when streaming doesn’t make the cut, I lose my music and some services don’t save the playlists/libraries I have set up next time I renew my subscription.
I still buy CDs actually. I like having the artwork and the physical media to leaf through, and while it doesn't have that analog charm I can throw a CD into just about any device with an optical drive and it will work, while taking up WAY less space than vinyl with a sizeable collection. I've recently removed the jewel cases and put them in clear sleeves with the books and cover art and my entire 200+ collection fits in a couple milk crates. I definitely still rip them though for convenience sake.
As someone who drives a 2012 car and has a mobile data cap I do still use CD's. Plus I can quickly change songs without needed my phone and risk getting into an accident/getting a ticket
@@MYSEGAISBROKEN I take advantage of both. Streaming for when I'm discovering and physical when I want to add to my collection. Digital too if it's the only way to own a copy and to support an artist as we all know streaming revenue isn't great for smaller artists that don't get a lot of plays.
Honestly, I get more joy out of my VCR when it comes to watching movies, than digital, streaming and physical 4K discs. I love my VCR. I love watching both tapes of Scarface, because the movie is so long, with opening up a new copy of from dusk till Dawn from the thrift shop. It’s just something so novel about it. I also love the clam shells for the Pokémon find Disney movies I own. If anybody is interested, go for the VHS DVD combo. Yeah we know you’re not gonna use the DVD player. But you get Hi-Fi. And if you’re lucky, HDMI!
CDs are literally the best physical format for audio quality. They're basically the gold standard for digital audio quality. They're also one of the most collected physical formats for audiophiles alongside vinyl and tape. Their big disadvantage is space and durability concerns. Especially for the jewel boxes. The standard ones just never held up.
Vinyl was not just about the music. They were literally also works of art. I remember back in college decorating the wall of my dorm with album covers. Try doing that with a CD liner.
So..about the Hoverboards catching fire thing..I used to work at a store in the local mall (I actually work at a different store in the same mall now, but whatever), this happened on a day I had off so I had to be told about it, but outside the store I was at, and about 3 kiosk's down, was a kiosk specifically for those Hoverboard things. They literally caught on fire AT the kiosk. That's how garbage those things were. Just thought it was a fun story to tell since they were brought up in the video lol
Kinect is actually really cool as an indie dev. We have 12 of the Xbox One ones set up in a sphere for mocap. Work better than most sensorless mocap solutions, especially for the price.
Indeed. In another life, I may or may not have intentionally (over a series of years) wrote code that would work, but perform poorly with (or even crash) IE to force a client to drop support for it... which they finally did... in 2020.
I don’t recall the VHS tape rewinder being marketed as a more convenient way for rewinding tapes. It was meant to reduce the wear & tear on the VCR’s motor since rewinding at a much higher speed than playback was the most destructive task for the motor.
I love the Kinect, not necessarily for the gaming usages but for how it enabled Lidar and 3D applications for hobbyist projects at an affordable price point almost a decade before real competition existed. I could buy a used Kinect off eBay, and suddenly my robot could do 3D object segmentation and path planning without all the calibration issues of offsetting two normal cameras.
"I didn't know where to go". 😂 Totally me, I've lived in the ROC area for basically 40 years. Use to have a hardware store, a family owned grocery store, and a McDonald's in my small town, now there's a casino, two dollar stores, Tops, and a plaza. Its ridiculous 😅
CD's were once a great way to share music with people. You think playlists and the internet would have just increased that but I don't think it has. I think we lost something really special with the mixed cd and the mixed tape
Phone chargers? VHS tapes? CD's?...I still use phone chargers...And maybe because I'm an old soul, but I love VHS tapes and even CD's...Heck I still buy DVD's to add to my collection
People buying vinyl are taking part in a trend. CD's obliterate vinyl in terms of sound quality. Pops, crackles, hisses and cheap stylus' skipping isn't a "warmer" sound, it's a mediocre sound that people have convinced themselves to be nostalgic for. The people with no nostalgia who are buying vinyl are jumping on a trend because it's cool. That said, physical media kicks the dick off Spotify and the like, because at least you can own your physical copy of an album and it can't be taken from you when rights to stream expire. Blu ray, 4K blu ray and even DVD are better than Netflix and the likes of Prime - especially Prime, where they pretend to sell you movies but will still absolutely revoke your access to them at the drop of a hat. Physical media all the way! Streaming is convenient, but man, you give away so much in order to get that convenience.
Also rewinding tapes with a dedicated rewinder reduced the wear & tear on the VCR so it would last longer, & the rewinder would do it faster than the VCR itself.
LGs 3D tvs we’re incredible! They had the best glasses and provided great images! I still have mine and still use it but it is now my select tv for certain things.
I'll never get over the unsettling fact that it had physical feedback of it spying on you. We all know cameras do that but we don't need Edward Snowden telling us they are spying on us while watching a camera physically follow us around the room while its off.
Don't forget: it wasn't just that rewinding VHS tapes was annoying, it was that players would literally BREAK THEMSELVES after rewinding so many times. You HAD to buy a rewinder machine because the motors on the players would eventually become physically incapable of running in reverse.
@@Thisandthat8908 Oh, no, this was a pretty high-quality machine from the mid-to-late 80's. It happened more quickly on cheaper units, but they ALL eventually suffer the same issue.
I still buy CDs. I prefer having physical media as a backup as opposed to going all digital (plus space saving CD vs Vinyl) Also, did Austin wax his 'stache? Curious if that content is incoming for some kind of "tech" thing.
Sadly my VCR broke back in 2016 I would have been half way through Garde 10 at the time... Now I have no way to watch my VHS copys of the unaltered versions of Star Wars the Original Trilogy
Spotify is great, until you wake up one day and find half your favourites list has vanished because they lost the rights to that music, or just decided to remove it for other reasons. Same with movie streaming. CDs and DVDs you get to keep that stuff and replay it as many times as you want ... well, until the disk scratched or snapped. Or the burn layer degraded. Still, I miss the whole physical media side of things. And it was always weird to me that they completely skipped media on tiny flash drives. Like being able to buy a physical copy of a movie, and getting a flash drive in the box rather than a DVD. I guess that would be too expensive even today?? I still wish downloading the stuff from Spotify and Netflix was an actual option (even if it costs a bit more) that you can put on a flash drive and keep long after they decide to remove it from their servers .. despite the fact you had already _paid_ for it, which always feels like legalised theft by _them_ to me.
Subscription services and the "you will own nothing and be happy" mentality is a plague. Paying monthly for access to stuff we used to only have to pay once for is ridiculous, and the nonsensical bullshit that is services losing access to the content you're CONTINUOUSLY paying them for is beyond stupid. CDs are the way.
I still buy CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays because ALL of these streaming services CANNOT guarantee they will always have the music, movies, or TV shows you love. If they decide to not or forget to renew the license then POOF it's gone. Not to mention these same streaming services do not have everything or have mixed up bands with the wrong bands. I'll use streaming services for convenience, but they are HIGHLY unreliable and will drop music, movies, and shows if they are not hitting the numbers they want. Sadly I see the same thing with video games in digital downloads and cloud gaming, games I have enjoyed have completely disappeared or the service completely shuts down. Remember Games for Windows Live? The games I owned on that service are gone, all gone. I surrender the soapbox to the next ranter. 🙂
After MapQuest and before Google Maps there were these dedicated portable navigation devices made by Garmin and TomTom which attach to your car’s dashboard and gave visual and spoken directions. Fun fact: Garmin and TomTom still make those devices as of this comment. One may ask why do people still use those in the age of Google/Apple Maps? It’s because they are very useful for long trips where your phone would be on the dashboard under the hot sun which will kill your phone’s battery and shutdown due to overheating. Also RVers and truckers use special purpose GPS navigators which take account the vehicle’s dimension to avoid certain roads which larger vehicles cannot fit. Google Maps and Apple maps don’t have this feature. I’m a proud user of a Garmin DriveSmart 55 and a millennial!!
I still collect VHS tapes. You can find movies that are never on streaming services for 25 cents sometimes, and having a physical version of a movie is great.
CD can hold large programs and video games unlike Vinyl and Cassette, plus it is easier to rip or burn CD audio unlike it's analog counterparts. Plus the current people who buy Vinyl only buying them to collect and display them, they most of the time never actually listen to them. Also those Streaming services you use might not exist forever, a CD is much better then those since you are guaranteed you have access to them as long as the disc works or if the music is on your hard drive.
Can we remember, that, around the time Black Ops 2 came out, 3D TVs were great for the fact, that, if we splitscreened, both players could have their own FULL screen view, assuming they properly aligned themselves
Still got VHS tapes and CDs, love them to this day; you own good stuff from them do not got to download and be afraid if you net crashes and losing them.
Respectfully, hating on any possible resurgence of 3d tv's is a BAD take. Yes, the initial run of 3d tv's in the just-post-avatar world was pretty bad, but in that case tv's maxed out at 720p or 1080p for homes. 4k hadn't become a thing yet, and the way the 3d effect happened is that every other line was used to display content for each eye so it effectively halved the vertical resolution with switching polarized shutter glasses which was unacceptable Further, most tv's of that time were only 60hz, which means you had to deal with flicker because you could only swap back and forth between each eye twice to get 30fps. When 4k 120hz tv's FINALLY entered the scene where the 3d technology MADE SENSE (i.e. you could double-project each eye in the time of a single frame (24 or 30 fps (96 or 120hz respectively total)) at 4k to eliminate the flicker and resolution, tv manufacturers said "i guess people don't want 3d" and instantly stopped making them, right when the tech actually made sense to implement. it was REALLY bad timing. Right now, i'm writing this on my desktop with an LG cx 4k 120hz oled display which would be PERFECT for 1080p 3d shutter glasses type content. technically there's zero reason why these displays can't do 3d except that nvidia killed 3d vision, and lg removed any 3d shutter glasses functionality from the software (And they don't include an ir blaster to sync the shutter glasses). this is totally a software problem (and a 30 cent timer chip and led combo). There has also been a lot of research into directional waveguides which allow significantly higher quality passive 3d tv solutions as well. the 3ds was a TERRIBLE implementation, and if that's your only experience as a benchmark for passive 3d, I could see why you'd hate on it, but honestly, it has the ability to look REALLY good. Further, there has been lots of research into modern eye tracking for use in the VR space and with the use of either 3d environments or lytro-style multi-focus cameras, the system could conceivably track your eyes to see where you are looking and modify the focus of the scene at the depth of the thing you are looking at to get rid of the "weird depth perception" that people sometimes complain about with 3d tv and vr... it annoys me to no end that they stopped producing 3d tv's and 3d blu rays just when the display tech got good enough to give a proper experience. I really wish that it would come back soon.
My car has a CD player and DVD player. The CD player does play MP3 so I do use it when not using spotify. I do occasionally buy CD's and I have officially bought vinyls as some are included in the Meteora 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Now I have to buy a record player. I haven't had one since I was a kid and that was for read-a-longs and Disney's Mousercise! I might actually use it to record the vinyls to FLAC for use in my car.
We still have VHS, mainly used it to watch tv in another room. Can't remember how we wired it, but we connected it to the one tb in another room. Before we had fancier tvs than we do now. We still have it to watch old family videos. Windows 8 was horrible, as soon as we could update to 9 & 10 we did. I also collect CDs of artists and bands I love. I also buy dvds, I like having physical things, incase the internet goes down then I can watch my favorite movies.
CDs still make for a solid option for buying music. You never truly own any music - its just an intangible license. Having said that, it is a physical copy that has a decent track record for lasting for some time (if stored properly, and if the CD is not shitty made). Buy a CD. Rip a copy of it in your preferred digital file format. Sore the CD in your library. Play music digitally, and I guess in a CD player too? In most situations buying a digital copy of an album is not much cheaper (if at al) than buying a CD, so buying just a digital file does not make a strong argument for saving a lot of money, or for having a longer lasting copy of your purchased music.
You can find cds at yard sales or thrift stores really cheap, so getting a whole album for $1 or less is better than paying $10-12 for 256kbps MP3 files.
@@jimmymyers Good point - second hand sales. You can trade/sell/lend your music to someone else. Also as you stated thrifting for CDs can be a bit of fun and get you some "great discoveries " of something interesting/rare (or some new band that you never saw before but looks interesting).
NEVER poo poo on VHS! VHS was what made the movie industry what it is today (for good or bad). Without VHS, so many filmmakers wouldn't have careers. Because studios needed films to fill up the shelves at your rental stores, they were able to give so many people their chance in the industry. It also allowed the independent film scene to explode. From those great cult classic films, to those god-awful so bad they're good movies that we all watched with friends. VHS was an industry game changer.
I bought a CD in 2023. It was a one album band that disappeared after they dropped it back in like 2003 or so. I BOUGHT THE ALBUM BECAUSE I CAN'T FIND IT DIGITALLY ANYWHERE.
2:27 Matt, I said the same thing til someone reminded me that I carry a smartphone with me EVERYWHERE. We are already carrying listening devices with us. No I don’t think our cell phones are recording what we say, but who can be sure?
In Melbourne Australia we have Melway (equivalent to Map Quest) = that thing was mu bible growing up getting me to figure out the best route ... these days even people with a smartphone + google map = cannot even navigate to save their saves. Map Quest is a life lesson that needs to be taught in school.
Very worse thing about windows 8 was just how slow it was. It was still before ssd were cheap and common so people were still using 5400 or 7200 rpm hard drives. It would lag out so much going to and from desktop and different apps. Years later I tried it out for fun on a modern PC and honestly it wasn't terrible
I actually still buy CDs I use them in the car. I like having a the cd format version of my vinyl, and know a lot of physical music collectors that collect CDs just as well CDs. Also not every music is available on streaming…
nah i love cds i only have 5 albums on lp but i have hundreds of cds. i dont stream music since alot of the music i listen to isnt on streaming services so having cds gives me a legal way to get really high quality digital copies of my fav albums
LOL I still use my CD's still got my giant flip books of all my CD's one for in my truck and the other I keep next to my CD/Radio player in my entertainment center.
Never heard of Juicero or RED Hydrogen, must have never been released in Canada. But I do remember IE, hated that thing with a burning passion. I still have CDs I transfer them to my iTunes so if they ever decide to nuke iTunes in an update, I can put back exactly what was nuked. 3D TVs...never got one probably because it was too damn expensive.
adding to the internet explorer thing all of those addon browsers that made you pay for them when you already had a service but then those made using a free browser not work ... because like the og aol browser it changed settings in your computer without your knowledge basicly making ie unusable at all
Having a kinects biggest argument was, "having a mic in your office that i have all access to." But, has no problems with having "hey Google" things all over their house which does the same if not more.....?
As a millennial with plenty of nostalgia from the 90's, VHS sucked. The video quality was horrible, most movies were cropped pan and scan 4:3 until later in it's life, having to adjust tracking, tapes degraded quickly if you watched them a lot, rewinding and the fun of having your VCR eat a rented tape and destroying it. Great when nothing else existed, the second DVD's came on the scene VHS rightfully went away. Not everything old was good. The one genre that benefitted from VHS were horror movies of the time. That shitty quality and blurry image lent them a creepy quality that was lost in are transition to digital. Texas Chainsaw massacre on an old shitty VHS looks like a god damn snuff film for instance.
God widely available GPS IS goated and just shows how Garmin was such a scam charging for that doggy 360p 4x6 screen with horrid touch latency AND CHARGING TO UPDATE THE MAP
New 3DS had great 3D… sadly it was introduced so late in the consoles life that it didn’t matter anymore.
Luckily the 3d tech is now in upcoming laptops
Even the original 3DS XL has a really cool 3D display. It's just too finicky, as your head needs to be at the perfect angle for it to work.
I bought a CD player last year. It was from 1993 and sounds fantastic. Good to listen to those smaller bands who didn't appear on streaming services for various complicated licensing reasons.
Also most streaming services don't match cd quality. The ones that do, like Tidal and others charge the artist a premium to have their songs stream at CD quality so a lot of smaller artist can't afford to have their songs at a higher quality. Whereas they can print CD's and have their songs at much higher quality.
@@Peterstarzynskitech modern cd players are garbage qualitys bc they are obsolete. older ones are way better bc they are during cds golden time period
@@timothywhite8130modern CD players at big box retailers are cash cows because they can make them so cheaply.
As a classic iPod enthusiast, CDs are my main supply of music lol.
I still buy CDs when it’s cheaper than buying a digital copy. I hate paying for streaming because budgeting and when streaming doesn’t make the cut, I lose my music and some services don’t save the playlists/libraries I have set up next time I renew my subscription.
I still buy CDs actually. I like having the artwork and the physical media to leaf through, and while it doesn't have that analog charm I can throw a CD into just about any device with an optical drive and it will work, while taking up WAY less space than vinyl with a sizeable collection. I've recently removed the jewel cases and put them in clear sleeves with the books and cover art and my entire 200+ collection fits in a couple milk crates. I definitely still rip them though for convenience sake.
As someone who drives a 2012 car and has a mobile data cap I do still use CD's. Plus I can quickly change songs without needed my phone and risk getting into an accident/getting a ticket
Well benefits to physical media is streaming gets rid of things and if you own it well you can see it or listen to it whenever you want.
I 100% agree
@@MYSEGAISBROKEN I take advantage of both. Streaming for when I'm discovering and physical when I want to add to my collection. Digital too if it's the only way to own a copy and to support an artist as we all know streaming revenue isn't great for smaller artists that don't get a lot of plays.
I prefer CD's for offline listening. Also helps I have 90's audio setup with one of those 100 cd changers.
Honestly, I get more joy out of my VCR when it comes to watching movies, than digital, streaming and physical 4K discs. I love my VCR. I love watching both tapes of Scarface, because the movie is so long, with opening up a new copy of from dusk till Dawn from the thrift shop. It’s just something so novel about it. I also love the clam shells for the Pokémon find Disney movies I own. If anybody is interested, go for the VHS DVD combo. Yeah we know you’re not gonna use the DVD player. But you get Hi-Fi. And if you’re lucky, HDMI!
CDs are literally the best physical format for audio quality. They're basically the gold standard for digital audio quality. They're also one of the most collected physical formats for audiophiles alongside vinyl and tape. Their big disadvantage is space and durability concerns. Especially for the jewel boxes. The standard ones just never held up.
Vinyl was not just about the music. They were literally also works of art. I remember back in college decorating the wall of my dorm with album covers. Try doing that with a CD liner.
So..about the Hoverboards catching fire thing..I used to work at a store in the local mall (I actually work at a different store in the same mall now, but whatever), this happened on a day I had off so I had to be told about it, but outside the store I was at, and about 3 kiosk's down, was a kiosk specifically for those Hoverboard things. They literally caught on fire AT the kiosk. That's how garbage those things were. Just thought it was a fun story to tell since they were brought up in the video lol
Iv been saying physical media well make a comeback. Specially when more people realize they only own the media as long as its hosted.
RIP IE - You were the best browser to download other browsers
😂😂 facts.
Kinect is actually really cool as an indie dev.
We have 12 of the Xbox One ones set up in a sphere for mocap.
Work better than most sensorless mocap solutions, especially for the price.
Oh damn that’s actually sick
IE held back website design, too. You had to write in exceptions, write extra code simply to make your website look similar between browsers
Indeed. In another life, I may or may not have intentionally (over a series of years) wrote code that would work, but perform poorly with (or even crash) IE to force a client to drop support for it... which they finally did... in 2020.
And now, most websites are so bloated, they are literally Apps.
I don’t recall the VHS tape rewinder being marketed as a more convenient way for rewinding tapes. It was meant to reduce the wear & tear on the VCR’s motor since rewinding at a much higher speed than playback was the most destructive task for the motor.
And while it accomplished it’s goal it provided a more convenient way to rewind tapes. So win win
I love the Kinect, not necessarily for the gaming usages but for how it enabled Lidar and 3D applications for hobbyist projects at an affordable price point almost a decade before real competition existed. I could buy a used Kinect off eBay, and suddenly my robot could do 3D object segmentation and path planning without all the calibration issues of offsetting two normal cameras.
My VHS player had 2 slots so I could either record another tape OR rewind. It wasn't too fast but it could rewind while another played.
"I didn't know where to go". 😂 Totally me, I've lived in the ROC area for basically 40 years. Use to have a hardware store, a family owned grocery store, and a McDonald's in my small town, now there's a casino, two dollar stores, Tops, and a plaza. Its ridiculous 😅
CD's were once a great way to share music with people. You think playlists and the internet would have just increased that but I don't think it has. I think we lost something really special with the mixed cd and the mixed tape
Phone chargers? VHS tapes? CD's?...I still use phone chargers...And maybe because I'm an old soul, but I love VHS tapes and even CD's...Heck I still buy DVD's to add to my collection
People buying vinyl are taking part in a trend. CD's obliterate vinyl in terms of sound quality. Pops, crackles, hisses and cheap stylus' skipping isn't a "warmer" sound, it's a mediocre sound that people have convinced themselves to be nostalgic for. The people with no nostalgia who are buying vinyl are jumping on a trend because it's cool. That said, physical media kicks the dick off Spotify and the like, because at least you can own your physical copy of an album and it can't be taken from you when rights to stream expire. Blu ray, 4K blu ray and even DVD are better than Netflix and the likes of Prime - especially Prime, where they pretend to sell you movies but will still absolutely revoke your access to them at the drop of a hat. Physical media all the way! Streaming is convenient, but man, you give away so much in order to get that convenience.
Also rewinding tapes with a dedicated rewinder reduced the wear & tear on the VCR so it would last longer, & the rewinder would do it faster than the VCR itself.
LGs 3D tvs we’re incredible! They had the best glasses and provided great images! I still have mine and still use it but it is now my select tv for certain things.
no matter how many times i hear the intro i still love it , the energy that matt brings is fantastic
I've still got my vcr, somewhere in the garage but it's it's there lol. And the penalties for not rewinding before returning them was the worst lol
CDs: pops up, me **slowly turning my head to my overly expensive cd collection that I love more than anything**😢
The Kinect was incredible for everything except for video games, it made absolute leaps and bounds in the machine learning space
I'll never get over the unsettling fact that it had physical feedback of it spying on you. We all know cameras do that but we don't need Edward Snowden telling us they are spying on us while watching a camera physically follow us around the room while its off.
Tech-wise, Kinect was something really cool with a lot of potential.
Austin has 2 good hoverboard stories: Story of how someone nearly DIED on a shoot
Don't forget: it wasn't just that rewinding VHS tapes was annoying, it was that players would literally BREAK THEMSELVES after rewinding so many times. You HAD to buy a rewinder machine because the motors on the players would eventually become physically incapable of running in reverse.
i literally never had this happened in a decade or so of vhs use. MAybe getting the 50$ ones from Walmart was the problem? :P
@@Thisandthat8908 Oh, no, this was a pretty high-quality machine from the mid-to-late 80's. It happened more quickly on cheaper units, but they ALL eventually suffer the same issue.
I still buy CDs. I prefer having physical media as a backup as opposed to going all digital (plus space saving CD vs Vinyl)
Also, did Austin wax his 'stache? Curious if that content is incoming for some kind of "tech" thing.
The very last 3d tv was the LG 4k 3d oled tv and it was awesome. The 3d was actually good and wow that picture was amazing.
I still use CDs, and I want VHS and audio cassettes to comeback. I was born in the year 2000, and I miss using these technologies
Sadly my VCR broke back in 2016 I would have been half way through Garde 10 at the time... Now I have no way to watch my VHS copys of the unaltered versions of Star Wars the Original Trilogy
who up playin star wars kinect
Don't knock it until you try it. I will be riding with Solo 😎
love sw
Yes I’m not the only one
I'm playing Kinect adventures rn
It’s great to be in the empire today 🎵
I’m Han Solo… I’m Han Solo… 🎶
Spotify is great, until you wake up one day and find half your favourites list has vanished because they lost the rights to that music, or just decided to remove it for other reasons. Same with movie streaming. CDs and DVDs you get to keep that stuff and replay it as many times as you want ... well, until the disk scratched or snapped. Or the burn layer degraded. Still, I miss the whole physical media side of things. And it was always weird to me that they completely skipped media on tiny flash drives. Like being able to buy a physical copy of a movie, and getting a flash drive in the box rather than a DVD. I guess that would be too expensive even today?? I still wish downloading the stuff from Spotify and Netflix was an actual option (even if it costs a bit more) that you can put on a flash drive and keep long after they decide to remove it from their servers .. despite the fact you had already _paid_ for it, which always feels like legalised theft by _them_ to me.
Subscription services and the "you will own nothing and be happy" mentality is a plague. Paying monthly for access to stuff we used to only have to pay once for is ridiculous, and the nonsensical bullshit that is services losing access to the content you're CONTINUOUSLY paying them for is beyond stupid. CDs are the way.
Loved the Kinect, my whole family loved the Kinect, I'm flabbergasted it was discontinued. This is probably the number one tech I want back.
Kinect was an awesome thing with games for friends/family, I loved mine
I still buy CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays because ALL of these streaming services CANNOT guarantee they will always have the music, movies, or TV shows you love. If they decide to not or forget to renew the license then POOF it's gone. Not to mention these same streaming services do not have everything or have mixed up bands with the wrong bands. I'll use streaming services for convenience, but they are HIGHLY unreliable and will drop music, movies, and shows if they are not hitting the numbers they want. Sadly I see the same thing with video games in digital downloads and cloud gaming, games I have enjoyed have completely disappeared or the service completely shuts down. Remember Games for Windows Live? The games I owned on that service are gone, all gone. I surrender the soapbox to the next ranter. 🙂
After MapQuest and before Google Maps there were these dedicated portable navigation devices made by Garmin and TomTom which attach to your car’s dashboard and gave visual and spoken directions. Fun fact: Garmin and TomTom still make those devices as of this comment. One may ask why do people still use those in the age of Google/Apple Maps?
It’s because they are very useful for long trips where your phone would be on the dashboard under the hot sun which will kill your phone’s battery and shutdown due to overheating. Also RVers and truckers use special purpose GPS navigators which take account the vehicle’s dimension to avoid certain roads which larger vehicles cannot fit. Google Maps and Apple maps don’t have this feature.
I’m a proud user of a Garmin DriveSmart 55 and a millennial!!
Vinyls have apparently somehow came back, now I really want to see VHS do the same.😁👍🏼
🤜🏻🤛🏻
Worth the watch for the Win 8 joke.
Dear whoever edits these videos; I love you
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I still collect VHS tapes. You can find movies that are never on streaming services for 25 cents sometimes, and having a physical version of a movie is great.
CD can hold large programs and video games unlike Vinyl and Cassette, plus it is easier to rip or burn CD audio unlike it's analog counterparts.
Plus the current people who buy Vinyl only buying them to collect and display them, they most of the time never actually listen to them.
Also those Streaming services you use might not exist forever, a CD is much better then those since you are guaranteed you have access to them as long as the disc works or if the music is on your hard drive.
Can we remember, that, around the time Black Ops 2 came out, 3D TVs were great for the fact, that, if we splitscreened, both players could have their own FULL screen view, assuming they properly aligned themselves
Still got VHS tapes and CDs, love them to this day; you own good stuff from them do not got to download and be afraid if you net crashes and losing them.
Respectfully, hating on any possible resurgence of 3d tv's is a BAD take. Yes, the initial run of 3d tv's in the just-post-avatar world was pretty bad, but in that case tv's maxed out at 720p or 1080p for homes. 4k hadn't become a thing yet, and the way the 3d effect happened is that every other line was used to display content for each eye so it effectively halved the vertical resolution with switching polarized shutter glasses which was unacceptable Further, most tv's of that time were only 60hz, which means you had to deal with flicker because you could only swap back and forth between each eye twice to get 30fps. When 4k 120hz tv's FINALLY entered the scene where the 3d technology MADE SENSE (i.e. you could double-project each eye in the time of a single frame (24 or 30 fps (96 or 120hz respectively total)) at 4k to eliminate the flicker and resolution, tv manufacturers said "i guess people don't want 3d" and instantly stopped making them, right when the tech actually made sense to implement. it was REALLY bad timing. Right now, i'm writing this on my desktop with an LG cx 4k 120hz oled display which would be PERFECT for 1080p 3d shutter glasses type content. technically there's zero reason why these displays can't do 3d except that nvidia killed 3d vision, and lg removed any 3d shutter glasses functionality from the software (And they don't include an ir blaster to sync the shutter glasses). this is totally a software problem (and a 30 cent timer chip and led combo).
There has also been a lot of research into directional waveguides which allow significantly higher quality passive 3d tv solutions as well. the 3ds was a TERRIBLE implementation, and if that's your only experience as a benchmark for passive 3d, I could see why you'd hate on it, but honestly, it has the ability to look REALLY good. Further, there has been lots of research into modern eye tracking for use in the VR space and with the use of either 3d environments or lytro-style multi-focus cameras, the system could conceivably track your eyes to see where you are looking and modify the focus of the scene at the depth of the thing you are looking at to get rid of the "weird depth perception" that people sometimes complain about with 3d tv and vr...
it annoys me to no end that they stopped producing 3d tv's and 3d blu rays just when the display tech got good enough to give a proper experience. I really wish that it would come back soon.
I actually liked 3D TVs and 3D Blu-ray’s when done right. I always played my 3DS in 3D mode. We are here and we are valid!!
I never turned 3d mode off on my 3ds
My car has a CD player and DVD player. The CD player does play MP3 so I do use it when not using spotify. I do occasionally buy CD's and I have officially bought vinyls as some are included in the Meteora 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Now I have to buy a record player. I haven't had one since I was a kid and that was for read-a-longs and Disney's Mousercise! I might actually use it to record the vinyls to FLAC for use in my car.
We still have VHS, mainly used it to watch tv in another room. Can't remember how we wired it, but we connected it to the one tb in another room. Before we had fancier tvs than we do now. We still have it to watch old family videos.
Windows 8 was horrible, as soon as we could update to 9 & 10 we did.
I also collect CDs of artists and bands I love. I also buy dvds, I like having physical things, incase the internet goes down then I can watch my favorite movies.
CDs still make for a solid option for buying music. You never truly own any music - its just an intangible license. Having said that, it is a physical copy that has a decent track record for lasting for some time (if stored properly, and if the CD is not shitty made).
Buy a CD. Rip a copy of it in your preferred digital file format. Sore the CD in your library. Play music digitally, and I guess in a CD player too?
In most situations buying a digital copy of an album is not much cheaper (if at al) than buying a CD, so buying just a digital file does not make a strong argument for saving a lot of money, or for having a longer lasting copy of your purchased music.
You can find cds at yard sales or thrift stores really cheap, so getting a whole album for $1 or less is better than paying $10-12 for 256kbps MP3 files.
@@jimmymyers Good point - second hand sales. You can trade/sell/lend your music to someone else.
Also as you stated thrifting for CDs can be a bit of fun and get you some "great discoveries " of something interesting/rare (or some new band that you never saw before but looks interesting).
Love how matt compared something to Lord of the Flies hahaha he makes this channel so much better with his wit and humor
As a parent the kinect was AMAZING! Just turn on kinect party and the kids play til they're worn out!
my cd collection weeps
NEVER poo poo on VHS! VHS was what made the movie industry what it is today (for good or bad). Without VHS, so many filmmakers wouldn't have careers. Because studios needed films to fill up the shelves at your rental stores, they were able to give so many people their chance in the industry. It also allowed the independent film scene to explode. From those great cult classic films, to those god-awful so bad they're good movies that we all watched with friends. VHS was an industry game changer.
that mapquest explanation was spot on jimmy
I bought a CD in 2023. It was a one album band that disappeared after they dropped it back in like 2003 or so. I BOUGHT THE ALBUM BECAUSE I CAN'T FIND IT DIGITALLY ANYWHERE.
2:27 Matt, I said the same thing til someone reminded me that I carry a smartphone with me EVERYWHERE. We are already carrying listening devices with us. No I don’t think our cell phones are recording what we say, but who can be sure?
Haha, that old quibi guy looked like a geriatric Austin Evans!😂
Matt cracks me the fuck up...the hoverboard joke has me rolling at work
They still sell CD’s in stores like FYE surprisingly and I still use them for my car stereo since it doesn’t have aux.
That is the MOST ACCURATE description of a Red Cam ever!
Is it me or did Matt's NOOOOO at the end sound vaguely like Gen. 1 Starscream 😂🤖
In Melbourne Australia we have Melway (equivalent to Map Quest) = that thing was mu bible growing up getting me to figure out the best route ... these days even people with a smartphone + google map = cannot even navigate to save their saves.
Map Quest is a life lesson that needs to be taught in school.
Funny as usual guys ! My family had a tape rewinder.
VCR rewinders weren't used just because they were faster It was often believed at the time that many VHS players damaged the tape rewinding them
The disrespect for CDs has me raging haha
Very worse thing about windows 8 was just how slow it was. It was still before ssd were cheap and common so people were still using 5400 or 7200 rpm hard drives. It would lag out so much going to and from desktop and different apps. Years later I tried it out for fun on a modern PC and honestly it wasn't terrible
Austin's soul left his body when MapQuest was brought up
I actually still buy CDs I use them in the car. I like having a the cd format version of my vinyl, and know a lot of physical music collectors that collect CDs just as well CDs. Also not every music is available on streaming…
I still have a laserdisc player and film collection. They are great.
I did like TRON LEGACY on my 3D Sony Bravia. That was pretty slick.
Mattt love the nod to Player Hater of the Year!!
Me too, I love having the solid copies. At least of my favourite albums.
I miss the old iPhone music map. Like being able to turn it sideways and have this 3D transition of the album cover
Have my Kinect set up next to my Series X for Dance Central, Just Dance, and Hip Hop Dance Experience. Used it recently.
My last tv was the Samsung 3d tv. Nothing supported it so it was a 2d tv for it's while lifespan.
Nothing at all??
I mean u can load 3d movies on a usb drive and still use the 3d feature
nah i love cds i only have 5 albums on lp but i have hundreds of cds. i dont stream music since alot of the music i listen to isnt on streaming services so having cds gives me a legal way to get really high quality digital copies of my fav albums
The Kinect was revolutionary!
LOL I still use my CD's still got my giant flip books of all my CD's one for in my truck and the other I keep next to my CD/Radio player in my entertainment center.
Never heard of Juicero or RED Hydrogen, must have never been released in Canada. But I do remember IE, hated that thing with a burning passion. I still have CDs I transfer them to my iTunes so if they ever decide to nuke iTunes in an update, I can put back exactly what was nuked. 3D TVs...never got one probably because it was too damn expensive.
I miss paying $50 for netscape.
I'm currently on the lookout for an Xbox Kinect. Really want one to play you guessed it: Just Dance 2022!
I'm so glad i said "SEEDEEZNUTSZ" at the same time as matt 🤣🤣
I spot some boss coffee rainbow mountain blend
😂😂😂😂 your just calling Marques and Jud names I thought they were your friends
I love how the guy with an apple watch is complaining that the Kinect could be used as a listening device 😂
Also I do have a vcr but the vhs player no longer works sadly
9:33 ahh yes Streaming..... the viable option for those with data caps. Lol
cds ps1 backups guys which means theyre good for tht so if your a retro gamer yes there is a need for them if u are a retro gamer
I still use CDs to interface with my older Gadgets, they're very important.
cds are still used for backups same with dvds and blurays and m discs and linus was a sucker that bought red cameras
adding to the internet explorer thing all of those addon browsers that made you pay for them when you already had a service but then those made using a free browser not work ... because like the og aol browser
it changed settings in your computer without your knowledge basicly making ie unusable at all
Having a kinects biggest argument was, "having a mic in your office that i have all access to." But, has no problems with having "hey Google" things all over their house which does the same if not more.....?
Your transition after the Hoverboard should have been a Segway. 😅
the whole kinect being a listening device thing, same can be said ab smart home accessories, no escape this grim reality lol
8:50 "CDs" with a picture of DVDs
VHS Rewinders extended the life of your VCR.
"Take a fork at the left" lol
As a millennial with plenty of nostalgia from the 90's, VHS sucked. The video quality was horrible, most movies were cropped pan and scan 4:3 until later in it's life, having to adjust tracking, tapes degraded quickly if you watched them a lot, rewinding and the fun of having your VCR eat a rented tape and destroying it. Great when nothing else existed, the second DVD's came on the scene VHS rightfully went away. Not everything old was good.
The one genre that benefitted from VHS were horror movies of the time. That shitty quality and blurry image lent them a creepy quality that was lost in are transition to digital. Texas Chainsaw massacre on an old shitty VHS looks like a god damn snuff film for instance.
God widely available GPS IS goated and just shows how Garmin was such a scam charging for that doggy 360p 4x6 screen with horrid touch latency AND CHARGING TO UPDATE THE MAP
Hands action causing friendship to die