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Techmoan (Web Video)
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Techmoan, real name Mat Taylor, is a British YouTube vlogger who makes videos covering gadgets, cameras, and obsolete or unusual audio-visual technology. He started out as "VectrexUK" in 2006, with one of the first posts being a simple Technology Porn video of an automated toaster in his kitchen, set to Strauss' The Blue Danube Waltz, which he made largely to prove that "people will watch anything on YouTube". And people did watch, so he went on to start testing cameras and providing advice on setting up home cinema on a budget, before relaunching in May 2009 as Techmoan.The channel differentiates itself from the myriad other gadget channels on YouTube by including occasional comedy skits starring "The Moans", a family of puppets (all voiced by Mat himself) lampooning the gadget featured in the video, YouTube comments, or technology in general. As well as reviewing the technology and delving into the history and development of old formats, he often buys and repairs older equipment (having to replace perished rubber drive belts is a standard fixture of many videos) to fit into an ever-growing and highly eclectic home AV setup.Find his channel here. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Peeling back a piece of protective plastic on a new product's display in slow motion with suitable background music and an 'ohhh yeah' voiceover. | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: He warns people to surf sober while talking about the Planetron, a purchase he was dissatisfied with, implying he was at least somewhat drunk when he purchased it. While repairing a faulty SACD player, he brought a new laser for the machine and saw a protective cover on the laser itself. Thinking it was just to protect it from shipping, he broke it off, damaging the new laser. He admitted in the video that he has Type 1 diabetes and was low in his blood sugar at the time, which makes him feel as if he was drunk. | |
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Your Head A-Splode | |
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Your Head Asplode: Dad Moan spontaneously combusts out of sheer frustration after discussing the idiosyncratic naming of Blu-rays in this sketch. | |
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Spectacular Spinning | |
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Spectacular Spinning: Discusses this in his video on the Technics SL-P1200 CD player. The visible motion is one reason why he (and others) like physical formats like vinyl records, compact cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes. By contrast, modern solid-state devices and (most) CD players either don't have any motion or hide it away, reducing the visual spectacle. Also the reason why the Panasonic RS-296US cassette carousel and the Akai CS-55D tape deck got videos made about them; both quirkily have rotation in a context one wouldn't expect it. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: The ice beer float machine's assembly is so convoluted that Mat starts looking forward to the beer. | |
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Unknown Rival | |
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Unknown Rival: His videos on Video 2000 and HD-VMD are both about media formats that came third in what most people think were two-horse race format wars (VHS vs Betamax and Blu-ray vs HD-DVD, respectively). | |
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Sunk Cost Fallacy | |
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Sunk Cost Fallacy: Touched on in the retrospective of the RCA CED Videodisc; Mat suggests that RCA only bothered bringing their ill-fated videodisc format to market, even after it had been soundly beaten by the technically superior LaserDisc, because they had sunk over $600m into its development, production and marketing over nearly 20 years. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: Mat refuses to buy or even look at a laser turntable because while a turntable that doesn't make physical contact with records is amazing, the price is astronomical, you have to thoroughly clean the records because it can't handle dust, and it can only play black records, not coloured, clear, or picture onesnote Mat has a sizeable collection of all three, including a custom Pedant picture disc with "Cuba Baion" recorded on it, which he sometimes uses because "Cuba Baion" is both associated with the channel and well out of copyright. He does have black records, but he still wouldn't be able to play half his record collection on a laser turntable, making it a complete non-starter even if price and noise weren't a problem. A lot of the obscure gadgets Mat has covered failed in the marketplace due to this. Case in point, the TEAC O'Casse cassette, with small reels that could be removed like a reel-to-reel tape but played in a standard cassette deck. The concept never took off because changing reels was so tedious. This hasn't stopped them from making appearances in Mat's other videos, probably because they look so cool. | |
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The Coconut Effect | |
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The Coconut Effect: In his video on wind-up gramophones, Mat points out that the perception of 78 rpm records as scratchy comes from media depictions of the sound of worn shellac records, when in reality the sound is much clearer. | |
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Misaimed Marketing | |
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Misaimed Marketing: When looking at the Pocket Rockers, he remarks that he's confused about its target audience, as 10-year-old kids in 1988-1991 would have liked the idea of trading, collecting, and wearing the tapes but are unlikely to have been interested in Genesis or known who the lead singer of Boston was. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: Mat's repairs usually consist of replacing worn belts, as that's all most units will need. | |
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Bootstrapped Theme | |
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Bootstrapped Theme: Cuba Baion, a tune that Mat found on a Tefifon cartridge, quickly became the Moans' theme song. This is also a Real Song Theme Tune. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Pedant seems to disguise himself as his dad at the end of the VHD video. Since he was treating Real Life interactions like online chats, this is equivalent to a Sock Puppet account. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The puppet sketches do this a fair bit. | |
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Technology Porn | |
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Technology Porn: In some reviews of particularly unusual or interesting pieces of equipment, there will be a "Mechanical Montage" sequence showing close-up shots of the mechanisms in action, set to The Blue Danube Waltz. | |
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Crack is Cheaper | |
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Mat refuses to buy or even look at a laser turntable because while a turntable that doesn't make physical contact with records is amazing, the price is astronomical, you have to thoroughly clean the records because it can't handle dust, and it can only play black records, not coloured, clear, or picture onesnote Mat has a sizeable collection of all three, including a custom Pedant picture disc with "Cuba Baion" recorded on it, which he sometimes uses because "Cuba Baion" is both associated with the channel and well out of copyright. He does have black records, but he still wouldn't be able to play half his record collection on a laser turntable, making it a complete non-starter even if price and noise weren't a problem. | |
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Understatement | |
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Understatement: Mat's description of a malfunctioning tape mechanism creating borderline demonic sounds from his stereo test tape: | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase | |
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While it's not exactly catchy as catchphrases go, Mat ends most of his videos by saying "That's it for the moment. As always, thanks for watching!" | |
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Hipster | |
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Hipster: The YouTube Pedant puppet flip-flops between being disdainful of hipsters, and being one himself. He prefers to work on an old luggable computer and resists attempts by his family to get him up-to-date, but also insists that olives, dark chocolate and espresso are all disgusting and only consumed by people to make themselves look cool. | |
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"Blind Idiot" Translation: The occasional badly-translated instruction booklet with various gadgets is a reliable source of amusement. And of course there's the Skelton Ape special edition of the Columbia GP-3 turntable, which Mat claims that his favorite part of the product is the box due to the sheer amount of Engrish nonsense written on itnote as for the turntable itself, Mat notes that it's a subpar device unworthy of any serious audiophile's time despite the glowing reviews the device is getting on other review websites. | |
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Oop North | |
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Oop North: Mat voices Pedant's Dad with a heavily exaggerated stereotypical Mancunian accent. Mocked at the end of the VHD video with a famous quote from The Empire Strikes Back. | |
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Crippling Overspecialization | |
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Crippling Overspecialization: Mat blames Sansui's exclusive focus on hi-fi for their Audience-Alienating Era in the mid-80s and subsequent eventual decline into their In Name Only incarnation, since they were unable to cope with the changing market for hi-fi systems. | |
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Depth Deception | |
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Depth Deception: In his review of the Sega Toys Grand Pianist electronic player piano, Mat starts out by talking about his dream to own a self-playing piano, and how their size and price makes that impractical. He proudly announces he has achieved his dream, and we cut to a shot of an apparent grand piano in his living room, until the camera pulls back to reveal it's a 1:6 scale toy (albeit a fully working electronic player piano toy with moving keys) with a photo of his living room behind it as a backdrop. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The puppet sketches frequently lampoon obnoxious or pedantic YouTube comments, pointing out how insufferable a person behaving like that in real life would be. How To Write a YouTube Comment - In 10 Steps in particular accuses this sort of commenter of not watching the entire video and failing to pay attention to what they did watch. His video on the Philips BMS 2600 BGM system includes a link to an 'abridged version' which is only a few seconds of sped-up dialogue and music long, mocking both Youtube comments saying certain videos were too long and the Youtube algorithm itself pushing creators to make shorter videos. | |
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Very False Advertising | |
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Very False Advertising: Mat takes issue with dodgy advertising claims. Take this example from a cheap boombox review, regarding speakers that he rated at 26W total at best: | |
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Mistakes Are Not the End of the World | |
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Mistakes Are Not the End of the World: Mat admits that sometimes his attempts to repair vintage electronics don't always work, as demonstrated in his attempt to replace the laser assembly on a Sony SACD player. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Mat quite frequently acknowledges his pursuit of old entertainment hardware can appear ridiculous to outside observers. Even as early as the second video on his main channel (a review of 3D Sector-X on the Vectrex), he narrates over video of himself wearing the ridiculous Vectrex 3D reproduction headset (made out of a welder's mask and a CD drive motor) suggesting that if you've gone this far in your retro-gaming hobby, it's perhaps time to take a long hard look at yourself... | |
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Video Review Show | |
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Video Review Show: Many of the channel's videos fall into this category. | |
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Global Ignorance | |
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Global Ignorance: One step in How to Write A Youtube Comment - in 10 Steps is demonstrating borderline xenophobic ignorance of countries you aren't native to and don't live in. The YouTube Pedant demonstrates this by adding "You called it a speaker, in our zip code we call those Zucchinis. Dumb Aussie go back to Ceylonnote an archaic colonial name for Sri Lanka that only a Fish out of Temporal Water or Empire-nostalgic irredentist would call the country outside a historical context." After a complaint that he didn't put prices in dollars, he started putting in text overlays giving prices in Canadian dollars, Australian dollars, Fijian dollars... | |
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Percussive Maintenance | |
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Percussive Maintenance: Matt mentions that the smartphone-powered Mini Showa Retro TV will intentionally show "a sandstorm", and tapping the body fixes it, simulating older CRT TVs which do this. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase While it's not exactly catchy as catchphrases go, Mat ends most of his videos by saying "That's it for the moment. As always, thanks for watching!" In the puppet family sketches, Pedant's dad's standard reaction to his son's idiocy is a distinctly Northern "flippin' 'eck!". When testing a device for the first time with a sample record or tape: "Let's have a listen." | |
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Exact Words | |
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After a complaint that he didn't put prices in dollars, he started putting in text overlays giving prices in Canadian dollars, Australian dollars, Fijian dollars... | |
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Engrish | |
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And of course there's the Skelton Ape special edition of the Columbia GP-3 turntable, which Mat claims that his favorite part of the product is the box due to the sheer amount of Engrish nonsense written on itnote as for the turntable itself, Mat notes that it's a subpar device unworthy of any serious audiophile's time despite the glowing reviews the device is getting on other review websites. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: The YouTube Pedant has in the past been banned from driving for crashing into a McDonald's and somehow managing to run over more than six people inside. | |
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Running Gag: In earlier videos, making fun of Youtube commenters who insistently tell him he must replace all the caps (capacitors) in every device he demonstrates. An occasional one is the 'time machine' he built and allegedly uses to obtain new-old-stock devices in-box when reviewing them. Peeling back a piece of protective plastic on a new product's display in slow motion with suitable background music and an 'ohhh yeah' voiceover. Converting Great British Pounds to any currency except United States Dollars. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Mat is quite adept at getting forgotten gadgets to work, and if he can't it's usually because the unit had suffered some severe damage in shipping. Most of the time, a simple belt replacement will work. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: In "The first OLED TV - Sony XEL-1", the YouTube Pedant is asked to name a famous television set and replies with Star Trek. Even when told that they were talking about hardware, he replies with Doctor Who. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Boy, does he ever! Particularly notable in Mat’s reviews of long-obsolete audio and video gear - as well as scouring old magazines, newspapers and catalogues for information about the product, sometimes going back to the 1950s or even earlier, he will often buy multiple units to get one that works, or repair the ones he does have. The resulting videos are frequently the most comprehensive and informative sources of information on obscure formats out there. | |
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