Sony's outgoing Bluetooth camera mic - a review (Patreon)
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If you’re planning on running a successful YouTube channel that appeals to the widest possible audience it’d be very unwise to make a video review of a discontinued Bluetooth camera microphone that only works with certain Sony cameras.
So here it is:
Regardless of its guaranteed lack of success, I’ve enjoyed making this video, managed to get out of the house and had a bit of fun with it.
It’s not always all about the views, at least that’s what I’ll keep telling myself.
In other news I was on Radio 4 this week talking about Lou Ottens and the compact cassette. As you no doubt know, he is credited as the creator of the cassette and passed this week at the age of 94. You might (dependent on your location) be able to hear the program here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtl3/episodes/player
It’ll be the episode for Wednesday 10th March 2021. The section I’m in starts at 40:12 on the streaming version or 33:17 on the downloadable one.
Up until now I’ve always turned down interviews because they want to talk about me - and I’m not interested in doing that. However this time they told me they wanted to talk about the tech - so I thought why not give it a go.
Apparently the show, which goes out each weeknight, has around 1.75 million listeners worldwide (it's also played on NPR). Not a bad audience for a radio show nowadays. I’ll confess to never having listened to it myself though.
If you’re interested in hearing a bit of behind the scenes, I can always talk about it in the next update. I prepared quite a bit of cassette history stuff that in the end wasn't asked about, so I'm planning on making that into a video now.
Hope you’re all still doing well. I didn’t manage to reply to many comments on the last video, so if you’ve got any unanswered queries, please post them here and I’ll do my very best to answer all of them this time.
Have a good one.
UPDATE
I’ve re-uploaded this as a result of feedback regarding video compression issues with the first version.
UPDATE 2
I’ve re-uploaded this again - this time to clarify the details around the hiss tests.