Now that you're doing mostly LGR Blerbs you have the time to watch 73 minutes of the real Techmoan ;-) Just kidding, keep up the good work, both of ya!
Yep - I thought - what over an hour!!! But it brings back memories of me buying heaps of £1 network cards a computer fairs in the 90 and going through to find decent ones.
I want to see a video of you and techmoan exploring akihabara and Japanese thrift stores for vintage electronics in the style of a LGR thrifts video. It would be the crossover for the ages lol.
First Japanese disc (34:07) was 'Best of Koda Kumi' Second (35:10): artist is 'Udata Hikaru' Distance album, (i have some of her albums). Third (48:51): "My Life" with the date & time of place at a concert hall - Osaka Kouse Nenkin Kaikan 2005-02-13 difficult goggly search comes-up with artist 'Hideaki Tokunaga'. Just to note - Japan dates go Year-Month-Day (Thanks to my wifey for translations)
AH! Kouda Kumi! the 倖 and the 來 were illegible and i'm not good with kanji (nor am i a fan of her music) so i couldn't figure out who it was. thank you! can always count on people in the comments to know things! :D
When youtube was concepted, I figure this is what they imagined. A regular bloke sharing himself and his hobbies with the world and finding all us other folks with the same kick nerding along with 'em. Keep it comin!
The codebase was first 'live' after being originally conceived for posting singles type video ads with I think a 3 minute time limit. Then they prolly realized why limit the content they'd allow since they already wrote the .swf flash video file converted from user video uploads (with the great ffmpeg library of course). They claim that many times in the early days the site upload feature was about to 'crash' and they'd get another hard drive online "just in time". What it's become is totally due to the community being mostly left alone (aka UA-cam produced content sux0rs) It's cool that you imagine it that way though. Vsauce Micheal put it best with his quote like _'UA-cam is like a warehouse that heaps many millions of hours of videos of every imaginable variety but basically it's still the same single mountainous heaping pile'_
Oh my God. I was living in Japan when most of these came out. The absolute wave of nostalgia that came over me watching this almost left me in tears. It's amazing what can trigger memories. Thank you more than you can probably imagine.
Your welcome buddy. No problem, fans like you are the reason I do this. By the way, this is my second account so follow this account for more great videos. Thanks for watching.
Same here man, I was there in 99-01 and I seen a lot of minidisc players pop up, hell I had 2 of my own during that time over there. But yeah, there was something about that era in Japan. It was so bright and high tech.
Very nice, good job, you put some serious time and effort into that, very interesting they said these never really caught on 😐😐😐😐😐🥲🥲 in the United States because the kids couldn't afford them among other reasons I guess
Back in your April Oddcast you were talking about someone who was upset with the long length of your videos. This one should make his head explode! But for me, and I suspect several others, it was the perfect unwind after a long week at work. Its not rubbish, its therapy! Cheers!
-Stu, what are you doing? -I'm watching someone unwrap minidiscs -It's 4 o'clock in the morning. Why on earth are you watching someone unwrap minidiscs? -Because i lost control of my life
got a really soft spot in my heart for that shiny, bubbly, y2k aesthetic, and i'm in love with those real odd players. thanks for sharing these with us.
Watching Techmoan uploads like this has me longing for the days when I kept a large collection of vinyl albums, CDs and cassettes. But having so much stuff became a headache for storage in my tiny unit. So I started learning about how to downsize, de-clutter and becoming a minimalist. I now own 44 books about minimalism.
That’s hilarious. You should at least have them as PDF files stored in a Kindle. I’m curious how you decided to minimally store all of your music. For a while I had a business idea of transforming people's vinyl, cassettes and real to reel tapes to MP3 or other digital format. Like you send in all of your vinyl etc., and you get back files on CDs, or DVDs, USB sticks or downloadable from the cloud or whatever Everything converted to MP3s or WAV or Apple lossless format. Files could have the meta-data about each track. You could even choose to get one of those Classic iPods with the 60 gig hard drives inside. I have one of those still. Sure holds a ton of music in your pocket. Talk about efficient downsizing! Another similar service be converting books and magazines, all kind of printed stuff that you own, converted to PDF files and put on a Kindle or whatever. It certainly makes moving easier if you are a bookworm. Still carting around boxes of books and records? How 20th century!
Techmoan, you diamond. At 27 minutes there’s an MP3 player I’ve been trying to find the name of for many years. I used to own one, loved it, and have been desperate to own one again for nostalgia. I couldn’t remember any details about it and all my searches have been fruitless, I wasn’t sure I’d ever find what it was. Thank you, very much :) Also that blue mirror does nothing, just looks pretty.
honestly think Fujitsu are underrated when it came to media devices like cameras and music players, makes finding things online like the one shown expensive since they're hard to come by now.
33:03 If I were to run into you (unlikely in the extreme, between international and quarantine issues) I would be absolutely thrilled to receive even a non-working MD player from this junk stash, and I am certain I am not alone in this. 😁👍
34:05 If I'm reading the label right, it says "Koda Kumi BEST", so it's either a copy of one of her compilation albums, or just a mix someone put together. 35:21 That's Distance by Hikaru Utada. 48:57 Based on a bit of googling, I *think* this is a recording of a live performance by Hideaki Tokunaga - he apparently did a tour called My Life, and I found a blog post talking about seeing it in Osaka (which matches the Kanji), dated February 13, 2005 (which matches the date).
I posted this on another comment and it also relates here as well. Since you don't have it listed at (52:24) it looks like it says Sam Taylor and his band (サム・テイラーと彼のオーケストラ) and in the seconds before that it looks like the Sam part becomes more visible. It seems like it has one track titled よせばいいのに (yosebaiinoni) which means "No, you shouldn't do that".
Thank you for the info. It would be nice if he did dump that recording onto the good old interwebs. It's probably something rare. The real benefit going through old stuff is that you find rare gems.
For the record, I watched the entire video and I really enjoyed it. It was like watching a treasure hunt. I was pulling for you to get a few gems out of the lot. I am sure some people enjoyed the short version but I came for the whole Techmoan experience. No really, it was fun and thanks for posting the full video ( I appreciate the MD format, so that helps).
How feasible is it to fix these though? In their day these machines were basically disposable and designed to be thrown out if they broke. A lot seem to have been owned by children who obviously didn't take the best care of them either.
Just love watching every episode by Techmoan! So professional, authentic, and knowledgeable. He produces that bbc quality - attention to detail, objective, and truthful. Thank you techmoan : you are my favourite technology content producer!!! :-)
@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 I love how the Weird Al version gets exponentially more absurd with each verse. "Why'd I have to go and get myself decapitated?"
How does one fix them? I have a Sony that’s in near immaculate condition but it won’t load the disc or play. I have a whole case full of MD’s. At this point though I would probably go for a refurbed Onkyo or Yamaha deck just for home listening.
I'll take the sharp one with the lever eject, I brought the UK version with all the accessories (you could expand the battery pack and add a TOS-link) it was very expensive £600+ professional recorder, the mic was £200+ alone! The disk player failed but I still hung onto everthing. It was sold as a professional tool, I mainly used it for recording sound effects for games I was working on, the mic was a very sensitive shotgun with a parbolic add-on.
I love that at the time of writing this, the full version has twice the views as the abridged. Looks like you may be on to something. I found myself glued to my screen for some reason. I have minimal interest in Japanese junk MD's but yet I kept watching. It tapped into some part of my brain that I didn't know existed.
Being honest here, this was an awesome video, I could perfectly sit through 3 hours of you troubleshooting and finding out stuff abouth these models. Don't let people with attentive disfunction throw you off, more long videos!
thedeltasix Same. Been drinking my drink, munching my snack, thinking “that’s a nice design” here and there. One of the most relaxing hour-pluses I’ve had in forever.
19:25 "Now that's a chunky fella" The Sharp MD MS721H(S) is a mini disc recorder which 1. is an MD that is older than many of the other MD players here 2. is a recorder which generally are larger than MD players. You have a choice of optical or analogue connections to record off CD players in your HiFi and it also allows you to use a microphone so the 721 could have been used back in the day, as a field recorder or dictaphone. The control unit was in your right hand Matt at 59:12. The scummy headphones can be replaced and plugs into the minijack on the control unit. The replacement Vapex gumstick should work in the 721. While the 721 is chunkier and "over-engineered" compared to Sony models, my over-engineered Sharp 701 / 702 / 727 MDs have surprisingly aged better than my fiddly sleek Sony MDs and disappointingly the SonicStage / Sony Connect / bandit.fm is no longer or never was supported in the UK, so their docking bays are not much use. IK Brunel used to over-engineer his railways, perhaps there's something in this over-engineering lark? Does the 721 work Matt? The video may be long but it was worth the watch. Don't write off chunky models!
Loved this video (and also the abridged version). Don't take this bad, but you are like the Bob Ross of old tech, and your love of minidiscs and older tech shows. Awesome!
Well, I enjoyed that! Never owned a mini-disc player in my life, but found this interesting none-the-less. I think your presentational style has a lot to do with it, and as as some have said before, I think you could do a video about watching paint dry and it would be worth watching. I think you get the balance between information, humour and self-deprecation just on point. Probably best not to analyse that too much - just keep on doing what you're doing. Over 500 people have watched this all the way through - that's about the same as filling a cinema to watch a (short) movie..... makes you think, doesn't it!
This video reminded me of The Antiques Roadshow, when people bring in a vast collection of objects that are all the same type. Usually only one are two of them are particularly valuable. "So, would you like to tell us how you came by all these wonderful old music boxes?" "Well my great great uncle was a bit of a collector of this sort of thing, and they've been passed down through the family. I've no idea where he got them from, but it looks as though some of them are from Japan."
Life ,"You have things to do" Me, 'Watches hour long video on mini disc players eve though I never owned one'.
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Finally took courage to see it all. Didn't want to see the short version of it as a true fan and it didn't disapoint me. 73 minutes of pure fun! Greetings from Argentina!
Thanks for letting us have the whole video! It's been an extra rough week and this was beautifully relaxing. I've had one MD player in my life and used it exactly in a way you described - as a budget MP3 player. I bought it around 2004 when I was a college student and iPods were too expensive. I think that it was a Sony MZ-N420D but I coudn't swear to it. It worked great for my purposes; I only ever bought one or two blank MDs and could load quite a few tracks onto one at a time with the NetMD features and the compression.
UA-cam : Do you want to watch a 73 min video on random mini disc players? Me : No, of course not. UA-cam : it's Techmoan though! Me : Yeah, ok, might just have a little look then. 73 mins later, oh it's ended already :(
Back in the mid-late 90's, I used to think that MiniDisc was the pinnacle of high tech and was astounded by how cool they were. The industrial design of many Japanese products from this time was top-notch as well.
It doesn’t look like Japanese penmanship. My guess is that some kid had private English classes with an expat, and this is a recording of their weekly lesson. It’s the teacher’s ironic title and writing.
Thank you for making this video and the efforts made in testing. This was quite satisfying to see the variety of players despite it being a fruitless effort. It's always a pleasure to see what you've found on this channel.
@@stevenclark2188 Not a thing in Europe sadly, they had a few shops in Eastern Europe some time back but I guess those were too expensive to operate...
I'm honestly not much of a techy person, but as a person who loves history, going through old belongings like this is so fun and fascinating! Seeing the colours of these players and the decorations on them, the way they're scuffed, and of course the discs inside them, all makes me wonder who owned the player, and what their life was like when they had it. It reminds me a lot of going through people's old books or sheet music at museums or second hand stores and wondering much the same thing, except the minidisc players are of course quite a bit more recent.
"Hooray, we have a MiniDisc player!... Everyone's cheering for that, I can hear them all outside". Did you happen to film this around 8pm on a Thursday night? 😉
24:54 Daiso is a Japanese dollar store/poundland/hundred yen shop. They make all sorts of things above and beyond what you'd find in the American or British equivalent shop.
Ah that was a journey. One that I really enjoyed. It made me laugh, it made me cry (well maybe not but hey). Much needed after a boring day watching training videos. I’m glad you gave us the option of watching the limited special extended edition directors cut.
Listening to him be so giddy with excitement with the first batch he opened was amazing. So awesome to hear someone be as excited about something. I bought a Sony MZ-R70 when they released, and it never caught on around me, so it never got much use, but I’ve always loved the tech, it’s something about the feel, the mechanisms, the whole thing is super cool to me. I can’t seem to decide on the right home player though, I don’t want a straight recorder deck, I kind of want a component, something that shows the medias combined in a system, I don’t know. I’ve gone through the eBay listings several times over.
Just wanted to say hi and how much I appreciate your videos, especially in these lock down times.. I have severe copd so I'm at high risk and live alone with my 2 dogs and cat. At 51y I consider myself "old school" and have seen /desired lots of "old junk" in my youth. Born in the UK, lived in Italy too for many years, and worked in hotels in half of Europe, so I have seen many of the "gadgets and equipment". sorry if I've mist out on many thumbs up but most of your vids are seen on my smart tv and I see no option to "like them". keep up your good work, I really enjoy your character.
Man, i love the tactile mechanical feeling of those, even through screen. Would find oddly satisfying to change disks. Anyway, enjoyed every minute of it, thank you for your work.
We should get a Delorean time machine, go back to 1885 and send a message to the people of the future in Japan warning them not to buy that Victor MD crap.
Okay, I've watched this video more than once now. I blame UA-cam! I was doing art and left YouTiube playing in the background, and this video came on after another of yours I watched, and you know what?! It was ACE. Your videos are always a true joy, thank you. Also as a bonus for me my art session went well! :D
I found that quite interesting. I'm thinking there's a modern piece of art here if you glued all the duds to a nice piece of wood -or maybe a really exotic tiling job for a bathroom :)
Techmoan regardless, it’d be nice if you took a nice hi-res photo of the lot of them before doing all that much, even this video is much nicer than some of the images I’ve seen of most of these players.
Speaking of lost property... I wonder if any of the previous owners of these MD players watched this and would want their players back. That would really be a nice story 😉
First we had Vinyl, then they told us it was dead. 'buy CD's' they said. Then told us Vinyl was better and it made a comeback. Then they said Cassette was dead , its now making a comeback. I do hope MD is the next major comeback. I think MD is brilliant especially MDLP
@@vwlssnvwls3262 I would definitely take it on, but I'd need Techmoan to send a player too. I was reading that there was/is specific software made by Sony that will extract the (compressed/lossy) audio files off the disc to a PC without recompressing it.
I watch or listen to this video when I wake up at 4am and can't sleep with my mind racing and I find Matts relaxing voice talking about these discs good for making me fall asleep. Take that as a compliment lol
I would agree that the hyper-aggressive copyright bullying system sounds like a great way to identify unknown content, except that there are loads of Content ID trolls out there who will claim any old tune as their own, even to the point where you might get a copyright claim from someone on a brand new song that you just wrote and recorded yourself. On the other hand, injurious dipshits like Nintendo don't always manage to mark their territory, as you can find loads of their music un-claimed on UA-cam. So it would be very hit or miss, I think. But I love the idea, both as a quip and as a novel way to identify unknown music.
I think UA-cam can cancel providers accounts after a number of copyright infringement claims or other violations of terms filed against them.If a channel gets a claim filed against them for CR rules there are 3 or 4 choices to resolve the claim. Rick Beato made a good video about the subject. A provider can dispute the claim but if they lose it counts as a strike against the channel. So some people steer clear of potential problems. One guy got a strike because he uploaded his band playing his original music live at a radio station while they were promoting the tour they were doing. But some how that video recording became legal property of the stations parent corporation and was flagged for CR violation. Rather than dispute the claim he just pulled the video. I think it is all about the monetization of material. $$$
Or just use a music identifying app on a mobile phone. App (i used Shazam this time) identified Piano track at 39:35 as A Night Alone by Track Tribe ua-cam.com/video/syyOC4kOKu0/v-deo.html Track is copyright free but is part of youtube's free music library, so your suggestion might still also get the id lol
I don't think people read discriptions on bigger channels in general because we're kinda used to bigger channels just putting useless info in there. That you do is rare and very appreciated.
Im glad you told us about these sort of international auction houses Mat. Just used Jauce for the first time and managed to snag a rare Trigun laserdisc that I had been trying to get for years.
Thank you for this! Been back into MD for a few years now. I'm in the US & got heavy into them in 1993. Had the deck unit & a Sony MZ-F40 player. I ended up selling my home unit to someone in the UK from eBay for about the price I paid for the unit new back in 2003-04 time frame? I broke the player, but it had a AM/FM radio on it which was much more rare. I kept all my 150+ MD discs I made over the years. I now collect all the Sony portable units just for fun. I finally found my exact portable unit & it was NIB & I did pay up for it, but now with 2 stereo deck units & my portable/s, I'm a happy go lucky collector enjoying these once again!
38:05 From my experience the best looking units at things like car boot sales are the ones that developed a fault after a years use and then got forgotten about in a drawer. Good to see that one working.
This is such an amazing video to just sit back and relax with. Techmoan’s off-the-cuff uncut commentary, satisfying plastic and metal clicking and clacking of vintage MD players... occasional beeps and music whenever he finds a working one... bliss. And it’s so cool to learn about a time when mobile devices like music players and cell phones were relatively cheap and came in all different designs, styles and control schemes. Nowadays everyone just has pricy smartphones that all follow the same general design and control scheme. Not hating though, I love the simplicity of having a sleek slab of tech that does everything, but I also like the charm of these old devices. Much love to Japan for taking MD players and flip phones to the next level. Love the vid!
This was quite a trip down memory lane, since I used to haunt Japanese electronic stores around the time these kinds of players were common, and I had a few myself. The disk at 34:08 looks to be a "Best Of" album for the singer Koda Kumi by the way. The one at 35:10 is from Utada Hikaru, who is quite good. She speaks English very well and tried to have a career in the US as well, although she only had middling success, I believe.
I watched the whole thing and really enjoyed every second of it. I always like all your videos anyway, they're fun and funny and always informative. so Thanks!
This video too long? Watch this shorter version instead: ua-cam.com/video/Suss1o5Oac0/v-deo.html
Nah, this is perfect!
Nope!
@Techmoan Nope, this one’s perfect
Nah, it's too short
No thanks. This version is great as it is :-)
Show me the real Techmoan. *2 minutes, 40 seconds.*
I said the _real_ Techmoan. *1 hour, 12 minutes, 55 seconds.*
_Perfection._
Now that you're doing mostly LGR Blerbs you have the time to watch 73 minutes of the real Techmoan ;-)
Just kidding, keep up the good work, both of ya!
Yep - I thought - what over an hour!!! But it brings back memories of me buying heaps of £1 network cards a computer fairs in the 90 and going through to find decent ones.
I want to see a video of you and techmoan exploring akihabara and Japanese thrift stores for vintage electronics in the style of a LGR thrifts video. It would be the crossover for the ages lol.
my man speaks the truth
LGR, this kinda reminded me of the video where you unboxed a giant lot of vintage PC games you imported from Japan 😉
First Japanese disc (34:07) was 'Best of Koda Kumi'
Second (35:10): artist is 'Udata Hikaru' Distance album, (i have some of her albums).
Third (48:51): "My Life" with the date & time of place at a concert hall - Osaka Kouse Nenkin Kaikan 2005-02-13 difficult goggly search comes-up with artist 'Hideaki Tokunaga'.
Just to note - Japan dates go Year-Month-Day
(Thanks to my wifey for translations)
This comment needs to be bumped to the top
Up comment mate!
AH! Kouda Kumi! the 倖 and the 來 were illegible and i'm not good with kanji (nor am i a fan of her music) so i couldn't figure out who it was. thank you! can always count on people in the comments to know things! :D
I couldn't read the Japanese, but I sure knew what album Distance was!!
@@Jayenkai I don't read japanese either, but I do recognize Hikki's name...
I just watched an hour and a half of an English man un boxing outdated music players that I will never own.
And enjoyed every second of it
lol. me too, he is good
When youtube was concepted, I figure this is what they imagined. A regular bloke sharing himself and his hobbies with the world and finding all us other folks with the same kick nerding along with 'em. Keep it comin!
You mean like "Broadcasting Yourself?"
Actually, if you look at archive.org, the first UA-cam had options to search by gender/age. It was probably meant as a dating site.
why would they have imagined anything but cat videos given the state of the internet at the time?
The codebase was first 'live' after being originally conceived for posting singles type video ads with I think a 3 minute time limit. Then they prolly realized why limit the content they'd allow since they already wrote the .swf flash video file converted from user video uploads (with the great ffmpeg library of course). They claim that many times in the early days the site upload feature was about to 'crash' and they'd get another hard drive online "just in time". What it's become is totally due to the community being mostly left alone (aka UA-cam produced content sux0rs) It's cool that you imagine it that way though. Vsauce Micheal put it best with his quote like _'UA-cam is like a warehouse that heaps many millions of hours of videos of every imaginable variety but basically it's still the same single mountainous heaping pile'_
Probably yeah, also it's "first conceived"
I wish this had been an ongoing series during lockdown, "techmoan buys a random lot of [technology product] and sorts it into piles"
S1E1: _This Video_
S1E2: *Going through a lot of portable cassette players*
I would watch it...
@@fthorup If they started in March by now we could be on "microcassette answering machines" and "novelty USB devices"
That would be the best series ever.
S1E3: Knockoff calculators (side eyes the Fuego)
Oh my God. I was living in Japan when most of these came out. The absolute wave of nostalgia that came over me watching this almost left me in tears. It's amazing what can trigger memories. Thank you more than you can probably imagine.
Thought I'd left a comment already for a second there!
Your welcome buddy. No problem, fans like you are the reason I do this. By the way, this is my second account so follow this account for more great videos. Thanks for watching.
@@user-zq1lb3lx4m you have 3 subs mate
Same here man, I was there in 99-01 and I seen a lot of minidisc players pop up, hell I had 2 of my own during that time over there. But yeah, there was something about that era in Japan. It was so bright and high tech.
really? this is so sad.... or more pathetic, get a life...
It really says something about the dedication of your community when the full version has more views than the abridged version.
Techtuber favorite things:
LGR: Duke Nukem
8 bit guy: Hydrogen peroxide
Techmoan: *M I N I D I S C S*
What about
Technology Connections
MattKC
Micheal MJD
Adrian's Digital Basement
or ThisDoesNotCompute?
You, my friend, are a genius.
Louis Rossman - Too much Flux
@@Porygonal64 Adrian's digital basement? You mean Capt Commodore?
Ben Eater: Breadboards
I was watching this video and curious to know what each model was that you pulled out from your parcels. Knowing I probably wasn't the only person, I decided to try my best to record all of the models (with time stamps) and add the year they were produced so that anybody could go and look any players that they found interesting. I've got more data saved in a file, but I can't spam an entire comment with links. Hopefully this is a good starting point!
If there are any mistakes in my research, then please reply to this comment, and I'll amend it as I go.
09:30 - Panasonic SJ-MJ15 (2002)
09:39 - Panasonic SJ-MJ100 (2004)
09:54 - Panasonic SJ-MJ59 (2004)
10:01 - Kenwood DMC-P33 (2001)
10:08 - Victor/JVC XM-C17 (2005)
12:07 - Panasonic SJ-MJ17 (2003)
12:43 - Kenwood DMC-S55 (2003)
13:12 - Kenwood DMC-M33 (2000)
13:34 - Victor/JVC XM-C17 (2005)
13:58 - Panasonic SJ-MJ57 (2003)
14:38 - Victor/JVC XM-S5 (2003)
14:50 - Sharp MD-ST700-A (2002)
15:20 - Panasonic SJ-MJ90 (2001)
15:32 - Panasonic SJ-MJ5 (1997)
15:41 - Aiwa AM-HX100 (2001)
15:51 - Panasonic SJ-MR220 (2001)
19:24 - Sharp MD-MS721 (1998)
20:43 - Sharp MD-DR7 (2002)
21:18 - Panasonic SJ-MR250 (2002)
22:41 - Victor/JVC XM-PX501 (2001)
24:41 - Panasonic SJ-MJ100 (2004)
25:12 - Sharp MD-ST70
25:37 - Kenwood DMC-T55 (2004)
26:01 - Panasonic SJ-MJ15 (2002)
26:25 - Sharp MD-ST600A (2003)
26:44 - Panasonic SJ-MJ78 (2001)
26:50 - Fujitsu CuPlay (2000) (Not MD) (Very Cute)
27:49 - Victor/JVC XM-C11 (2004)
29:25 - Panasonic SJ-MJ57 (2003)
30:29 - Sharp MD-ST500 (2004)
30:48 - Sony MZ-R909 (2001)
33:41 - Sharp MD-ST500 (2004)
33:57 - Victor/JVC XM-S5 (2003)
34:21 - Panasonic SJ-MJ100 (2004)
34:49 - Panasonic SJ-MJ35 (1999)
35:51 - Victor/JVC XM-PX5 (1999)
36:05 - Kenwood DMC-P33 (2001)
36:38 - Aiwa AM-HX100 (2001)
36:54 - Panasonic SJ-MJ19 (2004)
37:02 - Victor/JVC XM-PX55 (2000)
40:21 - Sharp MD-S10 (1993)
40:54 - Kenwood DMC-L3 (1999)
41:21 - Sharp MD-S50 (1996)
41:50 - Kenwood DMC-F3 (1996)
42:14 - Sharp MD-M20 (1995)
46:50 - Sony BCA-MZE810SP (2003) (Dock speakers - came with MZ-E810SP player)
47:49 - Panasonic SJ-MR100 (1999)
47:55 - Panasonic SJ-MJ50 (2001)
48:12 - Kenwood DMC-M33 (2000)
48:19 - Panasonic SJ-MJ77 (2000)
48:36 - Victor/JVC XM-C3 (2003)
48:45 - Sony MZ-E505 (2002)
49:05 - Kenwood DMC-Q77 (2002)
50:18 - Panasonic SJ-MR200 (2000)
50:55 - Panasonic SJ-MJ35 (1999)
52:07 - Sharp MD-ST66 (2000)
53:03 - Panasonic SJ-MJ33 (2000)
54:14 - Sharp MD-ST500 (2004)
54:18 - Victor/JVC XM-C3 (2003)
Ok
Thx ig
Thank you very much!
*Wow. Nice work brother. 👍*
Very nice, good job, you put some serious time and effort into that, very interesting they said these never really caught on 😐😐😐😐😐🥲🥲 in the United States because the kids couldn't afford them among other reasons I guess
Holy moley! Well done lad.
These seem to come in two flavors: sci fi MMO crafting components and Winamp skin button clusters.
lmao
Yup. They're fantastic
Heh, winamp, now THAT was a media player **sip**
Ewwwwww rando Winamp skins, THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 😅😅
@@Amarganeitor Is a media player - still being worked on to this day.
Back in your April Oddcast you were talking about someone who was upset with the long length of your videos. This one should make his head explode! But for me, and I suspect several others, it was the perfect unwind after a long week at work. Its not rubbish, its therapy! Cheers!
there's a podcast?! mr moan, you need to shill yourself more!!
Too long? I find that most of Techmoan's videos are about the right length, not so short that there's no detail and not so long as to be dreary.
Ooh is the Oddcast patreon only?
@@metaleggman18 you can find it if you use your noggin ;)
I was casually entertained while casually eating my breakfast.
now i understand why everyones calling me a nerd. i enjoyed these 73 mins of techpron
-Stu, what are you doing?
-I'm watching someone unwrap minidiscs
-It's 4 o'clock in the morning. Why on earth are you watching someone unwrap minidiscs?
-Because i lost control of my life
Good start, bad ending.
ua-cam.com/video/1vs55Z7t7bk/v-deo.html
The Blade Runner Directors Cut of Minidisc unboxings
More like *Apocalypse Now* Director‘s Cut :)
@@kz.irudimen If you don't get it, then maybe don't comment. And get some help about your inability to enjoy humor.
More like Das Boot :-)
Mega Minidisc Unwrap Final Cut & Redux (6-disc 4K bluray box set collector's edition)
got a really soft spot in my heart for that shiny, bubbly, y2k aesthetic, and i'm in love with those real odd players. thanks for sharing these with us.
Watching Techmoan uploads like this has me longing for the days when I kept a large collection of vinyl albums, CDs and cassettes.
But having so much stuff became a headache for storage in my tiny unit.
So I started learning about how to downsize, de-clutter and becoming a minimalist.
I now own 44 books about minimalism.
That’s hilarious. You should at least have them as PDF files stored in a Kindle. I’m curious how you decided to minimally store all of your music. For a while I had a business idea of transforming people's vinyl, cassettes and real to reel tapes to MP3 or other digital format. Like you send in all of your vinyl etc., and you get back files on CDs, or DVDs, USB sticks or downloadable from the cloud or whatever Everything converted to MP3s or WAV or Apple lossless format. Files could have the meta-data about each track. You could even choose to get one of those Classic iPods with the 60 gig hard drives inside. I have one of those still. Sure holds a ton of music in your pocket. Talk about efficient downsizing! Another similar service be converting books and magazines, all kind of printed stuff that you own, converted to PDF files and put on a Kindle or whatever. It certainly makes moving easier if you are a bookworm. Still carting around boxes of books and records? How 20th century!
I converted all my CDs to PDF, and it’s really difficult to find a player that supports them.
Oh thats funny , 44 books )))))
Try an e-reader next time ha
can i av all yer minimalism books. Its kinda bland and echoie ere
Techmoan, you diamond.
At 27 minutes there’s an MP3 player I’ve been trying to find the name of for many years. I used to own one, loved it, and have been desperate to own one again for nostalgia. I couldn’t remember any details about it and all my searches have been fruitless, I wasn’t sure I’d ever find what it was.
Thank you, very much :)
Also that blue mirror does nothing, just looks pretty.
honestly think Fujitsu are underrated when it came to media devices like cameras and music players, makes finding things online like the one shown expensive since they're hard to come by now.
What is that slot opening, for SD cards or something?
Cleiton Felipe maybe MMC cards
that mirror sure looks pretty.
@Rob Knight Sounds like an expensive hobby
33:03 If I were to run into you (unlikely in the extreme, between international and quarantine issues) I would be absolutely thrilled to receive even a non-working MD player from this junk stash, and I am certain I am not alone in this. 😁👍
I was thinking this, also. I would love a Minidisk player even if it didn't work.
34:05 If I'm reading the label right, it says "Koda Kumi BEST", so it's either a copy of one of her compilation albums, or just a mix someone put together.
35:21 That's Distance by Hikaru Utada.
48:57 Based on a bit of googling, I *think* this is a recording of a live performance by Hideaki Tokunaga - he apparently did a tour called My Life, and I found a blog post talking about seeing it in Osaka (which matches the Kanji), dated February 13, 2005 (which matches the date).
Wait, the kanji used varies from different parts of japan??
I posted this on another comment and it also relates here as well. Since you don't have it listed at (52:24) it looks like it says Sam Taylor and his band (サム・テイラーと彼のオーケストラ) and in the seconds before that it looks like the Sam part becomes more visible. It seems like it has one track titled よせばいいのに (yosebaiinoni) which means "No, you shouldn't do that".
@@TheBiggyJMan Ah no, I don't think that's what they mean. It could be that the kanji are from the title of a specific live performance somewhere.
Thank you for the info. It would be nice if he did dump that recording onto the good old interwebs. It's probably something rare. The real benefit going through old stuff is that you find rare gems.
Thank you so much!
For the record, I watched the entire video and I really enjoyed it. It was like watching a treasure hunt. I was pulling for you to get a few gems out of the lot. I am sure some people enjoyed the short version but I came for the whole Techmoan experience. No really, it was fun and thanks for posting the full video ( I appreciate the MD format, so that helps).
I love that this version has seven times more views than the short one. Y'all know what's important in this world.
I wish there was a repair-a-thon possible with the broken ones.
That would be great
There are some options, I’ve sent an email :)
How feasible is it to fix these though? In their day these machines were basically disposable and designed to be thrown out if they broke. A lot seem to have been owned by children who obviously didn't take the best care of them either.
Send some to Adrian's Digital Basement
I'm sure it will make Vince's day from My Mate Vince if he got a few of the broken ones to try to fix.
Just love watching every episode by Techmoan! So professional, authentic, and knowledgeable. He produces that bbc quality - attention to detail, objective, and truthful. Thank you techmoan : you are my favourite technology content producer!!! :-)
@@Tim091 oh, yes, i totally agree with the comparison to James Burke! Connections was a huge thing in my life...
@@Tim091 I know, RIGHT?!? Same!
You unpackage minidisc players for more than an hour and we're watching it... I think we're the weirdest community on UA-cam. I love it !
Finding a Avril Lavigne disc in a bunch of MD players is the most early 2000s thing ever
It was inevitable, really.
Why do you have to make things so complicated?
@@jamesbrett6518 I just think of Weird Al's parody whenever I see Avril Lavigne
@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 I love how the Weird Al version gets exponentially more absurd with each verse. "Why'd I have to go and get myself decapitated?"
@@michaelramsey82 He's a gem of an artist
Offer to sell all the dented and dirty MDs to the guy who called you a Jerk.
Yeah, this chap just sucked up the surplus of mostly broken, beat up, tragically bedazzled players without any remotes or battery holders. Jerk.
Yeah, if you name it you're asking for it.
I'm sure that guy has spent his whole life dreaming of importing a broken mini disc player from Japan.
@ungratefulmetalpansy how much garbage in landfills, rivers, and s.o...
"Anyone want a dead minidisc player?"
Me: YES PLEASE
same... but w digital output, i'll even pay freight...
Same here..... i need a toy to repair.....
How does one fix them? I have a Sony that’s in near immaculate condition but it won’t load the disc or play. I have a whole case full of MD’s. At this point though I would probably go for a refurbed Onkyo or Yamaha deck just for home listening.
Still rocking on the original sony minidisk walkman and home hi-fi, but on the look for a working MD head unit for my 90s daily driver!
I'll take the sharp one with the lever eject, I brought the UK version with all the accessories (you could expand the battery pack and add a TOS-link) it was very expensive £600+ professional recorder, the mic was £200+ alone! The disk player failed but I still hung onto everthing. It was sold as a professional tool, I mainly used it for recording sound effects for games I was working on, the mic was a very sensitive shotgun with a parbolic add-on.
If this video had played on for an extra minute, you'd have hit the play-length of the 74-minute MD!
So close, yet so far. Fix it in edit?
I suspect that was deliberate on Techmoan’s part ☺️
I love that at the time of writing this, the full version has twice the views as the abridged. Looks like you may be on to something. I found myself glued to my screen for some reason. I have minimal interest in Japanese junk MD's but yet I kept watching. It tapped into some part of my brain that I didn't know existed.
I've reached the "watching someone else open a bunch of minidiscs" stage of my life and I'm absolutely fine with that.
Being honest here, this was an awesome video, I could perfectly sit through 3 hours of you troubleshooting and finding out stuff abouth these models. Don't let people with attentive disfunction throw you off, more long videos!
thedeltasix Same. Been drinking my drink, munching my snack, thinking “that’s a nice design” here and there. One of the most relaxing hour-pluses I’ve had in forever.
Totally agree. I would love to watch an episode where they get cleaned up a bit and back to working order.
One of these days you're going to say "that's it for the moment, as always thanks for watching" At the end of a conversation with a friend
Maybe he'll say it as his last words..
This video is my "Godfather Pt.2" of youtube, I can watch it over and over for some reason.
black sharp one is my favorite. "hello! yes, I am still alive! hello! want me to play some discs? no? goodbye!"
I wonder if it did actually erase his recordable disc lol.
Wait! wait... ok error
"It's gone on longer than this pandemic thing" - quote of the day
19:25 "Now that's a chunky fella" The Sharp MD MS721H(S) is a mini disc recorder which 1. is an MD that is older than many of the other MD players here 2. is a recorder which generally are larger than MD players. You have a choice of optical or analogue connections to record off CD players in your HiFi and it also allows you to use a microphone so the 721 could have been used back in the day, as a field recorder or dictaphone. The control unit was in your right hand Matt at 59:12. The scummy headphones can be replaced and plugs into the minijack on the control unit.
The replacement Vapex gumstick should work in the 721.
While the 721 is chunkier and "over-engineered" compared to Sony models, my over-engineered Sharp 701 / 702 / 727 MDs have surprisingly aged better than my fiddly sleek Sony MDs and disappointingly the SonicStage / Sony Connect / bandit.fm is no longer or never was supported in the UK, so their docking bays are not much use. IK Brunel used to over-engineer his railways, perhaps there's something in this over-engineering lark? Does the 721 work Matt? The video may be long but it was worth the watch. Don't write off chunky models!
I'd put that Sharp up against maybe a Sony MZ-R50. Both really good.
It's just big-boned.
My lovely metallic blue MS 702 died late last year. A great bit of kit.
33:00 You need to send the pink one to Big Clive. ;->
Definitely.
BigClive! BigClive! BigClive!
I am a simple man. When I see a comment about Big Clive I upvote.
Big Clive mmmmm likes pink things! "One moment please while we reverse engineer this."
Techmoan: the movie.
Techmoan: The movie, extended directors cut with added new footage, Han shot first edition
TechMoan MD Marathon
I won’t be able to see it in theaters, is it available on minidisc?
Reel Bytes no, it's only available on D-VHS
Yeah lol
Loved this video (and also the abridged version). Don't take this bad, but you are like the Bob Ross of old tech, and your love of minidiscs and older tech shows. Awesome!
Well, I enjoyed that! Never owned a mini-disc player in my life, but found this interesting none-the-less. I think your presentational style has a lot to do with it, and as as some have said before, I think you could do a video about watching paint dry and it would be worth watching. I think you get the balance between information, humour and self-deprecation just on point. Probably best not to analyse that too much - just keep on doing what you're doing. Over 500 people have watched this all the way through - that's about the same as filling a cinema to watch a (short) movie..... makes you think, doesn't it!
This video reminded me of The Antiques Roadshow, when people bring in a vast collection of objects that are all the same type. Usually only one are two of them are particularly valuable.
"So, would you like to tell us how you came by all these wonderful old music boxes?"
"Well my great great uncle was a bit of a collector of this sort of thing, and they've been passed down through the family. I've no idea where he got them from, but it looks as though some of them are from Japan."
1:09:58 "Send me one, then!"
"I don't get into all that kinda stuff, I got stuff to do!"
The video says otherwise.
I am so happy! No better way of cutting my vegetables and cooking with this as my background. Thanks!🎉🎵
One of the funniest Techmoan vids I’ve seen in a while. The running commentary cracked me up.
The beat up player found underneath a dead corpse with the “help me” disc inside had me laughing out loud.
"Distance" by Utada Hikaru. Amazing album. I listened to it all the time on my MD.
Call me a geek but I did very much enjoy this.
Geek
Geek! Ok I enjoyed it too lol
Me too 🤟
Same!
As did I. It's just a sort of ASMR, I don't have much interest in mini disc.
Life ,"You have things to do"
Me, 'Watches hour long video on mini disc players eve though I never owned one'.
Finally took courage to see it all. Didn't want to see the short version of it as a true fan and it didn't disapoint me. 73 minutes of pure fun! Greetings from Argentina!
I can't believe I've spent over an hour watching someone open a load of old MD players! But Techmoan somehow you made this worth watching!
Thanks for letting us have the whole video! It's been an extra rough week and this was beautifully relaxing.
I've had one MD player in my life and used it exactly in a way you described - as a budget MP3 player. I bought it around 2004 when I was a college student and iPods were too expensive. I think that it was a Sony MZ-N420D but I coudn't swear to it. It worked great for my purposes; I only ever bought one or two blank MDs and could load quite a few tracks onto one at a time with the NetMD features and the compression.
Sat down to do homework for the first day of class. Watched the entire 1 hour 22 minutes and 55 seconds. No regrets.
UA-cam : Do you want to watch a 73 min video on random mini disc players? Me : No, of course not. UA-cam : it's Techmoan though! Me : Yeah, ok, might just have a little look then. 73 mins later, oh it's ended already :(
Back in the mid-late 90's, I used to think that MiniDisc was the pinnacle of high tech and was astounded by how cool they were. The industrial design of many Japanese products from this time was top-notch as well.
73 minutes of 'junk' from Techmoan is like 24 hours of regular content! I'm in! Edit: It was worth it - fascinating.
"Don't ever study english". man, that cracked me up. =D
Someone was getting hella mad about finals back then for sure
I need to know what's in that disc
Me too
It doesn’t look like Japanese penmanship. My guess is that some kid had private English classes with an expat, and this is a recording of their weekly lesson. It’s the teacher’s ironic title and writing.
Maybe he had to study "The Chaos":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
Thank you for making this video and the efforts made in testing. This was quite satisfying to see the variety of players despite it being a fruitless effort. It's always a pleasure to see what you've found on this channel.
I really liked the looked of the retro inspired tangerine dream Panasonic player at 53:03. I'll endeavour to track one down.
Yes same! Lovely design.
Same here, that's my favourite one out of the whole bunch!
The model is Panasonic SJ-MJ33, they made it orange, blue and green.
The one that caught my eye too! 😛
That’s the only one out of the lot I liked the look of.
24:56
Daiso is Japanese 100yen store
They still sell cd and cassette tape
Also got in Malaysia and Singapore. Never seen MD or tape, bought blank CDs for uni stuff a few times though. Also pronounced "dye-so" 🙂
We have several Daiso stores even here in Northern California ;-)
Last time I saw blank minidiscs and blank cassettes in Daiso was in 2011.
Daiso is also here in the Philippines. It sells a lot of neat stuff, but mostly 100-yen shop stuff.
@@diffidentiary MD was not a thing in SEA, and cassette tape was too old for them to bring in.
love this guy... he is so humble, polite and respectful; we need more content creators just like this gentleman.
Who else wants to hear the ‘Don’t study English’ disc?
We all want a sneek peek of every disc :D
@@Paleee82 Same!
Heh. I thought it would be all Japanese bands.
That disc alone was worth of the whole purchase 😂
1H12M55 S and no time to hear any of the disks? I feel cheated😆
25:00 DAISO is one of many 100yen shops here in Japan. Guess they had their own MDs in the past
They are also in Malaysia and Australia.
@@MikinessAnalog there is also one in best denki near kyudai-gekkentoshi or in Aeon in Marina Town to name a few :P
Herr Mayhem Also in the states.
Daiso's US offshoot sells stuff at mostly $1.50 and they seems to be expanding so maybe there'll be some in more urban UK markets eventually.
@@stevenclark2188 Not a thing in Europe sadly, they had a few shops in Eastern Europe some time back but I guess those were too expensive to operate...
I'm honestly not much of a techy person, but as a person who loves history, going through old belongings like this is so fun and fascinating! Seeing the colours of these players and the decorations on them, the way they're scuffed, and of course the discs inside them, all makes me wonder who owned the player, and what their life was like when they had it. It reminds me a lot of going through people's old books or sheet music at museums or second hand stores and wondering much the same thing, except the minidisc players are of course quite a bit more recent.
"Hooray, we have a MiniDisc player!... Everyone's cheering for that, I can hear them all outside".
Did you happen to film this around 8pm on a Thursday night? 😉
Hahaha!
24:54 Daiso is a Japanese dollar store/poundland/hundred yen shop. They make all sorts of things above and beyond what you'd find in the American or British equivalent shop.
@Kishen Raj There are a couple in the US too, but just a couple, and several other countries all over the world (though mostly in Asia).
They have opened quite a few stores in Australia. But I never see anything worth buying.
There's a lot of them scattered around here in Thailand, the more noteworthy thing they have is a DS charger cable. Those are pretty hard to come by.
@@dwindeyer They have a lot of good food though
Quite a lot of Daiso in the Philippines too. Popular with those saving money.
"73 minutes of Junk"
Man that Paul McCartney track is a lot longer that I remembered
Enough dead players to keep "My Mate Vince" in repair videos for years.
Ah that was a journey. One that I really enjoyed. It made me laugh, it made me cry (well maybe not but hey). Much needed after a boring day watching training videos. I’m glad you gave us the option of watching the limited special extended edition directors cut.
Listening to him be so giddy with excitement with the first batch he opened was amazing. So awesome to hear someone be as excited about something. I bought a Sony MZ-R70 when they released, and it never caught on around me, so it never got much use, but I’ve always loved the tech, it’s something about the feel, the mechanisms, the whole thing is super cool to me. I can’t seem to decide on the right home player though, I don’t want a straight recorder deck, I kind of want a component, something that shows the medias combined in a system, I don’t know. I’ve gone through the eBay listings several times over.
Just wanted to say hi and how much I appreciate your videos, especially in these lock down times.. I have severe copd so I'm at high risk and live alone with my 2 dogs and cat. At 51y I consider myself "old school" and have seen /desired lots of "old junk" in my youth. Born in the UK, lived in Italy too for many years, and worked in hotels in half of Europe, so I have seen many of the "gadgets and equipment". sorry if I've mist out on many thumbs up but most of your vids are seen on my smart tv and I see no option to "like them". keep up your good work, I really enjoy your character.
Man, i love the tactile mechanical feeling of those, even through screen. Would find oddly satisfying to change disks. Anyway, enjoyed every minute of it, thank you for your work.
I personally love this long form improv commentary, great job!
35:23 Hikaru Utada’s second studio album (I have a digital copy). I recommend to listen it
The ending was hilarious. I had to rewind and watch it again. Glad, you didn‘t redo it.
Techmoan - You are living my dream. Playing with gadgets all day long
I can imagine the look Mrs. Techmoan gave to Techmoan when she saw all these Minidiscs
Bom chicka wow wow
@@binface9 that's why my baby says.
I think she either fled from him by now, or just got used to all these crazy shopping-sprees... :D
We should get a Delorean time machine, go back to 1885 and send a message to the people of the future in Japan warning them not to buy that Victor MD crap.
@@pablot5809 aka JVC.
Never have the words "full version" excited me so much, Thanks For The Great Content.
Okay, I've watched this video more than once now. I blame UA-cam!
I was doing art and left YouTiube playing in the background, and this video came on after another of yours I watched, and you know what?!
It was ACE. Your videos are always a true joy, thank you.
Also as a bonus for me my art session went well! :D
I found that quite interesting. I'm thinking there's a modern piece of art here if you glued all the duds to a nice piece of wood -or maybe a really exotic tiling job for a bathroom :)
I was considering something along the same lines. A MD Mosaic.
That was my first thought when he posted the patreon update video.
@@Techmoan Just glue them to a table and add a layer of clear epoxy. That will make a nice desk.
Techmoan regardless, it’d be nice if you took a nice hi-res photo of the lot of them before doing all that much, even this video is much nicer than some of the images I’ve seen of most of these players.
you could make a table with them using acrylic resin or glass
Speaking of lost property... I wonder if any of the previous owners of these MD players watched this and would want their players back. That would really be a nice story 😉
First we had Vinyl, then they told us it was dead. 'buy CD's' they said. Then told us Vinyl was better and it made a comeback. Then they said Cassette was dead , its now making a comeback. I do hope MD is the next major comeback. I think MD is brilliant especially MDLP
1:08:12 and 1:09:00 - these recordings are unique and need saving! Techmoan, please could you upload them somewhere as WAV?
^^^
He won't, but he should.
It would be nice to preserve these recordings, maybe he can send them to you for this?
@@vwlssnvwls3262 I would definitely take it on, but I'd need Techmoan to send a player too. I was reading that there was/is specific software made by Sony that will extract the (compressed/lossy) audio files off the disc to a PC without recompressing it.
@@DustyCustard
You can actually use this to record it via line-in: stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/
@@Thalesperes Wow, that's awesome - does it let you grab files *off* a disc though? In the demo I watched he only put files *onto* a disc.
Techmoan: Releases a 1 hour 12 minute 55 Second video
Me: *grabs popcorn*
73 minutes - will fit on MiniDisc 74
I watch or listen to this video when I wake up at 4am and can't sleep with my mind racing and I find Matts relaxing voice talking about these discs good for making me fall asleep. Take that as a compliment lol
He's relaxing, has a calm soothing nice voice.
A big photographed grid of these would make a great poster.
Even better. Make a resin coffee table out of them.
How to identify the piano track: upload a video with the whole thing on it, see who comes back with the content ID
I would agree that the hyper-aggressive copyright bullying system sounds like a great way to identify unknown content, except that there are loads of Content ID trolls out there who will claim any old tune as their own, even to the point where you might get a copyright claim from someone on a brand new song that you just wrote and recorded yourself.
On the other hand, injurious dipshits like Nintendo don't always manage to mark their territory, as you can find loads of their music un-claimed on UA-cam. So it would be very hit or miss, I think. But I love the idea, both as a quip and as a novel way to identify unknown music.
I think UA-cam can cancel providers accounts after a number of copyright infringement claims or other violations of terms filed against them.If a channel gets a claim filed against them for CR rules there are 3 or 4 choices to resolve the claim. Rick Beato made a good video about the subject. A provider can dispute the claim but if they lose it counts as a strike against the channel. So some people steer clear of potential problems. One guy got a strike because he uploaded his band playing his original music live at a radio station while they were promoting the tour they were doing. But some how that video recording became legal property of the stations parent corporation and was flagged for CR violation. Rather than dispute the claim he just pulled the video. I think it is all about the monetization of material. $$$
Or just use a music identifying app on a mobile phone. App (i used Shazam this time) identified Piano track at 39:35 as A Night Alone by Track Tribe ua-cam.com/video/syyOC4kOKu0/v-deo.html Track is copyright free but is part of youtube's free music library, so your suggestion might still also get the id lol
@@pineappleroad Don Henley claims to have 60 people working full time 7 days a week looking for copyright violators. Seems a bit excessive.
i've literally does this.
I don't think people read discriptions on bigger channels in general because we're kinda used to bigger channels just putting useless info in there. That you do is rare and very appreciated.
I love that mp3 player mimicking the same form factor.
Im glad you told us about these sort of international auction houses Mat. Just used Jauce for the first time and managed to snag a rare Trigun laserdisc that I had been trying to get for years.
Thank you for this! Been back into MD for a few years now. I'm in the US & got heavy into them in 1993. Had the deck unit & a Sony MZ-F40 player. I ended up selling my home unit to someone in the UK from eBay for about the price I paid for the unit new back in 2003-04 time frame? I broke the player, but it had a AM/FM radio on it which was much more rare.
I kept all my 150+ MD discs I made over the years. I now collect all the Sony portable units just for fun. I finally found my exact portable unit & it was NIB & I did pay up for it, but now with 2 stereo deck units & my portable/s, I'm a happy go lucky collector enjoying these once again!
The oriange retro-70's lookin' one is my favorite. :)
38:05 From my experience the best looking units at things like car boot sales are the ones that developed a fault after a years use and then got forgotten about in a drawer. Good to see that one working.
27:00 That Fujitstu mp3 player was sold in the UK with LG branding. Used to have one myself, very nice when it was clean.
This was almost therapeutic. I loved the fact that one of them had an Avril Lavigne album lmao, the 2000's were something else man.
I bet the analytics on this video are going to be quite interesting.
This is such an amazing video to just sit back and relax with. Techmoan’s off-the-cuff uncut commentary, satisfying plastic and metal clicking and clacking of vintage MD players... occasional beeps and music whenever he finds a working one... bliss.
And it’s so cool to learn about a time when mobile devices like music players and cell phones were relatively cheap and came in all different designs, styles and control schemes. Nowadays everyone just has pricy smartphones that all follow the same general design and control scheme. Not hating though, I love the simplicity of having a sleek slab of tech that does everything, but I also like the charm of these old devices. Much love to Japan for taking MD players and flip phones to the next level. Love the vid!
This was quite a trip down memory lane, since I used to haunt Japanese electronic stores around the time these kinds of players were common, and I had a few myself. The disk at 34:08 looks to be a "Best Of" album for the singer Koda Kumi by the way. The one at 35:10 is from Utada Hikaru, who is quite good. She speaks English very well and tried to have a career in the US as well, although she only had middling success, I believe.
I watched the whole thing and really enjoyed every second of it. I always like all your videos anyway, they're fun and funny and always informative. so Thanks!
Loved this video!! The idea a piano track recorded maybe 20years ago has travelled thousands of miles is fantastic
For the songs you couldn't find a Shazam match, Maybe youtube Content ID will be more successful 😄
Definitely worth a try
@@juslitorcv