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Video: Quick Start Gaiden: Episode 2 (Patreon)

Published:
2024-02-17 04:12:12
Imported:
2026-06

Content

This was honestly one of the more fun episodes I've made in a while. That's kinda just the size of it. Enjoy!

Files

Quick Start Gaiden, Ep. 2: The Most Expensive DVD Player

This product actually made a ton of sense, which is why I'm glad it's not *really* part of the Quick Start series. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cathoderaydude Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/cathoderaydude Chapters: 00:00 Intro 04:20 DVD players in the 2000s 07:29 In praise of the toaster-fridge 11:38 Breaking and fixing it 13:40 Media controls 15:44 The Quick Start feature 20:35 Why "Gaiden"? 26:35 How does it work? 34:33 History of Averatec 38:51 Outro

Comments

maxM@x

For your quick boot series. Will you cover the Linux/Windows handheld that all seam to boot to full screen Steam Big Picture Mode or a "Game Store" like XboxApp? It's been super funny whenever I want specific retro games to boot on my steamdeck it's "restart to desktop" and the thing restarts to a typical steam flavor of Linux where I can add outside games and/or compatibility software/setting to enable new games on steam big picture mode. It's actually been sort of weird that most "task specific" O.S. I've seen seem to have a crash desktop gui/O.S. below them like the checkouts that crash to windows or debian, instead of just being a headless server O.S. like Proxmox. I suppose it's about being Casheere diagnosable, or you get the McDonald's Ice cream machine situation with code and console diagnostics only.

maxM@x

Love this episode/series 😁👍👍😁

Tempystral

The Kodak MVS showing up was a real shock - I left a comment on YouTube about it but I'm curious if you have any resources about that thing. My grandfather has been trying to find a service manual to fix his unit, or even just enough information to rip the cassettes but there's almost nothing about them online. What a wild thing to pop up!

cathoderaydude

I think mine is dead as well - I don't have any further info on that, but tbh from what I understand the issue with all these old cameras decks is the same old story: bad caps, and they're surface mount, and there's a ton of them. :/

Tempystral

Yeah, when he explained the issue his machine had, we both figured it was probably the caps as well, so I'm not surprised to hear yours is like that too. And it's impossible to get into to fix. A shame too because it seems like a pretty slick piece of technology! Still, I'm glad to see the MVS find its way into a video, I'll have to show my grandfather this one.

BestGirlGrace

I swear my dad had this laptop when I was growing up, or a very similar one. We called it "the averatec" and I remember looking at the IR reciever and never figuring out what it was for since it was missing the remote, not to mention the LCD screen that never seemed to do anything. Certainly never knew it could do this!

DiaBomb

From the moment you turned on the DVD mode, I knew it was just a regular DVD player. And once the now loading text showed up, it was a dead give away. That "now loading" text, with the little disc spinning animation, is on seemingly every DVD player ever made. I've never seen a DVD player that didn't do this.

Carl Seiler

Great summary of where we are in the series there at 21:10.

Dan Ch

Your quick start videos are one of the best, if not the best thing I've seen among the retro-pc content. Every one is a rollercoaster of emotions, tangents, and information I never knew I wanted to know.

Aidan Rayner

I’m fairly certain Dell made machines with buttons on the front, because I remember hitting play on one at my old job out of curiosity, and got jumpscared by a CD playing full blast with the machine off lol

cathoderaydude

Thank you so much. I actually feel the same way, every time I find one of these, it's just an incredible series of wild discoveries that I never expected.

Kerne

Wow, seeing the name Averatec gave me flashbacks to the Athlon-based 3225 I bought on clearance at Office Depot in 2005. Felt like it was made by V-Tech. >_< (I think I used to pronounce it "A (/æ/)-vera-tec", as in 'average tech')

Kerne

I have the tools to recap boards with surface mount components. Lemme know if you'd like me to take a look at it for ya. ^_^ (retrotechrestoration (dot) com)

Kerne

Just a speculative side-note....as you mentioned, the CR2025-which for those not familiar is 20mm in diameter by 2.5mm thick-is 0.9mm thicker than a CR2016. It may have loosened one of the solder joints connecting it's flimsy aluminum slot to the PCB...and easy fix unless the only way to get to the PCB is to peel off the front label.

cathoderaydude

Oh that's a good point, I hadn't considered that possibility.

Funkmon

This is a fantastic episode. I was entirely unsurprised by the computer, though the video was still entertaining. The last few minutes about emachines was mind-blowing.

_Pai

The analogy about the combo toaster-fridges made me think of all the "multicooker" appliances that can slow cook, air fry, steam, etc. It all makes sense because they share the common trait of needing some kind of heating element. A laptop and a portable DVD player both need a screen, buttons, and sound, so their pairing makes sense as well. I wish this kind of many-in-1 device had become more of a product category in computing.

osxdude

This reminds me of the Compaq Presarios that had the JBL speakers; they had an OS-free CD player in a similar vein