{"video_id":"_KMPjeioX08","title":"I Watched This Movie on 10 Different Formats","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2025-12-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":1839,"segments":[{"start_s":6.24,"end_s":10.12,"text":"Where do you think you're going?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.8,"end_s":16.43,"text":"Get over here. Get this jack. Come on. Come. [music]","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.76,"end_s":25.039,"text":"Why would you be carrying a remote like this? [music] >> Watching. >> Don't be a wise guy. What are you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.4,"end_s":32.88,"text":"watching with a universal remote? >> Name it. DVD, Blu-ray, laser disc,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.76,"end_s":34.64,"text":"everything. Well, almost everything.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":32.88,"end_s":37.6,"text":">> We tracked [music] down nearly every single home movie format for the last 50","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":37.2,"end_s":43.23,"text":"years, >> alongside 10 copies of one of the only","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":41.04,"end_s":49.84,"text":"films that's available across every [music] single one of them, Rambo First","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":46.239,"end_s":52.48,"text":"Blood. This is my knife. Yeah, we better","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":49.84,"end_s":55.52,"text":"make our way back to the studio. Okay. Oh, but [music] not until we tell them","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":54.48,"end_s":60.8,"text":"about our sponsor. >> Many have tried to learn the ancient","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":58.16,"end_s":65.92,"text":"power [music] of coding, and many have failed, for they knew not the shest","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":64.32,"end_s":68.92,"text":"path. boat boot.dev.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":72.05,"end_s":74.07,"text":"[music]","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":77.68,"end_s":85.6,"text":"We'll be going chronologically, which means we'll be starting with everyone's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":80.96,"end_s":86.56,"text":"darling, Betamax, which uh yeah, hey,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":85.6,"end_s":92.079,"text":"doesn't look too good. >> I think if we take away the anomalies","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":88.88,"end_s":93.84,"text":"aside, it looks uh okay. I think it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":92.079,"end_s":96.799,"text":"looks about on par with VHS. Maybe a little better. >> You're right. That does help,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":95.28,"end_s":101.84,"text":">> you know. Yeah, that's right. Um unfortunately, we ran through three different tapes and the third one was","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":99.84,"end_s":104.64,"text":"looking really good until the tape snapped. >> Oh, shoot.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":102.96,"end_s":108.24,"text":">> Yeah. No, there's nothing there. It's just gone. >> That's just [music] the reality of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":106.32,"end_s":111.92,"text":"situation, though. I mean, these early formats were not designed to last","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":110.0,"end_s":117.36,"text":"forever. They were very analog, and they've all been slowly breaking down","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":113.439,"end_s":119.52,"text":"over the last, in this case, 40 years","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":117.36,"end_s":124.32,"text":"due to humidity, uh, temperature changes, uh, magnetization loss, and the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":122.64,"end_s":129.36,"text":"three-layer binding can apparently come undone. Uh, lube can dry up. It's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":127.36,"end_s":132.879,"text":"impossible to save these forever without digitization.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":130.879,"end_s":137.68,"text":"Fortunately, there will be plenty of that to go around later. 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It looks okay. >> Does look good.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":174.319,"end_s":177.84,"text":">> Yeah, >> that was a pretty cool stunt considering [music] they did everything practically","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":177.44,"end_s":183.84,"text":"back then. >> Yeah, it's a great movie. >> I've never seen it. >> You're about to watch [laughter] it 10","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":181.519,"end_s":188.0,"text":"times. >> All right, VHS, baby.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":185.599,"end_s":191.28,"text":">> Okay, VHS. Oh, you know what? I wonder if you need different outputs. You","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":189.28,"end_s":193.84,"text":"shouldn't. Should just work off the same one. >> Oh,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":192.64,"end_s":197.599,"text":">> Svideo out. >> Did we go get an Svideo cable for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":195.68,"end_s":201.599,"text":"nothing? Because it doesn't even support Svideo on the VHS player side.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":199.777,"end_s":207.2,"text":"[groaning] >> Is that what happened? >> It says DVD only.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":204.56,"end_s":211.76,"text":">> Oh, balls. Here's the thing. We wanted to use the Svideo output on this player","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":209.44,"end_s":216.64,"text":"in order to give VHS a fair shake against Betamax, but this is probably","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":214.319,"end_s":224.64,"text":"more realistic anyway since most VCRs used a simple composite hookup.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":220.48,"end_s":226.4,"text":"Ah, that takes me back. [laughter]","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":224.64,"end_s":229.879,"text":"And if you're over 30, it'll probably do the same for you.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":231.76,"end_s":239.04,"text":"That's the good sound. That's how you know the machine's working. Machines don't make noise anymore. And there we","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":236.64,"end_s":244.0,"text":"go. Someone forgot to rewind. >> Classic. See, before the advent of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":241.599,"end_s":248.239,"text":"digital media, employees at video rental stores and unlucky younger brothers","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":246.239,"end_s":253.76,"text":"would spend an awful lot of time waiting around to rewind the tape before a movie","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":251.12,"end_s":258.079,"text":"could be enjoyed or well, at least viewed. I'm enjoying this. Doesn't look","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":255.84,"end_s":261.44,"text":"as good as its modern-day counterparts. 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Bringing movies from the big","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":284.96,"end_s":292.639,"text":"screen at your local theater to the small, very small screen in your home.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":290.16,"end_s":295.12,"text":">> Yeah, this is huge for CRT standards to be very clear.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":293.36,"end_s":300.08,"text":">> Yeah, to its credit, the tape has held up pretty okay. Which reminds me, so did","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":298.16,"end_s":303.6,"text":"VHS as a format. >> 29","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":301.68,"end_s":308.56,"text":"years. That's the time from the introduction to the last Hollywood","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":305.6,"end_s":311.6,"text":"release in 2006. It's almost as old as me. 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Like it's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":332.0,"end_s":336.96,"text":"got a lot of grain to it. >> Yeah. >> Like I would watch this.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":335.199,"end_s":340.32,"text":">> Like if I went to someone's house and they had a VHS playing and this was like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":339.039,"end_s":344.08,"text":"I'd sit down and watch this movie. >> Yeah. Why not? >> I wouldn't complain about it. >> You'd complain?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":342.96,"end_s":348.24,"text":">> No. I probably wouldn't. >> Really? Yeah. >> Not a single complaint? >> No. Cuz it's not my house.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":347.039,"end_s":352.479,"text":">> Okay. You'd complain at your own house. >> Oh, 100%. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. Just making sure I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":350.56,"end_s":356.96,"text":"understand where you're at. 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Even those big uh rip projection TVs.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":489.199,"end_s":494.56,"text":"And given that folks with bigger screens probably had bigger sound systems,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":492.72,"end_s":499.36,"text":"they'd have also gotten a benefit out of the fact that laser disc was the first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":497.28,"end_s":501.919,"text":"popular home movie format to support surround sound.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":500.4,"end_s":505.28,"text":">> Wow. >> Including Rambo First Blood.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":503.52,"end_s":510.08,"text":">> Okay, that's actually a pretty genuine reason to buy this over a VCR.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":508.16,"end_s":515.919,"text":">> And there were other benefits, too. 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You get the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":537.92,"end_s":544.366,"text":"CED video disc player >> wrapped in one overly fragile package.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":542.346,"end_s":548.8,"text":"[laughter] >> Trying to remember how to work it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":546.64,"end_s":552.0,"text":">> It's in the load and unload position. Now you just put it in. You put You use","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":550.399,"end_s":555.2,"text":"the caddy and you pop it in. >> Yeah. >> Keep going. Keep going. It goes all the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":553.68,"end_s":558.88,"text":"way in pretty much. Okay. Now it should be locked. Now pull the caddy out. And if we're lucky, it worked.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":558.48,"end_s":568.32,"text":">> Nice. >> It's out. Hey, >> this format. Oh, there it [laughter]","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":562.88,"end_s":571.12,"text":"goes again. 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At least it like we saw that major skip a little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":625.2,"end_s":629.2,"text":"while ago, but it's been playing consistently for at least a couple","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":628.8,"end_s":633.44,"text":"minutes. >> Feel like you're jinxing it, >> right? I'm just The whole time I said","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":632.32,"end_s":637.839,"text":"the sentence, I was waiting for it to just start skipping. [laughter] But yeah, this is not great. I would","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":636.399,"end_s":643.839,"text":"take VHS [music] over this. >> Oh, yeah. Well, so did everyone. >> Yeah, so did everybody else.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":641.519,"end_s":647.04,"text":">> In fairness, I mean, on that subject, repeated playback is hard on many media","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":645.92,"end_s":654.64,"text":"formats. 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It's roided out cousin DVHS.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":853.199,"end_s":858.72,"text":"This is another format that we've already covered in a previous video, but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":856.8,"end_s":866.16,"text":"it's mind-blowing enough that I think it merits talking about again. I mean, high","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":861.199,"end_s":867.76,"text":"definition on tape back in 1994.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":866.16,"end_s":872.32,"text":"How did I not know about this when I was a freaking kid? Well, for starters, it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":870.72,"end_s":876.48,"text":"wasn't commercially available until quite a bit later. 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And when Blu-ray launched","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1454.88,"end_s":1460.32,"text":"in late June of 2006, it did so with a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1458.046,"end_s":1465.6,"text":"[music] vastly superior capacity to anything at the time. Even the single","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1462.72,"end_s":1472.24,"text":"layer discs made HD DVD sound more like half density DVD with 25 gigs. And then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1469.44,"end_s":1478.48,"text":"dual layer 50 gig discs came just a few months later, enabling even lengthy full","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1474.799,"end_s":1481.279,"text":"1080p HD films to fit on a single piece","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1478.48,"end_s":1486.24,"text":"of plastic. And that's with highfidelity multi- channelannel audio and extras","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1483.6,"end_s":1490.32,"text":"galore. Wow. Now that's a menu.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1487.679,"end_s":1495.2,"text":">> Look at this. Normally I'm the one who's over the top on camera. [laughter] By","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1492.64,"end_s":1499.84,"text":"the way, was this intentional? I just I just noticed looking at the thing we're","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1496.64,"end_s":1501.279,"text":"both that I love this sweater. 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You wrote in the script my personal favorite, but do you have a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":1829.6,"end_s":1835.919,"text":"new personal favorite now? >> DVHS. >> It's just so good. I forgot how good it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":1833.6,"end_s":1838.559,"text":"is. This laser disc is cool cuz it's a big disc.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Where do you think you're going? Get over here. Get this jack. Come on. Come. [music] Why would you be carrying a remote like this? [music] >> Watching. >> Don't be a wise guy. What are you watching with a universal remote? >> Name it. DVD, Blu-ray, laser disc, everything. Well, almost everything. >> We tracked [music] down nearly every single home movie format for the last 50 years, >> alongside 10 copies of one of the only films that's available across every [music] single one of them, Rambo First Blood. This is my knife. Yeah, we better make our way back to the studio. Okay. Oh, but [music] not until we tell them about our sponsor. >> Many have tried to learn the ancient power [music] of coding, and many have failed, for they knew not the shest path. boat boot.dev. [music] We'll be going chronologically, which means we'll be starting with everyone's darling, Betamax, which uh yeah, hey, doesn't look too good. >> I think if we take away the anomalies aside, it looks uh okay. I think it looks about on par with VHS. Maybe a little better. >> You're right. That does help, >> you know. Yeah, that's right. Um unfortunately, we ran through three different tapes and the third one was looking really good until the tape snapped. >> Oh, shoot. >> Yeah. No, there's nothing there. It's just gone. >> That's just [music] the reality of the situation, though. I mean, these early formats were not designed to last forever. They were very analog, and they've all been slowly breaking down over the last, in this case, 40 years due to humidity, uh, temperature changes, uh, magnetization loss, and the three-layer binding can apparently come undone. Uh, lube can dry up. It's impossible to save these forever without digitization. Fortunately, there will be plenty of that to go around later. As for the format, Betamax was developed by Sony and actually beat VHS to market by about a year, but ultimately lost what we could say is the first major format war. The footage was higher quality, but you could only fit about an hour per tape, so lower quality longplay ones came out later to fit full movies into a single session. Kind of like Beta's uh subversive little brother, VHS. We might as well move on to that at this point because as much as beta might have looked better back then, it sure doesn't today. >> Well, I'll tell you this. Overall, I actually think it's on par with VHS, maybe a little nicer. >> You're not wrong where it looks good, >> right? It looks okay. >> Does look good. >> Yeah, >> that was a pretty cool stunt considering [music] they did everything practically back then. >> Yeah, it's a great movie. >> I've never seen it. >> You're about to watch [laughter] it 10 times. >> All right, VHS, baby. >> Okay, VHS. Oh, you know what? I wonder if you need different outputs. You shouldn't. Should just work off the same one. >> Oh, >> Svideo out. >> Did we go get an Svideo cable for nothing? Because it doesn't even support Svideo on the VHS player side. [groaning] >> Is that what happened? >> It says DVD only. >> Oh, balls. Here's the thing. We wanted to use the Svideo output on this player in order to give VHS a fair shake against Betamax, but this is probably more realistic anyway since most VCRs used a simple composite hookup. Ah, that takes me back. [laughter] And if you're over 30, it'll probably do the same for you. That's the good sound. That's how you know the machine's working. Machines don't make noise anymore. And there we go. Someone forgot to rewind. >> Classic. See, before the advent of digital media, employees at video rental stores and unlucky younger brothers would spend an awful lot of time waiting around to rewind the tape before a movie could be enjoyed or well, at least viewed. I'm enjoying this. Doesn't look as good as its modern-day counterparts. But I think that's something we kind of forget a lot is that like when this was the only thing available, it looked fine and no one no one thought about like we'd watch movies at home all the time. >> This has even held up reasonably decently. >> Yeah, >> it only has 240 lines of luminance resolution and only usually stereo sound. But despite these drawbacks and the high initial cost, VHS was the clear and undisputed winner of the first great format war. Bringing movies from the big screen at your local theater to the small, very small screen in your home. >> Yeah, this is huge for CRT standards to be very clear. >> Yeah, to its credit, the tape has held up pretty okay. Which reminds me, so did VHS as a format. >> 29 years. That's the time from the introduction to the last Hollywood release in 2006. It's almost as old as me. All the colors look pretty muted. We're probably only get I don't even know how much of like sRGB we're getting. >> But for a long time, if you wanted movie at home, it was this or watch on cable with probably worse image quality, not to mention endless commercials and often the uh best parts edited out. >> Mr. Falcon, >> there's not much more to say. Like it's got a lot of grain to it. >> Yeah. >> Like I would watch this. >> Like if I went to someone's house and they had a VHS playing and this was like I'd sit down and watch this movie. >> Yeah. Why not? >> I wouldn't complain about it. >> You'd complain? >> No. I probably wouldn't. >> Really? Yeah. >> Not a single complaint? >> No. Cuz it's not my house. >> Okay. You'd complain at your own house. >> Oh, 100%. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. Just making sure I understand where you're at. [laughter] >> You want to try laser disc next? >> Yes. It may have never gained widespread popularity in the west, but laser disc existed alongside VHS and arguably was superior in every measurable way. Like, look at this convenience. Also, I can measure how much I can store on one side. >> Listen, at my age, I see midmov bathroom breaks as an absolute win. Uh oh, which side am I on? >> Yeah. Damn it. >> We're 100% keeping that in. I think it's this one. >> Does it have labels? >> Yeah, but I can't remember if the label you want the label to be up or the label to be down. >> Yeah. And it actually varied from one player to another. >> Yeah. What an incredible format. >> We did a deeper dive a couple of years ago, but the TLDDR is laser disc made its first appearance in 1978 as Disco Vision. And like compact discs, it uses tiny pits and lands that are etched into the surface to store media and a laser to read the pattern. Unlike CDs in future disc based formats, however, the encoding of the movie was actually analog, >> which is pretty cool. >> It's pretty Yeah, it's a mix of technologies. We're at that like weird threshold where it goes from being analog to digital. >> It's lasers. >> Yeah. Discal. Laser disc. It's [music] going It just takes a hot second. Side B. You put that key in. >> At least it tells you before it even does anything, though. >> Widescreen, baby. Widecreen's cool and all. >> I never liked it back when I had a 4x3 display though. >> No, it looks terrible on It's You just get It's so much less screen space. But >> our screens were so small. >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This is a big CRT. Imagine on like a tiny one. Oh, yeah. It'd be terrible. >> Yeah. >> There's definitely more resolution. >> Oh, yeah. >> There's definitely more resolution. >> Literally twice as much. >> Yeah. But like the the rest of the quality of the image, it doesn't look that much better than VHS. >> The color's better. >> Color's better. But if I saw like a laser disc in someone's home theater and then I went home and watched the same movie on my VCR, I I don't think I'd go out and buy a laser disc player. >> You're also not watching it on a big screen, though. >> Sure. >> And VHS falls apart on a larger display. >> It really does. It really [music] does. Even those big uh rip projection TVs. And given that folks with bigger screens probably had bigger sound systems, they'd have also gotten a benefit out of the fact that laser disc was the first popular home movie format to support surround sound. >> Wow. >> Including Rambo First Blood. >> Okay, that's actually a pretty genuine reason to buy this over a VCR. >> And there were other benefits, too. Laser Disc also got arguably the best releases of many classic films thanks to their unique edits or bonus features that can't be found elsewhere. >> Unfortunately, due to high costs and uh being limited to about 60 minutes of content per side, it never really caught on and took off in the West. Outside of, you know, your favorite karaoke bar or maybe your rich uncle's home theater. >> Hear me out. Hear me out. What if you like the quality of VHS with the inconvenience of laser disc? You get the CED video disc player >> wrapped in one overly fragile package. [laughter] >> Trying to remember how to work it. >> It's in the load and unload position. Now you just put it in. You put You use the caddy and you pop it in. >> Yeah. >> Keep going. Keep going. It goes all the way in pretty much. Okay. Now it should be locked. Now pull the caddy out. And if we're lucky, it worked. >> Nice. >> It's out. Hey, >> this format. Oh, there it [laughter] goes again. I forgot how bad it is. This format also competed head-to-head in the same era as VHS, Betamax, and Laser Disc. They're so cool. I made a whole video on them. Too bad they suck. Yeah. Basically, instead of pits and lands on a plastic disc being read by a laser, you know, like all of the sensible disc media, they used a vinyl disc with a stylus that measures the capacitance between the stylus tip and the disc as it rips around at 13 times the RPM of a typical music vinyl record. It's an engineering marvel that it works at all. >> Yeah, it's absolutely wild. All I can say for sure is it doesn't doesn't look good right now, 30 years later. >> To its credit, other than the horrible fringing. >> Yeah, look at the flag badges on there. >> The flag's a little rough. A >> little. >> And the color. >> Yeah, the color is not great. >> Other than all of those things. >> It's operating okay right now. At least it like we saw that major skip a little while ago, but it's been playing consistently for at least a couple minutes. >> Feel like you're jinxing it, >> right? I'm just The whole time I said the sentence, I was waiting for it to just start skipping. [laughter] But yeah, this is not great. I would take VHS [music] over this. >> Oh, yeah. Well, so did everyone. >> Yeah, so did everybody else. >> In fairness, I mean, on that subject, repeated playback is hard on many media formats. Mhm. >> But because of the [music] physical contact between the stylus and the disc, RCA's estimated 500 plays was probably more fantasy than the 50 or so films that were available at launch. Unlike the rest of the formats we've looked at so far, pricing wasn't the issue. At around $500 for a player and 15 to $40 per movie, >> reasonable, >> but due to being trapped in development hell for over 15 years, this thing lost the race and ultimately destroyed RCA before [laughter] it even began. >> Kind of did. >> Our next stop is video CD. It's exactly what it sounds like, featuring a resolution of just 240 lines, but no inconvenient rewinding and much greater durability than VHS. What more could you ask for in 1987? Oh, I don't know, maybe more than 5 minutes of video per disc. To their credit, the problem of digitizing and compressing video data was solved a few years later, and in 1993, VCD in its current form, which can fit a film on just two discs, was born. Now, you probably think of VCD as a format for pirates, but for a short time before writable CDs came out, Hollywood did release a handful of films on this format. Here we go. Here we go. VCD got this. We got this. >> It even said VCD on the TV and everything. >> Let's go. >> Copyright proprietor license has licensed the material. >> It's all spelled right. >> At what point can you tell that's Sylvester Stallone? Well, here >> now it's fine. Yeah, now you can see it's it's slide, but like >> what's his name? He looked like a completely different guy. >> Yeah, >> the entire lake is just >> Yeah. blown out. Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] It's awful. >> There's no action yet either. >> No. >> The drawback of VCD is the super low bit rate. We haven't even thrown a challenging seat at it yet. He looked more like Richard Simmons AT THE BEGINNING. >> OH, IT KIND OF DID. >> That's what I was looking for. I could see this because of the hair, but doesn't this just look awful? Like I've watched this intro multiple times in like high definition and um you this looks fine normally. I'm not saying it looks amazing. It's definitely a film filmed 40 years ago or whatever, but like look at how bad this looks. >> The motion performance and the like digital blocking artifacts around anything that moves. >> Awful. >> Give me a VHS any day of the week. >> 100% over this. Yeah, >> no question. This is rough, but hey, you know, the cases are smaller, so you could stack more movies in the same amount of physical space. >> That's true. And it's not its only advantage. Despite kind of sucking, VCD lived a long life, allegedly still being sold in Asia as recently as 2013. And it even got a bunch of spin-offs. XVCD, for instance, uses variable bit rate to help save data in simpler scenes and then improve image quality in more complex ones. >> At least I hope so. KVCD supported higher resolutions or runtime. DVCD or double VCD was for longer movies that couldn't fit on a single disc. >> That's what we've got today. >> Which would have been nice for and SVCD or super VCD offered better image quality. Apparently almost on par with DVD, >> which we'll get to soon. But first, let's take a look at yet another skeleton on VHS's road to world domination. It's roided out cousin DVHS. This is another format that we've already covered in a previous video, but it's mind-blowing enough that I think it merits talking about again. I mean, high definition on tape back in 1994. How did I not know about this when I was a freaking kid? Well, for starters, it wasn't commercially available until quite a bit later. And for another thing, it was really expensive back then. >> And unfortunately for you, it's rare. So, it's still expensive today. >> Oh, cool. [laughter] Yeah, I know. Because the player we used that time, uh, it started to eat the tapes as we were filming B-roll and so we had to get a new one. Uh, we also had to get new tapes. Um, hopefully this one doesn't explode before we finish, but no guarantee. I tested it and watched it footage. I know it works, but for how long? I can't say. [laughter] Cool. Why did we change TVs? because this one uses FireWire for the copyright protection >> and the only way we can get FireWire in a modern display is with a plasma with a receiver that accompanies [music] it. >> So, not only did you need to shell out some big money for the player in the tapes, but you were also limited to a TV or receiver that supported FireWire. >> Yeah. >> Like this sweet Pioneer Plasma. >> Mhm. >> I should press play. >> You should. But it looks like actually really good. >> Yeah. Like there's a bit of noise in the image still. >> It's fine. But this is the first format where I can distinguish film grain from crappy low resolution. >> Yeah, this is 1080i. >> It looks awesome. >> It really does. Like this is genuine HD. His badge isn't looking all garbage like it did in most the other formats. You can actually see small details on things. All the bamboo shoots there. Yeah. Like this actually looks really good. >> Really fast motion. You can catch that it's >> interlaced and skin tones. >> Oh, and the blacks. Like I was watching his pants walk across the cabinets back there and I could actually see his pants against the cabinets. Like it had enough range where I could differentiate the two materials. >> Dude, the color. >> Yeah, it's pretty legit. His fist looks white like he's clenching it, you know, even though his face is all red cuz he's all angry and stuff. It's really upsetting that this came out as late as it did to Holmes and that it cost as much as it did because like >> this is amazing >> and this is factoring in that this is still a tape based medium. Yeah, this has probably degraded. >> It's really too bad that it stayed professional only for so long because by the time it had come out in the very early 2000s, DVD had already cemented itself as the future even though this looks better. >> Better is an understatement. >> Oh yeah, we're going to do DVD next. And I bet it's going to be like a downgrade. >> Major. >> Like we're on a bigger screen, too. Like that's something that we really have to stop and and mention is that like the size is massive compared to our CRT. And it looks way more detailed. It even had modern creature comforts like multiple audio channels and chapter stops. Unfortunately, it's chapter stops here as we move on to finally a new king. After this parade of pretenders in March 1997, the DVD or digital versatile disc, not video, came to North America. If you were ignorant of the wonders of DVHS or laser disc, so if you were almost anyone, DVD was incredible. Not only was the quality significantly higher than regular VHS at a whopping 480p thanks to single layer discs holding 4.7 GB of data, but the discs were tiny compared to VHS and laser disc, and they wouldn't wear out over multiple plays. Not only that, but it had cool features that were new to most people, like chapter selection and on [music] disk extras that ranged from deleted scenes to bloopers to interactive games. >> I remember those. >> Yeah, they were actually really great. I remember it was such a big deal. Like even this even the main menu it was it was like it was so cool cuz you went from renting a videape and putting it in and just watching the movie to like all of a sudden, you know, you and your family watch the movie and then you check out the deleted scenes after. You check out the bonus features. Like >> now early players were super expensive. Yeah, here's an ad from 1997 with ranges from [clears throat] $500 to $750, but that cost dropped massively as adoption ramped up. And in March of 2000, the PlayStation 2 launched with DVD playback functionality at just $299. Wait, sorry. So, it's a game console and it's one of the cheapest DVD players on the market. >> Hell yeah. >> What a move. Sony >> crushed it. >> Back to widescreen on the tiny TV. Yeah, >> not an upgrade. >> No, but 480p is technically better than what we were looking at before. >> And we're using Svideo now, which was much more common by the time DVT rolled around. [laughter] >> It's like three steps forward, eight steps back. >> Okay. The color is a lot better though. Skin tones way better. >> Yeah, but like I can barely see the mountain in the background. It's pretty much just part of the sky. >> Exactly. Um, [laughter] and like the the lake still looks like super blown out. >> Um, >> and the buildings are just black. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like you said, to most people, this was a massive upgrade. >> Oh, yeah. Even just not having to be so careful with them and not being so bulky. >> You can fit like five DVDs in the same space. You could fit one VHS. >> Yeah. I actually remember watching The Matrix on DVD back in 2000 when my uncle uh got his first like big 5.1 surround sound home theater system. DVD was brand new. It looked and sounded absolutely incredible. And that's like when my first introduction to hi-fi was kind of starting and when I actually got into like things can look better than what I've been watching. >> And all these years later, now you own a display. >> Several. In fact, >> DVDs are even still being produced and sold with major releases priced at roughly the same as their Blu-ray counterparts. >> Astonishing. It's really amazing that these are still being created and used today, especially when you consider that both formats have coexisted for nearly 20 years. >> It really is decent enough. >> 100%. >> The only reason I'm unhappy right now is because I just watched DVHS. >> Yeah, we know what's better and we've seen what's better. Whereas like for most people, this massive upgrade. I I we just can't say it enough. Like it was incredible going from VHS >> to DVD >> to DVD. It really was. >> And it was such a big step that I felt like a lot of the people I knew just felt like DVD was good enough. Totally >> to the point where when Blu-ray came out, they were like, >> I Yeah, it's kind of funny, but that's really true. Like it's probably why it survived for so long is cuz it was >> It wasn't until our TVs got so much bigger that this mattered. >> Yeah. True. >> That this was problematic at all. >> Yeah. Cuz even back in 2000, like TVs were only starting to get into like 50in ranges commonly. And even that even 50 was like pretty big unless it was rear projection. >> And that was fuzzy rear projection generally speaking. >> Yeah. >> We can't get to Blu-ray yet though because I promised we'd do this chronologically. And you know what came out just a few months earlier? Good old HD DVD. >> Are you actually nostalgic for it? >> No. I've actually never watched an HD DVD and I thought it stood for highdeinition DVD. It's actually high density DVD. >> The more you know. I've never experienced this either. So, I'm actually a little excited. That's it. That's the extra standalone player. >> It's the size of the Xbox. [laughter] >> Developed by Toshiba, highdensity DVD was over three times the capacity of regular DVD at 15 gigs per layer. And like Blu-ray, it used a blue laser with a shorter wavelength. But how was the quality? It looks pretty damn good, though. Of course, it's this should still be like 1080p. You know, the actual quality by comparison was pretty similar between the two formats. It was really just the storage capacity was kind of the major factor. We're also using a much more modern display here. >> Yeah, we've upgraded to an OLED, which we know is not apples to apples, but if you got HDMI, [music] you might as well flaunt it. >> Yeah, >> the resolution is just so much better. But you know what? I will say it felt a little more filmic looking on DVHS. >> Yeah, more organic. And this one the mastering isn't as good, I think, cuz if like we might see it here, that mountain still I can barely see it. And this is an OLED with >> better than DVD. >> Better than DVD, but not as good as DVHS. I think the DVHS was mastered a little better again. It's kind of crazy cuz we we we said the same things when we did the video on it, watching the hurricane on it. >> How good is DVHS? >> It's amazing. >> Bring it back. >> We're bringing it back. We've got a player right there. We're gonna buy more movies, right? >> No. >> And then hang out in your theater room and watch TVHS tick. >> No. [laughter] >> Even the house though. I'm looking there again and the shadows. You can still see all the like staining from the natural um like moss and lykan and stuff building up on the the grungginess of it. >> You can tell they really lifted up the shadows a lot. >> I was just thinking that on his left side you can like it's not nearly as dark as it was before. >> And especially compared to the previous formats where his skin tones were so red. Yeah. >> Now they're almost sickly looking or almost green. >> Yeah, almost. >> Obviously, you could run into the same issues with color grading on a Blu-ray, though. So, why did HDD DVD fail? >> Well, failing is relative. It got more movie releases than video disc. Okay. And [laughter] it sold about 3/4 of a million players, including the Xbox 360 add-on. But, yeah, you know, considering the development cost, >> it's a giant failure. Um, and it's not because the HD DVD was bad. Look, this looks pretty good. >> It's great. >> It's because the competition was better. >> Now, a lot of people liken the Blu-ray versus HD DVD format wars to the older VHS and beta battle. And the rumor was that the winner was chosen in the same way by the adult entertainment industry. But realistically, there was more to it than that. Development by the BDA or Blu-ray Disc Association began as far back as 2001. And when Blu-ray launched in late June of 2006, it did so with a [music] vastly superior capacity to anything at the time. Even the single layer discs made HD DVD sound more like half density DVD with 25 gigs. And then dual layer 50 gig discs came just a few months later, enabling even lengthy full 1080p HD films to fit on a single piece of plastic. And that's with highfidelity multi- channelannel audio and extras galore. Wow. Now that's a menu. >> Look at this. Normally I'm the one who's over the top on camera. [laughter] By the way, was this intentional? I just I just noticed looking at the thing we're both that I love this sweater. I love the the lilac, too. >> Available now. ltstore.com. >> This is still basically HD DVD or DVHS quality, though. >> I don't see a difference. >> It's still 1080p instead of 1080i, but I mean, we just watched 1080p and yeah, this looks good. >> And the thing is, just because they have 25 or 50 gigs on a disc doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to use all of it. Different Blu-rays will often run at dramatically different bit rates. >> I think that this looks slightly more detailed than HD DVD, but >> dude, you'd have to pull out the magnifier to really be sure. >> Yeah, I would still get a DVHS player. >> Oh, come on. [laughter] >> Okay, I probably wouldn't, but like you got to admit the DVHS player looks the best so far out of everything we've watched. >> It had way more just artifacts and crap. Okay, it did, but it also also it also looked more like an old film and like in a kind of comforting way. >> The real kicker was that while standalone players were super expensive for both of them at the start, Sony dusted off their old playbook and integrated Blu-ray into the PlayStation 3 for the starting price of $4.99, >> which was a lot at the time, but it's still a lot less than buying an Xbox and a next generation video player. >> That's fair. And Blu-ray has continued to evolve. In February of 2016, Blu-ray got what may end up being its final glow up with the launch of Ultra HD or 4K Blu-ray. Thanks to the even higher capacity of these discs, we now get Atmos audio with positional data baked into the soundtrack, 10 bit color and recre 2020 with HDR, mandatory for 4K Blu-ray, or even 12 bit with Dolby Vision, which is optional. The question now is how does Rambo First Blood look for the 10th time today >> in its final form. >> Hey, the film grain's back. >> Yeah, >> they figured out in the time since the Blu-ray that people want that filmic look. To their credit, 1080p is enough for a clean image. >> Totally. >> But it's not necessarily enough resolution to properly represent film grain. >> Like it can end up just looking like digital noise. Whereas when you have more resolution, you can have some of that original film grain. Oh, wow. The lake, dude, >> it's pretty bright. >> You can see Yeah. And you can still see all the detail in it. >> Yeah, you Oh, wow. I hadn't even I was looking at the mountain again, but like Yeah, you're right. It doesn't clip nearly as badly in anything else we watched. I can actually see all the rippling and stuff going on in the lake. >> It's kind of incredible to think that the original film, cuz it's not like they can recapture that. the original film had all of that dynamic range. >> We just didn't have a home format that was capable of reproducing it. >> I mean, that's kind of the scary thing about uh analog just dying slowly. A lot of film is just rotting in a warehouse or something somewhere. And if we don't remaster it digitally within some time period, it's just gone. And their faces look natural again. There's a little bit of red in them. >> Yeah. You could see that they have blood >> flowing in them. first blood [laughter] to. >> But you guys didn't need us to tell you that 4K Blu-ray is the highest fidelity movie format. So, let's answer the question that no one was asking. What's the price of a 4K Blu-ray player and where can I get one? Wait, yeah, no, no one is asking that. 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