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Tapes , lots and lots of them
57 years ago (1969) meant the only tapes were audio (8-tracks, reel to reel, and some cassette tapes), and those were just starting to become popular because Dolby (released in '65) was slowly starting to be used during mastering to reduce tape hiss enough that they could be used for music.
Betamax was released in '75, VHS in '76.
Umatic came out in 1971. But it was too expensive for most consumers. My brother in law had one because his family business was TV repair.
Philips started with cassettapes in my country Belgium in 63 , betamax and vhs where for video.
8 mm camera and movies were also availableUhm and what about Tapes for Data Storage? Pretty sure Mainframes existed in 1969 already.
I’m mean you had reel to reel. Which was a tape right, just not a cassette?
And Film/Movies/TV Shows were also distributed as Tape Reels.
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I will give it a shot for the tapes my parents have in the Attic
My grandpa recorded absolutely everything on VHS in the 90s. He had so many bookshelves full of movies and shows he meticulously catalogued. I wanted to ask him if he ever actually watched any of them, but I didn’t want to break his spirit.
OK, thanks iam that old, the years 70 and 80 where the best times to be around ,talk to your grandfather ,ask him everything about that time
Stream? Yeah I go down by the stream often
I live in a van near one (this generation’s dream.).
I’d give anything for a steady diet of government cheese…
This gif is perfect, I was listening to a song, then it finished and went to the next one, and in both his punches were completely synced to the beat both times
on whom?
I mean, any YouTube creator is neck-deep in streaming. It’s probably more unhealthy than long-form TV.
EDIT: Though to this influencer’s credit, she seems more low key and avoids other social media. It appears she only does YT, Patreon, Ko-Fi, Peertube(!) and her own site, and uploads on a modest scheduile. That’s quite reasonable.
Honestly super big props to this influencer for uploading a video about cutting out all streaming services 37 years before Netflix even started trying to pivot towards internet streaming!
I stream from self hosted sources, best of all worlds. No enshitification.
New media is acquired for free from the public libraries and then ripped, which under my local laws is perfectly legal.
Veronica is the best!
I wish I had a cool aunt like Veronica.
And so, are you *cue theme tune
That looks like a streaming video
Streaming music was available back in the 1970s. It consisted of you and your friends sitting on the floor with an AM radio and a portable cassette recorder and hoping the local station would play your song you wanted to hear and record. And IF your timing was right, you could get the whole song recorded. All so you could play it back on that cheap tinny sounding recorder. Such recordings were often used as a gift to your latest girl/boy friend with “Our Song” on it.
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20 years ago…
You could stream 144p6 video with phone-like audio with a RealPlayer browser plugin and a 28k modem in 1998. Very few websites served video but some TV channels were available live like this, maybe also in 240p15 at double the bitrate with a luxury 56k modem or ISDN. Viewers with slower modems could often download such videos as VODs (depending on copyright because those didn’t have RealPlayer DRM) as WMV (with Microsoft’s proprietary codec better than MPEG-2) or AVI (as MPEG-2 so you could burn it onto a CD and view on a DVD player but it’s unlikely you’d have a big disk and CD burner but processor too slow for that video). DVD-quality video (high bitrate 480p30/480i60/480p24/576p25/576i60, now considered low-end for movies) only became available to stream about 10 years later.
Even YouTube was around by that point.
Pretty sure Pandora was around. But also I’d consider cable and satellite TV to be streaming services.
It’s not the technology it’s the culture behind it. the same was said about TV. American mainstream consumerist culture is the cancer,
I cut all streaming services out of my life last year, except for Curiosity Stream, a sort of “Netflix” for educational documentaries.
But I haven’t even been watching that in a while, so maybe I should stop paying for it.
I just got sick of rising prices and invasive ads despite paying to avoid them. I use Plex now. I paid the one-time fee for the Lifetime Plex Pass and now I have access to all their advanced tools and streaming content, plus I can rip my movies/TV shows/music to my PC and stream them myself through Plex. No ads, no extra junk, no “are you still watching?” pop-ups. Just hit play and enjoy.
Tunes in a TV stream…
A decent “no logs” VPN + thepiratebay.org, or Streamio + realdebrid has solved just about every media issue I’ve had.
Most of the time it’s easier just to open Streamio than search through 8 apps for what I want to watch only to find it gated behind a $65/mo. add on subscription, or not at all.
Mainstream app streaming has gotten worse, and open source streaming has gotten wildly easier.
I get frustrated even trying to pay for a subscription, only to find that I’m being gatekept at 720p/1080p for deigning to use my browser on PC.
Been self hosting my own content since Netflix removed King of the Hill. Cancelled my sub immediately.
For the most part I was doing everything manually with a seedbox, SFTP, and then renaming things.
Just scrapped that setup and did a docker environment with gluetun, qbit, and some *arr apps. Pretty good so far, some annoyances, but was a bit easier than I expected.
Plex?
nah. Plex bad. Kodi or Jellyfin
Kodi is dated and barely works and jellyfin lacks basic features. I have both jellyfin and plex, I prefer Plex but I have my own server with lifetime bought for $50
Well maybe. But I value the absence of needing any online service and hackability way more. Also for me, Kodi works perfectly. I have one on each TV, laptop, tablet, all synced. All I need is to open a torrent file from anywhere. But I admit, I have a hairy setup.
To be fair last time I used Kodi was like 2017, that was when it kept getting raided lol
Why use Plex (and relying on trusting them) when you can selfhost Jellyin?
You can self host Plex and it has more developed features than jellyfin. Sadly, Plex needs a subscription and it’s only worth it if you buy the lifetime on a flash sale.
I have a very organized Plex server that utilizes as much features as I can, and Jellyfin just lacked a lot of that. Basically that 10% missing is what I want. It’s not bad, if I was to redo everything from the ground up it’d be Jellyfin or Plex, but definitely not Kodi like suggested above.
Edit: I believe for me it was remote access ease of use by Plex that I use heavily.
Sadly, Plex needs a subscription and it’s only worth it if you buy the lifetime on a flash sale.
yeaaaaaaah, and thats a big nope. Why does one need a subscription or a lifetime lease when you supposedly can self host? Subscription is what brought us into this mess in the first place.
Edit: I believe for me it was remote access ease of use by Plex that I use heavily.
Setting up a Wireguard / VPN isn’t that hard, and cuts out unwanted Corpos as well.
A VPN setting up for a mother who has no technical experience and lives 3 hours away and a grandparent who’s 80 and lives 2 hours away is indeed hard.
Most of my Plex was set up to cut streaming and cable on their end, I haven’t fully cut streaming yet… 😞
@DmMacniel @Casterial any advantage on jellyin over emby?
yeah, that its the open source fork of emby.
There was something called a rotary telephone and TV with an antenna. Children were typically used as the remote control to change the channel using a dial or buttons on the TV.
Also kids being the first to run into the house and turn on the TV because it had to warm up. You needed to have it up and running before your show came on because if you missed it you weren’t gonna see it until reruns. Now it has occurred to me the term rerun is obsolete
The closest thing these days are reuploads.
But it’s funny, no more sitting through a block of something you don’t like because your show is on next.
And fetch drinks, but you were expected to tip them
She looks more like weird Al than Jack Black looks like meatloaf.
