I'm here for the talking to robots bit. The good thing is that I can actually do that a little bit every day - first with text, then later with my voice.
I think I made more VHS copies than nearly anyone alive from about 1997 through 2004, give or take. It was certainly a big part of how I learned jiu jitsu, during a time before internet video or very good local instruction. Much more to say on videotapes and that whole world, but to the point today: Sonos spearers sucked when we installed them in 2019, and they continue to frustrate us today.
The challenge for Sonos is marrying up hardware and software. The speakers have great sound but the software ... meh. Hardware and software engineering are such different disciplines. Apple is the master and apparently also Tesla but I will never know
Oh man I remember renting Michael Coopers video on how to shoot basketball. I would watch it and practice my form before heading across the street to play pickup
What else did we try to learn via VHS? I feel like that was pretty prominent for a minute there. I know they used videotapes by the time I went through driver's ed, probably 1989 or 1990.
I was the AV film projector dude in elementary school and by high school that was full on replaced by VHS for movies and such. But other than my Coop! epiphany (and i think i got some other lakers basketball how-to videos) I don’t remember doing more of it. Like for my darkroom is was books. The Kodak Darkroom Guide was my bible
How-to books and magazines were still huge by the 90s when I was first trying to learn martial arts in a serious and dedicated manner. Video was obviously very useful, but also still very scarce, at least compared to the available printed material. I'm talking about Black Belt magazine, and eventually specialized ones like Grappling (I think I got into this one when it debuted around 98).
Projected film was also still very common in middle and high school, although VHS was slowly becoming dominant. There was a load of institutional inertia back then, maybe even more than today.
I'm here for the talking to robots bit. The good thing is that I can actually do that a little bit every day - first with text, then later with my voice.
I think I made more VHS copies than nearly anyone alive from about 1997 through 2004, give or take. It was certainly a big part of how I learned jiu jitsu, during a time before internet video or very good local instruction. Much more to say on videotapes and that whole world, but to the point today: Sonos spearers sucked when we installed them in 2019, and they continue to frustrate us today.
The challenge for Sonos is marrying up hardware and software. The speakers have great sound but the software ... meh. Hardware and software engineering are such different disciplines. Apple is the master and apparently also Tesla but I will never know
Oh man I remember renting Michael Coopers video on how to shoot basketball. I would watch it and practice my form before heading across the street to play pickup
What else did we try to learn via VHS? I feel like that was pretty prominent for a minute there. I know they used videotapes by the time I went through driver's ed, probably 1989 or 1990.
I was the AV film projector dude in elementary school and by high school that was full on replaced by VHS for movies and such. But other than my Coop! epiphany (and i think i got some other lakers basketball how-to videos) I don’t remember doing more of it. Like for my darkroom is was books. The Kodak Darkroom Guide was my bible
How-to books and magazines were still huge by the 90s when I was first trying to learn martial arts in a serious and dedicated manner. Video was obviously very useful, but also still very scarce, at least compared to the available printed material. I'm talking about Black Belt magazine, and eventually specialized ones like Grappling (I think I got into this one when it debuted around 98).
Projected film was also still very common in middle and high school, although VHS was slowly becoming dominant. There was a load of institutional inertia back then, maybe even more than today.
That Onion Sony video is one of the funniest things I ever saw. I think I shared it with everybody I knew when it came out 15 years ago. 😂
I think I missed it then - didn't know you 😆 when I found it a few weeks ago It was still one of the funniest things I've ever seen!
for sure!