Machines | David Mitchell's Soapbox
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2011
- David Mitchell talks machines.
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David berates the modern button-loving gadget designers who are given free reign with their counterintuitive scratchable DVDs. Do you too lament the simple days of the VHS?
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This is the most "old man yells at cloud" episode yet...
Is this a movie or cartoon reference? I suppose it would have to be.
@@waynemarvin5661 the simpsons
How could you possibly deduce (correctly I should add) that our company makes land mines? That's supposed to be a secret. Sincerely, Step Easy Inc.
Boom boom
"If you're revoltingly young" hahahahaha
My 2 year old cousin knows what a vhs is. I guess he meant infant. Which are definitely revolting.
Anyone more than 2 years younger than David.
Is that Windy Miller?
The picture quality of Casablanca on film was significantly better than VHS.
That's cause film doesn't have a resolution where as VHS does, film's quality is only determined by the size of the grains in the film. Microscopic in otherwords hence why re-releases from film masters can still end up HD.
@@NirateGoel I was about to write that, there is a cool you tube “why some of the past was in HD” that shows why some 80’s mtv vids are still modern looking today while some look like they were made using mine craft.
ua-cam.com/video/rVpABCxiDaU/v-deo.html
Watching this in 2020 is weird... but I love it!
Well a lot of things have changed but printers are still trash
Yeah, like how he talks about smartphones and computers as if they can't display 1440p or higher. Hilarious how poorly it aged, really.
@@melancholyentertainment yeah this aged suuuper poorly. Watching Casablanca on a standard def tape would look pretty bad compared to a blu ray of it taken from the original film. Tape was convenient but it was markedly worse than film and digital.
As will this comment. Such is life.
Dave, I have never damaged a DVD in my life. You're insane.
Is that because you're very careful or because you've never used a cd? Lol
@@thecrabmaestro564 It's because I don't use them as recreational frisbees.
@@ginge641 coward
@@thecrabmaestro564 I’ve also never damaged a dvd or cd and I’ve owned hundreds of them
@@ginge641 I've used them as recreational frisbees and that was still not enough to damage them beyond being usable.
I AM watching this in a small window at work while working on a spreadsheet...OH GOD!What happened to my life?
I used to agree that HD was a bit of a gimmick. That was until the Ashes series this year, where for some reason they were comparing a period of play from this year with a match from 10 years ago. The difference in quality was absolutely staggering and it really does improve the viewing experience!
HD Telly is wasted on Cricket, Mate.
teehee1604 One has to also factor in how much the tape has deteriorated in ten years.
K Kr it wouldn’t deteriorate by much assuming it’s an important game obviously the fourth game in the Icelandic under 8s will have deteriorated but any professional game will be kept well archived and the more important games very well archived
The second half of this rant seems to have been lifted directly out of an unpublished Douglas Adams novel
Almost all of his rants vaguely remind me of Douglas Adams writing. They have the same intentionally pseudo-posh sarcastic tone. I suppose it helps that I've only ever "read" his books as narrated by Stephen Fry and Martin Freeman who have a similar tone and delivery to this guy.
@@LordMurdocka they probably all have the same type of humor since they’re all part of the same circle of british comics (david and martin were co-stars in Bruiser, even)
I wonder how many landmine accountants watched this at work and freaked out for a second
what's a DVD? oh, it's what people used before netflix
+Pork and Beans lol
+Pork and Beans oh good God he's so old. I'm 31 for crying out and he seems old.
What's Netflix? Oh yeah, it's that company name that appears before some of my pirated TV shows.
#tooyoung, Netflix originated as a DVD rental service
There are still some advantages to DVDs over netflix. Don't they sometimes take shows down and you can't watch them anymore? That can't really happen with DVDs.
My life has been permanently improved since stumbling on one of these videos this morning (then watching at least 50 of them in the intervening time).
But this one stood out as best of the best 😂 Hope to see more of David on UA-cam--and on American TV to help save us from ourselves !
You had me at ''revoltingly young.''
It's not often you hear David swear, and thus it has all that much more impact and significance when he does.
10 PRINT HELLO WORLD
20 GOTO 10
That's the nostalgia for me in this rant.
I'm marveled by the fact that David seems to know his BASIC.
The hello world needs to be in double quotes, and you need a semicolon on the end so it fills the screen with text rather than forming a column of hello worlds on the left of the screen
@@grodesby3422 How do you know the requirement isn't for a single column of text?
"Weird patina of my wrecked dermis" is a turn of phrase that took me a few seconds to grok.
A guy talking about how an old technology, which nobody uses anymore, is better to another old technology, nobody uses anymore. And it was made only 11 years ago. We are moving so fast...
By the way I am not a native speaker, and I used Chatgpt for a grammar check.
I think the funniest thing about his "picture quality" speech was noticing that I was able to up the resolution to 720p
Casablanca looks great, just because it's in black-and-white doesn't mean it has bad picture quality if it's good black-and-white.
I would've enjoyed this if the picture quality had been better...
Dispite haveing a ton of DVDs in my collection I can't seem to part with my VHSs. DVDs can be fustraiting at times for all the reasons David has pointed out. (And I'm sure if we all put our thinking caps on we could all come up with some more resons to add to the list.)
There is some thing about the good old VHS, it's a bit like when you pick up a book........
Oh ok, those rectangles filled with papper, oh forget it.
3:22 I agree, bloody fracking machines the lot of them
No matter how sophisticated computers get, no one has yet desgined one that can cope when you hit "cancel" during a print job.
The irony is that this video is available in 720p :P
Not ironical 4 years anymore. 😁
@@RahulSsup still better than vhs
I completely disagree with what David was saying about picture quality.
I used VHS tapes as building blocks when I was little. It was eternally frustrating that the length wasn't quite twice the width, making it so building anything more complicated than a wall was beyond my four year old attention span and spatial reasoning ability.
I'm actuall in a steady working relationship with my computer, I do my work on her and then she lets me play minecraft and listen to bigfinish.
So. You two still together?
Gotta love Big Finish 😍
The parrot's nostril bit is too true and hilarious XD
I completely agree. Similarly, I'm annoyed that I want a phone that phones and sends texts, and yet I have to have all these other stupid things on it!
Amazon sells unlocked 'dumb phones' (as they're now called) like the Nokia 105 for under £20. It has weeks of battery life and even a built-in radio. Then you just get, say, a £3.95-a-month SIM-only contract with 300 mins and unlimited texts and you're good to go.
@@SpiritmanProductions They do, but unfortunately you pretty much need a smart phone these days.
You hit the nail on the fuckin head at the end. "all I wanted was a robot slave, the last thing I wanted was a robot colleague.
I watched an old VHS copy of Frasier the other day and was just thinkin' about how much I miss video cassettes ;p x
0:32 "I know I bloody well didn't put there!"
I had to pause it here before finishing it, because I was falling off my chair laughing!
Does anyone ever recall having their VCR tell you it's waiting for a response, loading, or error messages?
HELL NO!
These machines excepted a command without any talk back.
Does anyone remember when the VCR started acting weird and you just gave it an Ol' Fonzie smack and it was working again?
Can't do that with new machines today.
Mitchell is AWESOME!
Can't believe a video less than 10 years old feels so dated.
Despite being one of those geeks who love technology and lots of features on things, I happen to agree completely about the 'pausing' thing. Why must I wait for ten seconds for my TV to come on, especially now that there are no 400v valve circuits to warm up? Why do I have to wait forever while my computer decides that the DVD I've just inserted is a blank one, during which time I can't even be getting on with anything else? And all this at 3 BILLION instructions per second? Bah.
"Selling landmines... possibly"
I LOLed.
When you said the thing about the landmines I got shivers!
Funny that dvds seem retro now
I like how this video is available in HD.
"Like" is not strong enough. This is absolutely brilliant.
Whilst I'm not a fan of really low quality videos on UA-cam, I do understand not everyone can afford HD quality videos and I wish some people would stop complaining about it and actually LISTEN to what the person in the video is trying to say. I've seen so many 'was this filmed with a potato?' comments it is enough to drive someone bonkers.
ELIMINATORRRR
I dont really mind video quality. What I *do* mind, is audio quality.
Brilliant. Loved the breakdown of the difference in "response time" of machines then v. now. Also the observation of how "usable" all the "features" actually turn out to be. Of course I don't agree with everything D-Mitch says, but I love to hear him say it.
@htenerf137 yes OK, they are (or they're - not their, as in belonging to them) "buffering", but what is the difference between that and thinking about it, both are processes that delay an action - would you not agree?
I agree with him. Not because he has such brilliant arguments, just because I do.
"My printer to an absolute fucking tee indecently" xD
I, for one, am watching this on a tiny box on a screen at work, most of which is taken up with a huge spreadsheet denoting how much money my company is making selling landmines.
Forwarding and rewinding on VHS was terrible, the screen went black and you had to guess when to stop the tape at the point you wanted to watch from and most of the time your tape would be at the very end so you'd have to sit and wait while it rewound. People who prefer tapes are probably taking the nostalgia drug
VHS also remembers how far you were into watching it when you turn it off midway.
And makes you put it back to the start.
I just turned 16 and I remember VHS tapes very clearly...
I know it was just a stab in the dark, but the "little box in the corner by the spreadsheet" bit had me freaked out a little!
Excellent, and I totally concur!
I treat my dvds with the care they deserve - never scratched any of mine and they all work!
I like how in the description it says, "David Mitchell's Soapbox Series 1 & 2 DVD available now" lol
Poor David, he's going to get a heart attack when he learns about what ChatGPT is and how it works.
i still have some of my vcr's from when i was a kid and a vcr machine that all still works.... i'm only 16, dvd's still seem relatively new to me.
"luddites on the design commitee" gets me every time
I am so glad I can watch this in 720pHD
Oh god, a VCR. Why must you make me feel old?
I HATE the skip/forward buttons on remotes! As David said they are SO counter intuitive. "Oh I've almost got it, forward just a little more... crap, I've skipped to the next section.... again".
Excellent work mon ami!
Hey, it’s Mitchell vs the machines!
"which describes my printer to an absolute fucking tee incidentally" - on the floor laughing at that!
It's been a great year for land mines btw.
I tried to pause this video to rant about it... my browser is still thinking about it.
Huh, I thought it was a little odd I agreed with David on pretty much all of his soapboxes, it's refreshing to find a video of his that I genuinely disagree with on every level possible
... I like picture quality improving.
I always get this way when a computer forces an update on me. "Oh, sorry to bother you, Windows. Thanks for letting me use my computer for 20 minutes today. That was very generous of you. I am very excited for this new update!"
Indeed, this very thing is the biggest thing which keeps me from returning to Windows.
I apparently watched this in 360p and didn't notice until I checked because, at a point we reached decades ago, it just stops mattering how detailed an image is... to everyone with an ounce of sense and a job that doesn't profit from making people by the same thing year after year.
In terms of some kinds of visual media, this is entirely wrong.
Long live VHS!
The work thing with the land mines spread sheet! I AM doing that right now! :o
Back on form!
Wow, this is spot on
I like how there's a HD option.
What's HD? Is that what they had before UHD?
Was that a "Look Around You" reference? I love you, David (& John).
Although I have been long enough using DVD's now (they are more practical to transport, especially if you move every couple of years...), I still haven't got a smartphone and I think I will never have one. My old Nokia still works perfectly for SMS and the waking alarm. In addition to that, the only idea of going around and being kept track of by some idiotic sateliite (and spying superpower) all the time gives me the shivers.
You don't want a device that can fit in your pocket, with access to the collective knowledge of the entire human race. Able to take take pictures, record videos, and send them to anywhere in the world in an instant. Able to hold thousands of books for reading, able to play countless games. Besides, you can still be tracked on your nokia, and smartphones are less reliant on satellites than older phones.
this really does grind his gears
My washing machine used to have a dial "clickity-clunk" and it was washing my cloths with an indistinguishably harsh buzzer at the end that could be heard across the house WHEN it finished. now a touch screen sings a song and chimes every time there is a small problem with its various sensors/ switches, which seams to be more often than not... we must go back.
That bear is terrifying
I'm only 17 and still watch videos! They might get fuzzy some times but they don't skip like a DVD!
Would love to get an update to this
im 15 and i remember vhs. i remember going through hours of adverts about 10 different disney films to watch the lion king. i also remember having to guess where i was in the video because you had to press stop to make it fast forward at a decent speed
gotta love streaming (or downloading)
Yess, I love it!
I am 12 and I used to always watch looney tunes on the VCR. :D
Cartridges are the best option for DRMed content. High storage capacity, reliable and difficult to break, and not particularly expensive to produce.
You could also play-->rewind a VHS and watch the entire movie in fast-motion reverse. This was what we did for fun before video games and smartphones.
@TheAwesomeArtChannel I'm 15 and I vividly recall the 'era' of 'My First Walkman' with cassette tapes, and home-video recorders spewing out masses of video cassettes. Some of the fun is in the archaicness of randomly finding old videos 'of when you were a kid' on half-broken videos in the attic... with the newer generation, what's happened? Oddly enough, with the greatened accessibility of digital videos and photographs on a hard-drive, we're less likely to customarily browse memories... sigh.
this is very Douglas Adams, I think David Mitchell might be Arthur Dent. especially that last bit, poor Marvin will be so depressed
I miss VHS too. Though the biggest reason for me is the box art. companies just don't seem to care as much about what the box looks like as they used to.
Planet Earth & Blue Planet Box-set, now available on DVD, Blu-ray and VHS....
Probably not the most fitting place to ask this, but I've got a karl pilkington question: what do you use nowadays to record: 1/ your voice, or a conversation you have in the real world 2/ to record music from the radio. None of the questions can be answered with "your cellphone". Thanks in advance!
this is better, i love it when he gets really angry
David Mitchell was onto the lofi trend years before it blew up.
I'm just here for the weird patina of David Mitchell's wrecked dermis
With VHS, you put the tape in, pressed go and it played. With DVDs you insert the disc, wait for it to load, trawl through the start up menu select option (I just want to play the thing, not go through all those options) and wait for it to load up again. And when you have to stop a DVD for longer than 2 minutes, you have to go through the start up all over again. VHS, you hit stop and then when you pushed play, it started again right at the point you left it
This video made me miss VHS
Let's go meta and record this episode on VHS
I'm not that old, but had a healthy collection of VHS when was a child, got rid of that and now have a healthy collection of DVDs and Blu-rays am a geek some things I wish had stayed the same, others am happy there gone. Anyone remember having to adjust 'tracking' having the image move up and down the screen, heads going under feet, good old days?
I think everybody now wants to see David Mitchel to play Detroit: Become Human
Waiting until the 1080p version comes out
Oh David. I miss videos too! Sad times!