Bruh,it's obviously the 1st pre-production prototype of this device based on the wiring set up lol, shit's gotta be worth st least 10 times the 3 bucks you paid for it 😂
I kinda like this new direction he's going in; it's one part madness, and one part mystery. You can't be too certain of what's next, yet you're going to get something new and amazing each time..
Just be glad he continues with videos. He was pretty burnt out after the hacks show. Listen to Pat the NES punk's podcast with him from right when the show ended approx 2 yrs ago. Good insight into everything
I got one for Christmas when I was a kid and it was called "TV NOW". I remember converting avi files and editing the HEX data allowing it to play its proprietary format. Good 'ol days.
Would you happen to remember the steps? Or a jumping off point for a tutorial? I found my old one and would love to get the footage off it from back in the day.
TVV files are a variant of the MPEG-4 format developed specifically for use with 'TV-Now' and 'Vugo' media players developed by Hasbro-Tiger electronics so i would think vlc should play them
I was going to say the same, before i knew they were mpeg4. VLC should have no problem unless the file format was specifically written to be incompatible with standard video
Or MPV, I use SMplayer as a frontend. Used to use VLC but one of the lead devs has a somewhat bigoted view on frame interpolation (he's one of those guys who genuinely looks down on you if you like high framerate video for any reason) and VLC has longtime performance issues anyway if you are nitpicky about frame pacing. Never ran into anything I couldn't play with SMplayer.
So I actually bought one of those when it came out, I was 11. The commercials made it look a lot cooler than it was, they showed better quality video and kind of marketed it as being able to play video/music and hold pictures at a time when mp3 players mostly just held music. The 5th gen ipod which was the first video ipod only came out like a month before it and costed like twice as much. They also had some kind of online store where you could buy episodes of certain shows directly. Basically i had it for about 2 hours before trying to record something off my tv when it made that grinding sound and the screen went completely blank and wouldn't display anything the rest of the night. Total piece of junk, my dad took me to target the next day to return and I spent the money on a gameboy micro instead.
TVV is just bastardised AVI. There were a few of these floating around my high school, clearance from a toy store I think. Used to convert anime to their format and load it for people to watch. PSP was much easier to share video with.
"SPACE HEATER" really got me when you went into the chorus. I thought you were going for forced air furnaces, since that was more recent than TC's space heater videos, stood out more in my head. Next time you need to sing about street lamps and how brown is just really dark orange.
I had one of these, I asked for it for Christmas back in 2006. I remember hooking it up to the cable box and recording various TV shows with it. I also tried to export the recordings to the PC to upload to TH-cam, but never had any success. Also, could never import any media on it from PC to it, the only working input was the AV capture.
I think he tried that. It's a proprietary video codec that tiger used. I am sure there's a way but if he couldn't figure it out it must not have been easy
Funny thing is I use that same SD card socket in some of the devices I build. For a while 3M discontinued that socket and I paid way more for just the socket than you paid for the entire device.
Oh man, I feel deeply touched by that song. I have these cursed night storage heaters in my apartment and I regularly break into tears when I walk past the power meter. Not to mention the week of desperation when the energy bill arrives...
He has a point! Im 40 and when i read most Comments they are usualy like " this was my childhood/first whatever" than i read when its made and its from mid to 2010! Nostalgia i guess ,but come on, its not that long ago!
Dduuuddeeeeeeee. I had one of these. It was awesome. I was a teen when I used it, but I used it to dvr headbangers ball on MTV for music videos on the go 🤣🤣
More 'crappy' tear downs. This was so cool to see all the 'fails' in design and manufacture of a real product, not just a prototype, which is what it actually looked like. Wowzers.
I think the device was also sold under the "TVNow" name as one of the later iterations of the VideoNow series. I think the TVNow name may be more widely known?
I have to admit I find these Goodwill and Menards electronics videos very interesting to watch. Ben, couldn't you repurpose some of that instead of throwing it into the bin? At the very least the case. It would work very well for an actual, working handheld. Maybe using a Pi or that MC game you did the other day.
The psp also came out in 2005, a fair bit more expensive but a hell lot better value. Alternatively one could also have bought a gameboy sp with a multi mediaplayer addon card. What would have been slightly more expensive but a hell lot better value.
I know that at games portable Atari 2600 you find at Dollar general has an audio video Jack apparently it only uses mono audio and video so I was trying to put a regular audio video plug into it and it wouldn't work until I just used a regular plug that had a headphone jack on one side and just the left and right audio and one of them eventually became video but it still had the same buzz issues that thing does
They were outdated when this was new too, that's the funny part. In 2005 the AGS 101 GBA was out which was budget as heck as far as components goes and still looked good and Apple was selling a 30 inch 1440p IPS display.
I'm so happy to find this channel. I remember reading about your hacks on the Atariage forums years ago. I was always fascinated with them. I have subscribed to this and I'm also subscribed to a few other channels with similar topics (LGR, 8 Bit Guy, Nostalgia Nerd, Techmoan, etc). Cheers!
Those old Sony cameras are also a solid way of digitally capturing Laserdisc and VHS films. Have one myself from back in the day, and as you can guess, it's still working like a dream.
The reveal at 6:20 gave me flashbacks to some of the build build logs on the forums. Pretty on the outside, pray-you-don't-have-to-open-it-ever-again on the inside.
"Does this even have RF shielding?" Uhh no ben the video was buzzing like crazy when you turned it on. All kinds of interference coming outta that thing
I'm looking for a device like this but a bit more advanced that records DVD quality video on SD cards. I'd like to record VHS tapes to digital and I know there are capture cards out ther but I want to eliminate the PC. I'd like it if they ignored the protections. Amazon has a few devices but they want a pretty penny for them and I'm afraid they won't work well. I've seen more professional ones but they only record from HDMI and not composite. Ben you should redesign this device. That would be cool.
16:51 Ah, that makes sense, I was wondering about that. Because obviously you'd be recording from the same source as the TV, so unless you had a splitter or you were recording from a device like a VCR or something, if it didn't echo what it was recording, you wouldn't be able to see it.
I bought one for my daughter on clearance years ago, there were tools on the internet to convert video. It was cheaper than installing a DVD player in the car at the time. An SD card could hold about an hour or two of video.
I've paused at 03:47 to check the comments. Ive been cursing silently at the screen for a minute - the video jack has been plugged into an audio output. Why has no-one mentioned this???!!!! Back to the video...
8:48 - yes that was Dave Jones who took apart that "medical tablet", he thought it was a prototype, but I think later he thought it was a "final" product. I hope I never need to use something like that!
I had this device in high school. I got it for Xmas because I saw an ad and I thought it would be neat. I felHowever, The VuGo was the least intuitive piece of crap with the worst screen and after a week I just didn't care anymore. The novelty of recording shows and watching them later wad cool. But competing with iPods or Zune and people I knew had limewire or and a bit of know how and it that was by far a better investment. May the VuGo rest in Goodwill where thier kind belong.
The buzzing was the video going in the audio jack but you probably figured that one out when you recording the video. I'd done that mutiple times before---video out going into audio in
Bought the VideoNow! version brand-new, around 2005... for $25.00 at a Wal-Mart Black Friday Sale. My variant has the USB ports--or at least where they'd be located--covered by gray body-color matched tabs, but I understand it runs the same codex as the Vu-Go. I came to hate the audio recording levels game I had to play with it, but loved how the SD-card slot could take far-larger than the advertised 2GB... so if anyone can link it to me, so I can burn directly to the card, I'd be grateful. :)
Aldi's has Black Soy Bean Spaghetti that seems more nutritious for the price compared to Raman. Just saying, since is a new find to me. Was just going through my stack of Goodwill routers and found I have a Logitech Harmony O-R0004 I'm trying to determine why I even purchased.
I've been looking for that camera on ebay for ages but the prices are hyperinflated it's crazy. It's because of the firewire interface and the adc in it.
Yeah bought it back in 2000 for like $1100 I think? Had no idea it would become a special relic. The 21 year old LiPo still hold a charge too! (not as much but still...)
Ben: I think your initial recording problem stems from the lack of proprietary cable included when sold new. My TV-Now! has it... and it simultaneously plugs into the A/V-input and headphones port--perhaps as some method setting a default audio recording level. And yes: It was 3-pin for the input. [:\
BEN!!!! I got one better than that!!! Several years ago(maybe 2012ish) my mom sends me a computer disc with a movie on it. She explained that a friend(or cousin?) of hers had come down too FL to visit back in like 1980(me and you were born a couple months apart) and she had an 8mm camera to film her trip. This 8mm film that no one eve knew existed, had about 3 minutes of footage(silent, unfortunately) of our first house, my brothers like 3rd birthday party, my parents, some other family, us at the beach, etc. My mom doing cartwheels in the front yard while I jumped up and down and tried to ham the camera. This was so bizarre. My parents were like 10 years younger than I was whet I first watched that video.
My thought on that weird tablet computer was it was some sort of proof of concept prototype thing. "Look it doesn't need a keyboard, it's called a tablet."
Ben, please... I have an old Furby (Gremlin's® Gizmo edition)(I must also forward this story by saying that this was a better time, about after that first Austin Power's movie released) Anywho... Back when I was a lil' Sandman, my dear mum got me one of those newfangled Furby toys for x-mas (albeit, I wasn't really interested in them then, but afterwards, my interest piqued considerably)... At the time, I thought it was just a cute novelty toy, and I showed it off to a friend of mine. He thought it was pretty cool, so he asked to borrow it for a while, which I allowed, cause he was a bro... I got it back a few days later, and was just playing around with it... I 'pet' it's back, and I immediately heard it say, 'YEEAAAH BABY'... (a common phrase, from the Austin Power's craze I mentioned before, a phrase he said quite a bit back in that day) Now, the very first thing I asked myself was,'wtf was he doing with my Gizmo?!'... Afterwards, I realized that there may be a form of early AI here... Just let me know if you have an episode idea based on that, because I remember there being a bit of controversy revolving around Furbys being used as recording devices, or something rediculous... I'd be happy to help.
Sounded like you had the video signal connected to the audio input. There is no standardization on the AV pinouts for these stupid things. Sounded like composite video into an audio amp.
Around 2004 there were those "MP4 players" trying to copy the iPod. They were below 50$ and had a generic Chinese media chip that was based on Z80. The video format was one where each frame was an entire image, possibly not even RLE-compressed. Just wanted to say that, on paper, this looks so much more advanced, but it somehow manages to be even worse.
I had one waaay back when working in Toys R Us, Teens actually stole this crap and threw the boxes in the Babies area, along with finished baby snacks and Candies...
Your recording device of choice seems to be angled incorrectly. Referencing the shape of your desk pad, the lines look like \ / , when it should be | | or better yet / \ .
I remember back in the early 00' they had digital recorder type things where you could use SD cards to record shows off of TV. It wasn't that expensive but SD cards of course were and I think the maximum size at the time was maybe 4GB and of course the best you could hope for was 640X480 I think 480p but it could have only been 480i. Either way back in those days when the internet was still pretty crap and expensive and downloading things was pretty much P2P or nothing it was a good products though it wouldn't be long before it was taken over by smartphones.
So funny that you found one of these, I just found my old one the other day and wanted to get the video off it but can't find ANYTHING that can play those .tvv files. You wouldn't happen to know what might play them would you? I got this thing in like 07 or 08 and used it to record ps2 footage.
Does anyone want this crappy thing? Else it's going in the bin (as Dave Jones would say)
No thanks, I'm good
It belongs in a museum! By which I mean, give it to any one of the many retro game museums.
Nah, looks like that was the poor man's psp
Bruh,it's obviously the 1st pre-production prototype of this device based on the wiring set up lol, shit's gotta be worth st least 10 times the 3 bucks you paid for it 😂
I appreciate it, but I don't think I can even justify it for parts :/
I kinda like this new direction he's going in; it's one part madness, and one part mystery. You can't be too certain of what's next, yet you're going to get something new and amazing each time..
Just be glad he continues with videos. He was pretty burnt out after the hacks show. Listen to Pat the NES punk's podcast with him from right when the show ended approx 2 yrs ago. Good insight into everything
it's "Heck unleashed"
I got one for Christmas when I was a kid and it was called "TV NOW". I remember converting avi files and editing the HEX data allowing it to play its proprietary format. Good 'ol days.
Would you happen to remember the steps? Or a jumping off point for a tutorial? I found my old one and would love to get the footage off it from back in the day.
You are the best, Ben!
TVV files are a variant of the MPEG-4 format developed specifically for use with 'TV-Now' and 'Vugo' media players developed by Hasbro-Tiger electronics so i would think vlc should play them
I was going to say the same, before i knew they were mpeg4. VLC should have no problem unless the file format was specifically written to be incompatible with standard video
Will try that thanks!
@@BenHeckHacks If VLC can't, try ffplay (part of ffmpeg). In my experience, if ffplay can't play it, it's not a media format.
Or MPV, I use SMplayer as a frontend. Used to use VLC but one of the lead devs has a somewhat bigoted view on frame interpolation (he's one of those guys who genuinely looks down on you if you like high framerate video for any reason) and VLC has longtime performance issues anyway if you are nitpicky about frame pacing. Never ran into anything I couldn't play with SMplayer.
"I won't have to eat Rayman"
Ben Heck's mom looks like she's a relative of Ben Heck.
I thought he was joking at first that it was actually him in a wig.
that Snake Eater rendition was the best I've ever heard. brought a tear to my eye, thanks, really
3:55 "I won't have to eat Raymond." But everyone loves Raymond. Also: Ben is a potential cannibal confirmed.
the person that played his brother on that show has a sweet lil gig with Jimmy Johns now
@@Gohan1138 I found out yesterday he played the wizzard in Where's Wally?, or Where's Waldo for the amerikans. Loved that show.
So I actually bought one of those when it came out, I was 11. The commercials made it look a lot cooler than it was, they showed better quality video and kind of marketed it as being able to play video/music and hold pictures at a time when mp3 players mostly just held music. The 5th gen ipod which was the first video ipod only came out like a month before it and costed like twice as much. They also had some kind of online store where you could buy episodes of certain shows directly. Basically i had it for about 2 hours before trying to record something off my tv when it made that grinding sound and the screen went completely blank and wouldn't display anything the rest of the night. Total piece of junk, my dad took me to target the next day to return and I spent the money on a gameboy micro instead.
TVV is just bastardised AVI. There were a few of these floating around my high school, clearance from a toy store I think. Used to convert anime to their format and load it for people to watch. PSP was much easier to share video with.
And had a million times better display (still holds up today) which made the crappy tiger thing look like a toy for toddlers
"SPACE HEATER" really got me when you went into the chorus. I thought you were going for forced air furnaces, since that was more recent than TC's space heater videos, stood out more in my head. Next time you need to sing about street lamps and how brown is just really dark orange.
I come up with Space Heater like 8 years ago! But...I didn’t make any lyrics for it. I would just walk around singing “Space Heaterrrrrr”
"I'll be here all week. Try the veal..."
Immediately likes video and double checks he's still subscribed with notifications on.
i'll be honest, i'd be interested in seeing how well this dealt with some of the analog copy-protection measures some VHSes had.
“We accidentally sent the prototype to the factory!”
“Is there still time to get it back?”
“…”
Your Dave Jones impression is far more entertaining than the man himself. haha
Shhh, Dave watches ben. Quiet, lest he visit your dreams.
Ahh bloody hell, we've Been mooned
„Good."
Dave would put out a half hour video on why this video only got 2k views on his 2nd channel.
I had one of these, I asked for it for Christmas back in 2006. I remember hooking it up to the cable box and recording various TV shows with it. I also tried to export the recordings to the PC to upload to TH-cam, but never had any success. Also, could never import any media on it from PC to it, the only working input was the AV capture.
Woah feels nice catching a good ole Ben Heck video when it's fresh out the render! Keep up the great work Ben!
19:48 “I am not going to try to install any ancient software...”
I think it is worth trying VLC media player. It plays almost anything I throw at it.
I think he tried that. It's a proprietary video codec that tiger used. I am sure there's a way but if he couldn't figure it out it must not have been easy
Can confirm vlc does not work 😕
Several years ago I got a magazine that had a tiny video player for a Mercedes ad.
Ben's mom looks like Ben in drag
You mean Ben looks like Ben's mom in drag.
Funny thing is I use that same SD card socket in some of the devices I build. For a while 3M discontinued that socket and I paid way more for just the socket than you paid for the entire device.
Oh man, I feel deeply touched by that song. I have these cursed night storage heaters in my apartment and I regularly break into tears when I walk past the power meter. Not to mention the week of desperation when the energy bill arrives...
Ben it kinda looks like you got an engineering prototype at the Goodwill
I can't believe he added subtitles for his singing. This is too funny. 😆
Post production quality too good. This isn’t what I subscribed for.
"People on TH-cam are babies..." - Preach it, Ben.
He has a point! Im 40 and when i read most Comments they are usualy like " this was my childhood/first whatever" than i read when its made and its from mid to 2010!
Nostalgia i guess ,but come on, its not that long ago!
@@datamanmachine 2020 aged us all.
@@datamanmachine haha ikr? Wait 'til you're in your mid 50s, it's ten times worse!
Dduuuddeeeeeeee. I had one of these. It was awesome. I was a teen when I used it, but I used it to dvr headbangers ball on MTV for music videos on the go 🤣🤣
It's crazy because back then that looked good but the smearing is so bad! From frame to frame you can't distinguish what's going on
@@jsteezy80 it's amazing how we remember things so differently then what they turn out to be years later 🤣
More 'crappy' tear downs. This was so cool to see all the 'fails' in design and manufacture of a real product, not just a prototype, which is what it actually looked like. Wowzers.
I think the device was also sold under the "TVNow" name as one of the later iterations of the VideoNow series. I think the TVNow name may be more widely known?
A resolution of 160x240 going by a quick Google search and what looks to be about 22 and a half colours. Amazing.
I have to admit I find these Goodwill and Menards electronics videos very interesting to watch.
Ben, couldn't you repurpose some of that instead of throwing it into the bin? At the very least the case. It would work very well for an actual, working handheld. Maybe using a Pi or that MC game you did the other day.
The psp also came out in 2005, a fair bit more expensive but a hell lot better value. Alternatively one could also have bought a gameboy sp with a multi mediaplayer addon card. What would have been slightly more expensive but a hell lot better value.
my dad had the same camcorder when i was a kid. i recorded hundreds of hours of drag racing footage over the years. outputting over firewire was great
"Its like reviewing a Neil Breen movie" 🤣 Side note: I desperately need to see an RLM/ Ben Heck crossover.
I want to adopt it!!
You also had the cable connection backward.
Try playing them in VLC and see if a newer LCD can be connected!
Solid Ben Heck Hacks on Space Heater !!
6:42 "Maybe in 2005, Tiger was in its waning days." Tiger was bought out by Hasbro in like 1998.
I know that at games portable Atari 2600 you find at Dollar general has an audio video Jack apparently it only uses mono audio and video so I was trying to put a regular audio video plug into it and it wouldn't work until I just used a regular plug that had a headphone jack on one side and just the left and right audio and one of them eventually became video but it still had the same buzz issues that thing does
It recorded the sound of the composite video signal? 🤣
2:40 the moment you were listening to the audio recording reminded me of the scene in Robocop where they're testing his audio playback
"You're gonna be one bad MOTHER LOVER!"
I watched the entire video, but it was worth it for that song alone.
Careful with those songs ben, you're going to end up writing scripts for homestar runner.
Oh my, i hated those early LCD's with triad phosphor. I believe the LCD panel itself is entirely analog.
They were outdated when this was new too, that's the funny part. In 2005 the AGS 101 GBA was out which was budget as heck as far as components goes and still looked good and Apple was selling a 30 inch 1440p IPS display.
I'm so happy to find this channel. I remember reading about your hacks on the Atariage forums years ago. I was always fascinated with them. I have subscribed to this and I'm also subscribed to a few other channels with similar topics (LGR, 8 Bit Guy, Nostalgia Nerd, Techmoan, etc). Cheers!
It only recorded static, but there was 18 hours of it!
Those old Sony cameras are also a solid way of digitally capturing Laserdisc and VHS films. Have one myself from back in the day, and as you can guess, it's still working like a dream.
The reveal at 6:20 gave me flashbacks to some of the build build logs on the forums. Pretty on the outside, pray-you-don't-have-to-open-it-ever-again on the inside.
I had one of these when I was a kid. Brings back memories
Gotta say it kinda reminds me of your early handhelds with all the wires going everywhere.
Please do some more electronics videos. I really enjoy the videos where you design/build something electronics related. Thanks!
That device looks internally like one of your [old] portables.
Also your youngish mom looks like Mrs. Doubtfire.
You're fucking very rude.
@@davejones1621 Those were just neutral observations.
@@piratesephiroth and your a natural prick.
"Does this even have RF shielding?" Uhh no ben the video was buzzing like crazy when you turned it on. All kinds of interference coming outta that thing
Probably from the video signal messing the ground up.
The buzzing was the video signal input as audio
I think he had them backwards and it was just the video signal
I'm looking for a device like this but a bit more advanced that records DVD quality video on SD cards. I'd like to record VHS tapes to digital and I know there are capture cards out ther but I want to eliminate the PC. I'd like it if they ignored the protections.
Amazon has a few devices but they want a pretty penny for them and I'm afraid they won't work well. I've seen more professional ones but they only record from HDMI and not composite.
Ben you should redesign this device. That would be cool.
16:51 Ah, that makes sense, I was wondering about that. Because obviously you'd be recording from the same source as the TV, so unless you had a splitter or you were recording from a device like a VCR or something, if it didn't echo what it was recording, you wouldn't be able to see it.
I bought one for my daughter on clearance years ago, there were tools on the internet to convert video. It was cheaper than installing a DVD player in the car at the time. An SD card could hold about an hour or two of video.
I've paused at 03:47 to check the comments. Ive been cursing silently at the screen for a minute - the video jack has been plugged into an audio output. Why has no-one mentioned this???!!!!
Back to the video...
Why you not play the video file with VLC player? It will open almost any thing.
8:48 - yes that was Dave Jones who took apart that "medical tablet", he thought it was a prototype, but I think later he thought it was a "final" product. I hope I never need to use something like that!
wow, what was tigers BOM cost on that thing?
I had this device in high school. I got it for Xmas because I saw an ad and I thought it would be neat. I felHowever, The VuGo was the least intuitive piece of crap with the worst screen and after a week I just didn't care anymore. The novelty of recording shows and watching them later wad cool. But competing with iPods or Zune and people I knew had limewire or and a bit of know how and it that was by far a better investment. May the VuGo rest in Goodwill where thier kind belong.
There’s flux capacitors in side????🧐
The buzzing was the video going in the audio jack but you probably figured that one out when you recording the video. I'd done that mutiple times before---video out going into audio in
Bought the VideoNow! version brand-new, around 2005... for $25.00 at a Wal-Mart Black Friday Sale. My variant has the USB ports--or at least where they'd be located--covered by gray body-color matched tabs, but I understand it runs the same codex as the Vu-Go. I came to hate the audio recording levels game I had to play with it, but loved how the SD-card slot could take far-larger than the advertised 2GB... so if anyone can link it to me, so I can burn directly to the card, I'd be grateful. :)
What you have there my friend is a pre production unit!
This does make the videos I have on my Commodore 64 look HD - it certainly has a higher video quality than the VuGo.
what's after gen Z? does it start over with double letters? gen AA ...
Rain man noodles. Loved the stuff
Aldi's has Black Soy Bean Spaghetti that seems more nutritious for the price compared to Raman. Just saying, since is a new find to me. Was just going through my stack of Goodwill routers and found I have a Logitech Harmony O-R0004 I'm trying to determine why I even purchased.
12:40 You mean TRRS or TRRRS connectors?
I have that exact camcorder, I didn't realize it was still worth something. Thanks man :)
DAMN you look like your mom! Strong genes my friend :)
He also looks exactly like his sister. It's eerie.
Somebody in marketing was like 'screw it, we're going under anyway. Name it after the Yugo'
I've been looking for that camera on ebay for ages but the prices are hyperinflated it's crazy. It's because of the firewire interface and the adc in it.
Yeah bought it back in 2000 for like $1100 I think? Had no idea it would become a special relic. The 21 year old LiPo still hold a charge too! (not as much but still...)
I remember getting a portable tv back then and it had a similar display. I was still impressed.
Ben: I think your initial recording problem stems from the lack of proprietary cable included when sold new. My TV-Now! has it... and it simultaneously plugs into the A/V-input and headphones port--perhaps as some method setting a default audio recording level.
And yes: It was 3-pin for the input. [:\
You and your mom look so alike! Also, how do you only have 174k subs? Your content is gold!
BEN!!!! I got one better than that!!! Several years ago(maybe 2012ish) my mom sends me a computer disc with a movie on it. She explained that a friend(or cousin?) of hers had come down too FL to visit back in like 1980(me and you were born a couple months apart) and she had an 8mm camera to film her trip. This 8mm film that no one eve knew existed, had about 3 minutes of footage(silent, unfortunately) of our first house, my brothers like 3rd birthday party, my parents, some other family, us at the beach, etc. My mom doing cartwheels in the front yard while I jumped up and down and tried to ham the camera. This was so bizarre. My parents were like 10 years younger than I was whet I first watched that video.
Ben, please do a teardown of a device running Magic Cap OS, like the Sony MagicLink. It would be awesome if you could dump the OS chip!
This was my fave device in 4th grade until it stopped working and they were discontinued. I remember crying when it broke 😭
Did you try playing the files using VLC?
Ok the space heater bit is Everett
7:40 only a select few are blessed with accents and personalities like that. 😂
Did you have snow, by any chance?
My thought on that weird tablet computer was it was some sort of proof of concept prototype thing.
"Look it doesn't need a keyboard, it's called a tablet."
Ben, please... I have an old Furby (Gremlin's® Gizmo edition)(I must also forward this story by saying that this was a better time, about after that first Austin Power's movie released)
Anywho... Back when I was a lil' Sandman, my dear mum got me one of those newfangled Furby toys for x-mas (albeit, I wasn't really interested in them then, but afterwards, my interest piqued considerably)... At the time, I thought it was just a cute novelty toy, and I showed it off to a friend of mine. He thought it was pretty cool, so he asked to borrow it for a while, which I allowed, cause he was a bro...
I got it back a few days later, and was just playing around with it... I 'pet' it's back, and I immediately heard it say, 'YEEAAAH BABY'... (a common phrase, from the Austin Power's craze I mentioned before, a phrase he said quite a bit back in that day)
Now, the very first thing I asked myself was,'wtf was he doing with my Gizmo?!'... Afterwards, I realized that there may be a form of early AI here...
Just let me know if you have an episode idea based on that, because I remember there being a bit of controversy revolving around Furbys being used as recording devices, or something rediculous... I'd be happy to help.
Man, the first wave of Ben Atari portables looked way better than this unit inside and out.
Sounded like you had the video signal connected to the audio input. There is no standardization on the AV pinouts for these stupid things. Sounded like composite video into an audio amp.
Around 2004 there were those "MP4 players" trying to copy the iPod. They were below 50$ and had a generic Chinese media chip that was based on Z80. The video format was one where each frame was an entire image, possibly not even RLE-compressed. Just wanted to say that, on paper, this looks so much more advanced, but it somehow manages to be even worse.
I looked for the song on spotify and couldnt find it
I had one waaay back when working in Toys R Us, Teens actually stole this crap and threw the boxes in the Babies area, along with finished baby snacks and Candies...
Is it possible to improve it or upgrade it somehow? That would be interesting.
I used to have one of these, I still have the multimedia cable
Your recording device of choice seems to be angled incorrectly.
Referencing the shape of your desk pad, the lines look like \ / , when it should be | | or better yet / \ .
More goodwill Crap. I like this idea
I remember back in the early 00' they had digital recorder type things where you could use SD cards to record shows off of TV.
It wasn't that expensive but SD cards of course were and I think the maximum size at the time was maybe 4GB and of course the best you could hope for was 640X480
I think 480p but it could have only been 480i. Either way back in those days when the internet was still pretty crap and expensive and downloading things was pretty much P2P or nothing it was a good products though it wouldn't be long before it was taken over by smartphones.
So funny that you found one of these, I just found my old one the other day and wanted to get the video off it but can't find ANYTHING that can play those .tvv files. You wouldn't happen to know what might play them would you? I got this thing in like 07 or 08 and used it to record ps2 footage.
I'd love to see you improve this device, clean up the internals, upgrade the video screen, etc.
Wrong cable Ben, that was just a stereo audio cable
Omg lol I saw that too. I yelled it at the screen like 3 times
Yes, hence all feedback and only audio recording
He thought it was mono+video, not left+right+video.
@@sketchesofpayne Don't think that exists, it might, but I haven't seen it :)
Try playing them on VLC?