Camcorder, More Like Camcord-RW (It's A Disc Joke)

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  @ColinHuth · 5 years ago

  This is why you watch the whole way through, people. If you don’t get to the 1-hour mark, you miss out on Theoretical Blu-Ray Dad™.

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• VW

  @vwestlife · 4 years ago

  Out of the blue, my coworker told me today he was looking for a DVD camcorder. I told him modern ones record onto SD cards, but he said he wanted something he could play on his TV as soon as he is done recording. I always thought of DVD camcorders as a kludge, but I guess there really was consumer demand for them after all?

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• SL

  @slickstretch6391 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF91MsWs534&amp;t=2340">39:00</a> &quot;You have to finalize it, mom. Like I told you last time...&quot; I felt this in my soul.

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• UN

  @UnbornApple · 5 years ago

  I’ve waited my whole life to hear those five special words: Let’s talk about disc caddies.

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• TA

  @taldmd · 5 years ago

  You know a video is great when after 84 minutes of runtime, you feel like you spent 5 minutes watching, and you want more. Congrats man for your great work.

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• HA

  @hanchymanchy5680 · 5 years ago

  &quot;You know like how people will just leave their dishes dirty for like a whole —&quot; 😎 he&apos;s gonna say week<br> &quot; —day, &quot; 😰

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• TD

  @tdannecy · 5 years ago

  &quot;They knew what was coming and they didn&apos;t want to wait. And who could blame them?&quot; <br><br>Hidden sci-fi manifesto right there. The last 2 minutes of this video are pure gold.

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• GA

  @gay_milhouse1160 · 5 years ago

  I hope Blu-ray dad exists. &nbsp;I hope he’s doing well.

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• TO

  @tOSdude · 5 years ago

  My father didn&apos;t quite live the blu-ray camera fantasy, but he did edit footage of my elementary school Christmas concerts with a video toaster, and burn them to DVDs which were then sold by the school.

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• XU

  @xureality · 5 years ago

  There&apos;s actually a reason why PFDs has the caddy/cartridge and BluRays doesn&apos;t: the coating that allows the bluray disc to even survive at all wasn&apos;t invented yet when PFDs was released.<br><br>For CDs, the layer that holds the data is a coating that is just below the label. that&apos;s why early CDs rot so easily; when the label becomes damaged or wasn&apos;t a perfect hermetic seal, air gets in and rots things. On DVDs, they sandwiched the data layer in between two half thickness polycarbonate discs.<br><br>They can&apos;t do that on blurays because the disc itself was deemed too optically imperfect to cram 23 gigs of data onto, so they made the bottom layer 0.1mm thick. as opposed to a cool 0.6mm on DVDs.<br><br>This means that light scratches could penetrate the layer, thus ruining the disc. Thus PFDs came in caddies. And then when TDK figured out a scratch resistant &quot;hard coating&quot; they didn&apos;t need a caddy anymore and the hard coating was written into &nbsp;the bluray standard and the rest is history.

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• NI

  @nitehawk86 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF91MsWs534&amp;t=510">8:30</a> The camera knows where the blank space on the card is, because the camera knows where the full space on the card is.

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• AN

  @anthropic42 · 5 years ago

  For some reason I really love the composition in the scene where you’re watching yourself on the TV off the recorded DVD. The hat in the foreground makes the whole scene.

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