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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Season 5
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E1
How I Spent My Summer III
A little success, a little failure, a little intrigue, a little frustration. In other words, your standard between-season break for Ben.
Jul 7, 2016 -
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E2
Record Ripoffs Vol. 6 (98% 70's-free!)
…dragging the Record Ripoff concept kicking and screaming out of the 70’s. What the hell was I thinking?!?
Jul 21, 2016 -
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E3
Home Shopping Channels
Have your credit cards handy because we're about to launch our own Home-Shopping-type channel! What could possibly go wrong?
Aug 4, 2016 -
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E4
LaserKaraoke Vol. 4 (+ VHS Karaoke Vol. 1)
Crank it up and sing along! The madness will naturally follow.
Aug 18, 2016 -
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E5
Ben's Random Audiocassette Haul
Oddity Archive®: Now in ULTRA lo-fi!
Sep 1, 2016 -
6
E6
Talking House Transmitter Redux (or, Part 15 Microbroadcasting: The Final Chapter?)
Oddity Archive: Your home for absurd, costly and borderline-useless “broadcast” experiments since 2015!
Sep 15, 2016 -
7
E7
The Official Oddity Archive Guide To Retro A/V
…because I haven’t REALLY opened myself up to mass criticism for a long time now.
Sep 29, 2016 -
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E8
Betamax
The Archive takes it to the max--the Betamax, that is.
Oct 13, 2016 -
9
E9
Conelrad (Halloween Special 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?
Oct 27, 2016 -
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E10
VHS Vault Vol. 10 (Learning With The Stars)
…because as we all know, learning is most fun with famous people.
Nov 10, 2016 -
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E11
Top 10 Gaming Turkeys (of the 80's and 90's)
Another Thanksgiving episode? Must be time to unload some more proverbial turkeys (now more cynically than ever)!
Nov 24, 2016 -
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E12
The Official Oddity Archive® Idiot’s Guide To A/V Transfer
The second (and hopefully final) installment in the Archive’s “Idiot’s Guide” how-to series.
Dec 8, 2016 -
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E13
Christmas Special 2016 (A Musical Masochist's Christmas)
The most deep-hurtingest Christmas ever!
Dec 22, 2016 -
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E14
VideoGuide (+2 other early Interactive Program Guides)
Looking at the Interactive Program Guide’s especially awkward adolescence.
Jan 5, 2017 -
15
E15
Local TV Vol. 5 (More Local Commercials)
Bargain Bennie is having his all-time biggest sale on local (and regional) TV commercials! Get ‘em before they’re gone!
Jan 19, 2017 -
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E16
VHS Vault Vol. 11(D-I-V-O-R-C-E)
‘Tis the season for love—and love gone down the garbage disposer.
Feb 2, 2017 -
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E17
Random Kiddie Records
Crank up the Fisher-Price turntable!
Feb 16, 2017 -
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E18
Minidisc
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.
Mar 2, 2017 -
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E19
Ben Vs. The Reel-To-Reel
Oddity Archive®: Now with new Superlife® coating!
Mar 16, 2017 -
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E20
DBX Noise Reduction System
And welcome to the Oddity Archive…the show that rapidly contracts and expands—but clearly not rapidly enough.
Mar 30, 2017 -
21
E21
Ben's Random Reel-To-Reel Haul
A mere 5 years in the making! You’d never know it though…
Apr 13, 2017 -
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E22
Useless VHS Tapes
No, this isn’t about those 100 million (or more) copies of “Titanic” and “Jerry Maguire”—useless as they are.
Apr 27, 2017 -
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E23
Going (Proto-)Mobile! (Sony Data Discman & Apple Newton)
With all this talk of so-called “mobile devices” these days, it seemed worth taking a look into.
May 11, 2017 -
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E24
Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue #126)
And welcome to the Oddity Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-arc-arch-(SLAP)-Archive!
May 25, 2017