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Oddity Archive Season 5

July. 07,2016
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Oddity Archive

The Oddity Archive is a web series that revolves around the "cultural dustbin", especially as it pertains to media. The Archive also functions as an actual archive of sorts, with a modest collection of off-air Betamax and VHS recordings (about 400 total as of June, 2014). There's also a decent collection of ephemeral video, "ripoff" and "drugstore" LP's/cassettes/8-tracks, as well as (working) obsolete technology.

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Oddity Archive Season 5 Full Episode Guide

Episode 24 - Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
Episode 23 - Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
First Aired: May. 11,2017

With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.

Episode 22 - Useless VHS Tapes
First Aired: April. 27,2017

No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.

Episode 21 - Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
Episode 20 - DBX Noise Reduction System
First Aired: March. 30,2017

And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.

Episode 19 - Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
Episode 18 - Minidisc
First Aired: March. 02,2017

It’s (100% showtune-free) Musical March (read: Audio Geek March, “Musical March” is just a lot catchier) in Archiveland! Let’s kick it off with a little reevaluation of a format that I’ve bashed in the past.

Episode 16 - VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
Episode 15 - Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
First Aired: January. 19,2017

Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!

Episode 14 - VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
Episode 13 - Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
Episode 12 - The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
First Aired: December. 08,2016

The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.

Episode 11 - Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's & 90's)
First Aired: November. 24,2016

Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!

Episode 10 - VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
Episode 9 - Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016)
First Aired: October. 27,2016

This is your Civil Defense announcer speaking (er, typing) with a VERY important message. But first, this nearly 27-minute Oddity Archive episode. NOTE: Yes, I’m well aware that the LP’s discussed in the video have nothing to do with the Conelrad broadcasting stuff—just humor me, will ya?

Episode 7 - The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
First Aired: September. 29,2016

…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.

Episode 6 - Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
First Aired: September. 15,2016

Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!

Episode 4 - LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
Episode 3 - Home Shopping Channels
First Aired: August. 04,2016

Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?

Episode 2 - Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
First Aired: July. 21,2016

…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?

Episode 1 - How I Spent My Summer III (Super Betamax/Software-Defined Radio/ Talking House Transmitter)
First Aired: July. 07,2016

A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.

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The Oddity Archive is a web series that revolves around the "cultural dustbin", especially as it pertains to media. The Archive also functions as an actual archive of sorts, with a modest collection of off-air Betamax and VHS recordings (about 400 total as of June, 2014). There's also a decent collection of ephemeral video, "ripoff" and "drugstore" LP's/cassettes/8-tracks, as well as (working) obsolete technology.

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