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In the last this, we took a look at the early history of Laserdisc. If you haven’t seen that, you can find a link down below or up there. In short, Laserdisc was the first optical storage format, storing analog video on 12 inch reflective discs, and it was released at the end of the 1970’s. Featuring many of the noteworthy features of DVD , it may seem surprising that it didn’t become that popular. It’s market adoption barely reached 2 percent of videocassette recorder sales in North America, and was even worse in Europe. Its most successful market was in Asia, but even that wasn’t fantastic. Only 10% of Japanese households had a laserdisc player, and Japan was considered the healthiest market. In this video, we’ll find out why Laserdisc just sort of stayed in the background its entire life. Let me begin by saying that the problem is more nuanced than simply, they cost too much. Because initially, laserdiscs were far cheaper than videocassettes. And it’s also more nuanced than laserdis...

Greetings, and welcome to LGR Odd ware, that is odd, forgotten, and obsolete, like this thing here, the Yamaha Disc system, or rather the drive that allowed it to happen in the early 2000s. And yeah it’s kind of just a CD-RW, but its whole gimmick was the fact that you could burn, or ink, tattoos directly onto your CD-R media, not the label side, the data side.  Let’s check it out. All right, so let’s take a closer look at the Yamaha CRW-F1, or more precisely the external SCSI version known as the F1SX. Yamaha made multiple models, external and internal, many of which cost less than this one, but they all had the Disclaser labeling system built in. Draw images on your discs. Mm. And this model cost a whopping $279.99 . Internal versions cost less, but on average they were all more expensive than the other CD-RW options when it released on July 15th, 2002. As if I really needed to say 2002, though. I mean, just take one look at that  sign in the name there and, yeah, 2002 indee...

Upgrading a late 90s Windows 98 computer setup with a Diamond Stealth III S540 graphics card! Mm, S3TC. Installation, setup, and testing it out with Midtown Madness, Unreal Tournament, Max Payne. Greetings and welcome to an LGR thing! And todays particular thing is the Diamond Stealth III S540 graphics card from 1999. This is the PCI 32 megabyte version of the S3 Savage 4 Pro Plus graphics accelerator that was quite a thing at the time period. I was rather envious of this card back then, because a friend of mine had gotten one and I was like holy crap that has twice the memory of my Voodoo 3! And it can also do things like 32-bit textures and S3 Texture Compression so in some ways I was seriously like, lusting after this thing. And in other ways I’m like nah I’m rather happy with my Voodoo 3. I’ve always wanted to go back and take a look at the Stealth III S540 for myself since back then it was only ever at a friend’s house.  But yeah for the $130 that this cost at the time, I me...

It was suppose to revolutionize teaching, I think the Apple company was even involved,  it got a ton of media attention, stories in the local paper, even made the nightly news. In the next two years, I only saw one teacher even turn the machine on and she just used it to play games while the class was taking a test or working on assignment. By my senior year, ever Mac was sitting on a shelf or filing cabinet gathering dust. Hello, and welcome to another episode of The iBook Guy. I’m often criticized and called an Apple fan boy, told that I’m biased or not objective in regarding Apple products, and that’s just not true. In fact, I’m often critical of Apple products, and including Steve Jobs as well, who I do respect but, he most certainly didn’t do everything right. So, I thought I would create a little miniseries showing some of the things that I think Apple has done that are mistakes, and I’m going to start with a big one, all the way back in 1986, which is the Macintosh. Okay, so...