"Am i off my rocker?" asks man who makes 20 minute videos on toasters.
@dominateeye5 жыл бұрын
Toasters which keep creeping into other videos.
@BrendonGreenNZL5 жыл бұрын
He also made the claim that he doesn't even like toast; that he bought a toaster just to make the video 🤷♂️.
@superscatboy5 жыл бұрын
@@BrendonGreenNZL That's obviously a false claim. He clearly has a mouth, so he definitely likes toast.
@wolfdragonhorse5 жыл бұрын
I found one of these toasters in near perfect condition at a thrift store the other day. I never would have recognized it without that video!
@MrVolksbeetle5 жыл бұрын
That toaster video is a national treasure...
@duggerd5 жыл бұрын
That style of LCD display is known as a negative mode LCD.
@smartroadbiker5 жыл бұрын
I've used one on my DIY amplifier :D
@sjm43065 жыл бұрын
It's likely a fstn type
@dirk97875 жыл бұрын
There might be someone who would call you out on calling an LCD an LCD display, since the D already stands for display, but I won't be that person. It just feels better for me to say LCD display compared to LC display or just LCD or even liquid crystal display.
@EdgarsLS5 жыл бұрын
I've also heard the term 'lcdvfd'
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
THERE'S that comment!
@jedinellum4 жыл бұрын
"Huh, I wonder what is on that random CD he's putting in--" *outro music plays* "You son of a--"
@arnbrandy4 жыл бұрын
I really anticipated that.
@m132534 жыл бұрын
I originally thought I would have been rickrolled XD
@Vezail4 жыл бұрын
* recklessly smooth jazz plays*
@Uruploaded3 жыл бұрын
what is that outro song would you know?
@jedinellum3 жыл бұрын
@@Uruploaded its the music he plays to outro all of his videos, otherwise no I don't know anything about it.
@erictaylor54625 жыл бұрын
"Never come to conclusions until you take the thing apart." Great advice for so many aspects of life. Well maybe not with people. You should not try to take people apart.
@InventorZahran4 жыл бұрын
Tell that to Dr. Frankenstein!
@erictaylor54624 жыл бұрын
@@InventorZahran To be fair, he put the monster together, not taking it apart. And really, Frankenstein's mistake was not in the building, but in the abandoning of it. Leaving it to fend for itself with no idea what it was or why it existed. You see, the monster began with a kind heart and a hideous visage. People judged him for how he looked, so he became what they judged him to be. Remember, the blind man know who he was, but when the family saw him, the were afraid, even though it had done nothing hostile. That story was the classic "don't judge a book by it's cover."
@cageybee72214 жыл бұрын
@@erictaylor5462 but, he had to disassemble other corpses in order to assemble Frankenstein's monster.
@erictaylor54624 жыл бұрын
@@cageybee7221 True, but dead people are no longer working. I was thinking more about not taking living people apart.
@Kelastris4 жыл бұрын
You could make a religion out of this
@RazzaldG4 жыл бұрын
JVC made stacking units.. They'd have matched the style so that the unit fitted in with other products on it's range, including older VFD units.
@kcgunesq4 жыл бұрын
That sounds likely, as I would have placed this unit mid 80's through early to mid 90's (which he ultimately confirmed).
@sheilaolfieway18854 жыл бұрын
or just for the nostalgia.
@stevenpuckitt2123 жыл бұрын
@@kcgunesq They're still using the amber/orange look in their units. We have a stereo unit for home theater speakers with the same color and grid scheme.
@JohnSmith-eo5sp3 жыл бұрын
Looks yellowish orange and red to me. No amber
@Raleford3 жыл бұрын
@@JohnSmith-eo5sp um...
@jayeaaaaa5 жыл бұрын
"No, it isn't" must be one of your best patrons if they get their own spot on the list
@StandaislavSK5 жыл бұрын
I didn't even notice that before reading your comment, lol
@Bluscream5 жыл бұрын
@@StandaislavSK same lmao
@BlackStoneDiamond5 жыл бұрын
bruh
@Crazy-qi1gw5 жыл бұрын
@@BlackStoneDiamond If you think they didn't get the joke, you could've just wooshed them, and then get wooshed yourself.
@Beanzoboy5 жыл бұрын
"must be one of your best patrons if they get their own spot on the list" No, it isn't
@enifyako5 жыл бұрын
"It took me a while to realize it was playing tricks on me like some sort of trick player, but once I did, I exclaimed to the heavens, 'I've been tricked!' and it was very unpleasant." You're delightful.
@cannaroe12135 жыл бұрын
No he is not, he is easily tricked! A Tricker's friend is no friend of mine! Come along children.... we've seen enough.
@bsadewitz5 жыл бұрын
Indubitably!
@Dargonhuman5 жыл бұрын
@@cannaroe1213 But he's Loki's favorite...
@PiercingSight5 жыл бұрын
Perhaps one of my favorite quotes on all of youtube.
@bsadewitz5 жыл бұрын
@@PiercingSight If he'd only thumbed his nose at the heavens, or perhaps bit his thumb. Seriously, though, his entire schtick is brilliant. If he hosted a show on cable, then I could finally have a show to call "my show" haha
@jadefalcon0015 жыл бұрын
The off-screen "NYAAH!" yelling at your past self was the best thing.
@gasolineandwine2 жыл бұрын
It killed me
@enochliu83162 жыл бұрын
HA! According to the Closed Captions.
@raydunakin3 жыл бұрын
"Hey credits, is this a blooper?" Credits: No, it isn't. LOL!!
@haweater15555 жыл бұрын
When I first saw the letters "VFD" I thought you meant "Variable Frequency Drive", or "Volunteer Fire Department"
@Linkale_4 жыл бұрын
Me too xD It's been three seasons of freaking out about that acronym all the time
@Broockle4 жыл бұрын
What the heck kinda Demographic am I falling into here?
@csdgay4 жыл бұрын
or Village of Fowl Devotees
@aloevera33174 жыл бұрын
@@csdgay or Very Fancy Doilies.
@Roonasaur4 жыл бұрын
And the thumbnail said "Verifiably False Displays" - I thought it was going to be a rant about excess blinky lights to try to make you think there's a real equalizer in there . . .
@LakeNipissing5 жыл бұрын
When in school in the 1980s, we used to take calculators apart and flip the polarization lens in front of the LCD to make it reversed with silver digits on black. A bit hard to read in dim light, but it sure got other students wondering how it was possible.
@kilrahvp5 жыл бұрын
Lake Nipissing same
@imranahmad27335 жыл бұрын
I did this and the school threw the calculators out thinking they where faulty.
@ve2mrxB5 жыл бұрын
I did it on a Sharp calculator... This one was not glued on the display. More recently, I flipped the polarizer on a negative mode LCD Nexxtech clock. Now, it's rippled positive. Yeah, that one was glued on...
@maxwelsh61215 жыл бұрын
I saw one like this once and spent the better part of a full day going from store to store looking to buy one LOL
@xgford945 жыл бұрын
Glad I’m not the only one...I’ve still got it ...34 years later
@E3kHatena5 жыл бұрын
Him talking to the Patrons list *and it replying* was a shockingly inspired move. This is a great video even if it isn’t your usual fare, I’d be down for more stuff like this, but it’s hard to turn down any new TC thing.
@Gartral5 жыл бұрын
you should rewatch the credits segment with closed captions on, there's more hilarity there at the end card!
@scott89195 жыл бұрын
Not to go off-topic but it's nice to see another ace.
@sudofox5 жыл бұрын
What's the "Hatena" from in your name?
@E3kHatena5 жыл бұрын
@@sudofox - I was just E3k on Flipnote Hatena and I wanted people who knew me on there to know it was me on other sites. The site closed in 2013 or so, but I kept the name like that just because by then I had had all these E3kHatena accounts for just as long as I had been E3k on Flipnote, so I just kept it.
@AaronBentley5 жыл бұрын
It's similar to The Colbert Report where in the segment The Wørd, the bullet points undercut or contradict what Colbert is saying.
@Takato1425 жыл бұрын
I love the stream-of-consciousness style writing here. Never thought I'd enjoy listening to someone talk about static display technology but here we are!
@BobbyDukeArts4 жыл бұрын
You've lost weight and gained humor.
@josephpoole39423 жыл бұрын
Commenting on weight loss is not actually a compliment.
@caymanhilldesigns4533 жыл бұрын
@@josephpoole3942 Yes it is. Fat is not healthy. No matter what year it is.
@SuperMikeFender3 жыл бұрын
@@caymanhilldesigns453 It's still not a compliment.
@okaydetar8213 жыл бұрын
@@SuperMikeFender saying it isn't a compliment, isn't a compliment either. I will explain the relevancy once you do.
@benni55413 жыл бұрын
@@SuperMikeFender it is if you knoe the person is activly trying to lose weight
@ReaperUnreal3 жыл бұрын
I had the entire "stack" for that specific JVC series. Radio, tape deck, CD player, amp, wood grain speakers. Can confirm that all of them had a VFakeD display.
@sylviaelse50865 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the good old days, when incandescent bulbs (you know - the things that blow) were buried inside gear where they couldn't easily be replaced. That included the gear position display on my Subaru, which require the removal of most of the dashboard to get at.
@devilsoffspring55194 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my second generation RX-7... Oh man, you had to rip the entire car apart just to replace the gazillion and one little light bulbs! Funny thing is in 1987 they coulda have used LEDs and they probably would have been cheaper to boot. Oh well.
@luishartmann97924 жыл бұрын
My VW is from 2006 (they kept the same dash till mid 2014) and the entire dash is lighted by incandescent bulbs.
@nthgth4 жыл бұрын
That's so weird. I never realized incandescents were used for things like that, that are supposed to last decades. What were they thinking? I guess LEDs were prohibitively expensive?
@nthgth4 жыл бұрын
Though to be fair, I think it's easy enough to know where you put the gearshift. I never understood the need for those indicators within the gauge cluster. If my '94 Prizm didn't need one, no car needs one, haha
@Jaqen-HGhar4 жыл бұрын
Yep and yet you have people who have rose tinted glasses about the past and yearn to go back to a time when "technology was so much better and easier" even though the entire reason that we improved things was because of the shortcomings of all the stuff beforehand. Vehicles nowadays last a lot longer than they ever have (even w/ all the technology they have) and LEDs that have replaced incandescent will last far longer. The one that drives me the craziest the most is people who try to act like CRTs are better than modern TVs even though even when all we had was CRTs we knew the picture quality was crap. The only thing that would make someone yearn for the picture of a CRT is nostalgia.
@SirNarax5 жыл бұрын
I love how you turn a mistake into a punchline I died when you laughed in the background at 4:46.
@userPrehistoricman5 жыл бұрын
The laugh sounds like the not-gnelf not-gnoblin gnome.
@_Gart4 жыл бұрын
Same, this guy is funny as hell..
@lillyanneserrelio21874 жыл бұрын
Me too. And I think I saw you up in Heaven for a couple of seconds while dead from his hilarious joke before my IPhone x15 activated the bundled MyHealth app and shocked my heart back to life by using some combo of worn tech all paired and linked to my iphone: motion powered (and battery free) bluetooth earbuds, 6th generation fitbit set worn on my left wrist and ankle (i have no idea which of these devices were electrified into defibrillator mode and made my corpse dance the Macarena [an old 1990s song] - I'm a history fan of your century).... Maybe I should have opened by stating I'm from the future.🤓😲
@itskdog4 жыл бұрын
@@_Gart his name's Alec, btw
@_Gart4 жыл бұрын
@@itskdog k
@kotawintergreen88045 жыл бұрын
"playing tricks on me, like some sort of T R I C K P L A Y E R."
@Vodhin5 жыл бұрын
Now, if only he was playing some music from Cheap Trick at that time...
@PiercingSight5 жыл бұрын
I exclaimed to the heavens, "I'VE BEEN TRICKED!", and it was very unpleasant.
@clunkonester48843 жыл бұрын
"Am I off my rocker?!" "Well as it turns out my rocker is in the corner so I am indeed off of it" made me laugh so hard that I jumped off of my rocker so I am indeed off of my rocker
@webstedge10993 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid back in the 90’s, I used to shine flashlights into all the devices with VFD displays in the house, just to see everything on the panel that could be displayed. It was fun messing with some of the stuff afterwards, trying to get stuff you don’t ever see with normal use to light up.
@mikedrop44215 жыл бұрын
"it's playing tricks on me like some kind of trick players, so I exclaimed I'VE BEEN TRICKED!" That's the quality writing I'm here for.
@earfolds5 жыл бұрын
This video is practically dripping with your style of humour. I love it! It makes up for its shorter length, and then some.
@danielgehring74375 жыл бұрын
I love how he just emanates an aura of making everyone want to have a beer with him. You don't even know why, you just know it'd be awesome to sit around and watch him excitedly point out every bit of outdated tech in the bar.
@MJ-uk6lu5 жыл бұрын
It was boring
@blankpage92775 жыл бұрын
@@danielgehring7437 you want to have a beer with your professor?
@danielgehring74375 жыл бұрын
@@blankpage9277 Oh hell yeah. Most people with a true, passionate dedication to one subject are really fun to be around when they're about two beers deep and realize you're willing to just let them talk on forever about that thing. Though TC is the highest, most enjoyable end of that spectrum.
@_Mr.Tuvok_5 жыл бұрын
Came for a Lemony Snicket reference. Was not disappointed
@JamEngulfer5 жыл бұрын
It brought up memories I forgot I had
@Yeoffrey5 жыл бұрын
The books are 100% worth revisiting as an adult.
@anniewarbucks17945 жыл бұрын
The world is quiet here.
@RyanTosh5 жыл бұрын
Something had been nagging at me seeing "VFD", didn't realize until I heard it. It's those little details that make this an awesome channel...
@remalemadingdong5 жыл бұрын
that's why i'm here
@whatevernamegoeshere36444 жыл бұрын
"The VFD that isn't" Yeah this was not a Variable Freq Drive for powertools at all
@therealstubot4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I came here for the variable frequency drive... left early.
@YAUUN3 жыл бұрын
@@therealstubot I was here for the Volunteer Fire Department
@LiveFreeOrDieDH4 жыл бұрын
CD Music Starts Closed Captions: "♫ recklessly smooth jazz ♫" recklessly smooth 😄
@90msg905 жыл бұрын
How 'dumb' is the brain, where it can be fooled by flickering display and the persistence of vision and yet be the one responsible for inventing this in the first place ;) EDIT: The brain retaliated at 7:34 ;)
@Nor1MAL5 жыл бұрын
The brain named itself! :)
@TheCandoRailfan5 жыл бұрын
Our brains are both smart, and dumb.
@bsadewitz5 жыл бұрын
The attribute "dumb" applies to persons, not brains. ;-) Indeed, given that I am already waxing pedantic, "dumb" actually means "speechless", hence the phrase "deaf, dumb, and blind". It goes without saying that I use it informally just as everyone else does because civilization is in decline.
@notahotshot5 жыл бұрын
@@bsadewitz, "dumb" has been used to mean, slow witted or stupid since at least the 19th century.
@blankpage92775 жыл бұрын
@@TheCandoRailfan just like computers, but in a different way.
@b1ff5 жыл бұрын
“that sickly green color” Well, you have to look at it encoded. The image translators work _for_ the construct program.
@nthgth5 жыл бұрын
Degreasing engines, and killing brain cells.
@b1ff5 жыл бұрын
Bryan Liguori Good shit, huh? Dozer makes it.
@ralekriver5 жыл бұрын
@@b1ff believe it or not, you piece of sh**, you're still gonna burn!
@kkonstantinosss25 жыл бұрын
@@ralekriver Were you listening to me, or where you looking at the woman in the red dress?
@ralekriver5 жыл бұрын
@@kkonstantinosss2 It doesn't mean anything.
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
4:10 "Truthfully, it took me a while to realize this thing was playing tricks on me like some sort of trick player. But once I did, I exclaimed to the heavens, "I've been tricked!" And it was very unpleasant." This video is so meta, it's killing me!
@tiago222ofnewyork85 жыл бұрын
It’s his ability of being able to deliver the line with such a serious nature and deadpan persona (which I think we all know is not his usual self) which makes it comical. Many of us have come by that one person in the world where they take their work so seriously that they have no sense of humor. Just like that...
@fisheye425 жыл бұрын
I came here for a long video that had been way-too-researched. But he played tricks on me. ...and it was pleasant.
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
@@fisheye42 It was almost as unpleasant and unpredictable as the music from his mix CD at the end.
@WildBluntHickok5 жыл бұрын
It's So Meta Even This Acronym...
@lis65023 жыл бұрын
Technology Connections - one of very few channels i periodically revisit to learn stuff that i already knew and to have laugh of bloopers that i already have laughed of. Thank you Alec for doing what you do.
@PilotPlater4 жыл бұрын
"that's been sitting on the table this whole video" me: DAMMIT
@77x5ghost5 жыл бұрын
4:42 that random "HAH" in the background made me jump
@RRansomSmith4 жыл бұрын
*4:48
@hellelujahh4 жыл бұрын
So delightfully delightful!
@lukeduhe99784 жыл бұрын
Yeah what the heck was that lol
@TheTerrabyter3 жыл бұрын
I can't stop laughing about it XD caught me off-guard hah
@ElectroNeutrino3 жыл бұрын
@@lukeduhe9978 He was laughing at himself for making an incorrect assumption.
@SiriusXAim5 жыл бұрын
I miss VFD's. They looked rad, especially the blue ones. Love them on my stereo. Adds a unique 80's feel to anything, looks nicer than LCD. And no sub menus means all the functions have their own button right where I need them.
@Hunnter2k34 жыл бұрын
This is a thing I miss immensely in electronics - dedicated buttons! Give me the buttons damn it! And yeah, VFDs couldn't be beat. They looked so damn nice. The epitome of lit displays for fixed purposes. LCDs just feel soulless next to them. They can create a nice imitation, but still not all there. Just lacks the vibrant contrast. It's not good unless that display is so blindingly bright it can keep you up at night!
@albertpintor35224 жыл бұрын
I hate how today's receivers, and bluray players require the remote for almost every thing while the old ones could live without it
@Zellonous4 жыл бұрын
@@albertpintor3522 we got a new cable box after not needing one for years. I'm like. Dafuq is this shit.
@SomePotato4 жыл бұрын
To be fair, setting up a surround system is a lot simpler using an menu-driven OSD than a million dedicated buttons.
@SiriusXAim4 жыл бұрын
@@SomePotato Yeah, this happened during an era I call "The Cheapening".
@md_vandenberg5 жыл бұрын
"Am I off my rocker? Well my rocker is in the corner and I'm clearly off it. This was just a silly joke." I threw my laptop out the window upon hearing that gag. Don't worry, it's my "window tossing laptop", so I trust it to not break.
@buddyclem73285 жыл бұрын
Did you toss your laptop at your laptop tossing window, that you trust not to break?
@fltchr44494 жыл бұрын
Your defenestration laptop.
@adrianquintanar56964 жыл бұрын
This guy has the best fanbase.
@EricLS4 жыл бұрын
Fltchr beat me to it
@sedge65914 жыл бұрын
That’s awesome. And now, a good use for Windows!
@thecommenter5784 жыл бұрын
4:47 why does that sounds like Scott the Woz yelling "HAAA!!!"
@chuuisinsane4 жыл бұрын
The Lemony Snicket references have me laughing.
@olivercuenca41094 жыл бұрын
Chris “I didn’t realise this was a sad occasion”.
@slehernik4 жыл бұрын
I didn't get that reference. Could you explain it to me please? Thank you.
@threej4pope4 жыл бұрын
@@olivercuenca4109 The world is quiet here.
@NirateGoel4 жыл бұрын
@@threej4pope When we drive away in secret, you'll be a volunteer so don't scream when we take you, The world is quiet here
@chuuisinsane4 жыл бұрын
@@slehernik Sorry I'm late. It's a reference to a series of books called "A Series of Unfortunate Events".
@Procket125 жыл бұрын
Because I saw Nixie Tubes, the following is legally obligated: "THE NUMBERS MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN!?"
@skuzzyj5 жыл бұрын
ARGHGHFFFHFHFHFJFDJD - an actual quote from later on in that same cinematic
@chuuisinsane5 жыл бұрын
how many media references can we get from this one video -cod:bo -asoue -maybe something else
@Sypaka4 жыл бұрын
And we changed worldlines while watching the nixies.
@Archgeek04 жыл бұрын
El. Psy. Congroo.
@Sypaka4 жыл бұрын
@@Archgeek0 El. Psy. Congroo.
@YounesLayachi5 жыл бұрын
1:49 "those electrons become photons" Physicists : wait that's illegal
@LordEvrey5 жыл бұрын
Not if VFDs are charged with anti matter. °^°
@josephyarzebinski95855 жыл бұрын
Was looking for this comment!
@dozog5 жыл бұрын
It's not illegal, its just very very improbable.
@Omega31315 жыл бұрын
@@dozog No, it's impossible because of conservation of electrical charge.
@dozog5 жыл бұрын
@@Omega3131 A bunch of electrons hitting a positively charged anode, i don't think conservation of electrical charge is going to be a problem. Conservation of energy is not a problem either. Particles appear and disappear spontaneously all the time, they "borrow" energy, temporarily. You can not keep them for very long though.
@newfelo5 жыл бұрын
But more importantly... Are those pixels(?)
@cloviscareca5 жыл бұрын
Brasileiro?
@K-o-R5 жыл бұрын
Depends on whether they need to be in a grid, as well as being individually addressable.
@newfelo5 жыл бұрын
@@cloviscareca Chilean hahahaja
@AdamChristensen5 жыл бұрын
[Technology Connections waiting room] Me: [chanting] pixels, pixels- Other viewers: pixels, PIXELS Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] PIXELS, PIXELS, PIXELS!
@Fuzy2K5 жыл бұрын
*Vsauce music plays*
@kinyutaka5 жыл бұрын
I was in the middle of making a Volunteer Fire Department joke when he mentioned Lemony Snicket.
@HashanGayasri4 жыл бұрын
Same here.
@Murdoch4934 жыл бұрын
I have no idea why I laughed so hard when the subtitles said *Recklessly smooth jazz*
@Markimark1515 жыл бұрын
VFD was basically the predecessor to LCD, it was still better than tiny CRT displays in the 1980s, because it was also flat.
@drcarrot4155 жыл бұрын
0:53 dude your tapedeck is running fast, also based on the inconsistency in L and R, I’d imagine you either need to clean the head or adjust your bias. Sorry if I was annoying just noticed it lol
@woocash74884 жыл бұрын
5:00 this is also how the instrument clusters and other displays in cars from the 80's had their displays. The little bulbs would burn out and you had to take the entire thing apart to replace them, often with the help of a soldering iron. LED backlighting was a game changer.
@Autunite Жыл бұрын
My 1986 Mazda 323 had an LCD clock in the dashboard where the bulb burned out. It was soldered onto the PCB, so I replaced it with a 2300K warm white 5mm LED with a resistor and it looked completely original. I love doing such fixes.
@omardude395 жыл бұрын
6:42 "I couldn't be bothered to check that very thoroughly", an in-joke for your regular viewers haha. Read "I researched the hell out of this for hours and drew blanks!" You'll have got to the bottom of it within a week or two though, you could probably find the man that designed it.
@kwastek5 жыл бұрын
I was expecting Rick Astley. I was tricked :/
@I_Santos_3 жыл бұрын
Did you get... reverse Rickrolled? 🤷♂️
@QuixoteX5 жыл бұрын
"JUST EDIT"
@nthgth4 жыл бұрын
Haha, that bit was awesome
@zacksstuff5 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, my 2010 Toyota Prius uses vacuum fluorescent displays for the dashboard. I get a full multicolor (well, blue, dark blue, white, and red) VFD on the dash.
@imranahmad27335 жыл бұрын
Chrysler still do this on their vehicles, it gives them a warm feeling, seen it also on a Toyota Soarer too, refresh rate is super fast looks crazy when you revv it up.
@funposting89125 жыл бұрын
I have a 2012 and 2017 Toyota Aqua, the 2012 uses that nice green/blue VFD for the dash, whereas the 2017 uses white LED’s. And in the 2018 they replaced the VFD/LED info sheet and the small colour LED beside it with one large LCD that just displays the speed in white on black where the old VFD/led displays used to be. Thus, my 2017 will have to last me till My grave.
@jonnda5 жыл бұрын
My 1999 Acura Integra has a VFD clock
@JHMBB25 жыл бұрын
My 96 prelude has beautiful large gas and temp gauges using VFD!
@TedSeeber5 жыл бұрын
My 2006 Prius has VFD, IN REVERSE, pointed up. A mirror turns it into a dashboard. I have ZERO idea why they did that, unless they originally intended to try to make for a heads up display.
@epicshadowkrazee4 жыл бұрын
The "bloopers" are my favorite part of your videos! (I love the rest too, don't worry) Thanks for making entertaining, informational content for me to enjoy when I get tired of losing video games, or need to procrastinate actual work. Keep it up! :)
@shutupjade04204 жыл бұрын
Dang a Series of Unfortunate Events reference in 2019? No wonder I love your channel so much, a man of fine tastes
@Noname721054 жыл бұрын
I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.
@padistedor5 жыл бұрын
How do you give this a thumbs down? He is the Mr. Wizard of his generation. Love his videos.
@EnglishLaw5 жыл бұрын
People were maybe searching for VFD as Volunteer Fire Department
@Sharklops5 жыл бұрын
@@EnglishLaw or Variable Frequency Drive
@theelmonk5 жыл бұрын
I think he needs a thumbs down for 'sickly green'. Green is, of course, the finest possible colour for VFDs. His beloved orange is just a plasma wannabee (see burroughs panaplex for the real thing).
@LakeNipissing5 жыл бұрын
General Electric was using negative LCDs on some of their 1980s clock radios with the sleek wedge design. When I first found one of these clock radios, I was amazed by the gray digits on blue background, and wondered what kind of display it was - same as what JVC did here, with an adjustable brightness incandescent backlight.
@tux71745 жыл бұрын
Indeed they were! I have one from 1983, with a built-in cassette deck no less, that uses an incandescent bulb-backlit orange LCD that looks exactly like the ones in this video.
@VectraQS5 жыл бұрын
I have one from 1990, and it's a cassette recorder, and it appears to have a VFD. Lines, regions, and everything. I also have a standard GE clock radio from 1976 (one of the first electronic digital models) which I'll have to dig up to check what the display is.
@Lttlemoi5 жыл бұрын
My clock radio from the early 2000's has it as well and I know of at least one model from that time where you can choose between green or red.
@gordoncraig82385 жыл бұрын
Best I've seen in a shop window was a Breitling watch that had a negative LCD that did gold digits. Looked so good.
@studiograham5 жыл бұрын
4:39 That yell at the end of this statement had me laughing for a good long time!
@mylittleparody22774 жыл бұрын
This message will be lost in the comments (which is normal for a video that old), but do know that a French company makes color LCD. Eyup, by sequencilly switching an RGB LED for the background lighting, one can iluminate segments in different colors. Here is a link if you want to know more : www.digitaldisplays.fr/afficheur-lcd-custom/lcd-couleur-technologie-fsc-field-sequential-color By the way, some also use OLED to create look alike Nixies : www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/fixie-clock/ Or even plain old RGB LED : www.instructables.com/id/VIRTUAL-NIXIE-CLOCK-ON-LED-MATRIX-64X64/
@cassettepllayer Жыл бұрын
I would recommend POSY's video about VFDs, its a amazing showcase of what they can look like and some pretty good music!
@dantheman201276675 жыл бұрын
Who else didn't see the thumbnail and clicked for Variable Frequency Drives?
@Cowclops5 жыл бұрын
My company does a lot of motor equipment and automation. Variable Frequency Drive was definitely the first thing that popped into my head.
@skuzzyj5 жыл бұрын
@@Cowclops I haven't worked with them for years and yet it was still the first thing I thought of, also.
@BobWiersema5 жыл бұрын
Yep, thought he found a new way to make his air conditioner run quieter. Or at least start up quietly.
@WooferCooker5 жыл бұрын
This isn’t a HVAC repair channel! Or is it?
@elvishfiend5 жыл бұрын
Well, it certainly ain't that kind of VFD either
@centurybug5 жыл бұрын
I love these displays on vintage electronics. It's like charming retrofuturism and it has a heck of a lot more character than a normal full color LCD.
@dontcheckmychanel5 жыл бұрын
"This video is what? Sev-" No, Alec. It's funny. By far the funniest episode your bats- Chiroptera Feces insane mind has spawned. GG. Now make the [this part is an unwholesome string of swear words] gosh darn teletext video! I should get a Mastercard pretty soon, so I'll be able to back your channel a little.
@12voltvids5 жыл бұрын
And when the incandescent bulbs blow the receiver stops working, as the rocket scientists at JVC used the filament as a dropping resistor to supply one of the low voltage zener regulators. Don't believe me? Jut one of the wires to each light and let me know what happens.
@MVVblog5 жыл бұрын
To me , in the 80's, this kind of display has always looked like the cheap version of a real VFD, making the entire thing looking as cheap crap made out of plastic.
@SomeBorkedAccount5 жыл бұрын
I like the occasional unprofessional video like this. Great work as always.
@patrik51235 жыл бұрын
Unprofessional!?..
@AdamChristensen5 жыл бұрын
@@patrik5123 I think he's referring to it being more laid back, relaxed and less scripted.
@tiago222ofnewyork85 жыл бұрын
Even his “unprofessional” videos are pretty darn professional.
@bsadewitz5 жыл бұрын
The gentleman doth profess too much.
@DmanYTofficial5 жыл бұрын
A Series of Unfortunate Events reference on this channel. My life is complete.
@ivanpatarcic734 жыл бұрын
It is not the only one. I remember one from before, but I cannot remember which video.
@olafwagner5 жыл бұрын
"Liquitron Luma +" is definately what Apple's marketing department would have called it ;-)
@tiago222ofnewyork85 жыл бұрын
...And there will most definitely be a compatibility dongle released for that with the next update of the MacBook Pro.
@tomtheplummer73225 жыл бұрын
I remember taking radio and tv 📺 tubes to the hardware store with my Dad to test. He knew down to 3 or less. So cool, the replacements were right at the test machine. I can’t remember the tube numbers anymore. Dad and clerk knew the numbers and price. No UPC nor laser scanner. No price tags. I miss those days and my Dad.
@BillLaBrie Жыл бұрын
I have the same memory, combined with getting that weirdly cylindrical ice cream at Thrifty Drug (that’s where the tester was). I loved testing tubes with my dad, and getting a double cone with chocolate chip on the way out. Sniff.
@Gonzo3454 жыл бұрын
My first “quest” in order to be hired as a developer on the enterprise I’m working at was programming a library for one of those VFD!
@The_Future_isnt_so_Bright5 жыл бұрын
VFD's ring like bells when you tap on them. If the vacuum is lost, it wont ring.
@goatfromhell6664 жыл бұрын
That's so tragic
@MSteamCSM5 жыл бұрын
oh my, he really wearing pants! I always thought he just sits in his underwear behind that table, lol
@blankpage92775 жыл бұрын
I never assumed that but the image is funny
@Henrix19985 жыл бұрын
One could say that you didn't, **cough**, make the technology connection
@jasejj5 жыл бұрын
There were quite a lot of devices using reverse LCD displays by the late 1980s. I guess JVC just had several products that were using the specific VFD display colours and decided to make their LCD displays to match so as not to have to redesign their other stuff for a while. Most reverse LCD displays of the time had non-black background shades (Philips were using a dark green background around this time for example) because the pigments used were not completely opaque, so JVC must have been using a more advanced LCD tech at the time.
@RandomEskimo425 жыл бұрын
Me: "Why does that VCR have an animation of a graphics card on it... oh!"
@joeblow85935 жыл бұрын
Ha! And here I thought that VFD stood for Volunteer Fire Department
@JamEngulfer5 жыл бұрын
Really? I thought it was Very Fresh Dill!
@dominateeye5 жыл бұрын
The Volunteer Fire Department that isn't (volunteer? or a fire department? either way, would be an interesting video!)
@joeblow85935 жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_fire_department
@mattbartley28435 жыл бұрын
Or Variable Frequency (AC motor) Drive.
@PhoebeAlwaysWins4 жыл бұрын
@@JamEngulfer Huh, well I was certain it meant Verdant Flammable Device
@pyromen3215 жыл бұрын
4:47 That noise...
@tomf31505 жыл бұрын
pyromen321 NAAAH !
@Gloworm175 жыл бұрын
I love the VFD of old yet recent two way radios, it fits perfect in my 20 year old truck!
@InventorZahran4 жыл бұрын
Your outro music is on a CD?!
@sageslightbulbs75083 жыл бұрын
I have a similar receiver amplifier from JVC that I believe is in the same series as this one and it has a super cool display. The display fills up basically the whole front of the thing, and has a whole bunch of different lights and different colors etc. and about 1000 different buttons. I would love to see how they accomplish such an elaborate bright and pleasing display.
@rogehmarbi5 жыл бұрын
7:31 "Why is it taking me so long to do this" Me in a nutshell
@tiago222ofnewyork85 жыл бұрын
Dude, you make me so happy to be the same kind of observational and inquisitive person as yourself. Trust me, even the humor is nearly spot on. People who take the time to stop and ask about the “who?” and the “why?” and the “how come?” are In my opinion one of the greatest assets of the human race. They are usually great people to work and coordinate with and are often times thinking to themselves about solutions to issues before many of us even realize that there was an issue to begin with. I myself have always been the “go to” person in my area if somebody doesn’t understand how something works or why it works the way that it does. You are now my go to person with every video that you had made because the time and effort you have put into it makes them superb teaching tools for people of all abilities. I have learned a few things from you and for that I am forever humble and grateful. Your clever use of first rate graphics, diagrams, and props have been able to illustrate concepts very accurately and completely to many people. There have been instances here where I thought I had sufficiently described a concept (and I will use the examples of amber/European turning indicators, non-window portable air-conditioning units, and Winter with the Bolt) where my people have come back to me and told me about how much better they understood what was going on after they saw your presentation. Keep up the great work guy. I am personally delighted and pleased to see your enthusiasm and obvious satisfaction and the success generated in the work that you do. And even in times of frustration (i’m not even going to mention the word “heater”) you are still coming out light years ahead. 👍
@arbayer25 жыл бұрын
100% in agreement there - he's great at using metaphors and concisely demonstrating a technical concept while simultaneously narrating it. It's the same sort of content direction and packaging that draws me to older educational/public access and technical series and basically anything lauded as "historically important/classic" as examples because more often than not you'll find some incredibly compelling content there if you're in the mindset to do so. Why was this so important? Here's a brief synopsis of what this damn thing is and then just how many other things are related to or dependent upon its existence. Suddenly there's historical context, and perhaps consideration for what once was just a thing you heard of over and over again, tangentially related to a more personally important subject. You get a web of people talking about a few of these things at random, perhaps glancing over at each other for subject trends for maximum views, and you quickly find yourself assembling a technical understanding of macro-level human concepts like industry and technology before too long - even if there's errors here and there.
@gymnasiast905 жыл бұрын
This video made me suddenly realise VFD are lovely, and they _should_ return! :-)
@NightWatch7074 жыл бұрын
They were lovely. The stuff that tried to emulate them never looked right. VFD was hypnotic to me when I was a kid.
@NirateGoel4 жыл бұрын
I didn't know Very Fancy Doillys had gone away?
@RiffRaffMama.4 жыл бұрын
Yeah what is with microwaves and thte internet? I just bought a new one and it not only interferes with our 2.4ghz broadband frequency but if it is experiencing issues you call a particular phone number and hold the handset up to the microwave. I'd love to know what that's about.
@piers3895 жыл бұрын
This video has the type of humour only seen in the *Airplane* movies and that's why I love it. Also, don't call me Shirley.
@RikoJAmado4 жыл бұрын
He has another video in which he "borrows" the "It's a different sort of thing, all together" joke. He is clearly an "Airplane!" Fan but he doesn't do it so often that it comes off as blatant joke rehashing.
@onedeadsaint5 жыл бұрын
didn't know these were called VFDs or even what they were exactly, but I'll always remember them fondly, nostalgia and all that!
@WanJae425 жыл бұрын
I had a handheld VFD game from Bandai in 1982 called Frisky Tom, and at the time, it looked like THE FUTURE!
@power-max5 жыл бұрын
Negative LCDs are pretty common on Digikey and Mouser, where I (as an engineer for the DoD) buy many things for the projects I work on. See what cool parts you find there! Another parameter for LCDs is the viewing angle, usually expressed in time oddly enough. "this LCD has a 6 o'clock viewing angle" for instance.
@dopemcee4 жыл бұрын
When you've been an A student all throughout school and got into the university of your dreams, so you just coast throughout the final semester of your school career givkng your absolute minimum at every academic task..................that pretty much summarizes this video by him.
@pev_3 жыл бұрын
VFDs sure were great, especially the multicolored ones. They looked magical up close. I still have one kind of working, in my old top of the line NICAM HiFi VHS recorder (Mitsubishi E52, from sometime around the turn of 1980's to 90's). Unfortunately it no longer has the mechanics working (perished rubber elements etc.) and I just haven't had the energy of taking it apart and trying to repair it, so years ago I had to buy a cheap VHS player to watch some of my old VHS tapes. It's a shame really, because the E52 was just awesome. It had very fast action (incl. rewind) and just awesome features like a learning universal remote, seamless pause-record, fast index search, and many others I never saw in other brands' contemporary models. It would be a huge nostalgia trip if I somehow got it fully working again one day.
@dschlangoe62555 жыл бұрын
These videos are all phenomenal. The credits joke was great, and i was legitimately hoping floaters would be the song on that CD. Such aggressively smooth jazz. Of course it's always great to learn something too
@ariyapol11115 жыл бұрын
VFD: existed Toyota clock: It's free real estate
@holdenwilhelm79955 жыл бұрын
You almost got me with the random CD thing, mate. Almost. Smooth as usual.
@LifeWithMatthew5 жыл бұрын
love this vids! What do you use for a teleprompter? I'm assuming that's what you scroll back during your bloopers.
@getbackjojo235 жыл бұрын
Shout out for the series of unfortunate events reference that you made!
@river14035 жыл бұрын
Engineers are smart enough that they know how dumb we really are and use that to their advantage xD
@tcphll5 жыл бұрын
"What do you mean, you people?" -- Some dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
@danielgehring74375 жыл бұрын
Secret dad jokes in the closed captioning, eh? Clever.
@Majima_Nowhere4 жыл бұрын
Technology Connections: the Doug DeMuro of old tech.
@CJT3X4 жыл бұрын
Ben Krause the humor here is far better
@jarzz36014 жыл бұрын
recklessly smooth jazz indeed
@JosephDavies5 жыл бұрын
Your shirt makes me wonder: since you've done a video on the Stretching Room and the PeopleMover, would you be interested in covering the mechanisms of the Omnimover and its various incarnations? I'd love to see a breakdown of the ingenuity involved from your perspective. The _Temple of the Forbidden Eye_ "Jeeps" as a follow-up/evolution might be worthwhile as well.
@draketungsten745 жыл бұрын
I thought maybe it was a Tilt-a-Whirl seat at first. I'm so glad for the credits scene where I saw the name of it and I looked it up and it all became clear.
@shelby38225 жыл бұрын
"Fantastic fluoresent phosphors" The hell is this LGR??
@blankpage92775 жыл бұрын
A distant cousin, maybe
@ronaldgarrison84785 жыл бұрын
I saw your avatar, and wondered, for an instant, where that stray bit of hair came from.
@Krystalmyth4 жыл бұрын
_"Never come to conclusions until you've taken the thing apart..."_ Life changing advice.
@Dewydidit4 жыл бұрын
Didn't help me fix my cat... just sayin
@eugenepolan17503 жыл бұрын
@@Dewydidit It's not fixed until you've bumbled with it long enough to break it worse.
@my3dviews3 жыл бұрын
@@eugenepolan1750 Not in this case. He was talking about a cat. LOL
@eugenepolan17503 жыл бұрын
@@my3dviews What? Don't you think this is why the cat worries so much every time it's taken to the vet? The reason they put people under during surgery is so they don't recall hearing anyone say "Oops!" during the operation.
@HectaSpyrit3 жыл бұрын
That "HA" sound effect killed me :')
@rich_edwards795 жыл бұрын
At least the fake VFD won't fade to illegibility over time. Just swap out the bulbs for LEDs if and when they ever fail. I have an Aiwa home cinema receiver from 2001 with a white VFD main display that's now almost unreadable, and a Sony Digicube alarm clock that I had to junk after 35 years because you had to turn out the bedside lamp to read the time.