CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...

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[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

"A CD-R is a pirate's favorite CD" is something that only gets more brilliant the more you think about it.

[@skullmighty372]

Well yes but actualy yes

[@thatrandomdude4143]

It would be more like “cd-arrghhh”

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Yeah, T.C. *almost* went over my head on that one. To be honest though, that is NOT so difficult a thing to do...😊

[@boydmanuel9257]

I’m noticing that the jokes come quickly. Don’t blink.

[@ryanmbrinton]

My favorite thing is how straight-faced he said it. Love it

[@CullenCraft]

This channel is so absurdly technically specific but somehow manages to be completely entertaining and understandable. I still have no idea how you're able to do it!

[@anthonytrepess4441]

storyteller VOICE

[@morphobots]

That plus the fact that he doesn't talk down to the viewer as if we were turnips or something.

[@RogerBarraud]

@@morphobots Bad luck for all the Swedes out there though :'(

[@morphobots]

@@RogerBarraud I would laugh but I don't want to be seen as stereotyping any one.

[@1206549]

This dude checks all the boxes for what I consider to be a channel not worth regularly watching and yet here I am

[@Nolroa]

*Las Quejas, CA.* _“A nice place to complain.”_

[@PacificNatureTV]

this

[@ahreuwu]

AMAZING

[@TylerFurrison]

it's amazing what knowledge of another language can bring about in comedy... Note: see Robin Williams in Mork & Mindy

[@maritoguionyo]

Las Quejas lol

[@dustojnikhummer]

I don't get it?

[@jurgmanx4644]

Had a customer that legit believed that cdrom tray was a cup holder.

[@MaxOakland]

wowwww

[@stephengnb]

On that old-internet site, FunnyJunk.com, there was a link that offered "Free Cup Holder!" When you clicked the link, it would open your CD tray. 😅

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Hey, ANY naval ship can be a minesweeper ONCE...😊

[@aidancommenting]

@@jbird4478 Well, without planting spyware on your PC anyway

[@chuckthetekkie]

Me too. Kept asking me to fix her cup holder which of course I didn't understand, at first.

[@deathm0100]

This dude is criminaly undersubscribed...

[@codycast]

DM Diamond maybe he has people like me that just watch from time to time. I have no need to “subscribe” to every channel I watch.

[@deathm0100]

@@codycast Sure, I also have several channels that I happen to watch constantly, but never subscribed to them. I also understand that his content is kind of niche... If you're a content creator and want a million subs, you have to speak about mindless youtube drama, or steal content from other people. That's just how things are.

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

You're right. I'm going to do my part to correct this error by subscribing immediately.

[@draz9765]

Because people like stupid content creators like PewDiePie

[@mukiex4413]

100% agreement

[@DanielsGameVault]

Only when he got to "scarlet" near the end of the friggin' video did I notice the background color on the monitor changes according to what "book" he talks about :))))

[@stonent]

He should have squeezed in "don't give a damn" somewhere in the scarlet book discussion.

[@plumber1337]

And he ended it with the black book.

[@AdaDenali]

Me too haha

[@21Walls]

Wow. Mentioning the dye on a CD-R dug up some long-forgotten memories of burning discs as a kid in the mid 90s. I'd totally forgotten being interested in how part of the discs would turn darker from the center outwards the more data was burned. I thought that was such an oddly analogue detail on a digital system.

[@InservioLetum]

Making a dark music piracy joke under the guise of CD-Arrrr sounding piratey was bloody priceless xD Don't ever change, my friend. You are one of a kind.

[@GoldSrc_]

"Las quejas" hahahaha Man I love this channel. That's Spanish for "The Complaints" xD

[@MrPikachuTheMadman]

Gordon freemen in the flesh

[@kaidenolsen2867]

@@MrPikachuTheMadman ...Or rather, in the hazard suit.

[@MrPikachuTheMadman]

Nothing A. All I took the liberty of reliving you of your enhancements, most of them were government property after all.

[@raphidae]

I was wondering what that was from. I Googled it, and found a few other uses: Reddit Department of Pedantry 69 Relentless Drive 42069 Los Quejas, CA Anyone know the source of this?

[@brunomoyano8727]

@@coteyera1814 yo argentino

[@TechnologyConnections]

A few quick things: Somehow I never managed to say that ROM stands for Read Only Memory. You probably knew that, but for the sake of completion... As pointed out a few times now, which admittedly I hadn't realized, the -ebibyte suffix is relatively new so saying that a CD is "mislabeling" its capacity as MB when it should be MiB is not strictly true. The definitions have changed since their introduction--but for good reason. The confusion between base 10 and base 2 data classification is annoying and real. Each successive prefix will increase the error between base 2 and base 10 calculation, and since all we really care about is the number of files of X size that we can keep in a given data store, switching to easier-to-understand base-10 prefixes makes sense to me. As you can see in the video, Windows acknowledges that the drive is 2,000,000,000,000 bytes, and yet that becomes 1.81 TB. The problem comes when, if you buy a drive of 1,000 times the capacity, Windows will make it seem like it's not 1,000 times as large. But it is. Other thing: 80min/700MB discs weren't around as early as I had thought. Sure, "not long into the development of the CD" is a flexible statement, but still.

[@SuperSmashDolls]

Also, Apple also dropped binary prefixes and quotes all data sizes in decimal units. If you plug a 2TB drive into a newer Mac it will say it has 2TB of space. Yes, it also quotes the files on that drive as larger than a Windows machine would quote them.

[@ryanmorrow1932]

Wait a minute this post is 23 hours ago?!

[@jjppmm29]

we could have had trinary, you really want to deal with factors of 3 instead of factors of 2! just be happy that whole numbers are alot easier to deal with XD... just going to throw this out there, Computerphile has some pretty good videos that give you a glimpse as to WHY base 2 is the thing and why every thing is square. from what I understand alot of it has to do with rounding and overflow errors and the way you count on a bit level as well the logistical nightmare that comes along with doing it another way... but I am not going to say too much more than that because I can already feel myself oosing with technicalities.

[@acidhelm]

See here for why Explorer calculates storage in TiB but uses TB in the UI: blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20090611-00/?p=17933

[@OolTube02]

The thing is, 80 minute audio-CDs had been out for a while in the early days of CD-R while CD-Rs were still available at only 74 minutes capacity. So sometimes when you were copying an audio-CD you had to sacrifice a track, which sucked.

[@Sam_596]

"Can't help but feel sorry for [Kodak]" Kodak didn't miss the digital photography trend, they were hoping it would die. Film was a huge source of revenue for them, selling for dollars but costing pennies to manufacture. Digital photography removed that revenue stream, so they avoided it

[@Shotblur]

Kodak was at one point the largest manufacturer of digital cameras. They failed for financial reasons.

[@ZaHandle]

Interestingly this was the same company that threatened to literally doxx the US government for their nukes ruining their films

[@Kajifox]

I remember when Mebibytes and Megabytes swapped. Thanks, hard drive manufacturers.

[@Kajifox]

@Morgan Goossen nah. Because it made the HD manufacturers more money. They could say their drives were bigger.

[@kinetkraygunn9432]

@@Kajifox all the articles i saw said the standards body that made the switch blamed salesmen for not being able to do the maths. Quite believable based on the computer sales staff I've met.

[@Kajifox]

@@kinetkraygunn9432 My rules are follow the money, follow the money and follow the money, so pardon my cynicism. I remember the articles being top down rather than bottom up. Marketing people like big numbers.

[@ferwiner2]

Taking into consideration that SI (International System Of Units) has been standarised in 1960, did they ever swap? Or were the units just misused as in case of kilobytes and megabytes it didn't do much of a difference. When we came to thinking in gigabytes and terabytes, the problem was already there striking us more and more with every year of development.

[@jacquelineliu2641]

I don't have solid proof, but I assume that the "bi" in "Mebibyte" signifies "binary". So I don't think it could have ever been swapped. Mis-using Megabytes to mean Mebibytes though, has been a thing ever since MS-DOS.

[@OverSoft]

The -ebibytes suffix is relatively new. Normal kilobytes, megabytes, etc used to be powers of two, but the general public did not understand why 1000 wasn't kilo, but 1024 was. For me, 1 kilobyte is still 1024 bytes.

[@TechnologyConnections]

I realize this is kind of the whole problem, but it's getting increasingly frustrating as time goes on because the error is getting larger with each prefix. Shortly I'm going to pin a comment with better thoughts (because labeling it as "misrepresenting" as I did in the video really isn't fair) but I do think it would be wise to stop equating GiB and TiB with their base-10 equivalencies. If I were to buy a 1 terabyte drive, it holds 1000 times as much data as a 1 gigabyte flash drive (how quaint). But my computer won't say that because it's still using base 2 math, which is rather archaic in this day and age when files are routinely gigabytes large. And of course there's the horrible mixing that has occasionally occurred as in the 1.44 MB floppy. We're dealing with large files now and why Windows is still using base 2 math for data stores is beyond me. You can even see in the screenshot that Windows is like "Yeah this drive is 2,000,000,000,000 bytes, or 1.81 TB". That alone is maddening!

[@kalleguld]

But kilo- mega- and giga-prefixes are much older than computers and bytes, and are used all over engineering and science. Having those prefixes be subtly incompatible for just one unit just leads to all sorts of problems.

[@JohnMcLusky]

Totally agree, using 'ebibytes' just legitimises the storage manufacturers' trick of switching to powers of 10 for storage so it looked like you were getting value for money.

[@Tatsh2DX]

Maxtor was sued over this but they won.

[@GRBtutorials]

Using the SI prefixes is naughty as they represent powers of 10 for all the other units. Imagine you have bags full of different currency notes (say, euros, dollars and pounds). You group them in 1000 units groups, except for one, which you group in 1024 units groups, but marking them with the same label. How is someone supposed to know how you counted them? It's the same problem, except with units instead of currencies.

[@Real_Retrophilia]

"CD-R, a pirate's favorite kind of CD" ... First thought: Because of the pirated software etc. 10 seconds later it drops: "AARRRRR" XD This really is my favorite channel on KZbin! :D Great work!

[@WarpedFlayme]

Straight deadpan. Well done.

[@TonyLambregts]

I caught I right away and got milk up my nose. Well done. Adding to my Dad jokes collection.

[@battra92]

Yes, I simultaneously loved and hated that joke.

[@MDZPNMD]

+ "I think there's more to this hobbit then meets the eye" - Gandalf

[@Real_Retrophilia]

Iykury Definitely ;)

[@hotchalupa]

The little details in your videos, such as the ever changing desktop background color in this one to match the "book color" being discussed, makes them all the more awesome. Thank you, sir!

[@Kiranmario]

what even are the books. when i try to google the names of them they show me everything except what he's talking about.

[@calorion]

He showed the Wikipedia page in an earlier video: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Books

[@VitalVampyr]

1:00 The binary SI prefixes (like Mebi-) are a fairly recent development. The IEC first defined them in 1998, long after CDs were brought to market. Before that people had been using the standard SI prefixes but with binary quantities to measure bytes and bits for about as long as bytes and bits have been measured, and as you've said such usage is still ubiquitous.

[@technoturnovers7072]

also, powers of 10 are seriously NOT useful for measuring digital data, so the IEC really should have not done that and just kept the SI prefixes but with powers of two, it's just way better even if it *technically* doesn't match

[@galibert42]

@@technoturnovers7072 And it's the fault of hard drive manufacturers marketing departments.

[@kameleongreen]

You had me at "CD-ARRR, a pirates favorite kind of CD"

[@buddyclem7328]

Some say that R is a pirate's favorite letter. But alas, no. It be the C.

[@4nd3rzzon]

@@buddyclem7328 I read that with a pirate voice

[@buddyclem7328]

@@4nd3rzzon Aye... am glad ye enjoyed it!

[@markusTegelane]

It's funny because it's true

[@indianscamgamer]

@@markusTegelane pirates use it for copying games,video,and audio all the time

[@turntablist]

The background of the desktop changes with each color you mention 😍😍😍

[@patchrick84]

So does the light on the Mac!

[@Kawa-oneechan]

You can tell it's done in post, cos the icons and windows have shadowy edges.

[@patchrick84]

ﾠKawa Of course.

[@stevenjlovelace]

It took me all the way till the Blue Book to notice.

[@ErebuBat]

I didn’t notice until the scarlet book

[@thomasraven]

I absolutely loved the Minidisc. I worked in sound design for theatre at the time, and the ability to rearrange tracks and re-record individual tracks without re-recording the entire disc was invaluable. I had two MD record decks and two portable players, one of which also acted as a portable digital recorder. It was fantastic hardware with only a limited appeal, but appeal to me it did.

[@OneOfThem]

YES! Someone else recognizes the absolute greatness of Jump Start 3rd grade. I'm 27 and I STILL find enjoyment in this game! Rock on dude!

[@IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT]

Their typing game is how I learned to touch-type. I only played it for one session (during which I learned where to put my hands and how to move my fingers from there) and then just got faster over the years by typing whatever I had to type.

[@Dominator150395]

I grew up with the Jump Start games, and 3rd Grade was the absolute best of the lot. I didn't think anybody else remembered them! Incidentally, they were all pirated copies I got from my uncle, the only one in our family who had a CD burner.

[@kevinhsu5221]

blu jump jump jump start first grade jump jump jump

[@justandhans]

One-of -Them I have 2nd grade. That’s the only Jumpstart I had, but I too still find some nostalgic enjoyment out of it.

[@batsardcat3285]

That was my jammmmmmm

[@RMoribayashi]

When he said CD-R was a pirates favorite kind of CD I thought of all the bootleg movies sold by street vendors and paddled on public transportation. Then it hit me... CD-ARRRGH!

[@buddyclem7328]

"i" but a pirate's first love B the C.

[@kehlerames218]

"Light cannon of fire laser!" Love it.

[@jasper265]

I've got to say, it was really amazing how you managed to say Megabyte and Mebibyte that many times right after one another. There is a bit of historical context I would like to add, though. In the days that the CD-ROM and CD-R standards were created, MiB didn't exist as a unit. So, for the most part, it wasn't a case of mislabeling. At the time, everyone was happily using MB to refer to (2^10)^2 bytes. Sure, it was a little weird that the "kilo" in kilobyte was different from the "kilo" in kilogram, but they were still pretty similar and it wasn't like you would ever have to convert from the one unit to the other. However, then came the harddisk manufacturers which realized that they could produce (10^3)^3 byte hard drives and market them to people who will think they're buying (2^10)^3 byte drives, thus getting more apparent value than they actually spent the resources on producing. They were allowed to do this because they were the ones that pointed to the SI and said "look, we're using the correct definition of a gigabyte"). That's why only in the late 90s, the kiB, MiB, GiB, and their companions were added to the SI so the two systems could be distinguished. So, yeah, technically, someone labeling a MiB as an MB is mislabeling it. On the other hand, it's the people who insisted on using MB for (10^3)^3 bytes who were originally *intentionally* deviating from the commonly accepted meaning of the word...

[@Jaker788]

And that's why I never bother to use the "proper" terminology of gibibyte. It's dumb.

[@D0Samp]

On the other hand, networking stuff has always used SI prefixes for transfer speed. But given the right context, it was not an issue that a megabyte was more than eight times a megabit.

[@TheGldnSldr]

I'm glad someone pointed this out. And I hate that about myself.

[@JohnnyKelly]

@@TheGldnSldr it's okay man, I was glad to see it as well 💜

[@JJschannel255]

Ok

[@konstantinIII]

I live for your subtle video editing jokes! "beige"

[@vwestlife]

I had no idea what "cerc error correction" was until I realized you were actually referring to CRC. This is the first time I've heard anyone try to pronounce that as a word rather than just the letters.

[@rogeriorogerio1007]

No, he was talking about CIRC. Similar but not CRC.

[@vwestlife]

Ah, Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon coding -- or what he usually just called "Reed-Solomon". Taking a few seconds to spell out the acronym would've been helpful.

[@TechnologyConnections]

Yes that was an oversight--I often foolishly assume that everyone will watch these in order and will sometimes fail to reiterate. That said, I do put captions on nearly all of my main channel videos. If there's ever confusion, you can check there.

[@mryan89]

I thought William Shatner was involved somehow.

[@Liam3072]

Thanks by the way, while your english is easy enough to understand even to us foreigners, subtitles still help!

[@atari2600b]

This series is missing something essential...leather elbow pads.

[@NipkowDisk]

I was totally surprised when I found out I could play MP3 CDs in my 1992 Denon® multi-disc player!

[@raydunakin]

When I got my first CD burner it could only go up to 4X speed, and I found out too late that the CDs go bad quickly. I lost a ton of media files that I thought were safely backed up on CDs.

[@stayupthetree]

I got my first CD burner in 1999. My discs still work 22 years later

[@white_mage]

@@stayupthetree it depends on how you store them. i burned a disk with a few important files i need to transfer to computers and since i might need to use those files on older machines i chose the disk instead of the pendrive. anyways, after a few years (5 maybe?) i noticed it has stains on the shiny side but it still works because the stains didn't reach the burned part. i also still have my decade old ps2 games. they've been stored on a drawer for most of their life and they're in perfectly good shape. a few have scratches or so it looks like but they still work just fine.

[@mashrien]

@@white_mage Ironically, it's light and moist/dry cycles (humidititty) that tend to kill CDs, keep them in a case, in a dark dry place and they'll last a good long time. Some of the ultra-cheap brands did use chemicals that would deteriorate over time, basically oxidize and degrade. But the vast majority will last 20+ years. For storage that you need to last even longer, your options are tape drives or classic spinning-disc hard-drives, but even these won't last forever. Unfortunately there's not yet any good *permanent* storage solution for data that needs to be kept for decades, aside from copying it from one drive to a newer drive every couple years and just ensuring you maintain a good working backup of it. Some researchers were working with "burning" the data into glass/crystal, but I don't know if this went anywhere.. Last I heard of it was a magazine like 15-20 years ago.

[@starstudio8402]

@@mashrien I’ve heated something called M-disc could survive for about 1000 years.Technically not permanent but if your using it to save data might as well be cause you will probably die before the M-disc if it is stored right.

[@mashrien]

@@starstudio8402 I've heard of them too, but from wikipedia: According to an accelerated aging test of the French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing at 90 °C and 85% humidity, the DVD+Rs with inorganic recording layer like M-DISCs were still readable after 250 hours, however with an error rate above threshold, and were rated "less than 250 hours" equivalent to competing offers. They mentioned it having to be stored in a specific manner to achieve that kind of longevity.. a typical dvd will probably last 1000 years if stored in a complete vacuum, absent of all light lol I don't think "discs" of any description will be viable for long-term (read: multi-century) archival storage. We really need to physically alter some stable isotope, but that means modifying the molecular structure of a mass of some ultra-stable material, which according to wiki would be *tin,* of all things, as it apparently *DOESN'T* decay.. like at all.. ever lol Anything that's plastic will eventually break down, and anything that's easily deformable would also be a bad choice.. I would've thought vanadium or silicone to be more stable.. but I'm just a nerd that spends too much time reading random crap on the interwebs and absorbing all the astro and particle physics info I can get my peepers hooked on.

[@matt4193]

"[...] and it did neither, BUT ALSO YES"

[@Tonatsi]

Matt this guy does jokes with a straight face and I always end up laughing simply from how sudden they are

[@kcrtxbw.4349]

Flawless execution 😂

[@vicxar1763]

The "Las Quejas" bit was genius

[@laertesl4324]

Indeed, I was going to comment on that too.

[@RubenMartinezCabello]

To the attention to Mr. Al Caraho.

[@ironcito1101]

That part genuinely made me LOL ;-)

[@Nolroa]

Las Quejas, CA. “A nice place to complain.”

[@wraith1977]

I'm always impressed by your extensive research, and excellent production value. Great work!

[@fkaciggs]

I canNOT get enough of your channel, I've been subscribed for about half a year and I've been on a binge the last few days! You're so great at delivering content with clever writing and a very soothing vocal performance.

[@kuzmandi]

I think I remember that older CD players played data tracks like audio (which was pretty loud noise), while newer devices muted them. The fact that more than 74 minutes can be stored on a CD, and this also was used on music albums, was almost a kind of copy protection for a while (at least a motivation to buy the original), because at the beginning of MiniDisc it had only 60 and 74 minutes recording capacity.

[@iwantitpaintedblack]

i remember that the computer cd roms with two buttons (eject and play) could play audio cd's even without a computer (just power) and i hooked them to our car with good old linear regulators to get 5v out of cars 12v battery, since car CD players were very expensive, a time when youtube didint exist for my awesome diy hack to be uploaded

[@iwantitpaintedblack]

@@OctyabrAprelya i think so

[@SirDaShadow]

Las Quejas, CA. [laughs in Spanish]

[@TheRealColBosch]

Hey, there is a Los Banos, CA. I used to live there. :D

[@FinalManaTrigger]

TheRealColBosch And it is a shithole.

[@nemo2498]

Jajajajaja.

[@RufianEmbozado]

It just reminded me of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

[@davidharrison4881]

JA JA JA

[@LuisSanchez-lz1zq]

It's great how you cover each subject so thoroughly. Thanks!

[@cloudskat3r]

“And it did neither... But also yes.”

[@xmlthegreat]

Your channel just brings back so much 90s and early 2000s nostalgia.... Thank you for that!

[@anchorbait6662]

Mebibyte IS a silly word. Thank you TC!

[@sofia.eris.bauhaus]

and measuring binary data in decimal units is a silly practice. :P

[@GRBtutorials]

And? We need a word for 2^20 bytes, and using the SI prefixes is naughty as they represent powers of 10 for all the other units. Imagine you have bags full of different currency notes (say, euros, dollars and pounds). You group them in 1000 units groups, except for one, which you group in 1024 units groups, but marking them with the same label. How is someone supposed to know how you counted them? It's the same problem, except with units instead of currencies.

[@blastum]

And don't get me started on words like "Mega tsunami." Seriously though, if you're looking at data and don't realize it works in powers of two, you're probably an anthropology student.

[@rimmersbryggeri]

@@GRBtutorials I used to think that metric (decimal) numbers were used for transfer unformatted while 1024 kilobyte format was used for formatted. It was a pretty accurate simplification I figured. It's still the same number of bytes even if the formatted number is smaller when you get into orders of magnitude.

[@VoxelPrismatic]

What about a Yotabyte? (Idk how it's spelled, but it's something like it)

[@kobalt_ren01]

13:13 I absolutely LOVE the font on that Photo CD logo.

[@korokshiding]

Wow...when you said Magic Schoolbus games my memory immediately played me some long-forgotten but vivid and very happy cutscenes. Thanks for helping me remember some of my first PC gaming experiences. I just found your channel today via Tom Scott and I've been binging with glee!

[@alejonin]

Love the new format with the bloopers. I always loved that from the 90s shows. Gives it a super retro feel. And that music. My freaking god.

[@uninstaller2860]

8:13 A friend of mine actually did that when he couldn't find his usb stick. Makes me chuckle even to this day, everytime I think back to it

[@Rearmostbean]

Thanks for clearing up some of the mystery of the CD, which is as transformative as it is puzzling for the layman. The presentations conciseness and humor makes this an enjoyable nerdout.

[@christopherkaiser1]

I've been watching your channel for quite a while and I really thoroughly enjoy it. It seems like you put a lot of work into your videos and I wanted to thank you for your time. Keep up the good work.

[@pipinghotpizzarolls]

Had this playing as background/interesting listening while I do paperwork and the mega-meba-back and forth had me feeling like I was having a mental episode 😂

[@allangoncalves695]

"[...]CD-WOs. Whoa!" I laughed só hard on this. Thanks.

[@ismailcalsr2226]

you are the perfect teacher lol, keeping things entertaining while actually being very technical is a crazy good talent! Also i loved this rainbow book saga i want a book series about it

[@michael7738]

Degradation of data on a disc is a very good point and very well placed as a final reminder in the video. Many years ago, my parents got a CD with satellite images of our hometown, pretty much like Google Maps' satellite view. I tried to load that disc some month ago for a bit of nostalgia, but the drive behaved like there was not even a disc inserted. And finally I know the difference on why one disc is re-writable and another is not. Thanks a lot!

[@theskig]

I remember my old friend had one of the first CD-burners and the process was quite a magic trick: he told the mom not to switch on the oven or the vacuum cleaner otherwise the burning process will fail! And often the audio CD's (first compilations from Napster) will had some noises in track (like a saw sound).

[@lewisspring35]

Wait what? Would an oven/vacuum cleaner cause the drive to lose power or something?

[@theskig]

@@lewisspring35 Yes, something like that (it was an old house)

[@ilrompiscatole5414]

Oh god, do you remember the buffer underrun? 😂 If the system couldn’t feed the cd burner with enough data you had to throw the cd in the trash bin. And they used to cost a lot. I remember staring at the buffer percentage as if I was reading a Stephen King novel! Sooooo cringy! 😄

[@volvo09]

I went out and bought a sweet new yamaha 16x burner for my computer and my processor was too slow to real time decode an mp3 directly to CD at that speed and it would slowly eat through the buffer and fail unless I dropped down to 10x or something. I was so disappointed that I spent the extra $150 on speed I could not use unless I was making a data CD.

[@ilrompiscatole5414]

volvo09 😂😂😂 same here except mine was a plextor. A friend of mine used to sing me a song with made up lyrics to rub it into my face 😂 That bas*ard 😂

[@KarlsLabReport]

IlRompiscatole TOTALLY remember - made LOTS of “coasters” that way on an early era burner at work.

[@5roundsrapid263]

I remember the first time I got a burner that wouldn’t underrun. It was wonderful!

[@Sypaka]

It was worse on some machines. With Philips early burning software and windows 98, you couldn't even use the computer while burning, as alt+tab into other programs just froze it in a way to underflow the burner. I don't exactly remember, if that happened on the 233 MHz or 1 GHz PC, back in the day. Both ran on Win98. However, I kept doing that until the PCs became more powerful and Windows XP was brand new.

[@tylerszabo]

I really appreciate that you took something I was thinking of wiki-chaining and made it into a very concise summary.

[@R1ckmister]

I genuinely love this channel. Keep up the awesome work.

[@Altoclarinets]

the MB/MiB, etc. distinction is important but maybe people would be more willing to make it if "mebibyte", "gibibyte", etc. didn't just sound like "megabyte", "gigabyte", etc. in baby talk

[@edcoolidge]

No kidding. I really wish they didn't half-ass the issue by mangling the SI prefixes.

[@Murzac]

And at this point it's really kind of impossible to do anything about it. Since it's already an established controversy, most people aren't going to switch sides just because the names are changed.

[@Altoclarinets]

@John Doe nope it's absolutely real!

[@MattMcIrvin]

I don't recall hearing the "mebibyte" etc. usage until the pseudo-SI prefixes had already been used to mean 1024, 1024^2, etc. for many years (and also fudged commercially by other people using them to literally mean powers of 10). Wikipedia says it was 1998. It was a futile attempt to clean up the confusion after it was firmly entrenched, and the terms are phonetically horrible so nobody uses them.

[@hsavietto]

When you said "you'll almost always certainly not notice it" around 3:02, the video playing glitched slightly and I thought it was proposital, just to prove the point. Turns out it was just a incredible coincidence.

[@tomhsia4354]

It would have been absolutely brilliant if he really put a glitch right after the sentence to prove the point.

[@yolbulucu]

I watch your videos when I feel overwhelmed by work or when I feel like I wont make ends meet this month. don't know why but your videos calms me down a lot. just wanted to thank you for that.

[@nocollarcrypto8851]

You always answer questions Ive had for decades that I never thought to google in the modern era.

[@in1tiate]

"And it did neither. But also, yes!" - Alec, 2018

[@ropersonline]

3:22 "CDs-ROM" both had me in stitches and made me think, actually, you're absolutely right.

[@joshuagreen7966]

thank you for the great consistent informational content I'm always trying to learn I watch ur videos constantly and u are truly uneaqual in great passive aggressive jokes that are perfect for ppl like me and I can't get enough of ur content I wish I could be a patreon supporter but I'm out of work right now dealing with having become disabled just recently thanks for always teaching me something new and up beat informational content

[@evasuser]

one more superb video from Technology Connections , ty m8 and keep uploading.

[@doubledarefan]

More on SACD, please! Including the Red Book (RB) dual layer format that allowed SACDs to be played in RB CD players. More bands and singers should have went that extra mile (or extra kilometer in metric countries), and recorded their albums in SACD format, and had them pressed and released in dual layer format (with no RB only releases). Then, as more and more people ended up with more and more SACDs in their collections, more and more people probably would have thought, "Since a fair amount of CDs in my collection are also SACDs, I'll upgrade to a SACD player so I can enjoy the higher quality sound.".

[@DrewStephens]

As always this explains a lot of things that I knew to be true, but didn't know why. Keep up the good work!

[@gzusrock]

My gosh man you're historical knowledge of technology never ceases to amaze me. I always used to get confused between DVD-R/DVD-RW and DVD+R/DVD+RW. All I knew from experience was that the plus types didn't always work in every DVD player.

[@ynotw57]

Great video. Your channel is fantastic. Always learning new things. Thank you for providing excellent content.

[@zmknox]

I know you touched on it in passing, but I'd be really interested in seeing a more detailed look at Video CD, and potentially how it compared to future video discs (DVD et al). Really enjoyed this video!

[@buddyclem7328]

Techmoan made a great video about VCD.

[@PongoXBongo]

Video CD was utter rubbish. Image quality was VHS grade at best, but often far worse. And good luck finding someone with a VCD player that's not a computer. If it's a computer, just play the original video files off a data disc.

[@RickWhitechest]

B E I G E.

[@nuvaboy]

After today's video, this is the best comment!

[@RandomNullpointer]

A sneaky trick to switch the scene.

[@stayupthetree]

The timing of speaking and Jump Start loading at the right time is brilliant.

[@mikes9939]

Great Video!! Please keep up the good work, your presentations are fun and very informative, very enjoyable.

[@schadenfreudebuddha]

ACTUALLY, the department of pedantry is located in...

[@mclatchyt]

...My ex-girlfriend's bedroom?

[@AshtonSnapp]

/dev/null

[@dylansmith3660]

...the Office of Redundancy Office.

[@TylerFurrison]

@@dylansmith3660 take the like, damn it

[@yoshibros1111]

C:\con\con\

[@SireSquish]

That's an interesting point about the dyes wearing out. I have a few CD's from around 2005 or thereabouts and while several have lost data from atmospheric moisture impingement around the edges, most of them are still completely readable. What's even more unexpected is that the super el-cheapo discs are the ones that are holding out the best, almost universally.

[@paulhuhtala4541]

Very underrated KZbinr. Dude is on his s*** and well researched, production quality is very high, and humor is witty and subtle. Keep doing what you do.

[@robertpaulson2043]

I'm late tot he Tech Connections bandwagon but i'm loving the production value on your videos. Changing the background on the Mac per each book mentioned is a great touch. :)

[@raychang8648]

I think this is by far the best channel on KZbin! I thoroughly enjoyed this video; it answered a lot of questions I've had for a long time. In Taiwan in the very late '90s to maybe 2001, VideoCD (VCD) was the norm as "buying or watching movies at home" wasn't the thing much yet (too many movies on cable TV.) Finally the price of DVDs and players came down and any newly-purchased computers were DVD compatible. There was a time when I often burned 3-inch discs to distribute various things to friends. That lasted until everyone slowly no longer had disc trays and had notebook computers (I guess North Americans still say "laptop", which kind-of annoys me) that had slot-load disc drives. I'd love to hear what you might have to say about 3-inch discs. That is "if" it's worth making a video.....of course. Take care, and thank you so much for this video!

[@buddyclem7328]

I have never seen a laptop, notebook, or net book with a slot type CD/DVD drive. In the US a notebook is a small underpowered laptop, and a laptop is equal to the power of a desktop computer. Any computers here with an optical disc drive can still read 3" CD/DVD or Blu-Ray if that's a thing, and any variants like the short-lived CD-R business card.

[@RedShift5]

A deep dive into SACD would be cool

[@klaushergesheimer8602]

After he talked about Video CD. ;-)

[@negirno]

Its encoding, for sure.

[@kylereese5869]

Yeah I want to know what caused SACD to flop.

[@TechRyze]

@@kylereese5869 Nobody bought it.

[@Utkarsh_A]

i love getting baked and watching your videos man, love your vids

[@Utkarsh_A]

no homo tho

[@hhgttm]

The Mac in this video reminds me of the first computer I ever bought with my own money! Mine was the Performa 6320CD variant... though I can’t make out the exact model in the video! Brings back some very fond memories of 90s multimedia 😀 What a great series! Thank you!

[@panchenima]

Love how the PowerPC background changes color according to the book referenced.

[@StephanS]

I remember when i wanted to make a music album on a cd. The copy company denied my self burned "orange book" CD-R as it has to be in red book format. Years later, i slowly began to realize how important the red book format is for distributing audio cds.

[@AlexKiraly]

This channel needs more subscribers. I mean, the quality of these videos, amazing.

[@KarlsLabReport]

Excellent information - thank you!! Have always wondered about some of what you have clarified.

[@bakonfreek]

>pirate's favorite kind of CD Multiple layer jokes, I see. Multiple layers to the multiple layers statement--how hard can we play the meta today?

[@RBRat3]

Mmm multi-layer DVD 9, PS2 & 360 here we come :D

[@bakonfreek]

I'm honestly excited.

[@buddyclem7328]

They say R is a pirate's favorite letter. But no, it be the C.

[@blunderbus2695]

@@buddyclem7328 A pirate's 10 favourite letters are I I, R, and the seven Cs.

[@buddyclem7328]

@@blunderbus2695 ℹ, I mean aye!

[@ZGryphon]

My favorite CD-R blanks were the Verbatim ones with the blue dye layer. It was just a nice, soothing color, particularly once the disc was burned. I still have a bunch of old mix discs made with those blanks someplace, probably in the box of stuff that came out of my last car that had a CD player when I sold it.

[@SchuylerMartin45]

I had to pull up the "kibibytes vs kilobytes " section to explain the difference between a few engineers and users today. In my experience being a software engineer, this distinction rarely ever matters and I'm so happy I could use this video as an easy explanation!

[@otakuribo]

9:03 We could have called them CD-WORMs! Worms!

[@lallenlowe]

You give me hope for our species.

[@coolizmc]

Thank you for that jump start clip. In k-2 my school had jump start 2nd grade and marble blast loaded on imacs. I had forgotten about these games until a few years ago when I was hit with a nostalgia trip. I was able to locate marble blast, but was completely unable to find jumpstart 2nd grade. Thanks for jogging my memory.

[@ElektrikDunyam]

I had needed these information in 1990s or 2000s very much. I learned the hard way, after loosing a lot of data.

[@daverapp]

"CD-ROM's... or would that be CD's ROM?" I absolutely lost it, am still smiling, and will subscribe as soon as I am not longer laughing uncontrollably

[@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641]

Next time you go to burger king, make sure to order some whoppers junior.

[@youtuuba]

Unless you already did this and I missed it, it might be worthwhile covering CD-R specifications that most people miss. The most stable dyes are available from relatively few brands, plus there are things such as edge sealing and different metalizations. Add things like protecting the top side of the disk to avoid damaging the dye/metalizations layers, and you'd have yourself another video.

[@faerly]

Popping in months late to say you're the first person that shares my unbridled nostalgia for the masterpiece that is Jumpstart Third Grade and for that I commend you

[@OAleathaO]

I like how the background color on the computer screen changes to match the book color of the CD standard he's discussing starting at 8:19 with the orange book. Very subtle how he fades the colors in so you won't notice.

[@bobderbraumeister6919]

The dreamcast format GD-ROM had two books in one disk!

[@SmileyNerd128]

5:08 that timing

[@linksmith1057]

Can I just say I love your bloopers. Antimony cricket! It's quiet, I'm bored at work, and suddenly that comes along and made me laugh in the middle of the office.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

CD-TEXT really is one of the greatest additions to the CD-Digital Audio format and i basically always use it when ever i create an Audio CD and making the most out of it. The VLC Player can read the CD Text and even the added extra text per track (not just the artist, track and Album name). It's nice when you create a mix for someone and hide some personal messages in there for every single track :)

[@dlarge6502]

I always saw cd-text as a gimmick as almost nothing ever supported it

[@mousermind]

"And it did _neither._ *But also yes"*

[@Tokkemon]

"A CD-R, which happens to be a Pirate's favorite type of CD." Wow, the levels of awesome in that quote astound me to no end!

[@mattb9876]

Yet another great video and great info! I remember the early 2000s very well. When buying CD-Rs, I always had problems remembering whether I needed a CD-R+ or a CD-R- (CD-R plus and minus, can't remember if this is the correct nomenclature). Various CD playback devices could play one or the other version, while others could play both. I think I had a Panasonic DVD player and a PS2 back then as my primary playback devices. If you every remake this vid, I'd really love to hear your explanation of the differences between the +R and -R CD-Rs. Thank you!

[@sonictimm]

Thank you for this video! I have been incorrectly referring to a game on a Blue Book CD as "using the Red Book format" for years now, it's nice to clear that up. Several games were on Blue Books, and that's great, because it means you can rip the music, but you don't have to because you can place the game directly into a CD player and the soundtrack plays.

[@klaushergesheimer8602]

Thanks for this video. I think the Video CD also deserves a deeper technical look as it was the first time for MPEG video compression (the grandpa of all modern video compression techniques) on a consumer media. As it was not very popular in the west, they were hugely popular in some asian countries. So please make a video about MPEG, Video CD and CDi as there are no good videos in YT and I would highly appreciate your knowledge about that topic. Thank you.

[@negirno]

Agreed. MPEG-1 should deserve some love, after the countless "VCD is garbage" comments here.

[@lutello3012]

Cinepak!

[@buddyclem7328]

Techmoan did a great video about VCD.