Footage/shots of the JVC AV-30W475 from 2004, which afaik was the only consumer 16:9 SD set released in the US.
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WHAT PROCEDURE ?
is a good prompt.
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A couple years back I went to an estate sale and the guy who had lived there had a satellite descrambler and a basement full of video tapes recorded off of HBO feeds. He had started on beta, moved to vhs, and at some point was recording everything on hi8 or digital8. I’ve always been fascinated by those video8 commercial movie releases so I got a kick out of seeing the format’s next generation being used for non home movie purposes.
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in a more just timeline we would all have been renting hi8 in '89 and then gotten w-vhs players along with playstations for xmas-'94
also i bought a small lot of used 8/hi8 tapes to record over, on ebay, and some of them have like audition/“diary” footage of young women associated with an early 2000s reality television program entitled “American Princess”
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Is that an ultrasound machine?
I thought those were made by gravis
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I was just looking this thing up last Friday!
the powerful submerged roar of an electromechanical swiss leviathan ripples out across the ocean of time
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https://www.westelm.com/products/crosley-switch-entertainment-system-d8944/
Welp, guess it was inevitable. Crosley now selling a fake Dieter Rams hifi.
I guess it is good actually. I don’t know. Who knows what to think about anything.
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I had seen pictures of these over the years and just assumed they were absolute complete trash, but seems its surprisingly clever and almost nearly respectable. real galaxy brain trash hifi stuff.
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https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=67124
shmups-forum user LukeEvansSimon’s thread on modding CRTs to have variable ‘G1’ voltage, allowing adjustment of beam spot size.
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Found a “Panasonic Quintrix TC-2671NPSR” CRT at an estate sale, couldn’t find anything useful in a brief check online, it was in its original box, it was a dollar, so hey, why not
So it’s a euro TV that can switch between 50/60hz and between NTSC, PAL, and SECAM on the fly
neat!
you know that level in Castlevania IV that looks like a rolling tube? Well now it’s the whole game
Does anyone know how uncommon this mode switching was in the Euro region?
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my vague understanding is that it wasn’t particularly uncommon at least in the 90s onward as there was plenty of grey market importing of NTSC media going on which was supported by either your VCR converting for you or by your TV handling both
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NTSC and PAL, sure…
SECAM though, not so sure!
cannot remember stumbling across a TV that offered this function, might have been growing up in the country where it was invented though, so obv all TVs were PAL first and foremost, NTSC support was luxury on top then.
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i’ve literally never owned a tv, no matter how shitty, that couldn’t do ntsc
i vividly remember playing burned jp dreamcast games in rgb on some old wood panel thing
always wondered exactly why the older consoles forced 50hz and then in the ps1 days modchips were so ubiquitous that even the biggest normies were playing 60hz ntsc games… without issue
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I have a VCR that can do this
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