An amazing write-up by a passionate preservationist, Chris Person (@Papapishu on Twitter), on why YOU are the only one that can save media you love. 💿 📀 📽️ 📹 :hd_dvd_spin: :blobfoxcomputer:
Since I have lots of new followers today, I think it's time to finally update my #introduction post!
My name is Borealis, but most online know me as the LiteralGrill! You can call me Allie or Grill for short. I'm trans and an Ursa, think of a gay bear but in a femme form. She/Her pronouns please!
I actively fight for disability justice and will discuss that here as much as I'll share my love for anime and manga (maybe a little more tbh). I often write essays analyzing media or discussing anime history and you'll find a surprising number of times that those two topics intertwine in my works.
I tend to dig old media formats in general and love weird retro tech! I still avidly enjoy my growing VHS and LaserDisc collections. I have quite the board game collection too with some real oddities in there.
While I am a big supporter of content warnings and you'll see me use them often, you won't find them on educational posts or on anything discussing the realities of my life as a disabled trans person. I will however, always make sure these posts have appropriate hashtags so you can filter them out of your feed. If you need to protect your peace by not following or blocking me, I take no offense and completely understand. I hope you'll understand that not censoring the realities of my life from the world is part of how I protect mine.
I'm often stuck inside as an immunocompromised person in an ongoing pandemic (COVID isn't over and I take it seriously) so I'll rarely turn down a good conversation! Or if you just want to hear me info dump on obscure trivia of some kind that I'm researching for my next big article.
Before I forget... Yes, I'm that bonkers grill that watched Groundhog Day 365 days in a row! So expect my knowledge of time loops to be oddly all encompassing.
Welcome to my little corner of the Fediverse, I hope you'll like it here!
Started taking apart the #laseractive... what have I begun?! It's like I entered the batcave uninvited and all these bats are just hanging there, ready to start flying at me and bite me.
Tonight I've pulled out something VERY special! This particular set of LaserDiscs contain the ORIGINAL English dubs for certain Studio Ghibli films that were only ever shown on Japanese airlines!
There is just one old, crappy, dark, interlaced upload of "The Mind's Eye" on YouTube. I happen to have a copy of it as well as "Beyond The Mind's Eye". Working with @EatYourSheep - Well really loaning the Laserdisc's to him, he was able to get these captured in a high quality way and uploaded. Take a relaxing trip back to 1990 when really any kind of "CEE GEE EYE" was just mind blowing.
Some Hard Core LaserDisc Action for the LD Fans out there, who may never have seen one in action
Mech of a LaserJuke Player
Manufactured in 90s by Pioneer
8” Double Sided Discs
5 Videos Per Side
NTSC, Analogue Video, Analogue Sound
Holds 20 Discs - 15 with selectable Music Videos, 5 for Ads & Audio only #LaserDisc#LaserJuke#VideoDisc
Un style de dégradation de Laserdisc que je n'avais jamais vu auparavant :
le bord du disque a plein de petits trous comme le bois rongé par les termites
Le disque est toujours parfaitement lisible
Je me suis en rendu compte de cette dégradation au touché en manipulant le disque
Laserdiscs players are insane and over engineered messes inside. I would have just designed it to have two laser assemblies for reliability reasons. You know this is probably what fails on every one of these auto flip models. #laserdischttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/kuvwzQijfBU
I'm going to be fixing this Pioneer CLD-1750 in a few weeks (my next spare time slot). Fault is it doesn't read discs. Laser moves, focuses, moves in, focuses again, then gives up. No spindle movement. Anyone have any ideas? I'm hoping it's not laser failure - but it glows red on camera.
I've tried cleaning the laser lens. #electronics#laserdisc#electronicsrepair
So I got a copy of Groundhog Day on #LaserDisc today (if you know, you know) and I got a surprise.
Not only was there two disks when there should only be one to my knowledge, but one seems to be from a mysterious "Video Club" that no longer exists?
I tried the number (disconnected) and the address just sends to some mini mall now. Really curious about the history of my copy here! Was this just a rental store? Did the town have a club that got together to watch movies? I wanna know!
openMSX 19.1—Reflection—is a bug fix release for openMSX 19.0, as we found some rather nasty issues after releasing, mostly that LaserDisc support was broken. No new Catapult will be released, as it has no changes. Please read the release notes for details of the openMSX changes....
Release hypseus-singe v2.11.2 (github.com)
Hypseus is a SDL2 version of Daphne and Singe. Laserdisc game emulation....
Release openMSX 19.1 (github.com)
openMSX 19.1—Reflection—is a bug fix release for openMSX 19.0, as we found some rather nasty issues after releasing, mostly that LaserDisc support was broken. No new Catapult will be released, as it has no changes. Please read the release notes for details of the openMSX changes....