“Who would buy a record player that only had one record for it?” You techmoan you are the answer to your own question
@clottedcreamtea8695
4 жыл бұрын
I've spent 15 years waiting for a sony pnumatic tape player . Got one ,misplaced the tapes 😐 Edit umatic lol Cost me a fiver ,hope i wasnt ripped orf 😁
@lloydtshare
4 жыл бұрын
😄
@wisteela
4 жыл бұрын
@@clottedcreamtea8695 U-matic. I'm after one a machine too as I have some tapes.
@SierraLimaOscar
4 жыл бұрын
@@wisteela Low band or High Band? I remember seeing a fair bit of them on eBay not too long ago.
@gbraadnl
4 жыл бұрын
... and questions remain
@fabbricatopersonareale
4 жыл бұрын
I've never been so interested in something that literally means nothing to me
@Gartral
4 жыл бұрын
welcome to the world of techmoan.
@av.punk.801
2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to vintage consumer electronics and audio :D this man is the reason I want an "all format" hifi. I'm talkin tape, CD, record, 8 track, ELCASSETTE FOR FUCK SAKE... this man is a sait and wellspring of information but if you have a collectors mind, turn heel and run before he reels you into this mess
@kaceyrhiannon9321
4 жыл бұрын
For what it's worth, the gold disc is "Ii ja nai no shiawase naraba" sung by Naomi Sagara.. first released in July 1969. Written by Tokiko Iwatani and Taku Izumi. Popular song with lots of other later covers done on it. B-side "Sekai wa futari no tame ni" Also by Naomi Sagara A 1967 release. Big million seller. Singer sound is a bit unique.. she has a bit of boyish vocal sound...deeper than most Japan female singers. And a bit of history. But was very popular.
@zanizone3617
4 жыл бұрын
I was wondering about this. Thanks for the information!
@PeterCamberwick
4 жыл бұрын
Ah yes. I knew it. It was on the tip of my tongue. :)
@danschreffler1280
4 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/055rtXuHnpSFoII Sounds a little like Akiko Wada.
@L2VRum30ekQ
4 жыл бұрын
She retired from the music industry after being outed as homosexual by a former partner in 1980. A shame.
@L2VRum30ekQ
4 жыл бұрын
@J500 L6000 Yeah, I replied to the parent comment. Sorry!
@johnruschmeyer5769
4 жыл бұрын
Personally, I love how the advertising focused on the portability, specifically the number of records that could be carried in a pocket. It's the same sort of claim that drove early MP3 player marketing. An interesting evolutionary dead-end in man's quest to carry his music with him.
@FranLab
4 жыл бұрын
An interesting mystery - I once had a solid state disc cutter/player from the late 50's with the same form factor as this Barclaytophone.
@ericpode6095
4 жыл бұрын
Pity you haven't still got it. You could have done a video, maybe even a collaboration. 😊
@TreyWait
4 жыл бұрын
Didn't TM do an episode on something like that, a 'talking telegram' meant to be recorded then mailed?
@Seth-hc2bj
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Fran love your videos!!
@jamesslick4790
4 жыл бұрын
@@TreyWait He did one on the SCM "Mail Call", That was a magnetic tape unit using a cartridge format based on "PlayTape".
@1blisslife
4 жыл бұрын
Hey... It's Fran again! One of my other fav KZitemrs! Nice to see you here 😊 Wish you still had that machine too.
@ordinosaurs
4 жыл бұрын
Eddie Barclay is a household name in France. He used to marry about once a year with a new seemingly identical 20~ish Slavic beauty when he was well into his 80s himself. He's also famed as the importer of the stereo long-play record format from the US (fr: "microsillon" , en: "microgroove"), for which he secured exclusive rights to the tooling, creating the basis of his music empire when the "yéyé" wave took the charts by storm in the 60s, singing popular translated covers of classic English rock'n'roll.
@theharbingerofconflation
4 жыл бұрын
Hell, Daniele his 6th wife was a real keeper, but it seems Tiara (No.9) won the pot as his last wife.
@ayylmao8562
4 жыл бұрын
Oh the French!.
@lakrids-pibe
4 жыл бұрын
Barbe bleue
@theharbingerofconflation
4 жыл бұрын
@@jubuttib all of them actually are more like german or french.
@fields_of_regret
4 жыл бұрын
So weird, here in brasil we had an nearly identical musical phenomenon called "iê iê" which started with translated covers as well.
@Crispy_Bee
4 жыл бұрын
It's a bit unfortunate that the Barcalytophone didn't feature a transparent lid or show the spinning disc during playback. The golden record would look pretty neat while spinning!
@alexistarr
4 жыл бұрын
Apparently a well know washing machine manufacturer once released a front loading washing machine with a door that didn't have a window in it. I understand that it was a failure as people like to have the option of watching their clothes as they are being watched.
@Crispy_Bee
4 жыл бұрын
@@alexistarr Well except for Americans with their top-loading washing machines ;-)
@alexistarr
4 жыл бұрын
@@Crispy_Bee Fair point. Though with a top loader you can just open the door mid cycle if you're concerned about the progress of your wash. Since there's no chance of a flood there's no need for an interlock mechanism to prevent you doing this.
@startedtech
4 жыл бұрын
@@alexistarr why does anyone need to watch their laundry? They're on timers anyways. I always thought of front loading washers as more of a convenience thing, and the clear door part just a novelty.
@alexistarr
4 жыл бұрын
@@startedtech From my personal point of view their's always that nagging doubt that something will go wrong mid cycle, being able to see what's going on in my washing machine drum is reassuring. Having said that my 10 year old washing machine is vastly more reliable than the Windows 10 update process....
@shadowmixx
4 жыл бұрын
Hmmm,...and we thought The Jackson 5 having a 45 that you could get on the back of a cardboard box of Alpha Bits cereal was a cool novelty.
@video99couk
4 жыл бұрын
Nice channel icon, I like that.
@logicaldojo1901
4 жыл бұрын
My mother had one of those, I believe it was the Monkees though. Blew my mind as a kid.
@jonglass
4 жыл бұрын
We had a 45 of the Jackson 5 singing "ABC, 123" that we got with a bowl of cereal. I forget the cereal though. Maybe it was Alpha Bits, as it goes with the song--or the song with the cereal...
@aname2772
4 жыл бұрын
Technically Any Breakfast Cereal works for the song ABC
@shadowmixx
4 жыл бұрын
@@video99couk Thank you 😊
@MrPictor
4 жыл бұрын
Here is an excerpt from a paper in ''Le Monde", dated January 25, 1968. Translated with deepl. At the same time, Barclay in particular is working to launch new formats. Two months ago, the first 33-rpm mini-discs with a diameter of 12 centimetres and six titles appeared, and the company's researchers have just developed a 5 or 6 centimetre diameter micro-disc with two titles, which will allow the use of tiny electrophones. These discs, which would sell for less than two francs, should appear on the market next summer when the American company working with Barclay on this project will have produced the pocket-sized "mange disque" ("record eater") ! C.B.S., for its part, is trying to impose the Gemini single, which has only two tracks and is already in the process of replacing the four-track single in many foreign countries. End of quote. Let me add that Eddie Barclay was extremely famous in France, not only as a producer but also for his numerous (consecutive) young wives and parties in Saint Tropez.
@34.FB.34
4 жыл бұрын
And his white clothes!
@Brookspirit
4 жыл бұрын
Techmoan, the Columbo of tech history.
@TheErador
4 жыл бұрын
Just one more thing...
@richneptune
4 жыл бұрын
How much does Technoman pay for his shoes?
@itsasecrettoeverybody
4 жыл бұрын
more like kirk, going where no men was gone before.
@lo1bo2
4 жыл бұрын
"Sir. Sir, ... I'm terribly sorry to bother you, just one more question..."
@stephanemignot100
4 жыл бұрын
Eddie Barclay was kind of a legend here in France, musician, he founded this label, white suits, jet setter, the king of St Tropez etc...
@CaesarBest
4 жыл бұрын
nice
@stephanemignot100
4 жыл бұрын
@@CaesarBest Not my think to be clear, he was charismatic at least!
@ethanpschwartz
4 жыл бұрын
"Et une nouvelle femme chaque année," my grandfather once told me with such admiration...
@AmazingJeeves
4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the Pitbill of his time ... Mr. Tout-le-monde. 😀
@MaxiemumKarnage
4 жыл бұрын
France isn't real, shame really
@iamdarkyoshi
4 жыл бұрын
Me: There can't possibly be any formats left to cover... Techmoan: Hey look at this weird format I found
@video99couk
4 жыл бұрын
Oh there's plenty more, I've one one on Stenocassette and various professional audio formats, then when it comes to video formats it just explodes into dozens of weird and wonderful formats and sub-formats.
@Azlehria
4 жыл бұрын
@@video99couk And if one were to ever somehow run out of physical formats, the continuing explosion of _software_ formats would still leave plenty of material to work with. By now I suspect an enterprising content creator could make a pretty good run just describing audio and video _container_ formats; never mind the actual encodings. Particularly if one were to detail embeddable formats - that is, containers that one can stuff into _other_ containers - well. That rabbit hole has no bottom. And the overlap with _image_ formats . . .!
@shadowmixx
4 жыл бұрын
Since I've been following Techmoan, I have come to realize that I haven't even scratched the surface of various recording and/or playback formats. He makes 'my' experiences with vinyl, cassettes, reel-to-reel, and digital seem like child's play. LOL!
@erwintimmerman6466
4 жыл бұрын
@@Azlehria I think that's more a subject for Technology Connections. He dives into the physics and programming part too. All different types of digital containers are just theoretical, there's nothing to physically hold.
@Azlehria
4 жыл бұрын
@@erwintimmerman6466 Oh, I wasn't trying to suggest that Mat should cover them! I get the impression that software in its own right isn't very interesting to him, and file formats can be terribly boring even when you _do_ enjoy the details. Although if he did decide to branch out in that direction I certainly wouldn't complain. I wouldn't say file container formats are _just_ theoretical, though, since there are certainly concrete implementations. Music is hardly tangible, after all, and that's not a pure-theory field by any measure.
@ElectroPotato
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, Barclay was a french label, but their releases were popular in Japan. They had a japanese division. I got a japanese 7" record with Barclay label (and one with Carrere too).
@Gappasaurus
4 жыл бұрын
Bravo Mat, a fascinating & well-developed deep dive into a forgotten & mysterious format! I love these types of videos, it’s like “Forensic Files” but about stuff you’d actually enjoy 😄
@dschonsie
4 жыл бұрын
"my name is techmoan, sherlock techmoan" ; )
@sakadabara
4 жыл бұрын
Techmoan Holms
@otakuribo
4 жыл бұрын
20:13 What is that phone?? Was that real? It looks like something from Get Smart
@dashcamandy2242
4 жыл бұрын
How cool would it be to have a _rotary dial_ videophone? Especially if it was sitting on your desk right next to a Panasonic Phonosphere or Welltron 2001?
@jon-paulfilkins7820
4 жыл бұрын
What a bonkers story from the format wars! As someone who was into music and computers in the 80's, I thought I had seen them all, but no. Excellent work sir.
@davidheafield1436
4 жыл бұрын
Barclay was the label that the Sex Pistols were released on in France , at one time when Anarchy in the U.K. was in demand but withdrawn in the U.K. Barclay filled the demand by exporting lots of 12” and 7” for sale in U.K. record shops ....same logo too.
@TheGillesK
4 жыл бұрын
Barclay was a major record company in the 1950s to 1980s. Big in popular music, but also in other styles. It had been founded by the rather flamboyant Eddie Barclay, who was the first to produce microgroove records in France, about 1950.
@JeeGee114
4 жыл бұрын
And Les Poppys.
@iviedbymightymt
4 жыл бұрын
The record label is still around (as a Universal sub-label). I'm only familiar with it, as Izia's two latest albums where released there.
@shadshowadradna
4 жыл бұрын
Barclay had a UK imprint that released stuff here through the seventies, although it was mostly if not all French material. Charles Aznavour's big UK hit She was on the UK Barclay.
@bobsoldrecords1503
4 жыл бұрын
My copy was on Glitterbest. Was that earlier or later than Barclay?
@shaunmorrissey7313
4 жыл бұрын
It amazes me that so much is forgotten so quickly, this stuff is all within my lifetime.
@zanizone3617
4 жыл бұрын
It used to be that if you weren't in the right place, at the right time, you simply would miss stuff and often not even be aware of it afterwards. Internet truly is a marvel.
@SolidSonicTH
3 жыл бұрын
As someone born in the 80s, I think the move towards digitization has aided in keeping stuff from my youth alive in the consciousness for a lot longer. You can't download a vinyl record with all the scratches and pops as it was but you can save a ROM from the NES and find varying ways to play it nowadays without much difficulty. I'll never really have the experience of putting a needle on a record player in my nostalgia banks but I can revisit music from when I was 8 or 9 simply by tracking down a CD and throwing it in my PC (which still has a BD-R drive). I find going back to stuff from when I was a kid requires less specialized hardware than maybe something my dad would have to resort to in order to do the same.
@atakdragonfly1675
2 жыл бұрын
Think about the generations that never knew...
@andrewstones2921
4 жыл бұрын
10:05 “nothing, not a sausage”. Being British this makes perfect sense to me, but to our international friends who may have spent years studying English, I guess this sounds a bit odd.. oh how we love the English language.
@AtheistOrphan
4 жыл бұрын
I confused an American with the phrases ‘Chuffed to bits’ and ‘I could murder a fag’. With the later he thought it was homophobic, rather than just being desperate for a cigarette! 🚬
@johnstone7697
4 жыл бұрын
@@AtheistOrphan We in the States used to use the term "fag" for cigarettes way back when. Obviously no more.
@AtheistOrphan
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnstone7697 - I never knew that!
@Azlehria
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnstone7697 Likewise even into at least the 1960s, American writers were still using the word "gay" as an adjective roughly synonymous with "happy" or "joyful". Strange how, almost the instant a word becomes even faintly associated with homosexuality, suddenly that becomes the _only_ meaning.
@4shaw724
4 жыл бұрын
not even a bean
@scaper8
4 жыл бұрын
Man, that shade on Crosley. LOL. Though, it sounds warranted. You should be given a commission from Crosley.
@Techmoan
4 жыл бұрын
I’m sure it’s purely _a coincidence_ but I’ll be interested to see if a there’s a similar coincidental reintroduction of Pocket Flexi-discs in 2021.
@graealex
4 жыл бұрын
Why would he get a commission? The video did create interest for the old format, but creating and bringing a product to the market is a lot of work and also a lot of risk, even for a product as shite as the RSD3.
@TheRealColBosch
4 жыл бұрын
@@graealex Hello, welcome to Earth! Here we have something called "humor." You might want to look it up.
@PaulFisher
3 жыл бұрын
As a Cincinnatian by birth, it pains me to see the crap that the current license-holders for the Crosley name put out.
@RealRedRabbit
4 жыл бұрын
Good. I was literally just wondering what I'd do this morning since I can't sleep.
@SazLowify
4 жыл бұрын
Know that feeling all too well. Hope you have a good day/night!
@briansouth9325
4 жыл бұрын
Same!
@bocefusboy
4 жыл бұрын
Same
@NachozMan
4 жыл бұрын
lol just woke up from a 4 hour nap into 3am myself
@artu165
4 жыл бұрын
Yoooo same here, 4:35 am right now couldn't sleep
@monotonehell
4 жыл бұрын
Well that was a journey.
@AkosJaccik
4 жыл бұрын
"Okay, so you don't want to buy smaller records for listening, but how about wearing them in your ears?" I don't know why, but I just _love_ this desperation.
@Tom5TomEntertainment
4 жыл бұрын
I'll stick to my 78 earrings, thank you very much.
@bobblum5973
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the Magical Mystery Tour through some history of small-format records. I'm not surprised by your small problem with battery sizes, I've seen that before with really old equipment, The exact dimensions of the cells has changed over the years, as has the formulation. It looks like you were trying to use carbon "dry cells" as well as the alkaline ones, I recall when nickel-cadmium rechargeable ones were ever so slightly larger in diameter then the carbon-zinc or alkalines. Most people don't realize that a "cell" is a single unit, while a "battery" is technically a group of cells inside a single case, so AA, AAA, C and D sizes are cells, while a 9-volt is a battery. How many people wonder about "A" and "B" batteries? I recall needing 22.5-volt batteries that were the size of a 9-volt but instead of the snap connections they had a bump contact on each end. As a kid back in the 1960s I had some battery operated toy slot cars, Ideal Toys' Motorific series that used two AA cells in each car. When they came out with smaller "Mini-Motorific" they switched to using "N" cells instead, which (according to Wikipedia) have a length of 30.2 mm and a diameter of 12.0 mm (approximately three-fifths the length of a AA battery). At the time they were a very odd size, and the only place we could get them was Sears, Roebuck & Co. (probably where we bought the Mini-Motorific sets!).
@Maxbooze
4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the rabbit hole episodes! Oh and the Japanese/French connection stems from Japan falling in love with foreign films where the main characters end up in Paris as part of the romance segments. There are so many french names places in Japan because of this love of Paris in film. On a sad note, there is an actual thing called Syndrome de Paris, where Japanese tourists return from Paris all traumatised from how Paris is very far from the romantic portrayal in film.
@3rdalbum
4 жыл бұрын
I went to Japan two years ago and I was surprised how many French tourists and French-style bakeries there were. Nearly as many French as there were Americans.
@michaelbedford8017
4 жыл бұрын
'I've never heard french used like this'. reminds me of something my french teacher said about 50 years ago.
@lidbass
4 жыл бұрын
Our French teacher said something similar when we asked her to translate Plastic Bertrand’s Ca Plane Pour Moi.
@34.FB.34
4 жыл бұрын
@@lidbass ouhouhouhouuuuuuuu ça plane pour moi moi moi moi moi!
@lidbass
4 жыл бұрын
@@34.FB.34 Allez, and indeed oop!
@julosx
4 жыл бұрын
@@lidbass Basically "Ça plane pour moi" was a cover of a punky song from the early Damned called "Jet Boy, Jet Girl", if memory serves.
@01chippe
3 жыл бұрын
@@julosx Love that song! I still play the 12” by Elton Montello.
@KaiCalimatinus
4 жыл бұрын
Oh wow hitclips 30 years before hitclips And this whole big mystery about who and when and where and how. Good times
@davidmcgill1000
4 жыл бұрын
Probably even sound better than hitclips.
@JohnKelly2
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidmcgill1000 pull string dolls had better sound than hit clips
@FatTony071984
4 жыл бұрын
The name probably is a french wordplay with "magnetophone", which translates to cassette player and Barclay.
@melskunk
4 жыл бұрын
I was looking for someone to bring this up! :)
@BleepingRelics
4 жыл бұрын
The real name of a record player is électrophone so meh...
It's not often you see a single creator produce content that is so well rounded and enjoyable to watch. I barely care about music (formats), yet I enjoyed this wideo immensely.
@YMSI1
4 жыл бұрын
4:10 - I think on some players it will autostop. In ones, wich use photo-resistors to determin where is runout groove. We had one like this back in USSR, model was called "Электроника ЭП-017", "Electronica EP (stands for Electric Player)-017". Ofc this will work only if tonearm able gain enouth speed on runout groove of this small record to trigger the circuit. (Turntable autostops when it sees fast ehouth change in resistance of photo-resistor, wich means that shield attached to tonearm moves faster than it would move in actual groove with sound. Well, I'm not really good at explaining stuff...)
@BxCx666
4 жыл бұрын
I got couple of old soviet discs, roughly the same size as hp's, but they're not flexible at all - probably thinner then standard vinyl, but not so much. One sided, one song, could be played on any record player. Don't know anything about them, but probably they are some kind of soviet russian variant of hp's/pd's may be?
@Sticky745
4 жыл бұрын
Only techmoan can turn 1960s mini records into a fascinating rabbit hole
@davidanttila9305
4 жыл бұрын
Here is my guess.. 1: The pocket disc was probably around the time of preparation to expand to Detroit.. Had also contracted the known label in France and contracted the planet in Japan to prepare to send units to France.. 2: The sample players probably included labels designed by the French Recording labels.. The master disc probably didn't included any label designs or anything.. 3: Because of the joint project in preparation to ship to France and the Set up costs for the vending machine probably forced pocket Disc to simply tell the Japanese factory to do their own labels.. Hemce the device being in French and records being Gold and in Japanese.. 4: Then the disastrous merger resulted in the French product launch being canceled and the units never getting shipped...
@michaelspooner9160
3 жыл бұрын
I would think hip pocket records would have caught on more.Wonderful idea system.
@michaelspooner9160
3 жыл бұрын
Philco Hipster.Great idea.Too bad mergers global problems.It may reemerge in India or Africa.I learned the Buddy tribe in Ethiopia rewards the big fatty of community to rule role.Guys in gym had LOL over tech and culture norms,trends.Thanks for interesting product information.Interesting channel.
@johntammaro
4 жыл бұрын
Well that's my morning sorted.
@doncsicso81
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed! There’s an excellent start for a Saturday..... a nice scone, coffee and Techmoan 😊
@Calcouk
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, who WOULD buy a record player that only plays one record ...? Nice videos Monsieur TechMoan
@diggz1981
4 жыл бұрын
The B for Barclay looks like The B in Buffy the vampire slayer.
@shkeni
4 жыл бұрын
Probably where they got it from.
@TerribleShmeltingAccident
3 жыл бұрын
U mean where she got it from?
@NicholasSouris
4 жыл бұрын
Why not think about a Vietnamese connection when printing in French for Asia?
@PhoebusApollo360
3 жыл бұрын
A holiday in Cambodia...
@blayral
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe the Barclaytophone was a pun crossing Magnetophone and Barclay, because the thing had a size of a regular portable Cassette player/recorder, and prolly intended to play only Barclay Music.
@aaronstark5060
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine a time when kids thought Neil Diamond was hip.
@TheErador
4 жыл бұрын
20:13 I'd love to see a vid on this bad boy 60s videophone
@wentle1985
4 жыл бұрын
Thank the gods for you and LGR buying all of this vintage tech and showing it off. It keeps me from wanting to buy it myself and just filling up my closets.
@postmanpat3265
4 жыл бұрын
Last time i was this early, Pocket Records were still a thing
@Burritosuupreme
4 жыл бұрын
Somebody should edit together all of Mat’s “as always, thanks for watching”. I’d totally watch that.
@MasticinaAkicta
4 жыл бұрын
Well, they say you can learn a lot more about failures then successes. And all this stuff just shows that bringing out to many formats isn't helping.
@emirvmendoza
4 жыл бұрын
3:00 Today, I learned Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" is a cover. Thanks, Techmoan!
@PixelatedH2O
4 жыл бұрын
I found out just a few years ago that the video was only filmed about 45 minutes from where I live
@abousono1
4 жыл бұрын
Tiffany also did a cover of "I Saw Him Standing There," I think it was originally a Beatles song. The original was called "I Saw Her Standing There."
@themoviedealers
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine not knowing immediately it was a cover. I am old.
@PixelatedH2O
4 жыл бұрын
@@themoviedealers I didn't even know there was a cover until a few years ago
@danielvaladez5992
4 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid my godfather gave me a Clown toy/puppet which could play these format records (the disc was inserted on the back), it had also one blank/ transparent disc which you could record in the same Clown Puppet (it had a microphone on the hand). Too bad i no longer own that toy, nor remember which company made it.
@MrInvinciblewarrior
4 жыл бұрын
A true, now i remember this too.
@christopherlawley1842
4 жыл бұрын
So. Guess who's ad popped up - yup Barclaycard
@SexPistolsRareities
4 жыл бұрын
Barclay Records was the Sex Pistols french record label. Eddie Barclay gets shot by Sid Vicious at the end of the My Way video
@MASTERVETEAM4
4 жыл бұрын
Barclay was a giant French label by Eddie Barclay. It featured music from some of the greatest French artists of the 20th century, including Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel and Leo Ferre. Quebecois artist Jean Pierre Ferland, Claude Dubois, and Jacques Michelle also had their records released by Barclay. I have many LPs in my collection, and they were generally top quality.
@WilliamSteppan
4 жыл бұрын
Does anyone have any info on the video phone pictured at 20:12?
@davefink2326
4 жыл бұрын
IIRC Matt reviewed it a coupla years ago.
@AtheistOrphan
4 жыл бұрын
@@davefink2326 - Really? Are you sure it was this particular one? I’ve searched all his videos and can’t find it. I recall he’s reviewed a couple of video phones, but not this one.
@JulesFox
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a well researched video! Excellent work Mat. The BarkleyToPhone sounded really good. "A sad end but thoroughly deserved" - another classic Mat comment!
@TristanSamuel
4 жыл бұрын
When you said HP, I thought of Hewlett Packard.
@georgeplagianos6487
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah Hewlett-Packard but they would sell like their printers at a cheap price and rob you when NEED ink. B just like the Polaroid, cameras were relatively cheap but they too would rob you charging $10 for a 10 pack and that's cheap back in the 60s... these little disks they sell cheaply but the player is more expensive even though this one's a bargain at $13 with 50 records that's a good deal. At 69 years old this gadget slipped out of my memory if I ever seen it at all back then. boy they look and sound cheesy. Thanks for these great reviews of pass Technologies
@picklerick_91
4 жыл бұрын
So basically it’s like hit clips in the 60s... interesting See kids even your parents have something hit with... now the playing field is set
@cjclow052
4 жыл бұрын
Congratz on 1 mil subs keep up the great work!
@videogamehistorian
4 жыл бұрын
To answer your question about Barcalytophone records, I once had an almost same unit (same colors, same size), but without Barclay label. It however combined a radio inside, in addition to the same record player mechanism. There was a small Barclay record inside and the titles were sung by Dalida. It is now on display at the Phono Museum in Paris.
@FatherAxeKeeper
4 жыл бұрын
there are no promotional markings anywhere on the japanese flexi, so I think this had to have gone out to the public. they must just be extremely rare. in japan flexi records are called sonosheet (ソノシート). I tried searching for 9cmソノシート and I found more records of that same size. Apparently they were called either nanosheet (ナノシート) or sekaiichi chiisai record (世界一小さいレコード) meaning the smallest record in the world. here is a blog entry talking a bit about them. ameblo.jp/iwamurakotomi/entry-12459470174.html
@tysondogg242
4 жыл бұрын
This is very important information! I hope @Techmoan sees your post.
@FatherAxeKeeper
4 жыл бұрын
@@tysondogg242 Yes I hope so too.
@Techmoan
4 жыл бұрын
I had managed to find a few pictures of those brightly coloured discs online, I didn’t know the names of them though. They do seem to be more for a young child’s toy though. I’d imagine they would fit on this as well, but I suspect they’re for a different device.
@8bitwiz_
4 жыл бұрын
The interesting thing about this is that the players in that link were made of cardboard! There are pictures of two players, both with a little reddish bit that seems to be the needle. It's not obvious how they were spun; I see a little gray stick poking out but no corresponding hole in the discs in the other picture. Some of the discs are related to Ultraman, and the ones with the fish picture seem to refer to "Funi house chocolate". I see a lot of other Ultraman related discs in a Google image search. Sonosheet was clearly in the realm of quirky toys for 8-10 year old boys. ameblo.jp/chitoseame28/entry-12614975951.html This blog has a "Momoe no Fujicolor Matsuri" "star no oshaberi" (the star speaks) "aidoru ga sasayaku" (the idol whispers) "whisper card" "Yamaguchi Momoe #4" "Momoe no oheya e" (to Momoe's room) "kiritoranaide" (do not cut) with a spindle hole that folds over. It must have been a picture + song combo of an actress or singer. (Wikipedia says born 1959, career 1972-1980, very famous!) The instructions part 3 say play at 33 1/3 speed, the star will speak for 3 minutes. Definitely a novelty item. May have been a New Year's toy like the other items on that page. Well, that was a bit of a rabbit hole of its own.
@FatherAxeKeeper
4 жыл бұрын
@@8bitwiz_ it says that it is spun by hand
@lastinline1958
2 жыл бұрын
I had a Hip Pocket player when I was around nine, one that came with five records that were kept on a spindle in the lid. I can only remember two of them - "Light My Fire" and "Break On Through" By the Doors, and "I think We're Alone Now" (can't remember the other side, maybe "Crimson And Clover") by Tommy James etc. This is a nice whack of nostalgia for me.
@fastfiatjamest6437
4 жыл бұрын
It might be my imagination but I'm sure Mazda had a mini record flexi disc.
@zzstoner
4 жыл бұрын
Oddly enough, when you showed the Editorial article at around 2:30, I was seemingly more interested in the other story on the left regarding the "growing FM radio" market. I'm sure that could be a topic all of its own.
@abdelali9279
4 жыл бұрын
19:36 ah yes, "La meme collection", sounds like my type of playlist.
@FatherAxeKeeper
4 жыл бұрын
Side A: いいじゃないの幸せならば ( It's no good if you're happy) Side B: 世界は二人のために (The world is for the two of us)
@moreaufamily437
4 жыл бұрын
Wow I remember seeing an ad for these on TV when I was a child and I asked my parents if I could have one for Christmas. Instead they gave me a regular record player and that started my life long love for 33 1/3 and 45 rpm records instead.
@wotnvideos
3 жыл бұрын
Hello, I almost never comment on videos in general, but this video made me go look up those golden discs on a whim and I figured I'd post my findings. It turns out that if you understand Japanese it doesn't take very long at all: I simply googled the name of the company that made the discs (which was visible in the video) and the first hit was of a used book store's listing of a different disc in the exact same format for sale. www.kosho.or.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=298070425 The serial in that listing suggests that at least nine such records were released, but even better, it has Toshiba branding which ties in to your findings, and also shows the original packaging, revealing that these were released in Japan as "Golden Mini Record", which turned up another listing: a12.kpers.net/item/m38037580842/ This one is a set of five discs, and features the same singer as your disc (Izumi Taku); presumably they signed on for this format. Unfortunately the photographs are of very low quality so I wasn't able to discern anything else from them. I also found a post on a personal blog from someone who received two of the same record from someone else, but aside from the photographs they didn't have anything to add as they didn't know anything about them, the gift seems to have been a joke with the records coming in a batch of weird junk: ananweblog.exblog.jp/18989126/ Here's another listing for a Golden Mini Record of Christmas songs: www.mercari.com/jp/items/m70354530996/ This one really helped because it includes pictures of the booklet, which states that these records are made to be played on a product called the Mini Player Auto (ミニプレーヤーオート) - Searching for the product name turned up a text-only archive of magazine listings which indicate that the product's catchphrase was "a record player for the age of mini-skirts", and a single Twitter post with photos of one of the machines and a few records: twitter.com/RINCOLO/status/1355394955733155844/photo/1 One of the slips (a brochure?) in the Twitter post indicates that the Mini Player Autos were sold exclusively in Mitsukoshi department stores for 6350 yen. The Christmas song collection is also listed there as the first in a series of family song collections to also be sold exclusively at Mitsukoshi. Izumi Taku's name appears here too, as one of the people overseeing this line. In any case it does appear as if these were in fact a thing. That being said they don't seem to have been that big of a thing, as these were literally all that I could find. Japanese collectors are usually very thorough in documenting things, and such a lack of documentation suggests that these were very limited in availability, and probably not targeted at the sort of people who'd be usually be interested in collecting and documenting them (the department store exclusivity and family song lineup seems to support this line of thought). Anyway it appears that singles were priced at 200 yen back then, which (if I'm calculating this correctly) is 688 yen right now once accounting for inflation. That would be 4.6 pounds or $6.30 USD, which (again, if I'm doing this correctly) would have been 84 cents (USD) in 1969. A set of five records was 900 yen.
@frankowalker4662
4 жыл бұрын
I'm sure you're going back in time and inventing silly audio formats, just so you can show them on your channel. LOL.
@richardscratcher5700
4 жыл бұрын
I'm a Barclay so i was interested to find out that Eddie Barclay was born Édouard Ruault in Paris 1921. Why he changed his name is anybody's guess.
@mattb4721
3 жыл бұрын
In the music industry English names are regarded as fashionable and good for sales. It's still common everywhere today as far as band names are concerned, but in the past even people used to change their names for this reason. That's how Jean-Philippe Smet became Johnny Hallyday and Gerhard Höllerich became Roy Black.
@renchy
4 жыл бұрын
Is that as time travelling Mat on the right at 16:34?
@Gappasaurus
4 жыл бұрын
or a doppelgänger? 🤔
@rich_edwards79
4 жыл бұрын
Would you really be surprised if the guy had a flux capacitor tucked away somewhere?
@davidbirch9108
4 жыл бұрын
Nicoletta is a French singer on the Barclay label who was popular in the 60s and a 15 cm 33 rpm 'disque de poche' was produced for her fan club members. An example can be seen lower down on this page: www.encyclopedisque.fr/disque/71661.html
@SimulatedGoat
4 жыл бұрын
19:38 MEME COLLECTION
@TheAudioBooth
4 жыл бұрын
I loved watching this video. Extremely detailed and fascinating! I have two pocket discs, only I'm unable to ascertain their whereabouts at this juncture. I did find six carboard cereal box records in my search. I'd enjoy watching a video on that.
@mjarbar3204
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting vid as always, if it's one thing these have taught me is that if anyone comes up with the idea of a 'mini' player and a 'mini' format to go with it then don't back it with any money. Probably why the MP3 player was such a hit - all player but you didn't need to cart around a case of disks or cassettes or cartridges to play on the thing!
@negirno
4 жыл бұрын
The first portable mp3 players had only 32 megabytes of storage, so you could only store three or maybe four songs on them.
@Blackadder75
4 жыл бұрын
@@negirno no, because the mp3s would also be smaller (lower bitrate) you could certainly put 10-20 songs on 32 mb in the late nineties , often more. Songs would be in 128 kbit/s or less, not the 320 kb/s we got used to later.
@generaldisarray
4 жыл бұрын
Are you seriously expecting us to believe that someone else wrote and recorded I think we're alone now??? I think you'll find that Tiffany was the first and only person to have written, composed and recorded this song in 1987... Chuckle, god dam millennials!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Plus you really need to get Sukiyaki Kyu Sakamoto to test some of this equipment... kzitem.info/news/bejne/05iK2Xtvo6R7poo
@SchardtCinematic
4 жыл бұрын
:30 Looks like Lando Callrision was putting out some hits before he become governor of Bespin.. lol
@mychance
3 жыл бұрын
Bilingual instructions in French and in English are compulsery here in Canada. This product was probably meant for canadian market.
@kevinr.3542
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine my embarrassment when I realize im wearing one of these as an earing right now! And yes, its in my right ear. Because I'm right handed duhhh. Just like Elton John is. Why does everyone ask me about that?
@semarugaijin9451
4 жыл бұрын
佐良直美 - いいじゃないの幸せならば Naomi Sagara - ii Ja Nai Shiawase Naraba / if your not happy its no good. Great old Japanese Song, and great video as always : )
@OrangeHarrisonRB3
4 жыл бұрын
Better songs than HitClips offers XD
@dashcamandy2242
4 жыл бұрын
Better sound quality, too!
@TJEssary
4 жыл бұрын
It's interesting seeing all these different iterations of "vinyl". But, I've often wondered: Besides different formats of records, were there also some that ran at different speeds than the standards? I've seen 16, 33 1/3, 45, and 78 rpm. But, were those the only ones? Or, were there some obscure ones that played at other speeds?
@TJEssary
4 жыл бұрын
@@pebey Wow! I learn something new every time I watch this channel. Thanks for the response.
@billr3053
4 жыл бұрын
The exact (nominal) speeds are: 8-1/3, 16-2/3, 33-1/3, 45, 78-6/23. It seems that they were chosen based on a synchronous motor running at 3600 RPM (referenced to 60 Hz alternating current) and geared down by an integer factor. Perhaps integer factors were simpler to manufacture in terms of pulley or gear sizes. For example, 78.26 is 3600 / 46. 78-6/23 would be the exact speed but I doubt anyone was very concerned about playback speed error under 1/2 %. Often the fractional part was dropped off when referring to popular speeds - except 33-1/3 somehow survived and was commonly mentioned it its accurate form. 16-2/3 was rounded DOWN to "16" on switch labels.
@SpiritedSpy
4 жыл бұрын
19:37 meme collection.. nice
@guely55
Жыл бұрын
Great story! You are the Indiana Jones of lost physical media machines. Greetings from Sweden!
@otakuribo
4 жыл бұрын
"That's it. Techmoan's finally covered every music format that ever existed," I'd said...
@gpoop23
2 жыл бұрын
I love how old-school advertising for youths always had such a condescending tone. The people writing the advertising material hadn't yet learned how to convincingly speak to the people they were trying to reach (hint: it was well-applied memes) so it always came off like "I know all these buzzwords, but just to make sure you do I'm going to use them in the most broadly applicable contexts and assume you know why that's awesome. Anyway, you want one, don't you? All your friends have one."
@ObiTrev
4 жыл бұрын
It's 3:33am after a long night of working on a brutal essay. Trying to relax before bed, trying to wind down so you can sleep... T E C H M O A N
@chrisgoog58
3 жыл бұрын
I can remember going to weston super mare and recording our own voice to a 45 rpm record to take home. My sister had a similar looking record player for christmas that played 45s 33s 78s about 1969 dizzy by Tommy Row she played over and over they were golden days she would have been 12 yrs old and myself 10 myself I had a Miccano set but a few yrs later had a stereo record player with two clip on speakers. We used to sit under the lamp post on the pavement playing records, we used a extension lead for power.. Batteries were quite dear back then and lasted about 2 days. I miss my mum and dad so much.
@konatadesuka
4 жыл бұрын
The adverts are getting out of hands. 2 ads in the beginning, one in the middle, 2 more ads before I can even check the comments. I like your content but this is getting worse than cable TV.
@Kacpa2
4 жыл бұрын
I only had 1 ad at the end and beginning. Also on PC you csn use adblock so you wot have any ads
@FriedOrange
4 жыл бұрын
KZitem does it automatically now and they (apparently deliberately) made it very inconvenient for the channel owner to opt out of them
@TheErador
4 жыл бұрын
@@Kacpa2 yes but then Mat won't get the ad revenue. I've been actively allowing the ads to play recently as it's an easy way for me to support the people i watch. Watch the short ones and wait >30secs before skipping skippable ads. There was no midroll on this one for me.
@randomnickify
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheErador I understand that, but six commercials in 20 minutes video is way to much, that's the moment when I stop watching the creator whatsoever, TV in my country has less commercials by half hour, iits legally regulated.
@rich_edwards79
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah it's not great. I get tired of constantly having advertising rammed down my throat at every turn. The constant pressure to buy crap you dont need, or waste money on online gambling, loans, dating etc. Its a deliberate ploy on the part of Google to force you to upgrade to a premium subscription, but then all the providers are at it - I watched something on All4 the other day and it was literally 5 mins if adverts, followed by ten minutes of content and then another 5 minutes of ads. All for corrosive crap like online bingo and betting too. They seem to think that people will sit through them as they used to do with broadcast TV - I gave up and watched something else (especially as half of the show was 'recaps' of the previous ten minutes, apparently we no longer have the attention span to sit through an hour TV programme without being constantly reminded of what we've already seen).
@henryschmidt4712
3 жыл бұрын
HI, In the early 70's I work for a discount department story called "Two Guys" in the east coast of the USA - we were on the of the distributors of the Hip Pocket records because they didn't sell we would up destroying most of them. However they also had a Children's line of discs and I have any of them anymore and I don't remember who supplied the material but I think they sold for 39 cents.
@BBC600
4 жыл бұрын
Now if only I could find "Hip Pocket" earrings so I could wear records from my ears.
@bryede
4 жыл бұрын
My goal is to be able to carry a selection of LPs via nipple piercings.
@01chippe
3 жыл бұрын
You can just got regular 45’s over your ears. The hole should be big enough.
@Mr.Potato1962
4 жыл бұрын
Barclay use to Be a Record Label in Canada for French Music or Singer (French ) Specially in Quebec , Some Popular Quebec Artist (Singer)
@Nomad-Rogers
4 жыл бұрын
They should do somthing like this again but have a "trading Card" with a one time use QR code on the back with a download of the song from Apple or Google on AAC sell them in blind bags like trading cards.
@emperorty
4 жыл бұрын
i think "could" would be a more reasonable word than "should" in this case
@Magic-Enlightenment
4 жыл бұрын
It could have a Canadian connection. As Canada 🇨🇦 is dual language
@theangletosideofsauce7070
4 жыл бұрын
19:36 DANS LE *MEME* COLLECTION
@mr.bottle4079
4 жыл бұрын
What
@TheErador
4 жыл бұрын
In the same collection
@Gappasaurus
4 жыл бұрын
Prehistoric meme reference? 🤨🤔
@theangletosideofsauce7070
4 жыл бұрын
@@Gappasaurus memememememe
@tipulsar85
4 жыл бұрын
This is the first time I had ever heard of either format. You would think that this would be something that Paul Allen would have put into the Experience Music Project, or Museum of Pop Culture as it's now known as. The point being Seattle has wiped the Pocket Disk from Our minds, and we still have LVDs and LPs lying about. I even knew a store that sold used RCA CVDs that went under 14 years ago.
@robertgaines-tulsa
4 жыл бұрын
How to offend both Boomers and Millennials is one go? "The Hippies of today of nothing on the Hipsters of the '60s!" FIGHT!
@Musicradio77Network
2 жыл бұрын
Those Hip-Pocket records can also be played on a Japanese Bandai 8Ban record player.
@SSJfraz
4 жыл бұрын
Still more stylish than the plastic twigs people are sticking through their ears these days.
@sakadabara
4 жыл бұрын
Did somebody note the the 0.5W 8Ω speaker 🔈 in this Barkleytophone was produced by Onkyo ???
@basedlordprime
4 жыл бұрын
Those two dislikes are probably just deaf people tbh
@Not-Great-at-Gaming
4 жыл бұрын
6:12 "Chubby Checkers" I'm assuming this is a typo and not some new kind of board game.
@ChristopherSobieniak
4 жыл бұрын
Probably. It should be Chubby Checker.
@migalito1955
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mat. Never had the chance to catch a video so hot off your press by seeing it within moments of being posted. Here in the states it's 5 Am.
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