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Still kicking
I’m still alive. I think I’m on that bit of the sickness slope just before officially “starting to feel a bit better”.
While I’ve been dead on the couch, the garden studio has been...
2025-02-19 18:48:55 +0000 UTC View PostApologies - no new video this week
I’ve been horrendously ill all week and I still am - this is the worst thing I can remember having - it’s a fever but it just keeps on going. This is all I can type right now.
2025-02-14 17:45:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe B&Oombox (UPDATED)
As soon as I found out that Bang & Olufsen (the high-end Danish audio company) had once sold a lowly portable stereo radio cassette recorder, I just had to try it out. I’d feel much the same ...
2025-02-05 16:39:23 +0000 UTC View PostMP3 Cassette - Mixxed Feelings
Remember being a child and thinking that a flying car would be cool. Sharing that thought with an adult immediately brought it crashing down to earth.
What about the pilots ...
2025-01-28 16:32:33 +0000 UTC View PostIs the Patreon video player rubbish?
It seems that there isn't much love for the Patreon video player. The only way to find out for sure though was to post a video using it and see how well it was received.
So I've just done that ...
New Studio Digs - UPDATE: Added a Youtube link
I could benefit from having more studio space so here’s what I’m doing about it.
A short (yet still verbose) video exclusive just for Patrons.
For anyone who wasn’t able t...
2025-01-25 16:17:39 +0000 UTC View PostCantata 700 - Techmoan Nil
In this video I revisit the 3M Cantata 700 BGM tape system in an attempt to resolve some unfinished business.
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The smallest ‘Walkman’?
Which was the smallest personal stereo Compact Cassette player?
https://youtu.be/nTwbpHp0TFI
I’...
2025-01-09 14:57:19 +0000 UTC View PostDTS 5.1 CD - I missed this one
Here’s a format that I either missed or I forgot about - I suspect it’s the former, but I can’t remember.
I might be twenty five years too late but I’m finally up to speed on this now...
2025-01-02 18:20:11 +0000 UTC View PostDecember mini update
Due to enforced downtime around Christmas I took the opportunity to make a short extra video just for Patrons.
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New Oscilloscope Music
I’m really happy to be able to show you something new today. It’s been eight years since I last featured oscilloscope music on the channel but a new EP has finally given me an opportunity to re...
2024-12-24 13:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostTwo twin tapes - UPDATED
The Twin-Tape, Personal Stereo is a product category that only has two members. That's probably two more than make sense.
In this video I look at one of these that you’re m...
2024-12-13 21:48:24 +0000 UTC View PostTravelogue Xmas Special
You may have seen me mention that there would be a slight gap between my regular video uploads, this video shows what I’ve been getting up to.
Big Bad? Bose
This is the last of an unplanned three part series looking at relatively recently discontinued Bose Products.
I liked the Bose Wave Sound Touch IV, so surely its big brother will be even bett...
2024-11-23 22:35:53 +0000 UTC View PostA stereo with a twist
Here’s a compact video about a neat little portable stereo radio cassette recorder from the mid eighties. It’s unlikely you’ll have encountered this model before, I certainly hadn’t, which ...
2024-11-15 18:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 2024 AUDIO Oddcast
An unflashy (as well as wheezy) Patreon update this time, looking back at the last few videos and assorted irrelevance.
LINKS:
My disappointing video about the Kanto Sy...
2024-11-10 16:26:13 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 2024 VIDEO Oddcast
An unflashy (as well as wheezy) Patreon update this time, looking back at the last few videos and assorted irrelevance.
https... 2024-11-10 16:25:55 +0000 UTC View Post
DVD = RetroTech
DVD was launched a day over twenty eight years ago on the 1st November 1996 in Japan.
There have been hundreds of different DVD players launched since then, but in order to show you the one t...
2024-11-02 17:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe story of the 4-Track cart
I’ve wanted to tell the story of the Muntz 4-track cart for years, but I needed to find sufficient time to spend on it, to do the topic justice.
I think this might be the video that’s tak...
2024-10-26 10:03:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe fetid Pong of nostalgia
Some people here will be old enough to remember a Christmas Day at the end of the 1970s when you opened up ‘the big present’ - and found your first games console inside.
For most of us ou...
2024-10-14 16:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate - Bose 500 UK stock.
Just a quick message for anyone in the UK who is looking to buy a Bose Smart Speaker 500 after my last video. Bose UK has just restocked these online in their 2024-10-10 23:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The Bose Smart Speaker 500
I think I might be getting worse at making videos that appeal to a wide audience. Spending a week on a video about a discontinued, unpopular, expensive, smart-speaker is probably not the wa...
2024-10-09 17:27:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe self-erasing 2View Video Tape (UPDATED)
Today I’m able to share with you an almost mythical failed format, the 2View, the pre-recorded videotape that erased itself after, you guessed it, two views.
Oddcast September 2024 AUDIO
Here’s the audio track from the September 2024 patron exclusive video - provided for those who prefer listening rather than watching.
The video version is available in a separate post.
2024-09-24 14:51:24 +0000 UTC
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Oddcast September 2024 VIDEO
Here’s a Patreon exclusive video for September 2024. Join me as I run some errands while reminiscing over the vagaries of the past few weeks.
An audio only version of this is available in...
2D Holiday snaps in 3D - with the Looking Glass Go
My new video is finally ready to share.
Remember digital picture frames? Well they're back and can now show your 2D photos in 3D.
This is just a temporary thumbnail
The next video is running late (and doesn’t yet exist)
Just a quick note to say that this last week has been a productivity write off so I’ll only be startling work on the next video in the morning.
I was sick for a few days, then I needed to v...
2024-09-15 17:39:08 +0000 UTC View PostA classic mistake?
I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to fix up an old Sharp GF-9191 portable stereo radio cassette - here’s the video.
2024-09-09 19:03:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Tuneshine
A short video where I’m taking a look at the Tuneshine, an album-art display device for digital music. This one came about following a suggestion received under the ITIC2 video back in July. Afte...
2024-08-30 19:29:34 +0000 UTC View Post