Sharp Super Cat's Eye night vision camcorder review & test
Sony wasn't the only one to make camcorders with infrared night vision capability. Sharp's version of NightShot was called "Super Cat's Eye", and at least on this VL-WD650 MiniDV camcorder, it works quite well. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jCDqGxQhMM
For most of the 1980s, the Sharp RT-100 and its Radio Shack twin, the Realistic SCT-35 were the cheapest cassette decks you could buy with Dolby Noise Reduction and support for Chrome and Metal tapes. Let's take a look at this "loss leader" and hear how well it performs after 40+ years.
The recording test music is a remix of Stan LePard's "Velkommen" (better known as the Windows XP installation music) from the 1998 Encarta Virtual Globe: https://soundcloud.com/stanlepard/1998-evg-flights-north-america
Time flow:
0:00 Overview
2:55 Playback tests
4:50 Mechanism & circuitry
7:30 Recording test
9:06 Conclusion
#cassette #retrotech #audiophile
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzQFc6Nqkg
When you own your own radio station, you can play any kind of music you want. That is exactly what "Jolly Joe" Timmer does with his radio station, 1100 WGPA in Bethlehem, PA. It features a variety of news, talk, and music programs through the day, but it is most famously known for its daily Polka music show, hosted by Jolly Joe himself every weekday from 11 AM to 1 PM.
Polka music was once very popular in PA, NJ, and NY as Eastern European immigrants came into Ellis Island in the late 1800s and early 1900s and many moved to PA to work in the coal mines. (Polka music is not exclusive to Poland; it is also very popular in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia.) Polka music still has a small but very loyal fan base in this area, but it is not commonly head on the radio anymore, except for WGPA. Many of today's Polka songs are recorded with English lyrics, to appeal to a new generation of fans.
WGPA's 250-watt daytime-only AM signal is just barely strong enough to be heard here in central NJ, where I recorded this while listening on my car radio. The song being played is called "TGIF" but I can't quite make out the name of the singer and group.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mE_oEqG0Kg
More old batteries found in my Advantech I.Q. Unlimited computer. Let's test them and see if dead batteries really do bounce. Also I give a hint of the I.Q. Unlimited's hidden capability...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2m1LjhxhjI
With an old Compaq Deskpro running WinAmp, a CRL Amigo FM audio processor/stereo generator, a BW Broadcast 1-watt transmitter, and a Comet CFM-95SL antenna, I have the best-sounding and lowest-power signal on the FM radio dial. This exceeds the FCC Part 15 restrictions on unlicensed AM/FM transmitters, but due to the hilly terrain the signal doesn't get out very far anyway.
I also have equipment to transmit on AM, with a CRL AM Stereo Matrix Processor and a Panasonic multi-system AM Stereo signal generator. I don't have an antenna set up for AM, but I can run it in carrier-current mode, which effectively uses the house's power wiring as the antenna.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RnBovNLJEI
A closer look at a CD player I first did a video about nearly 12 years ago: the Yorx CD Pal, also sold by J.C. Penney. One of the first CD players to cost less than $100, it lacks many features, but actually has several things in common with much more expensive CD players.
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1.9L Turbo Direct Injection diesel engine, 4-speed automatic (unfortunately!), made in Brazil. Its 12-year, unlimited mileage corrosion warranty is still in effect until next year, and so far, it has absolutely no rust. Its original EPA rating was 34 MPG city, 45 MPG highway (U.S.).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5eJoErDZnw
An example of how to settle a long-running Internet debate and bust a revisionist history myth, by reading manuals, books, and magazine articles, doing some research, and confirming it with your own tests. C'mon folks, it's not that hard!
Time flow:
0:12 First, history lesson
2:37 Zenith Z-148 PC
3:48 A typical 486 PC
10:23 Gateway 2000 4DX-33
11:52 5x86 with fake cache
15:07 Turbo buttons EOL
16:01 Don't take my word for it!
Intel 486 SL Microprocessor SuperSet Data Book:
https://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/download.php?id=c0c60bad6520953a7f3cbf0d757c8c6814c7c9&type=O
#turbo #cpu #vintagecomputing
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New 2012 VW Passat (featured in Super Bowl commercial), Jetta TDI, Golf, GTI; Audi A3 TDI; Mini Cooper Clubman; old & new FIAT 500.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRt3vvRlzQw
A sample of the theme music from Lucasfilm Games' 1984 Atari 8-bit computer game "Ballblazer" (later re-released for the Atari XE Game System in 1987), featuring a computer generated Jazz improvsation solo. The game was ported to other systems such as the Commodore 64 and NES, but I think the original Atari version has the best sounding music, thanks to the unique characteristics of the POKEY sound chip (which is also used by the Atari 5200 and 7800 video game versions of Ballblazer).
As Wikipedia explains the computer generated solo:
Ballblazer's theme music, called "Song of the Grid" and heard between matches, was algorithmically generated, a technique designed by Lucasfilm Games team leader Peter Langston and called "riffology". The lead melody is assembled from a predefined set of 32 eight-note melody fragments, or riffs, which are put together randomly by an algorithm that also makes choices on several parameters including "how fast to play the riff, how loud to play it, when to omit or elide notes, when to insert a rhythmic break". The melody is accompanied by bassline, drums and chords, which are also assembled on the fly by a simplified version of the above approach. In effect the music plays forever, without repeating itself but without straying too far from the original theme.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Sjgn78rgw