VHD in the UK - how 1980s UK missed out on this interactive video & games format

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VHD was a home videodisc format never launched to the public outside of Japan. However it was funded by a UK company and was due to come out here in 1982. This is the story of VHD in the UK featuring early demo footage and rare PAL discs.
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@LRM12o8 5 жыл бұрын

Me: "Nice, Techmoan has a new Video up. Must watch right now!" [Video starts] Mat: "A couple of years ago I made video about VHD." Me: "Hm, I might wanna rewatch that video real quick as to not miss any information on VHD that might be relevant to this new video". [click link to VHD video in the info section] [VHD Video starts] Mat: "A year ago I made a video about CED." Me: "Oh my, this is going to be a LONG KZfaq Session"...

@SmaMan 5 жыл бұрын

I love that rabbit hole KZfaqrs send you down sometimes.

@Christopher-N 5 жыл бұрын

*LRM12o8:* I think you've nailed it. Still, it means the enjoyment will last hours rather than minutes.

@theantithesis1 5 жыл бұрын

I have found that before watching a new Techmoan video, it is best practice to go back and watch all of his previous videos. Especially the ones with the puppets.

@Manabender 4 жыл бұрын

And then, 8 minutes into the CED video... "I made a video all about Laserdisc in 2015." It got longer.

@terencekhaw7914 Күн бұрын

Oh.

@Ojisan642 5 жыл бұрын

“Unlimited potential” = the marketing department doesn’t know what anyone would use this for.

@saracade69 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a 50 yr old woman and this is one of my favorite channels.

@egsab3 5 жыл бұрын

Me to

@rayfenwick8761 5 жыл бұрын

@@egsab3You're a 50 year-old woman? ;)

@egsab3 5 жыл бұрын

@@rayfenwick8761 I'm not But you think 😂😂😂 Whatever , I'm close to 50 , and although watching this But not a woman 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@RRRRRRP 5 жыл бұрын

Haha, knew he'd be wrong on that, everyone loves Techmoan!

@jeffrey44 5 жыл бұрын

You are abnormal. Statistically speaking.

@colinspeirs 5 жыл бұрын

"the chances of a woman in her mid 50s watching this channel are low" Cue a loud "Oi!" from my wife, a woman in her mid 50s watching this channel. She still has her old Specify btw

@andyrichter2714 5 жыл бұрын

Man the Japanese know how to name things, ‘DiscLord’

@AaronSmart.online 5 жыл бұрын

National (Panasonic) called their VHS products "MacLord", which made even less sense (I can't find an explanation for the "Mac" part)

@PCPSolutions 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was about to comment...

@spikefallyt3350 5 жыл бұрын

Discord

@pancudowny 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a SyFy movie title: D I S C L O R D

@Oldgamingfart 5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it was some Japanese variant of the MAC satellite TV transmission standard (MAC - Multiplexed Analogue Components), which could mean those VHS machines had satellite tuners built-in.

@The8BitGuy 5 жыл бұрын

That's girl has a pretty crazy hairstyle even for the 1980s.

@leepshin 5 жыл бұрын

That might be so but I'll bet you'd do anything just to at least "have" that hair David. XD

@afloyd4976 5 жыл бұрын

Was that even a style? As much as it was morning bedhead...

@MegaMoto85 5 жыл бұрын

She's breathtaking though.. total bombshell

@startedtech 5 жыл бұрын

Get that London Look...she has the teeth for it too :)

@gato38 5 жыл бұрын

The 80's were a scarey place for sure ;)

@wormyguy 5 жыл бұрын

2.54 GB of (even read-only) data storage is really impressive for the early/mid-80s.

@wormyguy 5 жыл бұрын

@@dgpsf Marketing people in 1981 probably wouldn't know anything about bytes. I think it's just a misspelling.

@herbiehusker1889 5 жыл бұрын

Considering disks only had 360k or 720k yeah, this is impressive.

@C0Ntro11Da7rail 5 жыл бұрын

Impressive.....Most impressive...

@C0Ntro11Da7rail 5 жыл бұрын

@@herbiehusker1889 then if there was a writable disk it might even have at the very least 1.2 GiB (assuming its BYTES not BITS)

@AaronSmart.online 5 жыл бұрын

@@dgpsf A CAV laserdisc used for data (LV-ROM) stored 324 MBytes per side, so I'd say you're right.

@anononomous 5 жыл бұрын

20:28 "Now, choose a club. (Beep) You have chosen a three wood. May I suggest a putter? (Beep) Three wood. Now enter the force of your swing. I suggest feather touch. (Beep, beep, beep) You have entered "power drive". Now, push seven eight seven to swing." (Beep beep beep)Ball is in...parking lot. Would you like to play again? (Beep) You have selected, "No.”

@eddhick 5 жыл бұрын

Haha, there's a Simpsons ref for most things in life!

@markpenrice6253 5 жыл бұрын

@@eddhick Simpsons did it

@thechonkywuf651 5 жыл бұрын

@highpath4776 3 жыл бұрын

Thats 'Golf' We ran that in 1981 on a DEC VAX machine

@filmclipuk 5 жыл бұрын

I’m a mid-50's woman, and I love this channel ❤️ Especially the retro stuff like this 👍 Keep plying the Tech, Matt 😉

@FuzzballRenakitty 5 жыл бұрын

Love the shoutouts to YMO- amazing and made a big impact on music as a whole in the 80s in Japan, where Europe had Kraftwerk, Japan had YMO and they really did help to shape many genres that we know of today including but not limited to videogame music!

@rymerster 5 жыл бұрын

Because of the time they were successful they were associated with a few emerging formats. Lots of collectible items out there relating to the band. I have to keep vintage kit just to watch / listen to some things.

@FuzzballRenakitty 5 жыл бұрын

Would be wonderful to get one of the complete sets with the shirts, but I really doubt it would fit me! Haha

@theroberthogarth 5 жыл бұрын

My mum is 63 and watched/thoroughly enjoyed your video! She also worked for EMI in London in the late 70's / early 80's and was aware of the VHD but said only select people were allowed to see it or enter the area it was worked on!

@mipmipmipmipmip 5 жыл бұрын

techmoan is not just a youtuber but a highly curated media museum and archive

@MetroPolo1 5 жыл бұрын

24:51 Haven't seen such a good acting since last Techmoan Mission Impossible tape video.

@WiseGuy02 5 жыл бұрын

You must find this model and interview her about working on that demo.

@momatt 5 жыл бұрын

Would you like to play Birdie Try again? You have selected, 'No'.

@IvanOdintsoff 4 жыл бұрын

Ball... In... Parkin lot

@dgirllamius____x 4 жыл бұрын

*P O W E R D R I V E*

@roninja6929 3 жыл бұрын

LOL you have selected POWERDRIVE

@rodmunch69 5 жыл бұрын

25:16 (police) keep them talking, another 10 seconds and we'll have the kidnappers location...

@symonenry7442 5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@Nolroa 5 жыл бұрын

LOL... And I was going to make a joke about the music in that part that seemed like it came straight out of a eighties porn video. But that was really hilarious.

@alsatusmd1A13 5 жыл бұрын

I hope to God that section was not simply an excuse to have the model prank call the hotel and she actually stayed in that room.

@Nolroa 5 жыл бұрын

@@alsatusmd1A13 Hope so. Although it also seemed like she was looking for availability and reasonable prices depending on the amount of hotel rating stars per night... Technically she was making a price evaluator. The same as anyone does before buying, looking for the best prices.... But I also hope that she has chosen that hotel and stayed there at least one night.

@WiseGuy02 5 жыл бұрын

@@Nolroa well, she was booking the hotel room just for one night. 😉

@1974UTuber 5 жыл бұрын

I think your replacement music made the game far more interesting. It was less like a boring golf game and more like a slow walk through a stylish mall in the 60's

@electronash 5 жыл бұрын

I was just re-watching some of the Technology Connections vids on CD and Laserdisc, and this pops up. Good timing.

@Sammie1053 5 жыл бұрын

Be honest... After his most recent video did you look up prices for radiant control toasters too?

@electronash 5 жыл бұрын

@@Sammie1053 Maybe. lol

@bargainboondocker3420 5 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting if you could track that girl down and interview her to see how and where the recording was actually done.

@Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed 5 жыл бұрын

DISC LORD mother, mother...

@MaxStax1 5 жыл бұрын

I truly appreciate you making your videos. Always interesting and fun to watch. Thanks so much.

@dingdongbells3314 5 жыл бұрын

EMI is a name known across youtube for their viscous and ruthless copyright trolls. It's weird to think of them as important innovators dedicated to new technologies.

@CAESARbonds 5 жыл бұрын

Wonder if it was emi that gave techmoan the copyright strike. And the eu now signed a law making it even worse. Everything has now to be censored and filtered . Thanks emi

@tommylakindasorta3068 5 жыл бұрын

Thick and gooey copyright trolls are the worst kind!

@AtheistOrphan 5 жыл бұрын

DingDongBells - ‘viscous’? That’s a sticky situation!

@MysteryMii 5 жыл бұрын

EMI mostly doesn’t exist anymore. They got bought up by UMG (with some parts of EMI (mainly the Parlophone label) having to be sold to Warner Music in order to please regulators) a few years back.

@jcardboard 5 жыл бұрын

@@MysteryMii I think sony owns some parts of it as well.

@channelbrookes Жыл бұрын

Never in the history of human existence has someone gone to so much effort to watch "Convoy".

@KevReillyUK 5 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite Techmoan video in some time. Highway Star is amazing. It's like a glimpse into a parallel world where Tarantino made grindhouse video games. And I'm trying to work out whether the golf game had a VERY restricted set of playable strokes, or if the poor guy in the video had to spend weeks being filmed playing every possible shot before doing it all again and deliberately messing them all up for when the player hit the hazards. In reality it's almost certainly the former, although in my head it most definitely isn't.

@CAESARbonds 5 жыл бұрын

Soon only the display of the emi logo will cause a copyright strike.

@andymadden8183 5 жыл бұрын

Soon uploading almost anything to KZfaq, even for a fraction of a second, will cause a copyright strike.

@verycarla67 5 жыл бұрын

if anyone else is wondering what the song the guy at 18:24 is singing is, it's Shikuramen no Kahori (The Scent of Cyclamen). yes, i typed in the Japanese lyrics and did a search. it looks like it was first released by Akira Fuse back in the mid-70s. you can search 布施明シクラメンのかほり and see a live performance from 1975. quite a lovely song. also, 52-year-old woman here. *waves*

@chrisbalfour466 5 жыл бұрын

I predict the VHD demo disc will turn out to be an unlabelled copy of Physical.

@noobiesmurf 5 жыл бұрын

@@TerminalWorld Same thing really kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qp2GmMWWkpPZf6s.html.

@LairdDeimos 5 жыл бұрын

@@noobiesmurf link doesn't work, UMG strikes again.

@noobiesmurf 5 жыл бұрын

@@LairdDeimos works fine in Australia, where are you?

@mrb692 5 жыл бұрын

Murcia.

@darkdeepred6577 5 жыл бұрын

Or the disc from the empty caddy....

@K-o-R 5 жыл бұрын

The stuff in the segment starting around 17:00 : "Meruhen Denwa Bokkusu", "Märchen (fairy tale) Telephone Box", and the cartoon on the screen is "Arabian Naito Shindobatto no Bouken", "Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventure". The other titles are too small to read unfortunately.

@mattsadventureswithart5764 5 жыл бұрын

The model at 16:18 - stunning!

@andriealinsangao613 5 жыл бұрын

NOICE

@igorszamaszow171 5 жыл бұрын

When you added a murderous android clip with that "AHD" logo, I was sure that some sort of a VHD update is on its way. Glad to see it!

@rinitea9094 5 жыл бұрын

Best quality video and information, as ever :) Your videos never arent a good watch!! This was so much fun, i had no idea of the excistence of this and your information was so thorough!

@Nytephyre 5 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating. I have to say, this channel and Ashens are two of my favorite channels. Great content. Cheers y'all.

@dvdmike007 5 жыл бұрын

So happy you did the first video after I bugged you a ton on Twitter! But I had no idea there was a UK version!!

@xinam 5 жыл бұрын

I haven’t laughed this much about an old tech video in a long time. Very enjoyable video!

@guitarcheology 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! This was a great one! I really appreciate how far you took this project!

@jjrbanana 5 жыл бұрын

Great video - old tech nerds like myself appreciate your output Sir

@TomboLP 5 жыл бұрын

Weirdly, the average pair of Asics sneakers costs pretty much the same in Tokyo today (that's exactly what I paid last month). Just goes to show how stagnant inflation has been here. Great video, as always!

@markpenrice6253 5 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there a notorious period of deflation in the late 90s/early 2000s even?

@TomboLP 5 жыл бұрын

@@markpenrice6253 Yes indeed - the end of the bubble period here. Just before my time. I moved to Tokyo in 2005.

@user-qf6yt3id3w 5 жыл бұрын

There was also the ADHD disc. Very interesting idea but it failed because

@zappawoman5183 5 жыл бұрын

Very good! Lmao 😂

@officialclownbusiness7788 5 жыл бұрын

T damn ritalin stole another mind...

@prismstudios001 5 жыл бұрын

When I can`t stop fiddlin, I just take my Ritalin....

@johnfrancisdoe1563 5 жыл бұрын

AstronomyToday It kind of messes up a particular brain function that's already broken in true ADHD sufferers. There are about 4 different legal substances tested for this, and Ritalin is the most addictive. One of the others got caught in a testing SNAFU at a bad time, leaving a bad reputation with many doctors. So currently the two remaining substances compete for becoming the non addictive treatment option of choice. One competition factor is the effect of giving the drug to the thousands of kids misdiagnosed with ADHD as opposed to those with the actual disease.

@greggv8 5 жыл бұрын

@@johnfrancisdoe1563 yeah, drugging perfectly fine kids to make them compliant, then they don't know poop when they graduate and are off the free supply of drugs.

@Angel_the_Bunny 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting a link in the description of the comedy edit.

@andreiandrosoff1327 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant work, absolutely fascinating and hilarious! One of your best vids!

@MartinKronstrom 5 жыл бұрын

The musical score is a delight!

@irtbmtind89 5 жыл бұрын

That golf game is basically Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge from the Simpsons. I wonder what "Alice in Chemical Reaction" at 18:47 is like?

@Nolroa 5 жыл бұрын

Apparently it was an educational game, nothing to do with Alice from Alice in Wonderland, is another girl named Alice learning about basic chemistry and chemical reactions. www.generation-msx.nl/software/victor-co-of-japan-jvc/alice-in-chemical-reaction-alices-chemical-laboratory/373/

@jk9554 5 жыл бұрын

"you have selected: no"

@beitie 5 жыл бұрын

It was so ahead of it's time, it combined Alice in Chains with My Chemical Romance, and walla!

@5roundsrapid263 5 жыл бұрын

Did they have BoneStorm on the system, too?

@Shaun.Stephens 5 жыл бұрын

@@beitie "walla?" Are you an Australian trying to write 'voilà!' (or even 'voila').

@nutsnproud6932 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mat. I really enjoyed this video and look forward to part 2.

@macswanton9622 5 жыл бұрын

You've taken it on the chin quite a few times with your eBay purchases- good on you for chuckling it off so well!

@id104335409 5 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD! If someone has that demo VHD, please send it to him!

@mrowe94 5 жыл бұрын

I imagine it probably got left in a machine which then got thrown away.

@stephenrock4541 5 жыл бұрын

I'm in my late 50,s and I watch everything you make.

@RetroSteamTech 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for posting this Mat. I'm lucky enough to own a National DP-830 VHD player and a few movie discs. I shall definitely be on the look out for some demo discs now though.

@Z3R0FiR3 5 жыл бұрын

That information video had a very Vaporwave vibe.

@MFunkibut 5 жыл бұрын

WE.MUST.FIND.THAT.MODEL. Fan out...

@jerometv7637 5 жыл бұрын

Great piece again :) and thanks for mentioning Yellow Magic Orchestra "release" on VHD! :) didn't know that one exists....

@rymerster 5 жыл бұрын

jerometv there’s a commercial release of that title on VHD and also VHS. It was later included on DVD releases.

@jerometv7637 5 жыл бұрын

@@rymerster Thanks a lot for the info :) checking it out, but its cool to see it on VHD too :)

@weaseal 5 жыл бұрын

Fascinating as always, thank you for the video!

@luisreyes1963 5 жыл бұрын

An interesting look at the forgotten predecessor to the DVD. One can only imagine if that format caught on, edging out other disc-based video media at the time. Thanks for a very informative video.

@TheFadzreeq 5 жыл бұрын

Now you got me caught on to what the VHD disc in the clear case would show! Make it sooner pleaseeee~~

@WiggysanWiggysan 5 жыл бұрын

36 mins of Yootuubes on a product I never owned, hardly remember, did not care for then, still dont care for now ........ ....... *LOVE IT* !!

@2dskillz 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic Video as always, love these deep history dives.

@tilleytristan 5 жыл бұрын

Mr. Moan, just wanted to comment that I really appreciate all the research and work you put into these vids Sir.

@nematube 5 жыл бұрын

24:51 classic screen acting "talking on the phone" - watch the head and subtle eye movements 🤗

@a500 5 жыл бұрын

Wow two and a half gig sadly read only pressed so not so impressive. But imagine the amount of terrible FMV gaming that could have happened. Great video sir. Thank you for some more high quality edutainment.

@ataksnajpera 5 жыл бұрын

2.5 Giga BITS not Giga Bytes!

@josuelservin2409 5 жыл бұрын

A whole 317.5mb!

@a500 5 жыл бұрын

Atak Snajpera I deliberately left out the GB (gigabytes) and left it as gig as this was naturally a light hearted comment.

@SketchTurnerZero 5 жыл бұрын

@@ataksnajpera gigabytes

@johnfrancisdoe1563 5 жыл бұрын

Josuel Servin So half a video CD?

@gato38 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Techmoan your videos are awesome as usual!

@HangoverTelevision 3 жыл бұрын

12:12 when I read "Arabesque" I immediately thought of Sandra's first group with which she got popular and then got to know Michael Cretu, who she married AND who we all know as one of greatest music producers of all time (Moti Special, Enigma and Sandra herself)... he's also one of my role models :D

@Henchman1977 5 жыл бұрын

No one: Arabesque: "We're big in Japan!"

@HambertHM 5 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Arabesque's lead singer is Sandra, better known after her biggest hit "Maria Magdalena" as a solo artist. But that wasn't her first song after leaving Arabesque, before that she sang a cover of Alphaville's "Big in Japan" in German, which sold very few copies. It's called "Japan ist Weit", search for it! I happen to have one of the 7" single copies.

@Nolroa 5 жыл бұрын

Bands like Arabesque could have been an influence for the modern Jpop idol bands... I guess.

@beitie 5 жыл бұрын

@@HambertHM , I prefer Guano Apes version of Big In Japan. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h5-afdiX35-2fnk.html

@rymerster 5 жыл бұрын

Arabesque were big there, but YMO were and still are huge.

@markpenrice6253 5 жыл бұрын

...tonight

@drunkenhobo8020 5 жыл бұрын

13:05 - My god, it's like something out of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

@Nightenstaff 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing episode! Thank you for sharing these incredible finds. If you ever dump all the video off that demo disk, be sure to let us know as I would love to watch it from beginning to end. Also, how great is 80s hair? Fantastic!

@likewhatIsee 5 жыл бұрын

you never cease to amaze me. kudos!

@clechien 5 жыл бұрын

anyone notice that at 33:15 in the article, under the picture, its written "Pioneer also presses a series of hard-core sex discs, which have the added appeal to some customers of slow motion and a very clear freeze-frame!" ?

@markpenrice6253 5 жыл бұрын

The 2-frame stutter (a variation of which also sometimes affected CAV Laserdiscs and the "true freezeframe" VHS decks, when showing TV material rather than filmed) would seem to make that claim rather fragile, unless they actually encoded the slow-mo right onto the disc (duplicating each frame so that when shown as rapidly alternating pairs they appeared still) and actually played back at 2x speed for normal viewing...

@Musicradio77Network 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting story about Thorn EMI and the VHD. As you probably know, Thorn EMI was a home video distributor in the US after putting electronic stuff from around the world, it started with the home video craze. Beginning in 1981 right up until 1984, they put a series of UK and foreign films as well as cult films, family films, and B-movies. Right up until 1985, it became Thorn EMI/HBO Video where they put out newer material, as well as reissues of previous Thorn EMI Video library titles, by 1986, it became HBO Cannon Video where they put out the same, let alone the Cannon films, and finally by 1987 or 1988, it became HBO Video. I guess right before the acquisition, HBO was the first cable movie channel in the US to acquired Thorn EMI by around 1984 or 1985.

@MrDuncl 5 жыл бұрын

EMI was behind the record label that signed and issued most of the Beatles records. That must have made plenty of profits which they could used for expansion

@jacksonteller3973 2 жыл бұрын

yes i've got Deadly Intruder from Thorn/EMI which still has not gotten a DVD or streaming release.

@funk3nst3in 3 жыл бұрын

my favorite part of this channel is the live clips of tech write ups @:50. periodicals from any source are hard enough to come by, let alone being able to find a source that specific. idk if techmoan has a library or literal stacks of japanese hobby mags from the last 30 years but however they do it, its pure gold. getting eyes on vintage articles *chef's kiss* itsa real deal gabagool

@segasonic9117 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video! My NATIONAL DP-830 does exactly what you are showing with that PAL disc, except it does it on all of my Jp discs. I have not found a way to get it to work, but you have just given me a new area to check. Thanks!

5 жыл бұрын

This man is very classic, and gentleman !

@kennylauderdale_en 5 жыл бұрын

as someone who watches anime on VHD, this was a much appreciated video.

@Lichtviech 5 жыл бұрын

Thank You for this great Video! Cant wait to see part two

@AMPHICARSdotCOM 5 жыл бұрын

BRILLIANT ! Thanks for such a superb explanation of an important but forgotten technology.

@markdavies794 5 жыл бұрын

I worked at the Blackburn plant for a few months but it was after VHDs were made, they only did CDs when I was there.

@SuperFinGuy 5 жыл бұрын

Wow didn't you recognize the Arabesque main singer? She turned into a very popular pop singer of the 80's - Sandra.

@jonmahashintina 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could turn into sandra.

@SuperFinGuy 5 жыл бұрын

@AlexGRFan97 She was pretty well known in Brazil, Africa and somewhat in the US as well, but yeah people in UK usually don't remember her. She did try to reach the UK market. There is an interview of her talking about it on British television. You should check her other hit songs like "In the heat of the night" and "Heaven can wait". Pure 80's vibes and synths.

@SuperFinGuy 5 жыл бұрын

@AlexGRFan97 Here's an example kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdlnkrhh28nWhaM.html

@markpenrice6253 5 жыл бұрын

Never heard of her... presumably she was very popular in Germany, but nowhere else. Are you familiar with Sinitta, or Tiffany?

@SuperFinGuy 5 жыл бұрын

@@markpenrice6253 I remember both of them from the 80's but didn't know their names (I was just a little kid). Brings back memories, I think I still have a Snitta's video on a betamax tape somewhere.

@ChipGuy 5 жыл бұрын

Well done. Looking forward to part 2 :)

@jayslittleprojects1431 5 жыл бұрын

Really good video thanks. I enjoy seeing the tech from that time :) the what could have beens. good job as always!

@capncoolio 5 жыл бұрын

Okay that massive terminal with the comedy phone and built in fax is the most aggressively 1980's thing I've ever seen AND I LOVE IT. I want 10

@markpenrice6253 5 жыл бұрын

It almost seems like something out of Look Around You, doesn't it.

@lezzman 5 жыл бұрын

16:15 Yes, I have feelings for that model. too! 😂

@charleswallis3247 3 жыл бұрын

Hi I found this to be of great help, I have just purchased a Thorn 3D01 VHD player with several different demos and about 70 juke box discs ( it was bought as laserdisc lot ) learnt a lot, thanks

@hgrunt100 3 жыл бұрын

Oh that YMO disk is one of the coolest things you have ever featured. That is SO COOL

@mariahamilton5305 5 жыл бұрын

Definitely one mid 50s woman watching this...

@adamtestagrossa3285 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! I would love to have that VHD with the Yellow Magic Orchestra sampler!

@justinromanowich1763 5 жыл бұрын

As always, thanks for POSTING!! Yay! New Techmoan video!

@JoshuaRastia 5 жыл бұрын

Every time your tefifon "theme song" makes a cameo in a new video it makes me smile :)

@test123 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, I felt like I'm living in 80tis for 35 minutes.

@moviemusic2547 5 жыл бұрын

Female model on 16:16 looks very much alike to Deborah Ann Gaetano, female model from british QVC Channel.

@bluedistortions Ай бұрын

Not really

@HusseinKefel 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this amazing VHD history which I never knew it once existed. Our first JVC HR-3300 VHS cassette recorder that my dad purchased from a store in Edgware Road in London was in 1978 which we enjoyed for many years on till the VCD was born.

@MarkyShaw 5 жыл бұрын

This thing is pretty genius for its day. Love the combination of overlays and real video. I'm surprised these things didn't take off!

@Nolroa 5 жыл бұрын

13:56 It's a really crazy hairstyle even for standards that existed in the eighties, but apparently it had a clear intention: Demonstrate the sharpness of the image in a VHD video. (Remember, is a Demo Disc destined to be projected in electrical appliance stores or in shopping centers or maybe projected in business meetings looking for markets in other countries.) The way the camera focuses on it, the way backlighting applies to the hairstyle in all her shots. It's an indirect way of saying: *_"Hey, you can see it, right?, You will not be able to see it so clearly on a VHS or Betamax tape, now look all things that VHD can do but videotape can't.”_* But sharpness and clarity (for the end user) also depends on how the original footage was processed or through which Transfer processes went through. (mostly Telecine since the image was not retouched and /or digitally restored until the early nineties)

@espurious 5 жыл бұрын

Dry and slow in places? My kind of video!

@CharlieFlemingOriginal 5 жыл бұрын

22:24 "I suggest feather touch.... you have selected POWER DRIVE!.... ball is in.... parking lot... would you like to play again?... you have selected, no."

@cllewis1 5 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up for Lee Cavalho reference.

@CharlieFlemingOriginal 5 жыл бұрын

@@cllewis1 I wondered if anyone would get it lol

@gryfandjane 5 жыл бұрын

Fascinating episode! Thanks -

@richardhudson3014 5 жыл бұрын

You know that reminds me of a CD but on vinyl and that's pretty cool 😎 stuff!!!

@noobiesmurf 5 жыл бұрын

That other "physical" disk could be the karaoke one, you never know.

@Sammie1053 5 жыл бұрын

I just had a flashback to his cover of "Get Lucky"... Maybe it's best we leave that to the imagination

@Asterra2 5 жыл бұрын

Somewhat bizarrely, the first place I ever heard of the VHD disc system was in a 90s anime called Moldiver. I thought they'd made the thing up as a gag. Literally only discovered differently thanks to this channel. You ought to consider making the entirety of the demonstration disc available online somewhere, in proper interlaced PAL (or NTSC, whichever is applicable). For posterity. ;p

@johnfrancisdoe1563 5 жыл бұрын

Asterra2 Raw bit stream also interesting for future digital archeology. Perhaps some way to seal the archive until the official current copyright end date, like other sealed records in places like the British Library.