The Odd History of the SD Logo

[@R_C420]

I tell people it stands for Square Drive. When they don't believe me I tell them CD stands for Circle Drive.

[@LocoMe4u]

Your username makes this comment about 25% better

[@louiswouters71]

Haha, thats a nice comeback

[@jemileedabear9630]

You're a Dick lol A Major one

[@andreasrs69]

S U P E R D O P E

[@atlys258]

@@LocoMe4u Can confirm.

[@philsowers]

Love that dead eyed stare when swapping the VHS tape. 😂

[@KylesDigitalLab]

I didn't like that shot, IMO

[@Toothily]

needed a *mic drop*

[@kwastek]

yeah. reminds me of Vinheteiro on YT.

[@bitodd]

I want to do everything in life as confidently as that tape transfer.

[@mjc0961]

That was brilliant.

[@TweenkPL]

1:55 "Pitchfork of knowledge" 10/10

[@arenalife]

Technically, that's a Trident of knowledge

[@mattb4721]

@@arenalife Found the Radio4 listener....

[@sadmac356]

Or the "pitchfork/trident of Why Can't I Ever Insert it Correctly the First Time?"

[@Appleboy78165]

That's what I'm calling the USB logo from now on lol

[@ecidragon]

ASU has a potchfork of knowledge also.

[@Lanceyyy]

4:54 can we just take time to acknowledge the fact that he put a suit on for the main purpose of a 3 second clip?

[@dst0815]

No

[@Sqoou_Too]

I'm not yet convinced he wears pants in any of these videos...

[@davidmcguire6043]

You mean a tuxedo? It's different than a suit.

[@DaedalEVE]

That’s not a suit, it’s a tux.

[@dstinnettmusic]

@@Sqoou_Too that's the end of his video series. We find out this was a weird sex thing and that he's been naked this whole time.

[@kenpanderz672]

LaserDisc disks look like intentionally oversized novelty items.

[@Jedai1555]

Lol

[@sovietrussia3632]

Discs*

[@cocok.291]

I was thinking the same it looks like I want to make it into a wall clock

[@drewgehringer7813]

I mean, you can see why exactly they called the Compact Disc 'compact', compared to the only other optical disc at the time...

[@dani.munoz.a23]

John O. To me it looks more like someone tried to make a record, but a disk at the same time

[@Xilog]

You put so much effort into those sources, damn. I'm convinced SD cards aren't discs now.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

That's exactly what "they" want you to think! 😱

[@sirBrouwer]

@@JaredConnell because they make them at a beach. SAND In SKy

[@herbderbler1585]

@@JaredConnell they meant to call it Sans Disc but as usual the marketing dept. got involved and the message was muddied.

[@joonasfi]

That's just what the gubernment wants you to think, man

[@godschild5587]

how about floppy disks?

[@fionathegayesttiefling9867]

I didn't realize the SD in SD card didn't stand for SanDisk until this very moment. I blame the fact that like 90% of the SD cards I've seen were SanDisk

[@rich1051414]

The D in sandisk seems like trademark infringement to me.

[@andymadden8183]

SD - Secure Digital.

[@MarkusAtUMa]

it's not SanDisk it's SanDensity!

[@Freeknickers24]

San disk means with out a fucking disk

[@Freeknickers24]

@@rich1051414 is that infringement inside you?

[@winterwatson6437]

“Retro, futuristic, and wholesome” could be the tag line for this channel

[@DragonDoomLord]

The bit at 8:16 was really well executed x3 The timing and the slight camera change + difference in poses and expressions was excellently done.

[@JPLToyExperience]

They use some Disney magic on their DVD manufacturing process

[@Loulexismus]

I think this was your funniest video till now! Laughed out loud multiple times.

[@DEMENTO01]

Agreed

[@QuadroNVS]

I laugh-farted at the end lmao!!!

[@shinypb]

Yeah, that VHS bit :joy:

[@samial-terkawihasib335]

Dunno. Felt the comedy bits were a bit too forced and on the nose. I preferred when it was more subtle. I'd rather that he doesn't slip into more slapstick humor.

[@cantordavid613]

I'm loving the *crickets* cutaways, lol

[@oisiaa]

Don't ever let the credits music die!

Go and get it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWrPfn6CpdKFi8k

[@tomhsia4354]

It's aggressively, exceptionally, incomprehensively, disturbingly, excruciatingly, and terrifyingly smooth, as well as being gloriously tacky.

[@crazyivan030983]

Sooooo 90s :)

[@OAleathaO]

@ --> Thank you *_so much_* for the link! I love this music. Now I just need to see if I can find the sheet music.

[@Bacopa68]

Add a lot of compression to that music and I would start to expect to hear "Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line for the next available representative."

[@cjxgraphics]

Ever tried to rip a Disney DVD? They don't follow the standard format of DVD's. Instead of a bunch of short video clips and the main feature, the program will pull up what it thinks are 99 versions of the full length feature film. It looks like Disney tried to create its own DRM, which was quickly bypassed by certain programmers.

[@AndyMitchellUK26]

That's Playlist Obfuscation. A lot of Blu-ray discs do the same and contain multiple playlists to try and trick people. For example, you'll see groups release a film and shortly after you'll get a REPACK, RERIP or even PROPER release. This is due to them not actually watching the rip to verify the film is correct and complete. It can go as far as to play the film for the correct length too, it will just mix the chapters up.

[@tamaramacadam8650]

Tragically, it means that my sister believes our DVD player is broken (it ain't!) despite the fact that it's entirely the fault of Disney. Oh no, they can do no wrong.

[@Foxdie1138]

MMMMMMMCD is what ima say now before dinner

[@aidancommenting]

Better eat your GBs 😏

[@jacquelineliu2641]

Reminds me of steamed hams

[@Fermifire]

The Bluetooth symbol and lore behind it is my favorite.

[@neilbain8736]

In the UK the Bluetooth symbol and MoT vehicle test centre logos are almost the same. MoT is Ministry of Transport and the logo must be over 50 years old now.

[@wesleymays1931]

IIRC it's something to do with Nordic mythology.

[@somehandle]

@@wesleymays1931 Almost, it's named after Harald Blåtand ('Blåtand' literally meaning 'Bluetooth') who was not mythological, but an actual Norse king :) It's said to be named after him because Bluetooth technology unites devices the same way Harald Bluetooth united viking tribes back then

[@daredaemon8878]

@@somehandle Also the logo for bluetooth is the runes for H and B superimposed.

[@somehandle]

@@daredaemon8878 Right, exactly

[@lollandster]

I like your sporadic rants.

[@linyingyen]

Yeah, very Lewis Black

[@SystemBD]

The way he cuts the recording when he's about to go into a murderous rAmPaGE... and then resumes it with _a smile on his face_, is specially endearing. I simply don't want to know if any animals (including humans) were hurt during that time interval.

[@lollandster]

@RetroSupporter93 That would be Bill Gates, 1981 (although not confirmed and disputed by Bill Gates himself)

[@jameswyatt1304]

And almost always about something that's irked me for ages! "You got this amazing standard right for EVERYTHING BUT THIS IDIOTIC FACET! Was someone on the committee just trading votes for other aspects if they got this ONE IDIOTIC THING added? Honestly, if they've got a 90/10 feature/bug ratio, they're usually "perfect enough", but some things bug the heck out of us...

[@PhirePhlame]

*_(MOVES A TAPE FROM ONE VCR TO THE OTHER WITH A FIERCE DEADPAN)_*

[@951258tike22]

"or mmmmCD" lmao the subtle humor is what gets me on your channel, keep up the great, nerdy work!

[@nixel1324]

4:48 when I need to cite my sources for a school essay.

[@shanedrisner9499]

"SD stands for 'Secure Digital' but I prefer to think of it as: 'Super Dope." Bro I really love you and your content... You're a beast :)

[@benalias5766]

IIRC Disney (and perhaps some other publishers) don't/can't use the official DVD logo because they use specification-breaking copy protection techniques.

[@JuddMan03]

Which probably don't work anyway so what's the point?

[@ddnava96]

@@JuddMan03. Having an excuse to not pay royalties

[@theblackwidower]

This feels like it could be a Technology Connections episode.

[@duncanward6226]

I wonder if Disney's lack of official DVD logo is because of some non-standard "enhancement" to the format like DRM to stop it reading in PCs. I remember audio CDs that didn't have the usual logo because they didn't stick to the red book standard.

[@TechnologyConnections]

Ooh, I hadn't considered that possibility! I'm not aware of any specific anti-DRM action from Disney's DVDs so my gut tells me that's probably not the reason, but maybe there is something non-standard about their implementation or something like that.

[@lohphat]

Occam’s Razor. Disney is notoriously cheap. If they can get away with not paying someone, they’ll do it. E.g. the new Electrical Parade music was re-recorded by an unnamed studio musician to avoid paying royalties to Don Dorsey. Vendors to the parks will tell you Disney has a long reputation for paying invoices late because they can, they’re Disney. Not printing the DVD logo to avoid paying the license fee is par for the course. There must be enough difference to warrant not using the logo.

[@peteranderson037]

@@lohphat They also love DRM so my guess is both.

[@MinoTheShow]

Technology Connections I do know from my experience playing Disney DVDs in a computer that many contain 99 titles in the navigation structure with the movie’s order jumbled around on 98 of them, presumably to confuse ripping programs and older non-proprietary software DVD players (of course VLC and Handbrake can pick the right one by themselves just fine, because the developers of those apps wrote in a way to handle it)

[@mukrifachri]

While looking for "Buena Vista Home Entertainment", it appears the same thing went with their Blu-ray releases; in fact it might be possible that this had extended all the way back onto the VHS era, but I'm not sure...

[@louist103]

Every conference room when naming a product. Boss:”what is it not” Workers: “a disk” Boss:”call it that”

[@r0bw00d]

It _is_ a disk; it's just not a disc.

[@Vednier]

Main problem with SD is legacy devices. For example today its started to be kinda hard to get lower capacity cards for older devices. Like SD card smaller then 32 Gb is kinda rare now and all bigger is SDXC cards which is not compatible SDHC hosts. I dont even telling about SD hosts now... And considering fact that 32GB limit for SDHC was purely artificial...

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

As you said, the limit was purely artificial, there's no protocol difference between SDXC and SDHC cards, so an SDHC host that predates SDXC should have no problem with SDXC cards. It just needs to be reformatted into FAT32 (or any other filesystem that the device supports) since SDXC cards are formatted as exFAT by default.

[@ryans413]

Kuribo Kutsu I have a 128GB SD card

[@Mikemk_]

Reformating SDXC to SDHC is actually common in 3DS SD cards. And even if the old filesystem couldn't cover the whole disk, you can always shrink the partition to the right size.

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

@@Mikemk_ "Reformating SDXC to SDHC" is a nonsensical phrase, since SDXC vs SDHC is not determined by any data stored on the card (including the formatting) but purely by the card capacity. You probably mean reformatting to FAT32 (replacing the default of exFAT). Note btw that although Windows refuses to format partitions >32GB as FAT32, this is just an artificial limit in the formatter (to encourage use of alternative filesystems such as NTFS). Windows will happily support FAT32 filesysetems up to 2TB if you create them using third party tools, and most devices probably will too. Nothing magical happens at 32GB, and there's no reason for any software to reject larger sizes unless a deliberate check was put in for that limit (as in the case of the FAT32 formatter in Windows).

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

@@ravensshade Yeah a 4GB limit I can believe easily, especially for some crappy FAT32 implementation in a bootloader or something like that. I guess using anything bigger than 32-bit integers was just too much hassle ;-)

[@Lttlemoi]

And then there is SDIO, an extension to the SD specification for interfacing peripherals with a host controller as if they are an SD card.

[@TheTomtaru]

You thought it was a storage media... but is was me! DIO!

[@revenevan11]

Hmm, could be fun for me to work with that as an arduino project of some sort lol.

[@Hyratel]

Of which both are operating on the SPI (clocked duplex data bus) standard, so if SD can be considered a form factor standard for SPI flash media, SDIO is just re-extending it to include tbe full gamut of SPI functionality

[@kepstin]

@@Hyratel This is tricky. While SD cards are required to be able to operate using the SPI interface, it's just a fallback mode with a single-bit interface and can't do higher than ~10MB/s. Both SD cards - and cards using newer versions of the SDIO specs - support faster transfers by switching to the proprietary "SD" protocol instead. Interestingly, in the MMC standard, SPI mode was optional - with SD cards it became required.

[@TheMechanicalPhilosopher]

Silliness Greatly Appreciated

[@marbyyy7810]

Obvs cuz it was originally “sompact disc”

[@ff_crafter]

Do you have nintendo switch?

[@dstinnettmusic]

🅱️ompact 🅱️isc

[@Sammie1053]

Smol Databoi

[@ddnava96]

"Solid Disc"

[@ThatSkynyrdKid70]

I feel like your sanity is slowly slipping away, thus turning your videos more into psychological horror

[@TechnologyConnections]

Have you seen my Twitter? It's even worse!

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

@@TechnologyConnections Especially at 3 a.m., right?

[@PH96Official]

@@TechnologyConnections That tweet that did not need to exist still kills me.

[@JacGoudsmit]

For a second there, I thought it said "Psychological Power". And now I think about it, that's what it SHOULD say.

[@MrGeocidal]

His powers are increasing as he assimilates more technology

[@quentk8886]

Your channel teaches me about things I didn't know I needed to know about.

[@Larry]

Microsoft purposely made the original Xbox incompatible with DVD discs, as they would have to charge more for the console in order to be allowed to have the logo on the machine and box. So they added it to an optional dongle instead.

[@RobertJBareIII]

Wasn't that specifically for watching dvd movies? Weren't game disks also DVDs?

[@Psythik]

@@RobertJBareIII DVD movies are designed so that they'll only work in a player that has paid the licensing fees. This only applies to films on DVD, games on DVD don't need any sort of license. So basically, Microsoft chose not to license the XBOX to make the console cheaper, and instead sold a separate dongle with the DVD license built in, so that if you would only have to spend the money if you actually cared about watching movies on your game console. Basically, the dongle contained the license.

[@wesleymays1931]

Wait that's about actually lowering costs for consumers who don't use it to watch DVDs? I would've expected a Microsoft thing, where they remove a feature without lowering the price, then make you buy that feature back, now for only $19.99!

[@DeeSnow97]

@@wesleymays1931 the copyright industry is way greedier than even Ballmer-era Microsoft

[@unitrader403]

@@Psythik actually it is basically an usb drive which contained the dvd player app (and with it the liense)

[@qeijkak]

Love how you've been weaving more humor in your vids. Its so good with your style and never detracts from the information. Keep making it funny!

[@spaztor7723]

Pitchfork of knoledge lol

[@Gersberms]

I thought that was brilliant, can't find that term anywhere with Google!

[@majortom4543]

Pitchfork of Geometry is the real name. If you havent seen, there is a circle, a triangle and a square in each end so thats why its called this way

[@marlonmontelhiggins8570]

I wanted to like your comment, but it had 69 likes...

[@elli6220]

Are you going to do a video on DVD+R vs DVD-R? I think a lot of us would really like it.

[@Kippykip]

I'd like that actually, despite the amount of CDs/DVDs I've burned in my life I've never actually owned the +R variants.

[@Jackpkmn]

I've owned and used +R discs but i can't say i've noticed any differences. I only bought them because they were cheaper than the -R discs.

[@TheEgg185]

Yes. PLEASE do this.

[@jcilley97]

@@Jackpkmn The difference is that DVD+R was more optimized for faster data storage after DVD-RAM failed, and allowed you to actually burn movies to a DVD+R and it would play on 93% of all DVD players world wide, where as DVD-RAM would not allow you to burn a movie because it was an attached storage device. But DVD-R was a bit slower and and is optimized for Data storage and more compatible but it was mainly meant to play movies and store data that support all DVD players and drives in general that exist world wide. Also unlike DVD-RAM, the discs required formatting before you could use them. Correct me if I am wrong about any of this. Source for DVD-RAM information: Technology Connections' video on DVD-RAM. Link to source: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5SrZIKLZbdnotU I knew about the +R and -R differences for quite awhile. I forgot where I found the information about +Rs and -Rs. I think it was a video that I watched years ago that taught me it was better to burn on -Rs for burning games (specifically Wii games) and +Rs usually fail for a backup of data when burning and playing it back. Depending on how finicky your drive in your console or PC or DVD player is.

[@TNPaparazzi]

That format pissed me off, especially when I used to try to burn double density lightscribe (Remember that era? lol) discs and some older DVD players I've used besides Philips players did not work with DVD+R's and only supported the DVD-R format. Thank god that era's over lol

[@RobeenaShepherd]

The history of the Disney DVD logo is an interesting one, there was a lot of debate at the time about whether they either just didn't strictly conform to the official format so could not carry the official logo, or they chose not to carry the official logo because they were pushing the format to its limits and causing issues (or they were worrying about causing issues) with cheaper DVD players.

[@Left-Earth]

*"Please follow up on the Disney DVD story."* 🏰📀

[@Luffnin]

Gay

[@Left-Earth]

@@Luffnin *Don't be toxic.* and if you are gay, who cares. It's perfectly normal, love is love. _But this isn't the place to tell the world. Go tell your parents._ 😂✌️

[@Luffnin]

@@Left-Earth I can't hear what you are saying please remove the pp b4 chatting Ty

[@Luffnin]

@@Left-Earth oi Deez

[@Luffnin]

@@Left-Earth Deez nutz

[@MattSidor]

I lol'd at "MMMMmmmmmmm CD"

[@TinchoX]

It was hilarious alright

[@SalocinDotTEN]

Me too lol. Mmmmm CD. Reminds me of an old radio show called the "crispy crunch gold disc show".

[@AhmedSalam]

This show is slowly shifting into the memes territories of the interwebs , I love it !

[@pedro922]

Man, you deserve, a series in history channel and similars! Congrats to your knowledge

[@jameswyatt1304]

And presentation thereof!

[@skagerstrom]

In the ads - they always said "Now on Disney DVD" so there is probably something fishy about it :P

[@billkeithchannel]

Freemasons rule the world. Demonic Disney can do whatever they want.

[@renakunisaki]

It's probably some DRM that violates the DVD standard, so they can't use the official logo even if it happens to still work in most players.

[@Krahazik]

My guess, they used the standard for compatibility, but didn't want to pay the licensing fees for the logo so made their own logo.

[@bennypika3575]

@@billkeithchannel freemasons are secret christian organization. So it's like christian Disney tries do whatever they want

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

I always thought it meant SanDisk so I never questioned the Disk D, oh well 😂

[@Mikemk_]

That's what SanDisk wants you to think

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

@@Mikemk_ PROD'LY!

[@almostanengineer]

I’m slightly annoyed that compact disc logo didn’t bounce around the screen like the dvd screensaver one 🤨

[@azyfloof]

I even said "blip" as it reached the screen edge, expecting it to bounce!

[@eliotbaez]

CassetteTard Obligatory r/itswooooshwith4os

[@Charlesb88]

I'll assume here that your joking here since Compact Disc started out as an audio-only format and thus couldn't have had CD logo screensaver. They could have done it with the introduction on Video-CD (VCD) in 1993 but that was such a much simpler format compared to DVD-Video that I understand why they didn't bother, assuming there were ever any VCD-only players that even had screensavers built-in, which I've never heard of.

[@MaakaSakuranbo]

You mean that you're mildly infuriated.

[@Madness832]

I could've done it w/ my old Apex DVD player. Had hacking tools to change the default background and the screensaver (of course, changing the region &/or disabling MV were more desirable!). My AD-660 used to have a flying "MADNESS" in Comic Sans.

[@EthanBB]

1:31 - was anybody else expecting logo bouncing on the edge of the screen? :D

[@DFX2KX]

Yes. like the old DirecTV screensaver when you where on a music channel

[@KylesDigitalLab]

Anybody else love logos? Like Laserdisc, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, SD, etc? Great video Alec

[@lol-nc3tz]

yea

[@Mike504]

Your videos are anti-click bait. The titles make me think "wow that is a boring topic" but you always prove me wrong.

[@beachcomberfilms8615]

Your videos are so entertaining, so informative and the humor is awesome. I’ve learned so much more about film & tv history through your videos that they never teach in film school.

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Congratulations on moving forward with your career. You are and will continue to be a source of inspiration for all of us with a similar dream. (: I am surprised that your video was so short about the SD cards history. I liked your long format videos. They are super informative and appreciated. Would you elaborate on the SD/HC, SD/XC, SD Type 10, etc... cards? This would be fun to watch. Thank you.

[@JacobJustIts]

Whoa! Look at this paragraph from a 1997 NY Times article titled "For the DVD, Disney Magic May Be the Key ". (This is mid article) "The idea is that you buy movies on DVD to play on a machine equipped with a satellite uplink. When you view the movie, a code on the disk notifies Zoom Central (so to speak), and your credit card is debited. You own the disk but rent the privilege of playing it. Zoom TV would be incompatible with present DVD players, and once again, the studios could become embroiled in a war of marketing philosophies.". Holy moly were some of these ideas far fetched sounding especially to consumers today.

[@TeraunceFoaloke]

umm Disney didn't do it but Circuit City had something similar.

[@stamasd8500]

DIVX is what eventually came out of that; no, not the DivX compression format but the rental scheme of encrypted DVD-like discs put forward by Circuit City in the late '90s. Trivia: the DivX codec was named as an irony to sound alike when the DIVX system started dying.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

There was also a DVD format that used self-destructing discs that could only be played a few times. The idea was that this would allow customers to "rent" movies for a limited time and not have to return them. For obvious reasons, environmental groups did not like this idea.

[@DEMENTO01]

This is like DivX but in the 90s lmao

[@stevethepocket]

"Trivia: the DivX codec was named as an irony to sound alike when the DIVX system started dying." So basically the same kind of logic as why Soylent is named Soylent?

[@MichaOstrowski]

Subbed to both channels for actually... the mundane stuff. There are a lot of channels about awesome things, but everyday technology is often overlooked. Thank you for your dedication :)

[@byronake1957]

As I watched this video, as soon a you said "S.D!" at 5:57, a bolt of lightning struck near my house. Not even joking. That was epic.

[@amigatroels3645]

Third video in a row without commercials... YT must be broken, this feels like 2006! Awesome! Great vid as always! 🙂

[@fzysknr]

I think the DRM support is why certain "pre-loaded" SD cards (such as Datel's Power Saves for the Wii) refuse to even be read by a PC.

[@InventorZahran]

Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM...

[@daemonspudguy]

No, it uses a different filesystem from standard ones like FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, EXT4, HFS+, or APFS.

[@Neolith100]

The "dead eye" VHS move got me, I flippin' lost it. Thumbs of the ups!

[@tackyman]

Confession: I lost a bet to a friend in back in high school because I though it stood for San Disk

[@KokoroKatsura]

a n i m e n i m e

[@AxeAR]

@@KokoroKatsura Hentai e n t a i

[@FavaroLeone]

nobody: TC: passive aggressively puts VHS in VCR. 1:05

[@rogermwilcox]

Passive, nothing! That was his Game Face.

[@jaredloveless]

about half the time, I don't get the Nobody meme. this is that time. it implies a context and I don't get it

[@Rhewin]

jaredloveless it means nobody said or did anything to prompt whatever happened.

[@thepermman]

Well as you mentioned SanDisk was heavily involved in popularizing SD cards. Which was convenient for them because SD could stand for both Secure Digital and also SanDisk. Is it a Disque? A typical naming convention is square objects are "Disk" and round objects are "Discs" Floppy Disks, Hard Disks, SD Cards are square. CDs, DVDs, Laserdiscs, and throwing discuses are all round. I've seen some people say magnetic storage are disks and optical are discs.

[@EduardoEscarez]

1:57 The "Pitchfork of knowledge" is a great name for the USB logo. "If you want to figure if your device is USB compatible, find the Pitchfork of knowledge!"

[@eDoc2020]

When you want to plug it in, make sure each side can see the other's pitchfork or else they won't be riled up enough to connect.

[@nom3nnescio]

@@eDoc2020 :O theres a picture in them??

[@Moonhack95]

I'm not sure if it's ever been suggested, but could you make a video on Satellite Television? I think it's a fascinating subject.

[@jaredloveless]

Moonhack95 no don't do it! youtube drama makes it mor interesting?

[@billkeithchannel]

But include a bunch of flat earth information in there to make it.... _spicy!_

[@RedDeadSakharine]

"Isn't half a terabyte on your fingernail enough!?" 😂😂

[@souta95]

Not according to Lexar...

[@knection1986]

Wasn't there a 1tb SD card just announced yesterday?

[@lztx]

I remember when I got a 80MB hard drive (yes megabyte) and thinking that I'd never fill it! It took a few months. Any capacity is due to be exceeded

[@souta95]

@@knection1986 Lexar announced a 1TB SD card at CES last week.

[@TheBodgybrothers]

Who'd ever need more than 640kB?

[@vale.antoni]

8:09 Feels like a sentence that, given sufficient time, will join the ranks of "Who would ever need more than 500 MB on a single disk?"

[@OpenKeith]

the vhs cassette: "dont touch the tape" five year old me: "how bout i do anyway"

[@TheGodpharma]

I remember when my sister had a five year old. He didn't just touch the tape. They had to get a repair guy in to fix the machine, and inside he found a toy car and two biscuits.

[@NetAndyCz]

@@TheGodpharma Reminds me of when my younger sister tried to convert our old computer into vending machine, she put tiny beads in the CD ROM mechanic and coins in the floppy drive. The repair guy was pretty confused:D I was quite surprised that both drives were functional after all the items were removed.

[@minitrooper4260]

Me too lol. Should have used reverse psychology

[@SergiuszOlszewski]

The montage at 0:50 is brilliant! Keep it up.

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

Never knew i wanted to know this, but now i´m glad i know about the minutiae of the history of the SD logo.

[@GRBtutorials]

10:08 And that's one of the advantages of not living in a city. The disadvantage, though, is Internet speed. Still stuck with ADSL2+ (8/1 Mb/s).

For at least three years on the East Coast the top speed from Verizon was under 1.0.That was $39.95/month We thought we were space age because before that it was AOL on 56k upped from 28.8 and 14.4 and before that UGH

[@gajbooks]

Lol 1.5 Mbps here, but I'm pretty sure our ISP is just cheap and overpriced, not that it's impossible to do better. Still, the download caps on satellite are WAY WAY worse.

[@GRBtutorials]

Drakilicious The big problem with satellite is that plans with a big enough data cap for me (10+ TB) are really expensive. If I’m going to be capped, I’d rather use 4G (or 5G when it comes out). Not to mention the huge ping would probably be a problem for streaming.

[@alanowa123]

thanks god we have 4G these days and 20/5 Mb/s everywhere

[@VicMcFly111]

move to Finland and you get 1gb net in the countryside

[@helloofthebeach]

Most of the time when non-comedy channels start dipping their toe into doing bits, I get uneasy because comedy is hard and most people aren't good at it...but all of these jokes were solid and well executed. That VHS swap was amazing.

[@mattomanx77]

Love how your humor has evolved! Been watching for a few months now, every video seems to get better than the last!

[@magsblack8344]

I absolutely love this channel. I’ve been binge watching every single video since I discovered it a couple weeks ago. Having said that, I do have one very minor suggestion that may only be slightly bothering me: The pronunciation of Panasonic’s parent company. The proper way to pronounce Matushista is Ma-too-SHE-sta. I realize this may only bother me as I am Japanese (though English is indeed my first language), and am so accustomed to hearing it pronounced the “proper” way that hearing it pronounced in other ways grossly sticks out when I hear it. Ok, my tangent is over. Your content is simply spectacular and I sincerely appreciate the effort you put in to create such a wonderful channel. Thank you!

[@l00k4tstuff]

Great video. I'm an old fart, and remember when we went from 8" floppy to 5.25 then 3.5 (and the punch so you could record on the other side), then the assortment of ZIP drives, recordable CDs (and DVDs) and finally solid state storage. As our tech advances more quickly, we're probably going to see more, not less, standard variant labeling. I prefer this to having to change media drives in my machines. On a side note, congrats on doing this full time. I hope you're still enjoying doing this when the circle closes and you do one on the medium in which you started versus whichever medium will replace 2D screens.

[@CroomTM]

Whoever writes these script is amazing

[@tyler7535]

I just want to say that I love your channel and am happy to always find a new video of yours; even if it's older. Keep up the good work and it's always a pleasure watching!

[@ssgtmole8610]

The look on your face when moving the tape between VHS machines earned my thumbs up.

[@losalfajoresok]

I love your presentation style more and more with each new video!

[@channelzero2252]

I think Disney's logo may be because a lot of Disney discs have such funky copy protection that - and I speak from experience here - some players can't even read them properly.

[@cata_s2020]

this was fun and interesting to watch, thank you for time and efort putting into making this video

[@SotnekronOfficial]

8:04 Oh boy do I know that feeling!

[@mgabbard]

The pitchfork of knowledge - LOL! Plus your rant about "how much data do you really need" at the 8 minute mark made me giggle as well. Back in the day I ran a BBS on a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. I was thinking about to upgrading to a 1200 baud modem when they came out with 9600 and we were all saying to each other "that's insane - who needs 9600?"

[@carlosrfonseca]

Yeah, USB-C ports are messed up, with a capital F... I mean, they might not even actually be USB, they can be Thunderbolt only. Or they could be Thunderbolt+DisplayPort+USB+Power. Oh, and do you want it to be USB 2 or USB 3? Yeah, it could be either. And how can you tell if it supports charging? Well, plug in a power supply on one, if it blows up your device, it didn't support power! Fun!

[@Charlesb88]

They just need to devise a bunch of trademarked logos for USB-C to indicate what standards that particular USB-C standard supports the way they currently have with HDMI (Standard HDMI, HDMI High Speed, HDMI with Ethernet, HDMI Auto, 3D, etc.). Those cable manufacturers that wish to show they support USB 3, thunderbolt 3, charging over USB-C, DisplayPort, etc. could pay a small fee to have their cable certified as working with those connection, communication and power supply specifications. While cheaper cable manufacturers would be able to continue to offer USB-C cables with questionable support for various connection, communication and power supply specifications, more reputable companies would take the time to certify their cables thus making it easier for consumers to find a compatible USB-C cable for their specific need.

[@cliffthecrafter]

Not to mention the Nintendo Switch "USB-C" port, where if you plug anything other that an official Nintendo cable or dock into it you risk frying your system.

[@liteoner]

The USB-C port is exactly that, a port. It's like being confused by bottles having different kinds of liquid in them despite having the same shape.

[@carlosrfonseca]

Yeah, but bottles can be easily labelled, so you can know what's in them just by looking at them. USB-C ports aren't, and there's no easy way to tell which is which. It's even worse, because in some older devices you can actually destroy them simply by plugging in the wrong thing.

[@liteoner]

@@carlosrfonseca That's true, I actually agree with your proposal of having different logos depending on what the cable did.

[@pedrofelck]

I'm always amused on how much new knowledge you can get on a 10min video about a thing you didn't even notice until now.

[@RobertoPerez-rd4ff]

I am also super nerd and like your comedic value. Thank you!

[@TroyBlackford]

I love your channel, man. You're so knowledgeable across a wide range of subjects, great at distilling that knowledge down and passing it on, and you come across as so unique and enthusiastic about the things you choose to discuss. Really good work.

[@cmatthews718]

This is a great story, worthy of song and future re-tellings. Thumbs up for the rant at 8:00.

[@wdfghjkl]

MiniSD: *exists* Me: (confused screaming)

[@LonSeidman]

I would get demonetized if I posted my blooper reel :)

[@MysteryMii]

Wasn’t expecting you to show up here. Love your content!

[@neilforbes416]

DVDs are NOT universally compatible because they have an embedded region code to ensure that a movie disc with a "Region 1" encoding will not play on a player set to play, for example "Region 4" discs. This was a cynical and deliberate..... despicable, even, move by the movie studios to control where their movies were marketed and which markets got to see these movies.

[@Yeen125]

Neil Forbes Also to play a bit of Devil’s advocate: Many counties have different copyright rules and many movies (especially foreign-made ones) have different distribution deals with different companies for different countries. Region locking makes it a little easier to enforce those deals and contracts.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

Even without that, you'd have the NTSC v PAL/SECAM thing. As a sidebar, multi-region DVD players seem to be much less common in the US than in the UK.

[@Charlesb88]

@@Yeen125 I know why they do it, but as a consumer I would prefer they use other methods to maintain revenue for the local distributors. One option is to simply not worry about people importing foriegn version of a DVD movie since the revenue loss is likely not going to be that great overall. Second, since in the past they worried about a release of a movie on DVD in one country before the film had made it in to theaters in another country/region, they could simply either try and harmonize the release dates across regions or if they could simply accept some loss if theatrical release ticket sales for a film (in certain regions) in favor of watching an imported U.S. release of that film on DVD since I doubt the latter is going to be that significant. Of course they would still complain this would allow, in some circumstances, me to buy a DVD never intended to be released in the U.S. or to obtain certain DVD titles at price cheaper then U.S. retail such as a low price intended only for less developed countries. But as far as I'm concerned about these arguments, so what. I can't think of many DVD movie titles there would be a legitimate reason not to release in the U.S. either at all or in the exact same cut/edit as the U.S. version and I wouldn't worry about people importing lots of lower cost versions of U.S. DVD titles from less developed markets.

[@amb3cog]

@nuwavghost Yea, like my old Apex. With the secret menu. That thing could play anything!

[@gajbooks]

@@Charlesb88 On the topic of lower cost imports, you're terribly wrong. It's not quite the same, but there are textbooks where the US official version costs hundreds of dollars, and you can buy a virtually identical copy, in English, typically shipping from India, for a 10th of the cost. Both of these books have the same profit margins as far as I'm aware, and this is likely the same with DVDs. Also, different regions do have different cuts of movies sometimes for cultural reasons or what have you, or maybe even government restrictions (China...) where they wouldn't want some viewers to get an edited down version, or accidentally get killed by Chinese assassins for spreading Western propaganda.

[@kentslocum]

This is one of the best videos Technology Connections has ever made. The comedic timing is especially spot-on.

[@edgeeffect]

I was impressed with the acting skills at 01:06 and then you blew all my expectations at 04:51

[@KylesDigitalLab]

Somebody should give this guy his own TV show

[@lkahfi]

Kyle2000 nope, better youtube, it's worldwide

[@kilrahvp]

Well he already has it, and better than it could get otherwise! Nobody I know still watches conventional TV.

[@MrMediator24]

Idk why I read these comment in Smash Mouth voice

[@spugintrntl]

TV is dead. KZbin killed it.

[@sleaf6]

Buh he already has a show

[@HDXFH]

Here i was thinking SD stood for San Disk

[@TommyCrosby]

Keep your cool and explain us why many Chinese products call it a TF card.

[@braelinmichelus]

The original name for the SD card standard was the TransFlash card (TF). After the name was changed to SD, the TransFlash name just stuck in China. Probably also has to do with avoiding royalty fees for the use of the SD logo, just like on some cheap mini computers you find on Amazon, instead of having the HDMI logo above the port, it just says HD; avoiding licensing the High Definition Multimedia Interface standard.

[@AlphaCore_]

@@braelinmichelus MicroSD format one, but yes.

[@musicauthority7828]

As far as I know and I might not be correct, the difference between SD card and TF card is the way the data is transferred. because TF cards are usually only available in the higher GB cards like 64 GB and higher. and were usually required in devices like digital camera's, and certain phones, and computer's, that's as much as I know about them.

[@JPHarringtonJr]

Switching VCRs while locking eyes with the camera was amazing, thank you for that lol

[@MaxOakland]

This is one of your funniest videos I’ve seen so far. Love your sense of humor!

[@juusolatva]

Some CompactFlash cards called Microdrives actually had a tiny hard disk inside them but the advances in flash memory technology made them obsolete.

[@spugintrntl]

I remember those things! I think I still have one... It served as the hard drive in an old pda.

[@stamasd8500]

Obsolete? LOL maybe for some but I still use microdrives. They are awesome for restoring old PCs; instead of using old IDE HDDs I use my NOS stock of microdrives. I have a bunch of both 4GB and 6GB Seagate and IBM microdrives. For a DOS/Windows 3.1 PC one is more than enough. FWIW the microdrive was used in the original Apple Ipod - because of the form factor, at a time when CF cards weren't big enough.

[@4jp]

@@stamasd8500 Most devices had small hard drives back then because, while expensive, they were significantly cheaper than flash memory. In the dark ages of early 2000s, you as a consumer were looking at 1.8:" hard drive with capacity in gigabytes or maybe 512mb flash for the same price.

[@juusolatva]

@@stamasd8500 Is any manufacturer still making CompactFlash cards with microdrives? I don't think there is one, which is what I was after. I didn't mean to imply they are bad or worthless.

[@raekane]

They're called CompactFlash because there was a larger flash card format called PCMCIA card. PCMCIA later became PC Card. Those slots in laptops were originally made for memory expansion. PCMCIA stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. It was later expanded for everything else like modems and hard drives.

[@trekkie4christ]

Following on this craziness of SD's logo, the naming of the microSD is also fraught with confusion, being initially called TransFlash (after T-Mobile prevented SanDisk from calling it T-Flash), but later integrated into the SD standard. This leads to loads of confusion when slots are marked as TF rather than microSD. Perhaps that would be a good topic for another video.

[@coolaj86]

"'A last ditch effort to get companies to move away from mp3s and into a more locked down media standard' - it didn't work, but..." Actually, it did work. The number of places you can buy music (BandCamp, Amazon CDs, ebay) is dwindling in comparison to completely locked sources Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Google Music, Tidal, Napster, Rhapsody, etc).

[@cezarcatalin1406]

AJ ONeal Ha, jokes on them ! I am getting my music from youtube !

[@billybobjoe198]

@@cezarcatalin1406 If you're getting your music from KZbin you're getting a pretty shitty copy of it. Audio CD's were very high quality compared to even officially distributed Mp3 files. Your twice rencoded youtube videos are very distorted versions of their originals.

You know you can download DRM-free copies of the music you buy on Google Music, right?

[@danielwanner281]

@@billybobjoe198 No distinguishable difference between >192KBit/s MP3s or OGG/Vorbis compared to an audio CD

[@sethmcbride8490]

1:07 The way he puts the VHS in the old VCR and slams it closed then sits back like a badass who just took out a whole room of bad guys XD

[@marcfuchs6938]

First time for me to comment on your videos, since I just started to watch them more frequently. What I really enjoy is, how the biggest parts of your videos are presented as honest and serious explanations, but regularly added a bit of silliness and funny stuff. I like this combination, the videos are pretty good.

[@Rib_]

I just checked my Disney DVDs out of curiosity, and most of them did indeed not have the DVD-Video logo. The exceptions were Pixar films, and James and the Giant Peach (which only had the logo on the back of the cover). All of these DVDs are the UK versions except for James and the Giant Peach which is the Dutch version.

[@jwooten1951]

Disney has their own manufacturing plant for Digital Versatile Disc they can do what they want.

[@Rib_]

@@jwooten1951 Looking at the ringcodes/matrix codes around the centre of the reflective side of the DVD shows that is not the case. For example, one of the discs I have was manufactured by Technicolor.

[@dannyboy42223]

"Pitchfork of Knowledge", nice!

[@crumb_]

Hey TechConnect Guy, you're brilliant.

[@MikeHunt-wl4ye]

Looks like you're adding more humor to recent videos - which is good because it does wonders for deterring trolls when you can poke fun at your own style. :)

[@quadclutch]

I automatically thought shilshare at 2:44 and was about to skip 1min ahead. Thank you for not doing that to us.