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seri0us said:
Superior sound and video accuracy. LD is an analog format
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To be more precise, superior sound and video accuracy for that era. Your other option were movies on VHS, which were magnetic analog tape, so they looked like shit. LaserDisc, despite being an analog technology, still benefited from being optical, which allowed for better data accuracy.

However by the 90's DVD became a thing, and in the 80's the Compact Disc has shown the superiority of digital media, so once it matured enough to be able to hold movies, LaserDisc died out, since DVD's could give a better quality at a much smaller disc size.

Of course, while DVD's and BluRay's have phenomenal video and audio quality, it's no good if the data stored on the disks is of low quality itself. Countless remasters, upscales and other corporate fuckery has destroyed a lot of old movies, so LaserDiscs remain a good way to experience those oldies in the quality they were meant to be experienced.

Your next best bet is someone doing a 1:1 digitalization of the source film tape, but that's something that no big corporation does, and the few enthusiasts that do are few and far in between, with Project 4K77 being one of the best examples of that. Someone managed to source the original 1977 Star Wars 35mm film and digitize it to get an experience closest to the original 35mm reel in a cinema. But Disney would obviously never do such a thing, since it wouldn't be butchered for the modern audiences and it wouldn't be profitable.
 
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The LDDB forums have a small topic on Linus' new vid.

The owner of the site even chips in to shake his head. Mind you, Julian is a regular user of the forum so its not like Null commenting on something.

Jeff Q. Anime said:
what does "better" mean?
if it plays the video... what more can you ask for?
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LD player quality is all over the place. Usually, the higher end the model of player, the better it'll look. It can never look as good as a DVD. DVD and Bluray players are pretty standardized. Your average joe probably couldn't tell the difference between a $100 DVD/BD player vs a $1000 machine through HDMI.

Slav Power said:
Your next best bet is someone doing a 1:1 digitalization of the source film tape, but that's something that no big corporation does, and the few enthusiasts that do are few and far in between, with Project 4K77 being one of the best examples of that. Someone managed to source the original 1977 Star Wars 35mm film and digitize it to get an experience closest to the original 35mm reel in a cinema. But Disney would obviously never do such a thing, since it wouldn't be butchered for the modern audiences and it wouldn't be profitable.
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There are a few enthusist groups that own the equipment and buy films to scan. They usually pool money from multiple people. There's scans out there of the LOTR trilogy, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, BTTF, True Lies, etc. Thunderbean, a cartoon restoration company, releases some films on BD. usually in low amounts under the radar not to get in trouble with the big D.
 
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Slav Power said:
Your next best bet is someone doing a 1:1 digitalization of the source film tape, but that's something that no big corporation does, and the few enthusiasts that do are few and far in between, with Project 4K77 being one of the best examples of that. Someone managed to source the original 1977 Star Wars 35mm film and digitize it to get an experience closest to the original 35mm reel in a cinema. But Disney would obviously never do such a thing, since it wouldn't be butchered for the modern audiences and it wouldn't be profitable.
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Yeah...the TN1 guys are kinda insane. They didn't source an original 35mm print of Star Wars. They sourced multiple 35mm prints. 1977, 1978, 1981, and 1997 Special Editions. Plus other languages. Same with Empire Strikes Back, though because of the brief period of time those prints were struck they're all in fucking abysmal shape so 4K80 doesn't look quite on par with 4K77 or 4K83 (which was sourced from a privately owned preview print).

The Mouse doesn't have a great track record with film restorations, I'll give you that. The recent official 4k releases of Star Wars weren't even done by Disney, but by Lucasfilm themselves just before they were bought out. Lucas still had his hand in the pot so they're still the bastardized editions of the films, but whatever I'm rambling enough blah blah blah.

One thing nobody's mentioned about LD players, and why you'd want a nicer mid-late 90s one: digital audio quality. Most Laserdiscs of that era used PCM, AC-3 or DTS for their audio tracks. Being more of a cinephile format, they used high-quality encodes, higher even compared to a lot of DVDs, and were regularly sourced from the original theatrical audio tracks for the films. When DVD became mainstream, a looooooot of studios opted to "remaster" the audio along with the video for catalog releases and a good chunk of the time, the new mixes were vastly inferior (I once again point to Star Wars). Older, lower-end Laserdisc players either didn't have digital audio support or had pretty crummy audio, or if God particularly hates you, a mix of both. The LaserActive Linus bought is...a bit of a mix. Lmfao. (PCM is standard, but it had no support for AC-3, which was more popular than DTS, and from what I read back in the day, it's not particularly great at either).
 
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Flaming Dumpster said:
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Thanks bro

quaawaa said:
Wendell's KVM is literally the only one on the retail market that provides the full DisplayPort bandwidth and is a must if you have large high refresh rate monitors.
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Exactly, kinda weird that you have to buy a specific (and expensive) switch made by an expert instead of being able to buy it off the shelves in this day and age. Makes me wonder what these companies do wrong when a man and his small team able to beat them so handily
 
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Not a lot to talk about with last week's WAN show, the no-LTX '24 was already mentioned and is the biggest thing, but
-1:38:00 Linus got his LAN center all set up at home (the room where his kids will play that a video was done a year ago with the KVMs) and another example of an idea they approved but had to be scrapped, all because he wanted rack mount gay PCs
-1:43:10 Linus did get his pool-cooled server room working at his house.
-2:51:30 the LTX '24 cancellation announcement
-3:18:24 question about the 5 million 3D printed face shield order from the leaf government in 2020, said they didn't do 5 million, just sent as much as they could.
-3:24:40 talk about cancelled videos, one video was going to be making the LTT Lan Center (with all those PCs) turned into rack mounted server PCs like he did at his home, and then have some roof designed cooling for it.
 
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datnodeking said:
I was wondering why Wendell was quiet about the controversy. I guess being given an entire video to shill his product kept him quiet.
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At the very least he brought in something unique that no one else is doing, unlike Linus' t-shirts, plushies, backpacks and screwdrivers, and it's something that's actual technology and not something that can appeal to zoom zooms.
 
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Migraine Box said:
Alright, give me the hats, this shit chaps my ass. LaserActives are a very specific niche device, something only super hardcore LD, Sega, or NEC collectors would go for. They are a massive PITA absolutely NOTORIOUS for capacitor problems, and quite literally every single one of the fuckers left in the world need a full refurb job. If he's just gonna use it as a LD player, it's an absolute waste of time and money as LaserActives weren't even particularly high-end for basic LD playback, as they were a game console first and foremost. Any mid-tier (and up) player from the 90s would be leagues better, and quite literally a hundred times cheaper.

Guarantee he doesn't understand nor care, either. It's rare and expensive, so he's gotta have it to flex it in a video for his braindead audience (most of which weren't even alive when the last LDs were made)
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It boils my piss when Linus does something like this, especially because he has about as much clue as to its significance and rarity as the retarded zoomers who mindless gobble up his autiovisual goyslop.

I'd much rather see someone like Neil from RMC getting his hands on a LaserActive. He'd get it fixed up, show it off on the channel and then pop it into The Cave for the general public to marvel at (though maybe not use given how rare and fragile they are).
 
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Pee Cola said:
I'd much rather see someone like Neil from RMC getting his hands on a LaserActive. He'd get it fixed up, show it off on the channel and then pop it into The Cave for the general public to marvel at (though maybe not use given how rare and fragile they are).
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Oh hell yes, plus he'd give a well-written history and breakdown of the machine while working on it, something Linus would never in a million years do.
Also, after a proper refurb, the only thing I'd worry about wearing down under public use would be the Laserdisc side of things. The PACs shouldn't give much if any trouble, but at that rate it'd just be an overglorified PC Engine Duo or Sega tower of power. A proper LaserActive display would have to show off the LD-based games made for it, which are rare and fuckall expensive.
 
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Pee Cola said:
It boils my piss when Linus does something like this, especially because he has about as much clue as to its significance and rarity as the retarded zoomers who mindless gobble up his autiovisual goyslop.

I'd much rather see someone like Neil from RMC getting his hands on a LaserActive. He'd get it fixed up, show it off on the channel and then pop it into The Cave for the general public to marvel at (though maybe not use given how rare and fragile they are).
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He already made a video series on it, and it is fucking great:
 
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Slav Power said:
At the very least he brought in something unique that no one else is doing, unlike Linus' t-shirts, plushies, backpacks and screwdrivers, and it's something that's actual technology and not something that can appeal to zoom zooms.
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Even Wendell's T-Shirts are better:
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Unlike Linus' shirts, they aren't ads for his channel and actually have nice designs.

Level1Techs' shirts can be worn in public without everyone thinking that you're a walking billboard/paypig for YouTubers.
 
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quaawaa said:
Level1Techs' shirts can be worn in public without everyone thinking that you're a walking billboard/paypig for YouTubers.
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However everyone will think you're a massive faggot nerd that has no life outside of computers.

And they wouldn't be wrong, since that's the predisposition to buy Wendell's merch.
 
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mandatorylurk said:

Secret Shopper 3, using Monk of all TV shows to be the framing device. Milquetoast pozzed leafs of course pick the inoffensive show from 20 years ago, gaaaaay. They also use the hunchback guy's girlfriend to be the secret shopper. There is a marked difference between these sales reps and the reps of the past.
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Now I am really mad. Not only did he have to stain Monk with his cancuckery, he also couldn't even play the character right. Adrian would never touch a trash bin without a tissue, and he would never go anywhere without his assistant. He could've gotten his Ho to play that role and ignore the fact that Trudy died in a car bomb which led Monk to develop crippling OCD for the sake of the short skit being just a tad bit more accurate to the series.

But I expect too much out of him, he couldn't even get a fitting suit and wear it neatly. The way he wore it would make Adrian Monk have a mental breakdown. He had so much potential to actually make the skit accurate to the fans of the series, but instead he half-assed it as much as he could just to have some sort of reference.
 
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