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Kaido

Kaido

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Arcadio said:
Television Remote Control - 1960's Infomercial
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Wow, I didn't know they had wireless remote controls in the 60's...my buddy still has his old VCR with a wired remote control in his attic. Some interesting comments here about how the original remotes used a high-pitched tuning fork: (or two)

http://bitsandpieces.us/2011/04/21/the-first-television-remote-control/

More here:

https://archive.org/details/Televisi1961

This was not the first remote control. The first was by Zenith. Their R&D dept. was given the instruction to come up with a way to turn a television set on and off and change the channel - WITHOUT batteries (no kidding, that's what the marketing department decided the American public needed)! The original remote used two tiny "tuning forks", one for on/off, the other for channel. Each had a single button that you pressed down. A striker hit the little noisemaker, which produced an ultrasonic pitch, too high to be heard by people (I wonder about dogs?). The channel button caused the channel to go up one notch each time the button was pressed - and eventually you got back to where you started. I know you kids will have a hard time beliveing this, but there were only 12 possible channels, 2 - 13 "VHF" - Very High Frequqency- channels (of which only three or four would be used in a good-sized city), plus one slot for "UHF" Ultra High Frequency (there were usually only 2 or 3 stations that used that set of frequencies in those days). And before you ask, "channel 1" encompased the UHF "channels". If you wanted to see a UHF channel, you set the main selector to "UHF" and then had to get off your butt and go to the TV and twiddle the separate UHF tuning knob, it was tricky to get tuned in. I won't go into why there are two separate channel sections, look it up yourself. There was no volume control. And no batteries!

The remote control in this case is big because of the batteries: probably a couple of D cells, maybe 4 C cells. It worked by infrared light (apparently the first to do so), the same as today's. What was different is that it was analog - each function had a separate "frequency", and you held down the button as long as necessary to get the effect you were trying for, whereas today's all use the same frequency (you can even user your Palm or PocketPC PDA as a remote control!), but each button produces a different series of pulses on that frequency - off=0, on=1 - digital, get it?
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BUTCH1

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Kaido said:
Wow, I didn't know they had wireless remote controls in the 60's...my buddy still has his old VCR with a wired remote control in his attic. Some interesting comments here about how the original remotes used a high-pitched tuning fork: (or two)

http://bitsandpieces.us/2011/04/21/the-first-television-remote-control/

More here:

https://archive.org/details/Televisi1961
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My Dad had a TV shop in the '50's and 70's, we had one of those, I could change channels by clanging my belt buckle LOL, not that there was much on, only 3 channels and one UHF channel.
 
SOFTengCOMPelec

SOFTengCOMPelec

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8

I won't spoil the video for you, by telling you exactly what happens in it.

But to give you some idea, it is what happens, when an AnandTechForum like geeky technical expert, is given one of those horrible experiences in life, and how (in a rather hilarious, over the top way), the problem is partly solved, maybe.
 
fjmeat

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjWqQPWmsY

Video of Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) taking its first test flight at our rocket development facility. F9R lifts off from a launch mount to a height of approximately 250m, hovers and then returns for landing just next to the launch stand. Early flights of F9R will take off with legs fixed in the down position. However, we will soon be transitioning to liftoff with legs stowed against the side of the rocket and then extending them just before landing.

The F9R testing program is the next step towards reusability following completion of the Grasshopper program last year (Grasshopper can be seen in the background of this video). Future testing, including that in New Mexico, will be conducted using the first stage of a F9R as shown here, which is essentially a Falcon 9 v1.1 first stage with legs. F9R test flights in New Mexico will allow us to test at higher altitudes than we are permitted for at our test site in Texas, to do more with unpowered guidance and to prove out landing cases that are more-flight like.
 
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skipsneeky2

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The Battlefield Friend series of videos, pretty funny overall. Might watch some AVGN soon as well as those never get old for me.
 
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BUTCH1

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fjmeat said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjWqQPWmsY

Video of Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) taking its first test flight at our rocket development facility. F9R lifts off from a launch mount to a height of approximately 250m, hovers and then returns for landing just next to the launch stand. Early flights of F9R will take off with legs fixed in the down position. However, we will soon be transitioning to liftoff with legs stowed against the side of the rocket and then extending them just before landing.

The F9R testing program is the next step towards reusability following completion of the Grasshopper program last year (Grasshopper can be seen in the background of this video). Future testing, including that in New Mexico, will be conducted using the first stage of a F9R as shown here, which is essentially a Falcon 9 v1.1 first stage with legs. F9R test flights in New Mexico will allow us to test at higher altitudes than we are permitted for at our test site in Texas, to do more with unpowered guidance and to prove out landing cases that are more-flight like.
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Amazing, that is quite a feat to design a guidance system that keeps the rocket that stable at zero speed, kinda looks like a '50's sci-fi movie LOL..
 
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BUTCH1

Lifer
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Thebobo said:
I cant stop watching this...

Also found some other stuff the back up group does including this New Orleans jazz style cover of Guns and Roses Sweet child of Mine pretty good to.
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Yea, I've played it like 15-20X LOL, besides the obvious singing that's also an excellent job done on the piano, the chorus girls are good AND hot as well!.
 
blankslate

blankslate

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK9Y...eature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_3617385137

^^ Game of Thrones - Honest Trailer ^^ with spoilers blurred and bleeped out.
The amount of blur and bleeps makes this a bit funnier than the non-spoiler version.

It's kinda like a History Test but with [beeeeeep] and bewbs.
If you post any spoilers the mods will threaten to ban you... but to my book bros..
R+L=J You know what I'm talking about
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOIi9SjJvgU

^^ Lord of the Rings - Honest Trailer ^^

...an Adventure where every lead character faces mortal danger but only Sean Bean dies... gee, haven't seen that before...
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mizzou

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I was watching a bunch of videos of cars going through car wash tunnels earlier :awe:

wtf is wrong with me and how did i get there
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2I0RBri5g&list=PLmYc9gG3yj8TcGenNQ_j-4ICy58ixohLn

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