The Computer Chronicles - TV Meets PC (1999)

[@md-1988]

8:12 Low-res RealPlayer videos, now that takes me back

[@matthewstone9360]

Man, the future looked like it was going to be so much cooler than it turned out to be

[@CantankerousDave]

The future is never what it used to be.

[@awesomedez]

thank you for preserving this show

[@courtlaw1]

I wish these guys could have done this show up to our current star date of of 2020 going into 2021.

[@deathmarknetic]

To whoever who preserved and uploaded this whole library: Thank you!

[@TRULYMORTAL]

These are great! Thank you for posting these. Already subscribed! Love your channel!

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

Imagine bookmarking a DVD sequence

[@sternkrieger1950]

I thought Mame McCutchin was Milla Jovovich for a second. 😨

[@HalkerVeil]

Lost my entire digital library when it went under.

[@ChrisHilgenberg]

Realmedia was the solution to web video (resolution was crap, but the file size was ridiculously small compared to other formats at the time) until Akamai and other CDNs were founded, I'm pretty sure Akamai itself was founded in 1999, really forward thinking for what would be the Cloud.

[@BillyBobDingledorf]

In 1999, the year of this video, I think I had 640K DSL. I called much of this postage stamp video. Cool, but far from a TV replacement. For me, this got serious in 2005. For some of you that seems like forever ago. For some it seems like almost today. Reality, I just upgraded to a 5Mbps DSL line and video streaming services were starting to emerge. This was before Netflix streaming. I really wish I could remember the names of the streaming services, but they were bleeding edge and I knew that was the future.

[@darrenc2721]

I remember it well, year 2000 most I could even hope for was 128k dsl, then boom 2001, cable arrived, 500k, 1mb, arrived, every thing changed at this point. All that in a year. Before that in 1999 I was using 56k dial up, as nothing else was available. Was an exciting time.

[@abdulazizalserhani28]

But the idea of watch TV on PC via a TV tuner card didn't catch on, you see, most people at the time already have a TV set with a VHS VCR, or additionally a video game console like PlayStation or Nintendo 64

[@oldtwinsna8347]

It was niche but I remember using a tv tuner card back in those days (and much earlier). It gave a lot better resolution than a vcr could ever hope to achieve. Even today, they are nice devices to have for over the air tv for those who have declared war against cable companies charging so much.

[@KabelkowyJoe]

Talk for yourself, and yeah every kid had own TV and vcr in his bedroom, these TV clips at beginning of youtube got the just from nowhere :)

[@KabelkowyJoe]

And of course idea of videos on pc didn't catch on, youtube mean nothing, except 80% total bandwidth used but it didn't catch on.. nope

[@TRLTheRandomLab]

I used mine a lot to record many hours of TV and distribute it to Limewir--- ahem... i meant... my friends :-)

[@DNS_David]

19:59 Amazon at 90s.

[@BluFlame3712]

07:10 😍

[@johnalbertson79]

That ladies name is MAME, hehehehehehe!

[@infinitecanadian]

A 'play' on words!

[@nr-dx4zz]

Would

[@hippiedave1362]

now we've got KZbin

[@t-cake5440]

The dawn of netflix

[@infinitecanadian]

Mame is beautiful...

[@deedeemerry1295]

but on the inside she is an ugly leftist POS