LGR Oddware - Tattooing CD-Rs with Yamaha DiscT@2

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[GearSeekers]

I love that in the 90's and 2000's they used the @ symbol as part of marketing everything 🤣

[shelby]

I can just hear the R&D manager: "That is an interesting idea...you can use company resources but you work on it on your own time"

[nak_vgm]

21:17 is the "Yeah, fuck it, I'm using that take" laugh and I LOVE it

[GameHammerCG]

“You can’t see the tattoos!”
So basically this is a device for reducing the usable area of a CD?

[lillys]

One thing that I think is really beautiful about this channel, is the longer LRG goes on, Clint actually looks happier, healthier and more full of life with each passing day.
I don't know if you'll see this Clint, but if you do, I just wanna say I love seeing you love what you do so much. ♥

[seanc]

I'm glad I'm experiencing this twenty years later rather than being a disappointed teenager trying to get it to work.

[mrbravo]

The drive itself was incredibly sturdy as well. We had a several burners going and even had a multi burner that burned 4 CDRs at a time but because we wanted the special label we burned almost all our CDs for several moths with that burner. Eventually we would only do special editions with the tattoo because we couldn't keep up, even after buying another Yamaha burner.

Eventually, my homie / partner got locked up and my second son was soon to be born and we shut everything down. In a final act of pettiness, I did sell my rig with one of the drives but switched out the version of the NERO that was on there as the guy I was selling it to was a frenemy and intended to do the same work we did. MF never got it going and I'm sure he never figured it out.

[lazarus]

They're especially really picky about CD-Rs, sometimes skipping too easily or not wanting to read at all. The master quality feature burns the pits and lands extra wide, which makes it easier for the pickup to read. It also reduces the amount of usable space on the CDR by a small amount, but I never found a player that wouldn't play them without any issue at all. Even the pickiest, most delicate CD transports read the discs without error or skips or general grumbling. And it made my car CD player at the time far more skip resistant, too.

CD Players may be less common these days, but when I find a need to burn an audio disc, I still dust this thing off and use it.

[cppweekly]

I'm imaging the stacks of 1000's of test CDs the developers threw away while working on this.

[jsc]

When I was in High School in the early 2000s I had a friend in a band and did this on their CD's of their logo and I was blown away how they were able to do this. Nope I finally have my answer 20 years later. I had no idea this was a thing!

[lethauntic]

This seems like the kind of thing where someone would be in their room one day checking out their disks, holding one up to the light and going, "A-Are those... Words?"

[HattmannenNilsson]

As instructed, I'm letting you know down here in the comments, that I very much did like seeing it - a certain percent at a time and from different angles.

[djdjukic]

That CRT to image capture transition is an absolute masterpiece, I rewound the video like 5 times just to look at that.

[incorrectbeans]

Seems like the definition of a solution looking for a problem.

[ProtoMario]

I can only see this being useful in the case of a company with sensitive disc information, where you wouldn't want someone removing or coving the label a top the cd/dvd for security reasons.

[Kenthis]

Man, in 2002 I could see myself buying one of these to make my bands single stand out at band battles and open mics.

I was a gig manager around 2010 and we were always looking for gimmicks to make our samples stand out.

[Vuusteri]

This happens when engineers have too much time and companies too much money. AND I LOVE IT.

[WalterBarnes]

Not only did I enjoy "seeing" this, I also enjoyed reading the closed captions. My favourite was "Oddware induced chuckle."

[Raveheart]

You know it's the early 2000s when there's a Nero logo slapped on somewhere.

[lukeisafinename]

Me: I can't decide if I want to buy a motorcycle, a musical instrument, some electronic hardware, or a tattoo.

Yamaha: No matter what, I gotchu fam.