PickVidsBest Audio & video engineering Videos
The 76 Audio & video engineering videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 9 introductory, 14 intermediate, 52 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Technology Connections, Techmoan, Benn Jordan.
WLW's 500,000 Watt Transmitter
A tour of the historic WLW transmitter facility in Mason, Ohio, recorded at Hamvention 2013.
The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)
Technology Connections shows a cheap method for capturing analog video: a composite-to-HDMI upscaler feeding an HDMI capture dongle, aimed at digitizing home movies and VHS tapes.
This AI actually WORKS!!! - NVIDIA RTX Voice
A ShortCircuit (Linus Tech Tips) review of Nvidia's RTX Voice, which uses GPU-based neural networks to remove background noise from microphone audio.
Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier?
Guitarist Jim Lill spends a year testing where guitar amplifier tone comes from, swapping tubes, rectifiers and bias types.
How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings
Technology Connections explains the early history of analog color television, from the 1954 start of modern color broadcasting, and how shadow masks work in CRTs.
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
Benn Jordan's video about storing a PNG image in a living bird, a starling that learns to reproduce encoded sounds.
This is the WORST Monitor Ever...ON PURPOSE! - Dasung PaperlikeU E-Ink Monitor
Linus Tech Tips reviews the Dasung Paperlike E-Ink monitor, asking whether an e-paper display makes sense as a computer monitor.
How a TV Works in Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys
The Slow Mo Guys film a TV and screens with a high-speed camera to show how displays build an image.
Death Magnetic Retail vs Guitar Hero 3
A short comparison of the retail release of Metallica's Death Magnetic against the Guitar Hero 3 version of the same song.
Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)
Part one of Technology Connections' account of the VHS versus Betamax format war.
Pink Noise for Ten Hours of Ambient Sound Blocker Masker - Burn In - Relaxation
Ten hours of uninterrupted pink noise, intended for relaxation and masking background sound.
Moon Landings Faked? Filmmaker Says Not!
A filmmaker explains why the Apollo moon landing footage could not have been faked in a studio, based on the video and film technology of the late 1960s.
World's worst video card? The exciting conclusion
Ben Eater finishes building a minimal VGA video card from logic circuits.
Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.
Tom Scott explains why hold music sounds worse than it used to, tracing it to old telephone exchanges and the audio compression applied by modern switches.
Fantastic DIY Speakers for less than $30!
Tech Ingredients shows how to build cheap, high-performance flat-panel speakers using audio exciters on sheet materials such as foam-core board.
Samplerates: The Higher the Better, Right?
Dan Worrall explains when higher sample rates help in recording and mixing, and when they do not.
The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
Technology Connections gives a deeply researched history of RCA's CED video disc system, a capacitance-based format that took over a decade to reach market.
Apple Pro Display XDR Review (vs Sony Reference Monitor)
HDTVTest reviews the Apple Pro Display XDR using measurements and a side-by-side comparison with a Sony BVM-HX310 dual-layer LCD reference monitor.
Modos Paper Monitor Typing Demo
A short demo of typing on the Modos Paper Monitor, an open e-ink monitor, using 4-level grayscale to show low latency.
The 1988 VIDEO Floppy Disk Camera: Canon Xap Shot RC-250
LGR looks at the 1988 Canon Xap Shot, a still video camera that records photos to a floppy disk as analog NTSC signal rather than digital data.
The Electrowetting Display
IEEE Spectrum interviews Samsung display researcher Johan Feenstra on how electrowetting displays work.
Bookeen breakthrough real time web page scrolling on eInk panel
A short Bookeen R&D demo showing real-time web page scrolling on an eInk panel, far faster than typical e-readers.
These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
Technology Connections follows up on his analog TV video to clear up the debate over whether CRT phosphor dots are pixels.
Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second
MIT Media Lab shows an imaging system capturing a trillion frames per second, fast enough to film light pulses travelling through objects in slow motion.