Greetings from japan. My friend had this pc, and we were teenager in 2000. We talked about pc games, it's nice memories.
@Deluxedracula4 ай бұрын
True lords
@camotech1314Ай бұрын
Greetings from England, I love Japan and the amazing technology that comes from there! 😄
@BlobVanDam3 жыл бұрын
Playing a MIDI file through Winamp in Windows 98 on a minidisc PC is peak 2000.
@droppedpasta3 жыл бұрын
It really whips the llama’s ass
@amshermansen3 жыл бұрын
Baaaah Baaaaaaah!
@MaxiMuM14413 жыл бұрын
i still use winamp lol
@mackenziebullied49003 жыл бұрын
@@MaxiMuM1441 Hell yeah brother and i haven't even opened a bank account yet lmao
@mackenziebullied49003 жыл бұрын
@@wazaagbreak-head6039 im 17 dude doin it next month
@metfan4l3 жыл бұрын
Wow man 12-year-old me would've *LOVED* to have that beast back then.
@LeinaDZiur3 жыл бұрын
34-year-old me would love to have it today
@Cyba_IT3 жыл бұрын
@@LeinaDZiur 42-year-old me totally agrees!
@sweetpeachnectar3 жыл бұрын
me too! even more that i've never had a proper stereo system of my own... but with that price tag my parents never would have been able to afford it.
@Di3mondDud33 жыл бұрын
21 year old me wants it today... I rebuilt my families old pc from the year i was born a few back.
@SuperHns3 жыл бұрын
I was 16 in 1999, but yes, Likewise
@W0lfenstrike3 жыл бұрын
Age of Empires 2 without music is EXACTLY how I remember playing it back then, I was kinda shocked when I got the HD remaster and it had MUSIC.
@monsG1653 жыл бұрын
Try the DE edition, it has been revived and there is an ongoing 100k tournament going on now.
@W0lfenstrike3 жыл бұрын
@@monsG165 That's the one I got 😁
@RyuAzuku2 жыл бұрын
Wait what??? Both the base game an Conquer expansion cds I had growing up had music on them
@Cenuzi2 ай бұрын
Man.. you missed out
@balloonfu-sen3 жыл бұрын
I know a introducing MSX. so I'm very happy to introduce you to a Japanese PC and see some great comments on it. As a Japanese, I used to use VAIO and iMac side by side. Also, a small size VAIO has existed since the Windows 98 era. Sony knew the demand. I used it for a while. Sony VAIO for me is just a good memory.
@ImperatorGrausam3 жыл бұрын
He did a video about the MSX, though it's many years old. I love the MSX as well, here where I live (Arabia) it was very popular. Greetings from Dubai.
@namesurname46663 жыл бұрын
vaio+imac ?! so you were rich or a computer enthusiast
@glacierlegion94393 жыл бұрын
@@namesurname4666 japanese, that’s erich
@bbuggediffy3 жыл бұрын
Used one Vaio product, a laptop, and it was amazing.
@bobbyjeffsupremelordofcraz35323 жыл бұрын
Vaio gang! My first PC was a VAIO. PCV-RS502. Still got it running windows XP like a beaut.
@Hellusion3 жыл бұрын
VAIO has one the coolest logo. It represents the analog and digital signal.
@NSJonesy943 жыл бұрын
I've never noticed that, awesome!
@razerow33913 жыл бұрын
In other obvious news: The sky is blue. Water is wet. blah blah blah. And no. The logo is actually shit because it fails what a logo is meant to do. For a start it is to complex. For letters it doesn't work as with words we read the shape so the logo breaks that (road signs aren't all upper case for this reason!) and it doesn't work in nations that don't speak a language formed from Latin. Logic: you mention the fact like it is an easter egg... Erm... The whole point of advertising is that things are explained or explicit. LOL
@flashdancer423 жыл бұрын
@@razerow3391 dude what the fuck? It wasn't that serious. And besides, the logo looks nice to me and it is clearly readable. You are those guys who believe the earth is flat, right?
@IsoMacintosh3 жыл бұрын
@@razerow3391 "For a start it is to complex" Are you one of those ass hats doing over simplified logos like the win 11 four squares? The problem is not on the logo but you not knowing what complex is. "For letters it doesn't work as with words we read the shape so the logo breaks that" It's easy enough to read. "it doesn't work in nations that don't speak a language formed from Latin." So all text based logos are bad? Sure thing buddy.
@TheRoboteer3 жыл бұрын
@@razerow3391 Yikes
@thestig0073 жыл бұрын
Imagine getting this as a kid in the year 2000. Dialing into the internet, installing Diablo II, and just feeling like an absolute boss....
@svenbenglen75993 жыл бұрын
Deus ex on this thing? sounds like a good combination.
@rodrigovaldivia82503 жыл бұрын
God, just thought the same, awesome
@revanjagergaming87143 жыл бұрын
My 10 year old self would have passed out if my dad brought this thing home. I don't know if I would have survived
@Bristecom3 жыл бұрын
@@revanjagergaming8714 I had a VAIO in 1998. My dad was usually cheap so it was especially shocking that he got us a VAIO for our first computer! It was an excellent computer and looked so cool. I remember friends at school always thought I was lying when I said I had a Sony VAIO. We got another customized VAIO in 2003 and a VAIO laptop later. It's a shame Sony no longer makes computers (although not all of their designs were great).
@BadHaddy2 жыл бұрын
Early 2000 would have been the cusp of high speed in my area (Pacific Northwest) and you'd have been a boss with your bad-ass near 1mbit speeds.
@scottsmall98983 жыл бұрын
I still use my MD everyday. I have a home stereo with it, walkman and have a head unit in my car. Everyone that gets in my car always gets a kick out of it. Love not worrying about scratching them as I stack them in my car. What an awesome tower you have shown us. Thank you and keep MD alive.
@babagandu3 жыл бұрын
I use DAT
@CRAPO20113 жыл бұрын
Is you car headunit Sony? jdm cars had them oem would be cool to see any md headunit
@Rodrigo-ks6oc3 жыл бұрын
@@CRAPO2011 Pioneer had a MD headunit..
@CoasterMan13Official2 жыл бұрын
I have a Dell Optiplex in my shed that I haven't used in about a year.
@murphychurch82512 жыл бұрын
Lucky you! Thinking back to my MD walkmen, I could cry that I sold them when they were broken instead of trying to get them fixed. Nobody believes me when I tell them how superior the sound was. Except for one colleague who had a MD unit in his previous car, I know nobody who had a taste of minidisc. Sigh.
@kriscynical2 жыл бұрын
All of those Vaio visuals and sound effects take me back, wow. My dad's radio communications and tower leasing business was THRIVING in the '90s, so even though I wasn't aware of it at the time due to being a kid, my family had money to _burn._ My dad LOVED tech and anything Sony, so in the late '90s everything in our house was Sony including our desktop PC. It wasn't THIS particular model, but it was a big purple Vaio with the same Vaio-unique sounds and wallpapers. I graduated high school in 2003, and the Christmas before I started art school for college (I'm an illustrator now) I got a Sony MiniDisc player that hooked up to the computer for writing and managing music on the discs themselves, and I used the hell out of it in all of my studio classes before replacing it with the last generation of iPod that hit without a color screen. I still have that MiniDisc player up in a closet somewhere with a shit-ton of recorded discs. Watching this channel has opened my eyes to just how much my dad actually spent on the electronics I grew up with. I was so spoiled as a child and didn't even realize it, _wow._ It makes me even more glad that I was a weird kid who treated all of my electronics like they were made of spun glass. 😳
@EposVox2 жыл бұрын
A dream PC back in the day!
@murkser41493 жыл бұрын
Sony has always had such a great sense for design and aesthetic that really speaks to me. From Walkman to CD and DVD players, televisions, computers, game consoles and even smartphones. Timeless, elegant and classy design.
@Tyler-dn8wn3 жыл бұрын
I don’t think so. They were obsessed with the silver color for years. I mean they did make a good product ones made in Japan not the chinisem
@AaronShenghao3 жыл бұрын
Heck they are using the same VAIO trademark on their laptops, not sure if they are still making the PC though.
@murkser41493 жыл бұрын
@@Tyler-dn8wn Speak for yourself. I love silver colour for consumer electronics. My current smartphone is a Sony Xperia 5 in silver/grey.
@Tyler-dn8wn3 жыл бұрын
@@murkser4149 it’s just so distracting I spray painted my old trinitron TVs. For me black is the best color for tv bezels
@ClaudioVarone32993 жыл бұрын
@@Tyler-dn8wn In early 2000s the Silver Grey was a trend. They weren't obsessed with that.
@Chriva3 жыл бұрын
That thing is still relevant in the looks department. Beautiful machines.
@CommodoreFan643 жыл бұрын
I agree just add some more modern internals with AMD hardware for better Linux compatibility, and an HD, and DAB FM Radio tuner, plus HD TV Tuner where you can switch to which ones you need depending on where you live, and a widescreen super fast 1440p(a lot of PC's still struggle with 4K gaming, so a high refresh rate 1440p makes more sense to me) LCD to match.
@enterchannelname75683 жыл бұрын
Though I like the mx2 better, the PCV-70 shown at 1:04 is crazy considering it was released in 1996. That legit looks like a modern pc!
@AltimaNEO3 жыл бұрын
It's old enough that it has that retro cool look without looking too dated like the silver bubbly designs of the time.
@WhatsOnMyShelf3 жыл бұрын
I think you would have to ask many people without a penchant for retro anything to gauge its broad appeal in today's market. They should probably be under 30 as well so they have no reference point.
@MrDuncl3 жыл бұрын
@@WhatsOnMyShelf The problem is they would think of any Desktop or HiFi as retro. 'What does it do that my phone and a Bluetooth Speaker can't ?" Back to looks I loved my Vaio VPC-CA laptop, until I cpmpletely failed to get Windows 10 to run on it (no working drivers and no support from Sony).
@sittingstill35783 жыл бұрын
Previous owner must have been into photography. There were Fujifilm and Canon folders in the applications menu. A man of culture indeed.
@Veezyjung3 жыл бұрын
That editing masterpiece needs to be uploaded to the Blerbs channel so it can be properly appreciated.
@Adam_Lynn2 жыл бұрын
I just love the fact you don't feel the need to have sponsors in your videos. So refreshing not being told to play some crappy PTW mobile game or to buy cheap ear buds. Keep up the great work.
@LGR2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I’m fortunate enough to be in a place where I don’t need sponsors, and I hope to keep it that way as long as I can :)
@Adam_Lynn2 жыл бұрын
@@LGR Fell down a rabbit hole tonight watching your videos. I've just realised i've watched about 85% of your uploads so I guess it's only fair that I head on over to Patreon to help you keep making the great content. \o/
@sentientarugula2884 Жыл бұрын
I just want to say, all of my friends think I'm really weird for watching videos about obscure media formats or vintage PCs, but as long as you keep making high-quality videos like these, there is no way I can stop watching them!@@LGR
@TechTangents3 жыл бұрын
That was a fantastic look at that computer! So cool to see the weird changes to the hardware for the media focus. I bet the MD drive is just connected to a serial or USB port and the output of the sound card with that interface board sending the same kinds of syncro commands you would get on a standalone device that could rip a CD to MD. So it's probably not directly accessible to the computer at all. I had a similar issue with Aureal DOS sound support on my Vaio Slimtop when I was working on that. If yours is similar to mine the drivers it came with suck and if you install another proper 8830 driver it should work. Once I did that I got DOS sound working in the Windows 98 DOX box but I don't think it worked in DOS Mode still.
@johnpetruna88883 жыл бұрын
I just love to see some of my favorite vintage tech guys do "crossover episodes" in the comments.
@Liamtotherescue3 жыл бұрын
I have zero experience of MD data, but would there be any way of 'hacking' the drive to read/write to MD data? Would have been a novel thing to have on a 'mainstream' home PC, kind of like when built in Zip or SuperDrives were a thing
@SuperSmashDolls3 жыл бұрын
@@Liamtotherescue I don't know a lot about the technical internals of MiniDisc or MD Data, but my guess would be that everything aside from the drive mechanism wouldn't be able to read or write those discs. So you'd either have to write your own drive firmware or design your own controller board for it.
@kbhasi3 жыл бұрын
What's a "DOX box"?
@nickwallette62013 жыл бұрын
I was wondering how deeply integrated the drives are with the computer. It’s a bit split-brained assuming the CD/DVD drive is accessible to Windows, and as a stand-alone player. I guess it could be using the SPDIF output to connect to the MD recorder, which would prevent having to do a bunch of data bus arbitration. Assuming the MD is only connected via a transport control link (vs having data access from the computer), that’s still really interesting because there’s an opportunity to see what is being transferred to control the drive. That opens up possibilities for hacking MD appliances that use compatible drive mechanisms, writing new control firmware, and so on. Having full data access would be even cooler, but I doubt that’s the case.
@DewtehDew3 жыл бұрын
You outdid yourself with this one. I mean, all your content is great, but I don’t think anyone could have covered/showed this thing off better. Bravo Clint!
@spetcnaz833 жыл бұрын
Man, Sony knew how to make proper multimedia PCs. My friend owned a Vaio and it came with a built in video capture card and a TV tuner. So many great memories with that thing. I wish today's large OEM's offered multimedia specific PCs.
@Brpwndood2 жыл бұрын
Totally agree, the killer feature for me would be to access multimedia without needing to boot to Windows.
@RobsonRoverRepair2 жыл бұрын
Flat out amazing. I was a media student in 2001, and I did all my coursework on minidisc and zip drive, 100% this was a wet dream system. And with the period upgrades it looks absolutely brilliant.
@s.o.43392 жыл бұрын
I just love all those videos. They take me back to a (seemingly) simpler time. Got my first PC with about 14 years of age. Waited weeks for all the parts to be delivered. Then assembled my glorious 40Mhz 4MB RAM hero. Later upgraded to 8Mb of RAM - what a monster XD. And there were rumours about some guys in school owning a 133MHz giant! This one is about the first I would add to the "new" generation of systems, with WIN98 and all those fancy stuff in it. Still gives me nostalgia vibes. How come I now have a 100times faster system and RAM and 4K 165Hz image ... yet I just can't feel the same moment of awe I had when I first started my fav game X-Wing successfully on that old DOS-Computer after fighting with the 640Kb short memory problem I had with all the games back then. Those were the times.
@Vlad23192 жыл бұрын
It's sort of interesting to think that most modern phones run essentially what most mid-high outputs that was considered top tier in the 90s Of course people in the 90s would say similar comparing computers of the 60s/70s. Their computers would compile most of what advanced computers of the 20 years prior to the 90s and going back another 20 years from the 60s/70s people would just be sorta shocked in general that electricity can compute calculations that it can. After that it'd probably be seen as witch craft xD Yes I know there was the enigma machine from the world wars, but most people didn't understand or know exactly what that was. If memory serves computers during the 50s were sort of simple filing machines. And there's some credit given to a woman mathematician who said that electricity *could* assist mathematicians with complex computations and gave a good idea of how the machine would operate. All I'm saying since the general concept of a modern computer was developed going through 20 year spurts would give people shocks or pause considering how far the technology advanced and how it's shrunk. The same level of power being driven by a smaller computer. Then the shock of a similar sized machine outputting insane amounts of computer power (at least until our current situation where there's not much more we can go with the same 16/64 bit based chips)
@nukedathlonman3 жыл бұрын
Until today, I've only ever seen exactly one - and what a delight it is to see one again and in such nice condition.
@robertschnobert90903 жыл бұрын
I enjoy this video 🌈
@MiniBeas3 жыл бұрын
When you consider all the features the computer has, it takes the place of a lot of other media equipment. Those speakers are sick!
@jasminejohnston63933 жыл бұрын
Hey LGR I bet you didn’t know this: The V and A in the VAIO logo make up an analog wave while the I and O represent a 1 and a 0 representing digital computer code!
@ryandevan27932 жыл бұрын
Clever!
@midimoog2 жыл бұрын
The concept of the analog wave logo was by art designer Mr. Teiyu Goto. He did the sounds as well. The startup tone of the early VAIO was based on the DTMF tone when you press the V-A-I-O buttons on your telephone.
@BetaMaster22 жыл бұрын
pretty sure it stands for "video audio input output (machine)"
@pokeboi54382 жыл бұрын
It’s a Transverse wave, it’s an awesome piece of graphic design
@mingkee272 жыл бұрын
Video Audio I/O (integrated operation)
@SerYil12 жыл бұрын
Was living in Japan for 1 year in late 2000, and minidisc was such a hit there back then. Cars, and stereos at home got minidisc changers even. Such good times. Also Sony used almost exact same remote on flat TV sets at the time.
@ryzentevfik2 жыл бұрын
Aynen dostum. Güzel yıllardı.. 👊🏻
@SerYil12 жыл бұрын
@@ryzentevfik kesinlikle 👊
@MarcoAntonio-df7sl2 жыл бұрын
too bad sony itself sucked in audio quality, however that onkyo unit looks very interesting
@natef152 жыл бұрын
I lived there a few years later and MP3 players were starting to take over but MD players were still very available. I wanted one so bad but didn't get one.
@SerYil12 жыл бұрын
@@natef15 Yeah I suppose wouldn't make sense buying one after that MD era. I had a Sharp model, used for few years and then,I stopped bothering with 1x optical recording speeds on discs after seeing MP3 format taking over.
@bit-map3 жыл бұрын
Been lusting after this series for a while, seriously so cool. Sony's design team was on another level during this time.
@mobilephone40453 жыл бұрын
Ok, this is one of the coolest machines Ive seen in a long time. Also, anyone else annoyed that the ABC karaoke didn't follow the letters properly?
@LGR3 жыл бұрын
Japanese ABC song is in Japanese, go figure :P
@Schwarzorn3 жыл бұрын
Well, considering that LMNOP is in fact more than one letter (it's actually like three or four, I think), it makes sense to break it apart for people learning the alphabet. Especially when they way it's written in Japanese makes most of those letters two syllables each.
@miro47483 жыл бұрын
I need one of these so badly. I just finished sourcing parts for my w98 build, inspired by LGR, and now I absolutely need this pc for the case.
@alpha38363 жыл бұрын
i gave the 69th like, nice
@antonsomalitsky45533 жыл бұрын
I miss all these Sony-style buttons with integrated LED of all shapes so much!
@coolduder10013 жыл бұрын
Ya ever see Teacs glowing buttons?
@WangLaker3 жыл бұрын
Wow! That computer looked insane. It looked like the luxurious and futuristic look of this PC.
@reinatycoon36443 жыл бұрын
This is such a neat computer. It has so much class and character. The Canyon theme midi is somehow very nostalgic.
@renmorpheus3 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful tower- Sony just knows how to design timelessly.
@Giga10233 жыл бұрын
For sure, I also love their software design to. It sounds like you're scrolling through a PS1 rpg game menu if that makes sense. So unique
@michealpersicko95313 жыл бұрын
well most of the time since apparently they couldn't fit in decent cooling with the PS5's design so i'd keep a small fan around back of it on low to facilitate better cooling.
@Lukeno523 жыл бұрын
Sony did come out with some really unusual systems back then - some of their laptops were supremely advanced for the time in terms of features or form factor.
@MrDuncl3 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what they were thinking when they did their Core2 Multimedia PC (which might have been the last) shaped like a Hat Box).
@seshpenguin3 жыл бұрын
Steve Jobs even approached Sony and asked if they wanted to run Mac OS X on their Vaios (which is impressive given Jobs was the one that ended the clones program and wanted total control over every design aspect of the system, so he must've really liked Sony)
@dmhendricks3 жыл бұрын
I owned a couple of their laptops back when I was satisfied with running Windows. They were very nice.
@Damien_N3 жыл бұрын
This is rad, I’d love a modern reinterpretation of a system like this.
@jim_bocho3 жыл бұрын
But why?
@natejennings58843 жыл бұрын
When I was in the U.S. army (11B Infantry 2ID Korea) in 2009 one of the guys in my platoon had a Sony Vaio laptop and the aesthetic was sleek. Didn't have a MiniDisc slot though. Outrageously priced at $1,500 for specs common among $500 laptops, but slick lookin'.
@Damien_N3 жыл бұрын
@@jim_bocho because my computer already is the centre of my hifi setup
@anonymousarmadillo65893 жыл бұрын
@@Damien_N What media would you put n it?
@Cyba_IT3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Of course these days it'd probably just have a Micro SD card reader and amp.
@sypialnia_studio3 жыл бұрын
I never realized how good and obvious it is to combine stereo system with a PC computer. This should have been the norm in the beginning of 21st century!
@teknoman1173 жыл бұрын
5:50 - As someone who was in Japan frequently (before the pandemic), it's still not common to find AC outlets with a grounding lug in Japan. Some places have been retrofitted, but pretty much every hotel I was at (including expensive ones) still don't have them regularly.
@xeong53 жыл бұрын
Because it's not the standard. Usually they are found in Hospitals or around equipment that deals with water.(kitchens/Aircons and washlets)
@erretter3 жыл бұрын
This is a perfect LGR video. I mean honestly. Everything in this video is perfect and HOW TO HELL is this PC so incredible clean inside and out?!
@jstan58023 жыл бұрын
It's probably a collectible even for the previous owner
@boheyo3 жыл бұрын
We found the one Japanese person who didn't smoke in the early 2000s
@Dong_Harvey3 жыл бұрын
That desktop was immaculate
@bradtoddler37653 жыл бұрын
Yeay, another LGR hardware video thing! I love to see these old PCs!
@khairinoa2 жыл бұрын
Wow this setup is such a vibe. That MD player and the orange lighting is just chef's kiss.
@LT_Foxfyre3 жыл бұрын
28:25 I absolutely love how "What in the world" syncs with the music.
@p_mouse86763 жыл бұрын
As an audio engineer, I am actually seriously surprised by the Tripath amp. A company that unfortunately was to far ahead for its time.
@lemn83 жыл бұрын
I was searching for "tripath" in this comments section i was curious if anyone else was recognizing this beautiful piece. I really would like to see a review about hooking up some full range high end speakers and the surprise on his face. I still own the topping tp-21 and tp-60.
@pocketanime3 жыл бұрын
Sony pushed a lot of modern tech standarts we used and use today. Sadly other corporations did not help at all with the standarization of a lot of them
@enwavs3 жыл бұрын
@@lemn8 +1, stopped the video early on at very moment i spot "Tripath" on front panel.
@lemn83 жыл бұрын
@@babagandu 😱
@babagandu3 жыл бұрын
@@lemn8 sorry pal forgive me ... I'm using Denon ...
@skettismyname3 жыл бұрын
I just have to say: I love this channel so much. Some of the best content on all of youtube imo. Thanks man.
@sqeeye31023 жыл бұрын
27:50 is like watching a trainer data set being plugged into an AI editor from 20 years ago. Watching "sup" and "farts" just trail schizophrenically across the screen really spoke to me on an emotional level.
@sonny_the_silly3 жыл бұрын
Same
@pepe66662 жыл бұрын
@@sonny_the_silly sup
@Corpsegrinderr2 жыл бұрын
@@pepe6666 farts
@grenmoyo39683 жыл бұрын
Japan has always worked toward conglomerating everything in a system together. Biggest reason being that much of the Japanese people had limited space, still do. So they kept coming up with these all in one electronics to fulfill multiple roles in a household or apartment.
@nerd25442 жыл бұрын
@@justinianthegreatandnerd6377 what
@nerd25442 жыл бұрын
@@justinianthegreatandnerd6377 very helpful
@thelazyworkersandwich41692 жыл бұрын
Sony attempted a similar thing with the Playstation 3.
@MrFredstt2 жыл бұрын
That really puts things into perspective for us in the US
@renakunisaki2 жыл бұрын
@@thelazyworkersandwich4169 I think that was more just to use it as a "trojan horse" to get Blu-ray players into homes
@midimoog2 жыл бұрын
OpenMG Jukebox was an app that let you download and playback copyrighted music content. Unfortunately, drag-and-drop of PC music files to MiniDisc was not enabled until the newer generation VAIO MXS series which had NetMD drives. Back then in year 2000, downloading digital music was a terribly disputed concept. People had started to share and download copyrighted material on the internet. Record labels were trying to prevent that by massive amount of lawsuits and applying pressure on manufacturers of digital audio players so that none of the devices accept PC music files. OpenMG Jukebox app was Sony's attempt to tackle the issue: It created an encryption "Cocoon" inside the PC and let you download and playback copyrighted material as long as the user stays inside the cocoon. It connected to some online music stores of the time, and let you purchase music files. The music files were also encrypted so that they never leave the cocoon. The NetMD format was designed so that MiniDisc can be an effective part of the encryption cocoon. It could playback encrypted content as well as the conventional non encrypted content. The newer VAIO MXS series had an integrated NetMD drive so it allowed its users to copy PC music files to MiniDisc. This inconvenient encryption trend continued until Apple bluntly broke the rules with their iPod and iTunes which let users freely copy PC music files; that became an immediate hit (naturally). Apparently the record labels forgot to pressurize Apple as they were not seen as a manufacturer of digital audio players ;-)
@tefras143 жыл бұрын
Man once you mentioned that Riva TNT 2 the nostalgia hit me hard. That was my first card that i upgraded myself
@Syntax.error.3 жыл бұрын
This is the most early 2000 M U L T I M E D I A PC I have ever seen.
@GearSeekers3 жыл бұрын
I need this in my life
@Termiic3 жыл бұрын
Don't we all?
@miskonsem3 жыл бұрын
I have this, but not complete set.
@JesseJamesHeadrick3 жыл бұрын
@@miskonsem I'd pay good money for it.
@jeffreyfalcon2433 жыл бұрын
@@miskonsem Same, I’m only missing the monitor. It’s crazy that it has the first Nvidia gpu in it.
@JesseJamesHeadrick3 жыл бұрын
@@miskonsem What do you mean?
@thecodelico2 жыл бұрын
I'm studying minidisc for a design project. This video sure got me even more excited about them! Thank you LGR
@JobeStroud3 жыл бұрын
I was way into these types of systems back in the late 90's. I managed to get ahold of a TV tuner card and started recording TV shows and such. It was connected to our TV and sound system. Found a RF controller card for it and could sit back on the couch and watch recorded shows on my computer. The gold ole days.
@namesurname46663 жыл бұрын
was the sound system a bookshelf one like sony/aiwa or a standard one?
@JobeStroud3 жыл бұрын
@@namesurname4666 It was a Kenwood 5.1 sound system.
@namesurname46663 жыл бұрын
@@JobeStroud how could you get a multichannel source in the late 90s?
@PILMAN2 жыл бұрын
3dfx had a voodoo card that had a tv tuner as well, it was pretty impressive
@JobeStroud2 жыл бұрын
@@PILMAN I am not denying that. I just didn't have the money to spend on voodoo cards.
@FabioGnecco3 жыл бұрын
_it was a bad day, until LGR uploaded a 40 minutes long video_ hehehe thanks a lot !
@WIImotionmasher3 жыл бұрын
I would love to have a modern PC inside that case, with the LCD and volume knob functioning. Really I just want a case that looks like that, and has functional buttons and knobs on it. And an LCD screen that displays... temps or something I dunno.
@DrakeDaraitis3 жыл бұрын
Well you can buy external sensor monitors that fit in a CD bay. Obviously your case needs to be able to hold a CD drive. I never realized that cases now a days didn’t have any bays up front until I upgraded a few months ago.
@rebelliousreptile73363 жыл бұрын
I completly agree that this pc would be a great contendor for doing a sleeper pc (thats where there is new hardware inside but outside looks the same). If the dac is not on the motherboard and instead on the amplifier, I could see this as one of the better audiophile systems.
@atodaso16683 жыл бұрын
My friend had one of these when I was a kid, I was amazed. So much nostalgia in this episode, from the windows boot music to the games.
@1kash72 жыл бұрын
Stop lying. There were 3 tiers, an open price, barely any copies were made, let alone sold, it was only in Japan, and importing stuff like this just didn’t happen as often as now, and it was fucking 3-4 thousand dollars, let alone your friend being able to somehow pay in yen. You are such a dumb liar
@ruadeil_zabelin3 жыл бұрын
Recording from pc audio directly to minidisc would've been amazing back in the day. I used minidisc all the time. I would've loved to be able to record my favorite game music in a time before I had internet.
@privatejoker50622 жыл бұрын
I recorded dozens of concerts with my minidisc models back in the day. this tech defined a large portion of my teenaged identity. I recorded Hum, Deftones, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, The Sea and Cake, Tortoise, Mogwai, Sonic Youth, June of 44, Veruca Salt, Don Caballero, Cursive, Dianogah etc concerts. The recordings are sharp and accurate. All of this is prior to smart phones. Yes, I am old. I still use my minidisc players/recorders to this day. They provide better audio quality than the phone in your hand.
@XilesIONs3 жыл бұрын
The dedication you have so we can nerd on these items is fantastic.
@glaucorocha12813 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a mchine with these functionalities built into an All in one form factor, by Sony, like the AIO. Imagine an all-in-one computer with built in MD, DVD and floppy drives. '00s vibe at its best
@SUCRA3 жыл бұрын
Sony Vaios are the most unique PCs! I just showcased my vaio all-in-one, the PCV-W20. Love the Vaios and their quirkiness! Awesome seeing that Vaio came with a decent video card, not the case with mine.
@Tiagotaf3 жыл бұрын
It's so pretty! I love the computer design of these Vaios from back then.
@jantube3582 жыл бұрын
This thing must have been super in 2000! It still has more multimedia options than today's PCs! Today's PCs can do almost nothing without internet and almost always need an amp for speakers and headphones.
@robell19813 жыл бұрын
The cookie monster, "clear their cookies" quip sent me, Clint. I salute you!
@AboveEmAllProduction3 жыл бұрын
Wasn't That funny..
@robell19813 жыл бұрын
@@AboveEmAllProduction We're all allowed to have our own opinions, go troll somewhere else.
@rdxdt3 жыл бұрын
man those VAIO desktops looks amazing.
@maleq3 жыл бұрын
28:54 my god this computer came with SAPARi .. wish it was still installed there but ay, at least the shortcuts are still there!
@kennyj43663 жыл бұрын
Frankly I was impressed. Considering your playing these games on a twenty one year old system lol. Thank you for the walk through 1999-2001. 👍
@nothingtoseehere1773 жыл бұрын
24:00 I wholeheartedly expected you to sing along; the buildup was so great lol
@jcnbw013 жыл бұрын
Of all the cool retro tech you've reviewed and featured on your channel over the years...i've never wanted anything more than this entire setup. Words cannot describe just how much i want this in my life. I was in college when the minidisc format came out, and I was an early adopter. Loved it, and stuck with it even as mp3 players started dominating the scene.
@joeblankenship3773 жыл бұрын
Tell me I'm not the only grown man that went "awww" at the space bar. Also, this is super cool. Makes me wish my amp had some PC capabilities built in.
@subdivisionalmass3 жыл бұрын
When you hover over an icon at 23:01, it reminds me of the sound made when you confirm a setting or menu item from the first Budokai.
@metalmat36512 жыл бұрын
This computer is amazing and would've blown me away had I had a chance to mess around with one back in 2000.
@WhatAHorribleNight11 ай бұрын
I worked at a Best Buy-style electronics store circa 2005-2009. Sony Vaios were far and away the most stylish PCs/laptops on the average consumer market at the time, probably the only ones that were genuinely aesthetically pleasing.
@saxman1123 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness, what a great video this was! I couldn't stop laughing at the slapdash editing that the movie editor put together with not only randomly adding in music that you didn't, but then also putting the words "farts" and "sup" all over the place! And man, that karaoke program though; would have loved to have something like that back then!
@erickarlsson62633 жыл бұрын
Ohh my god! This machine just screams the year 2000!
@primeribz60393 жыл бұрын
I love how you talk about these products when they were new. It always gives me the feeling, like youre a kid a christmas.
@InfinityDsbm3 жыл бұрын
Can you please proof read your comment and amend as applicable. Once done, reply and I will delete this message.
@icedream39873 жыл бұрын
The Winamp visualization said "Sexy Scrolling Voice..." in the taskbar when LGR opened it at 18:51 and I can't for the life of me figure out whether that's just a funny mistranslation or intentional lol
@BlazeHedgehog3 жыл бұрын
I had a Vaio RX580 back in the day, and I definitely remembering it having similar audio weirdness that you were getting here. It was very finicky with older games. I feel like I figured out a way to work around it, but it was so long ago I'm totally blanking on what it would be.
@DavisMakesGames3 жыл бұрын
I would love to have one of those with a Ryzen or i5 in it for a media PC! Beautiful case design and fantastic hardware.
@ColpoRosso3 жыл бұрын
Agree
@razerow33913 жыл бұрын
Why would it need a ryzen or i5? I mean... Why? LOL. People are so weird... That like the PC version of Jeremy Clarkson wanting to put a V8 with everything even when it makes zero sense...
@DavisMakesGames3 жыл бұрын
@@razerow3391 Well the idea is it would be the Sony media features and the cool case but with more modern hardware...
@tomyyoung26243 жыл бұрын
Yes only is it a Windows 98 desktop computer,
@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome3 жыл бұрын
@@tomyyoung2624 But you're totally missing the point lol.
@SudoYETI3 жыл бұрын
I love how WINAMP still looks the same as it always has.
@Cypherdude13 жыл бұрын
I'm using Winamp 5.623 right now. It has The Matrix skin with Morpheus, Trinity and Neo.
@christiangonzales74293 жыл бұрын
The media player time forgot. I wonder what the new, updated Winamp will look like when it is released.
@willjenkins41953 жыл бұрын
Winamp 2.3 had a plug in to do different flash patterns with the cap lock nun lock and scroll lock lights on the keyboard, RGB 20 years before RGB was cool 🤣
@metalvideos19613 жыл бұрын
i still use winamp. and its still looks the same. best music player ever.
@UberLoaf3 жыл бұрын
You have to send this to Techmoan. This would be perfect for him
@Ford.Prefect3 жыл бұрын
He'd love it
@emmarossignol44453 жыл бұрын
Would could get more Techmoan karaoke footage!
@retroanimearchives38023 жыл бұрын
Ikr, since he is more intrested in these types of things hehe
@r.l.royalljr.39053 жыл бұрын
He'll be up all night to get lucky.
@jothain3 жыл бұрын
Oh this is so good thought. He's probably the person in YT that would appreciate this hardware most.
@nickfliesplaces10 ай бұрын
Man I was never a VAIO guy but all those slots makes me want one sheerly for the amount of media it can take
@cyngaethlestan88593 жыл бұрын
This looks like a great living room / entertainment PC. The included minidisc makes sense as CDs were VERY expensive I Japan. Albums were commonly rented and copied to MD at home.
@jerther_3 жыл бұрын
For the performance hiccups in Q2, have you tried checking DMA in the hard drive properties in the device manager? It usually helps a lot.
@mullaoslo3 жыл бұрын
Seeing winamp pop up gave me WAAAAY to much joy 🤣
@tomyyoung26243 жыл бұрын
yes longer exits
@geoffreyreuther52603 жыл бұрын
Somewhere, the llamas are nervous.
@pvtpain66k3 жыл бұрын
28:38 that was wonderful, I legitimately loled at the chaos & farts, A+.
@vnaum3 жыл бұрын
That smooth jazz was a perfect fit for LGR video too!
@RudyMemes3 жыл бұрын
I would love it if he uploaded that gem to the blerbs channel
@edwardbell87713 жыл бұрын
I used mover maker on XP more then I should that was madness 😂😂
@zackdl3 жыл бұрын
What an awesome piece of engineering. Super futuristic for something from 2000....
@GELTONZ3 жыл бұрын
As a VAIO owner I just wanna say they're great until they break. I bought one specifically for video capture and editing and when the power supply blew on it, it turned out it used a special proprietary power supply that was smaller than normal, a normal one won't fit in the case. Then I found out the Capture Card is hyper proprietary as it encodes to MPEG-2 inside the device before it even touched the PC. This means it *ONLY* works with the proprietary software so if you lost that, you're SOL. No homebrew solution worked at all because nothing new how to handle a pre-encoded MPEG-2 video stream. So basically, it's a Sony.
@overnightdelivery Жыл бұрын
That's why I usually avoid Sony anything. Cameras especially. The extra money would be worth it for the style. But Sony's greed always ruins it.
@dhgodzilla13 жыл бұрын
You have to copy the Audio Files from Age of Empires II to the Game Folder sometimes
@TalonLardner3 жыл бұрын
That combined modem/PCMIA card would not have gone over well back in my childhood. Thunderstorms and old phone lines meant that we got a fried modem every other year.
@theannoyedmrfloyd39983 жыл бұрын
If you unplugged the phone line from the computer from the wall when it wasn't in use like every other normal user did, you wouldn't have fried modem cards.
@TalonLardner3 жыл бұрын
@@theannoyedmrfloyd3998 Good advice 25 years late, my friend! I was just a kid at the time so it didn't come to mind, and my folks weren't the most tech savvy.
@NatiiixLP3 жыл бұрын
What an absolute blast of nostalgia once again! This would have been a crazy beast back then, with all the fun media hardware included. In a typical Japanese fashion, it's got far more than anyone would have ever dared to use, but it's the thought that counts, right?
@snailkira2 жыл бұрын
17:43 音楽だって、バイオにまかせてくれ means "Leave music to the Vaio". No kidding. You wouldn't need a separate hi-fi if you had this (minus cassette). It makes sense that this would do well in Japan but I'm sure that urban apartment-dwelling Americans would have really appreciated something like this
@VanBourner3 жыл бұрын
Vaios are literally why so many manufacturers went with silver and blue theme in early 2000s. Just like apple made laptop manufacturers use aluminium and IBM made sure that black is the color of a modern laptop, vaio made sure that desktops of early 2000s were silver and full of transparent blue LED fans.
@cppctek3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed seeing this and especially unreal tournament played on it! I love seeing this game more than any of the others.
@UncleMikeRetro3 жыл бұрын
Vaios were unobtainable back then. So... they were kinda made of Unobtainium? 😋
@SoCalFreelance2 жыл бұрын
3:58 Nichicon caps -- nice high end audio components inside a PC which explains the price
@GMMilambar3 жыл бұрын
Minidisc was such an underrated format imo. I still have my NetMD recorder, and its still functional. I never knew that there were PC's with minidisc built in. Very cool.
@intravinylCB3 жыл бұрын
I loved my MD Walkman! I enjoyed naming all my music just to have it displayed on the Player 😀
@Agri4583 жыл бұрын
You would of been the coolest kid of the street when you got this!
@Agri4583 жыл бұрын
@@iamatlantis1 definitely!
@Agri4583 жыл бұрын
@yefdafad are you ok
@jbfarley3 жыл бұрын
@@Agri458 God, that went right over your head, dude. "Must of" is not a thing
@Agri4583 жыл бұрын
@@jbfarley oh god sorry lol
@MondySpartan3 жыл бұрын
A modern PC with features similar to these and high end, all-purpose specs would make it the ultimate multimedia gaming PC. I wonder if anyone still uses the term multimedia to this day.
@JosephArata3 жыл бұрын
Multimedia PCs still exist, it's just less common in the consumer builder market, and non-existent in the prebuilt market. Think living room toaster box PC capable of playing/decoding Blu-rays, Streaming 4k media with 0 stutter unlike the built in smart tv garbage, and can game 1080p at 60 fps with most games. I'd call that a Multimedia PC, not just a gaming pc or console replacement.
@adityasanthanam19453 жыл бұрын
What a nice computer, especially with the audio features and the useful MiniDisc drive. I have the same Sony LCD monitor and a Sony Vaio PCV-RX752 (also in silver and blue). It was my first computer. It is a great XP computer that still works well, has a unique design (that still looks futuristic), and came with a lot of software, especially for music and video. The back of it looks similar to the back of the one in the video, and even the labels for the ports have the same design. Mine does not have a MiniDisc drive or many of the audio features on the one in the video, but it does have a memory stick drive, a DVD/CD drive, a separate CD drive, and a floppy drive, and iLink ports.
@RevoltecZocker2 жыл бұрын
Its interesting to see a Tripath / Class T amplifier actually advertised on an product. Those were quite forgotten and later "rediscovered" in the Lepai TA2020 t-amp hype for their great sond at ultra low power use.
@NickBouwhuis3 жыл бұрын
Wow that is a neat system! Very curious as to how the MD player works in Windows. I also got nostalgic instantly with Need for Speed. I remember getting NFS4 for my birthday along with a Microsoft steering wheel and pedals. Had a lot of fun playing this on my pentium 4.
@mCreecher913 жыл бұрын
Vaio we’re always super cool to me as a kid. Like Clint said, the designs really stood out and they seemed super high-end and fancy. Which they were. The price tags also added to the ultra unattainable mystique. Sony knows what they’re doing and they are always way ahead of the curve, especially back in the day.
@Madmetalmaniac420692 жыл бұрын
I’d argue a lot moreso back in the day. Now they’re a little more reserved as far as pushing premium systems, presumably because they’re in a bit of a worse financial spot.
@mCreecher912 жыл бұрын
@@Madmetalmaniac42069 I would agree with that. I think there was also more room to innovate. They had a good sense of what people would be interested in as far as products and also design. Plus they were known for top quality. Now a days, Sony kind of blends in to the rest of the tech landscape in my opinion and when they do something innovative like the design of the PS5, it’s polarizing (like seemingly everything these days. I don’t love the design but it’s fine).
@straightpipediesel3 жыл бұрын
The worst part of these computers was that everything worked exactly on the OS that it came with. If you tried to upgrade the OS, you basically lost all the features. This was due to a combination Microsoft's driver interfaces being OS specific, the manufacturers using undocumented APIs, and manufacturers simply not caring.
@gamingguy9006 Жыл бұрын
All OSes have this
@jackieAZ Жыл бұрын
It all comes back to that: programmers, document your damn code!!