Techmoan Explained

Birth Name:Matthew Taylor
Birth Date:18 January 1971
Occupation:YouTuber
Channel Name:Techmoan
Years Active:2009–present
Subscribers:1.35 million
Subscriber Date:March 2024
Views:329.1 million
View Date:March 2024
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Matthew "Mat" Taylor, better known by his YouTube handle Techmoan, is a British YouTuber and blogger, specializing in consumer tech reviews and retrotech documentaries about technology of historical interest.[1]

Apart from reviews and tests, Taylor's videos often include disassembling (and repairing when possible) products and, in the case of older technology, reporting on the product's history and reception via references in publications of the time. For audio and entertainment devices this is often Billboard magazine, which at the time covered both consumer and trade electronics devices through articles and old advertisements. Bonus outro skits often feature a trio of muppet-like puppets, parodying YouTube viewer comments.[2]

Taylor's videos have been referenced by sites such as The A.V. Club,[3] Gizmodo,[4] Hackaday,[5] El Español[6] and print publications such as Popular Mechanics[7] and The Daily Telegraph.[8] [9] [10] [11] By ratings on Reddit, MarketWatch listed the YouTube Channel 6th in its "binge-watching" top ten.[12]

Current product reviews on miscellaneous tech items, mainly on consumer products like action and dashcams, sometimes sponsored or donated, participating in the affiliate marketing associates program of Amazon Services LLC,[13] and a Patreon membership, are how the channel is funded.[14] [15]

History

In 2006, Taylor started a YouTube channel called "Vectrexuk", with videos of similar tech items like installing a home cinema and controlled toasters "just to prove a point that people will watch anything on YouTube".[16] [17]

The channel "Techmoan" started on 31 May 2009, uploading a tour of a 2009 Piaggio MP3, taken at 480p and very basic sound quality.[18] For additional non-tech videos, in 2015 he started another channel, called the "Youtube Pedant".[19] In a 2016 video covering the D-VHS format, he uncovered a 1080i video of New York City filmed in 1993.[20] This footage was uploaded separately to his "Youtube Pedant" channel where as of December 2022, it has gained 6.6 million views as well as being shared widely on sites such as Reddit[21] and The Verge.[22] [23] As of March 2022, the main channel has over 1.2 million subscribers and over 277 million views.[24] His videos often get millions of views, and his video on the Nixie watch has had more than 5 million views.

Later documentary videos

Documentary videos about forgotten magnetic tape recording formats show the OMNI Entertainment System[25] which used 8-track tape storage, the HiPac, a successor of the PlayTape and related applications of it. Other videos show some of the smallest and largest analog recording tape cartridges ever made like the Picocassette[26] for dictation machines or Cantata 700 background music system.[27] Further videos show other former quarter-inch-tape cartridge formats like the Sabamobil[28] which used existing 3-inch open reels for mobile use, and the portable Sanyo Micro Pack 35,[29] as well as the RCA tape cartridge[30] and the Sony Elcaset[31] with another compromise of playtime and sound quality, oddities and gimmicks on Compact Cassettes as "reinventing the reel",[32] [33] several ways of autoreverse,[34] automatic multiple cassette players,[35] [36] endless loop cassettes,[37] and cassette mass production technology.[38] [39]

Documentary on formats of vinyl recording show the Tefifon[40] [41] endless cartridge, or the Seeburg 1000 background music system,[42] [43] vertical turntables,[44] and other audio encodings CX and dbx for noise reduction on vinyl analog recording.[45]

Other documentaries show the mechanical Curta calculator,[46] devices with Nixie tube displays,[47] wire recording,[48] and the WikiReader.[49]

In popular culture

Techmoan was referenced in a Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed strip in Beano, with Dennis referring to Techmoan as "total Dad-Tube".[50]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Techmoan/about. YouTube. 24 July 2018.
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMZhKYriIok Comments IRL
  3. News: Behold the Tefifon, the unholy German union of vinyl and 8-track. Henne. B.G.. News. 12 November 2018 . en-US.
  4. News: There's a Good Reason This Weird, Old Cassette Format Didn't Work Out. Menegus. Bryan. Gizmodo. 12 November 2018 . en-US.
  5. News: Teardown and Repair of a Police Recorder. 2 November 2018 . Hackaday. 12 November 2018 . en-US.
  6. News: Llega el vídeo en vinilo, la experiencia más retro posible. 18 September 2018 . Omicrono. 13 November 2018 . es-ES.
  7. News: The Strange Machine That Played Paper Instead of Records or Tapes. 12 April 2018 . Popular Mechanics. 12 November 2018 . en-US.
  8. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/advice/why-a-dashcam-could-save-you-money-on-your-car-insurance/ Why a dashcam could save you money on your car insurance
  9. Bryan Menegus: Yup, This Vertical Record Player Is Rad 6 May 2016
  10. Bryan Menegus: There's a Good Reason This Weird, Old Cassette Format Didn't Work Out, 31 August 2017
  11. Rhett Jones: Music Designed for an Oscilloscope Looks and Sounds Cool as Hell, 24 November 2016
  12. Shawn Langlois: 10 YouTube channels for binge-watching, 19 July 2017
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20170417101058/http://www.techmoan.com/about/ Archive.org capture of www.techmoan.com/about/ as of 17 April 2017
  14. Web site: Techmoan Youtube Channel. YouTube.
  15. Web site: Techmoan Blog / Website.
  16. Web site: About Techmoan.
  17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-a25On3lPU Techmoan - Not the 10th Anniversary Show
  18. Web site: Youtube -Techmoan's First Video. YouTube.
  19. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6NEXZflFAvd1b7cAIe3XOw/about About the YouTube Channel "Youtube Pedant"
  20. Web site: Techmoan - Techmoan - Retro-tech. That time when HD came on VHS. www.techmoan.com. en. 4 December 2019.
  21. Web site: r/videos - New York City in 1993 recorded in High Definition.. reddit. en-US. 4 December 2019.
  22. Web site: Holy schnikes, this HD footage from 1993 NYC looks like it was filmed today. Plante. Chris. 25 April 2016 . The Verge. en. 4 December 2019.
  23. Web site: This footage of New York in 1993 will make you miss New York in 1993. 20 August 2019 . Boing Boing. en-US. 4 December 2019.
  24. Web site: Techmoan - YouTube . 2022-03-11 . www.youtube.com.
  25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOKgLtUxto MB OMNI Entertainment System - The 1980s 8-Track games machine.
  26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5FqjQlFBDM The Picocassette – Smallest Analogue Cassette Tape ever made
  27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQbJ0VFrFQ Retro Tech: This 1960s BGM Machine played the Biggest Cassettes ever made
  28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU-iSTj2cTY Forgotten Format: The Sabamobil
  29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Qr0wNTFHA Forgotten Format: SANYO Micro-Pack 35 Tape Recorder
  30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li699Qflv3g RetroTech: RCA Victor Tape Cartridge - A trailblazing failure
  31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGMJBqZawA Forgotten Audio Formats: DCC & Elcaset
  32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50kOJRfVCQ4 TEAC O'Casse Open Cassette - Reinventing the Reel
  33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYmaKsWwrU Audio Craft Cassette Cartridge: More music per pocket.
  34. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CE_zmpHcWQ Auto-Reverse: The Hard Way
  35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFOM3W2FBfA What a 10hr music playlist looked like in 1992
  36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJo13FP4UpI Retro-Tech: The 1972 Desktop 'iPod'
  37. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU1aYAHmaJI Cassettes: Lenticular Classics & Endless Loops
  38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA Cassettes - better than you don't remember
  39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0beJZaOUYM Pre-recorded Cassettes' Last Stand
  40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBNTAmLRmUg Vintage Electronics - The Tefifon
  41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tTURrAWVYE Tefifon Update - more info, more music, bigger.... and smaller.
  42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kCHx3_vu9M RetroTech: Seeburg 1000 BMS1 Background Music System (1959-1986)
  43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXSyyWLTtkc Seeburg 1000 BGM Part 2: The DIY version
  44. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_YAmDbEuPg Rescued 1980s Relic: The Sharp RP-114 Vertical Turntable
  45. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5XCvsNUkmI CX Discs : Better, Worse & the Same as a normal record - A Forgotten Format
  46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhUfRIeRSZE 1950 Curta Calculator
  47. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xamRXGe1E The Nixie Watch
  48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ihiTwJPCc Retro Tech: The Wire Recorder
  49. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lRI35gKSPA WikiReader: the Internet without the Internet
  50. 19 February 2022. Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed. Beano. 10.

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