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Re: Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch

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Post by slipperlobster »

gardenhedge wrote: post #166
McGlockenshire wrote: post #163

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Every time foone gets posted here, there is, in rough order: 1) Misgendering, usually out of ignorance. foone is aggressively agender and goes by they/them. 2) Someone correcting the misgendering. 3) The same circular discussion of why foone doesn't like being posted to HN. 4) The same circular discussion of pronouns and the culture war. 5) Culture warriors come out and do their thing and often get their comments fla…

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Their. Their outdated porn collection.

Re: Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch

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Post by jraph »

foone wrote: post #150

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Hey!

I just read your Twitter thread about HN linked here.

I hope that you'll notice how people here are just discussing the topic of your post and interested.

That people ranting about Twitter posts and pronouns are a vocal minority.

That many people actually appreciate your work and that ending up on the HN front page is a sign of this.

I understand and respect that you don't want to have to deal with this vocal minority who is not nice with you, but I wish they hadn't this much power. They don't only bother you but also a majority of us.

Most people silently read you, most are willing to honor your pronouns, too many of us need frequent reminders not to assume he/him, most people who don't like reading Twitter will not complain and just not read and that's fine.

Maybe HN guidelines could use some update to ask people to stop bitching on one's choice of pronouns and use of twitter to post things like you do. Plenty of tools exist to read them comfortably anyway.

In any case, a lot of love and of course you are free to not want to deal with HN as long as it is not an adequately welcoming place.

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Post by ddingus »

kmeisthax wrote: post #87
delecti wrote: post #70

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You might be surprised at how the signals are actually recorded on tapes. For VHS tapes for example, it's actually a series of stacked "diagonal" lines of signal. Imagine a sequence of symbols like \\\\\\\\\\\, except at any given horizontal point along the tape there are about 5 stacked traces of signal. They're also diagonal on audio cassettes, but much less "slanted" relative to the tape's length. I don't remember…

Audiotape is - or at least, Phillips compact cassettes are - recorded linearly. The recording method you're talking about for videotape is called helical scan, because the heads trace out a helix pattern. You might be confusing that with the head azimuth, which does alternate between fields on VHS to reduce cross-talk or something. Some other bits of jank in the VHS spec: - Because the tape is moving while it's being…

I dumped a bunch of albums, and a few CD's, to Hi-Fi VHS. A while back, I stumbled onto a compatible VCR at a yard sale for a couple bucks.

Yes, those gaps are annoying as all get out. Tracking has to be dialed right in to recover the sound properly.

But, once you do that?

It's really great! Frequency response goes almost to zero, and up to 22Khz, and it's flat for most of that range.

One of the albums I recorded had a warp in it. When the actual vinyl was played on a good stereo system it was possible to see the speaker cones actually move in time with the warp. It's essentially a very low frequency signal.

Cassette does not reproduce that. I bet a good reel-to-reel system would.

Hi-Fi VHS reproduced it pretty much bang on perfect!

The best part was being able to add index marks! While recording, one could press a button and get one of those written to the tape. I had several tapes made with music I really like and could access pretty much anything on it quickly.

Fun stuff!!

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Post by emmelaich »

iamdbtoo wrote: post #99
ghaff wrote: post #82

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For that matter, the licensing of the music on certain TV series didn't anticipate DVDs. Northern Exposure and WKRP in Cincinnati were missing a lot of the original music on the DVDs--although this is apparently partly corrected in the newer complete series releases.

Similarly, Beavis and Butthead has never had a release that mirrors the broadcast because of the music videos.

Ah this is why I can never find Wayne's World hilarious review of November Rain MTV video by Gun'n'Roses. :-(

Re: Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch

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Post by ddingus »

WirelessGigabit wrote: post #19
sys32768 wrote: post #13

Very fascinating. Reminded me of FlexPlay from 2003, "self destructing" DVDs for short-term rentals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay

Indeed! Nice 'documentary' (what do you call this format?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccneE_gkSAs

Your question turned out to be intriguing!

I thought I did not have a reason to employ a name or even think of productions like this as a format.

But, as you point out, the right name is unclear, and just calling it "a video" begs for a "what format?" discussion.

I like "video essay" quite a lot myself. Documentary can work too, but seems a bit off and I am struggling to express why.

Maybe one of us can ask the Technology Connections guy what name he would use. We might get a whole video on the subject!

I am going to ask. Join me. Very curious what he would say, and he would be among the top people qualified to talk about these things too.

Re: Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch

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Post by ddingus »

WirelessGigabit wrote: post #19
sys32768 wrote: post #13

Very fascinating. Reminded me of FlexPlay from 2003, "self destructing" DVDs for short-term rentals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay

Indeed! Nice 'documentary' (what do you call this format?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccneE_gkSAs

It has some history, definition of terms, connections to other tech, opinion / advocacy, all wrapped up into one "something."

Seems more than a documentary. Can totally be a video essay.

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Post by Pxtl »

mywittyname wrote: post #148
Pxtl wrote: post #128

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Somebody recently said the best phrase on the modern internet is "iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts" because podcasts are probably the most recent media-consumption technology where open standards won out and it's just a bunch of standardized data and metadata you can use as you like.

There's a symbiotic relationship that exists with podcasting that doesn't necessary exist for other media. Podcasters want to reach the largest possible audience because they are paid relative to viewership. Hosting their own content has an expense and doesn't provide them with very effective discoverability. Podcast platforms make their money from having a large collection of podcasts and, for spotify/itunes, podcas…

Yes, but none of that has anything to do with why RSS+mp3 won. If somebody invented podcasts today it would be a walled garden, not an open format where I can point any podcatcher at any host and get the feed.
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