Realmedia was the solution to web video (resolution was crap, but the file size was ridiculously small compared to other formats at the time) until Akamai and other CDNs were founded, I'm pretty sure Akamai itself was founded in 1999, really forward thinking for what would be the Cloud.
In 1999, the year of this video, I think I had 640K DSL. I called much of this postage stamp video. Cool, but far from a TV replacement. For me, this got serious in 2005. For some of you that seems like forever ago. For some it seems like almost today. Reality, I just upgraded to a 5Mbps DSL line and video streaming services were starting to emerge. This was before Netflix streaming. I really wish I could remember the names of the streaming services, but they were bleeding edge and I knew that was the future. Anyone remember Testies? OMG, there was a show about the scrotum and pen1us that was funny as heck.
But the idea of watch TV on PC via a TV tuner card didn't catch on, you see, most people at the time already have a TV set with a VHS VCR, or additionally a video game console like PlayStation or Nintendo 64
It was niche but I remember using a tv tuner card back in those days (and much earlier). It gave a lot better resolution than a vcr could ever hope to achieve. Even today, they are nice devices to have for over the air tv for those who have declared war against cable companies charging so much.
Man, the future looked like it was going to be so much cooler than it turned out to be
8:12 Low-res RealPlayer videos, now that takes me back
thank you for preserving this show
I wish these guys could have done this show up to our current star date of of 2020 going into 2021.
Imagine bookmarking a DVD sequence
I thought Mame McCutchin was Milla Jovovich for a second. 😨
To whoever who preserved and uploaded this whole library: Thank you!
These are great! Thank you for posting these. Already subscribed! Love your channel!
Lost my entire digital library when it went under.
Realmedia was the solution to web video (resolution was crap, but the file size was ridiculously small compared to other formats at the time) until Akamai and other CDNs were founded, I'm pretty sure Akamai itself was founded in 1999, really forward thinking for what would be the Cloud.
In 1999, the year of this video, I think I had 640K DSL. I called much of this postage stamp video. Cool, but far from a TV replacement.
For me, this got serious in 2005. For some of you that seems like forever ago. For some it seems like almost today. Reality, I just upgraded to a 5Mbps DSL line and video streaming services were starting to emerge. This was before Netflix streaming. I really wish I could remember the names of the streaming services, but they were bleeding edge and I knew that was the future.
Anyone remember Testies? OMG, there was a show about the scrotum and pen1us that was funny as heck.
now we've got CZcams
That ladies name is MAME, hehehehehehe!
A 'play' on words!
Would
The dawn of netflix
But the idea of watch TV on PC via a TV tuner card didn't catch on, you see, most people at the time already have a TV set
with a VHS VCR, or additionally a video game console like PlayStation or Nintendo 64
It was niche but I remember using a tv tuner card back in those days (and much earlier). It gave a lot better resolution than a vcr could ever hope to achieve. Even today, they are nice devices to have for over the air tv for those who have declared war against cable companies charging so much.
Talk for yourself, and yeah every kid had own TV and vcr in his bedroom, these TV clips at beginning of youtube got the just from nowhere :)
And of course idea of videos on pc didn't catch on, youtube mean nothing, except 80% total bandwidth used but it didn't catch on.. nope
I used mine a lot to record many hours of TV and distribute it to Limewir--- ahem... i meant... my friends :-)
07:10 😍
Mame is beautiful...
but on the inside she is an ugly leftist POS