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worthy of Princess Caroline

as a non-native speaker i'm not going to attempt saying that

i found this line to be at least inspired with Alec's Technology Connections, as he also likes to put some fantastic tongue twisters between his lines

That was a winner rap battle rhyme from the 90s. 😂

Video has this childlike admiration and curiosity for the world

It reminds me of being really young, and being really young was really nice.

i think thats just scandinavia

@@legodbrez4202 he lives in the Netherlands though

It is called living in the first world. So yeah, you're right hes from other world

Totally. It was stuff like this which drew my attention to the design of electronics and how it "talked" or "conveyed" things to the end user when I was young.

2000s too.

I love how they look, but they are also a big let down cause I just bought a used AV receiver from like 2009/2010 and the display is much dimmer than new and with burn-in marks sadly...

You should buy a pioneer cdj1000 mk3 or cdj800 if you love fvd

The green ones (or blue with filters?) were used in a radio and odometer in Ford Mustangs 05-09 :)

“Renaissance man”. That is exactly what springs to mind when i watch Posy.

Thank you!! :)

I'd totally love to see that as an (expensive) piece of modern art in a museum. A bunch of VFD displays, with camera trained on them, focus controlled (and choreographier) by motors, with the close-ups displayed around the on large screens around the VDF centerpieces. The "random" texts and symbol fading in and out of view offer room for interpretation, turning this into true art. A cheaper version could use pre-recorded macro shots, with the VFDs synchronized to the video display. So the cameras could be fake. The whole installation could get as large as _De Nachtwacht_ from that other Netherlands artist, playing out the difference in sizes between the immensely magnified close-up shots on the displays and the (comparatively) tiny VFDs. Sad that VFDs have limited lifespans and are no longer easily replaceable.

its beautiful in 4K

this!!! i was floored, beautiful

@@klausstock8020 You know, maybe *you* could be the one to do this, internet stranger.

Thank you!! :-)

as someone who designs interfaces, it makes me appreciate how easy we have it today lol. but also it would be really cool to work with these displays

great video mate! Some of the displays you've shown are not VFD's at all, but backlit LCD's - just wanted to point that out... the designers made them look like VFD's - especially in the 2000's era this type of LCD's were popular... they imitated the high end look of the devices from the 90's 🙂

@@evoelias6035 Sometimes they go at great lengths to make sure displays match, especially when different suppliers are involved. I had a 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP (Supercharged 3.8L), and much like Audi of the same era, all of the dashboard lights are red. All of the digital displays were backlit reverse LCD (and so they were red segments) except the HVAC, which was clearly a standard bluish-green VFD. This was because 1998 was the first year of the new design, and only the GTP had digital HVAC, so they must have not specified correctly. However, the 1999 GTP had a matching red HVAC display. I found one in a junkyard, but the buttons were worn, so I disassembled it to use my buttons and was shocked to find a red filter over the same VFD! I was sure it was an LCD lol. I later learned about the filter and how common it was used, like in mirrors with a compass and/or outside temperature display in different cars... All the Gentex mirrors use a greenish blue VFD and Audi/BMW put a red filter and certain other cars made them yellow (I can't remember who... Cadillac?).

@@davidkane4300 very interesting indeed... most european cars from that era used unreliable backlit LCD technoogy. I remember that Audi and Volkswagen had often issues with dead pixels... VFD's seem to be rather uncommon there... I really like the sharpness of bright blue VFD's. I remember getting my first CASIO G-Shock back in the day. I think It used that VFD tehcnnology as backlight for the LCD - or am I wrong there?

between posy nerdirotica and others

it really feels like a different take on the XboxAhoy style of vids.

@@ut2k4wikichici nerderotic is just right-wing propaganda masquerading as film critique

​@@ThinkAboutViche so reminds me of AHOY

And not in a bad or cringy way, a truly interesting one.

“That’s No Good”

Totally. I'd put on a hour long supercut for background!

Yeah, there was some beautiful stuff there. Would make a really nice screensaver too.

@@PhilRennie Yes!! Posy upload something like these macro shots onto wall paper engine!!

@@Vacated204 awesome. Thanks for the heads up.

@@PhilRennie oh sorry I was agreeing with you and suggesting posy make some wallpapers! he hasn’t uploaded any yet haha sorry

He's answering questions I never asked about topics I quite frankly don't care about. But the way he presents it makes me want to explore more and more of these weird technological oddities and curiosities.

@@jassie138 Very well said. I'm in the same boat.

It's strange, LCD and LEDs if anything are more of brilliant technology, but they just don't feel the same.

I actually bought a new stereo system recent, which initially I though it has a VFD display. On closer inspection, I discovered it’s really just a LED display with a color filter, but it looks very convincing from afar. If I haven’t discovered it was a LED display, I would not give a second though but now it just feel abit… weird that it looks like VFD but it isn’t!

Man, I miss VFD. I absolutely love that aesthetic. Things with LED / LCD displays just look low-budget compared to proper VF displays.

Though modern lcd and oled displays are starting to have enough pixel density that you could emulate a very convincing VFD with them, and get the best of both worlds.

My new stereo receiver still has a VFD. They're disappearing but aren't gone yet!

Basically the same idea, just a different form factor

If they do, their prices will skyrocket, just like nixies did

@@TheRailroad99 Nah, one is a Cold-cathode indicator with a gas filling, the other is more like a flood CRT with a hard vacuum. Not the same.

@@Puuuszzku They are still being made so maybe in a couple of years

Probably hasn't happened yet because they're still fairly common.

Just to add to the confusion, “Phosphorus” was the ancient Greek name for Venus as the Morning Star.

YAAS little things like those greetings in the most artistic VFDs are seemingly such a lost art nowadays

Thank you! :)

You’re such a cool dude, love your videos and attention to detail. ☺️

@Kajan.

That's what I thought!!! The switch between neon turquoise and yellow-orange was like switching between Tron: Legacy and BR2049.

Man thats exactly what it came to my mind, it feels great finding people that have same interest in thing.

I thought it was gonna go on until the end of the video lol

Agreed

Agreed

He's not underrated anymore. He gained more than 200k subs in Q3+Q4 2022.

Totally agree

@@graealex I saw him grow from 5k to 140k in like a bit more than a week, still i have no doubt a lot more people would really like these videos, so by that sense he's still underrated

I actually could always tell the difference from an LCD and both my dad and I thought they were LEDs until I realized I never saw LED elements as tiny as VFD pixels so I figured it was something different when I got older

Oh no. At least we get to watch this banger early :)

Yea another perfect video from an awesome guy

Too late, already watching...

lol

lol this is a win us subscribers

There is something great about the era where you could visually dissect things and see how they worked, teachings the mind to interrogate the world

Ничо, Тёма Кашканов воскресит :)

I had to search for this comment after listening to the soundtrack XD, your guess sounds likely to me

His Bandcamp has the lyrics

@@Antiblue643 Oh. Oohh, silly me, I didn't notice the clickable "lyrics" link beside its track title in Bandcamp before. Thank you!

"VFD - Vacuum Flourescent Display It's old technology that is still working today"

Definitely go through his other videos, they're fantastic. Especially 7 segment displays and all sound is sine.

@@jceggbert5 already watched it! It's really awesome.

They seem to be triodes in a bit of a nonstandard configuration. Instead of varying the grid voltage to control the transconductance, they're varying the plate voltage. Essentially they're using the filament and the grid of a triode as an electron gun, and each of the fluorescent segments is turned on by applying a high positive voltage to attract those electrons. Pretty cool, I see now how closely related VFDs are to CRT displays.

Thank you!! ❤️

And there's these car parking system's VFD HUD. I think wonderful things can be made out of these but I don't know anything about electronics. Can't even find this VFD as spare parts. There are some uncommon chiptune cartridges that brought displays as features and I honestly think that this VFD could be more than a feature.

I agree LCDs can't replace their look but I actually think with some adjustments OLEDs could look a lot like them. In 1999, Pioneer began releasing car stereos with displays known as OEL, which were basically early OLED displays, and let me tell you, many of them looked amazing. It's about implementation. OLEDs that don't look like how VFDs are don't have the glass-like covers VFDs often use in multiple layers and may not even have the same neutral density filters. Improvements in the outer design of OLEDs I think could potentially improve their looks a lot more

Ngl... I sleep when I watch Dave's video

That would indeed be very cool! I wondered if any usable RGB matrix VFD was made. I guess not, else it would probably have been in some portable TV's at the time.

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@@freddiem7993 ??? That account has a 16 year old video, this comment is also completely normal, not trying to sell anything, i highly doubt that would be a bot, i fact you sound more like a bot, how ironic would that be, a bot going around calling random people a bot

@@MrTurbo_ Yeah, I get the stupid bot replys all the time, I have no idea why as I am not a bot. It is ridiclous.

@@MrTurbo_ They commented this only 1 minute after the video was uploaded

"even by today's terms" ESPECIALLY by today's terms. Everything on the market now is trying to beat physics with DSP. When you bought a stereo in the 80s or 90s, its size and gauge of wires were all an honest declaration of what it was capable of. DSP is nearly magic, but it will never, ever hold a candle to a device that can just do the thing.