Techmoan

Techmoan
Techmoan logo
Website	www.techmoan.com
YouTube information
Also known as	Mat
Channel	Techmoan
Years active	2009-present
Genre	Technology
Subscribers	705,849 (15th September 2018)
Total views	130 million (15th September 2018)

Techmoan is a YouTuber and blogger active since May 2009, featuring consumer tech reviews and "RetroTech" documentaries.^[1] The host of the videos calls himself simply "Mat from Techmoan," keeping his identity private. He lives in Wigan, Greater Manchester.

Apart from reviews and tests, videos often include taking products apart and, in the case of older technology, going over the product's history plus 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. His statements have been quoted by The Daily Telegraph^[2] and Gizmodo.^[3][4][5] By ratings on Reddit, MarketWatch listed the YouTube Channel in its "binge-watching" top ten.^[6]

Current product reviews on miscellaneous tech items, mainly on consumer products like action and dashcams, sometimes sponsored or donated, participating the affiliate marketing associates program of Amazon Services LLC,^[7] and a Patreon membership keep the channel alive.^[8][9]

Bonus outro skits often feature a trio of muppet-like puppets voiced by Mat, and frequently skewer the inanity and pedantry of YouTube viewer comments^[10]. Ironically, a warning is now presented before the puppet section quoting a YouTube commenter who described the puppets as “childish, unfunny and idiotic”.

History

In 2006, Mat 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".^[11][12]

The Channel "Techmoan" started on May 31, 2009, uploading a tour of a 2009 Piaggio MP3, taken at 480p and very basic sound quality.^[13] For additional non-tech videos, in 2015 he started another Channel, called the "Youtube Pedant".^[14] As of September 2018, the channel has over 699,000 subscribers and over 128 million views across 342 videos.

Later documentary videos

Documentary videos about forgotten magnetic tape recording formats show the OMNI Entertainment System^[15] 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 cardridges ever made like the Picocassette^[16] for dictation machines or Cantata 700 background music system.^[17] Further videos show other former ¼-inch-tape cartridge formats like the Sabamobil^[18] which used existing 3-inch open reels for mobile use, and the portable Sanyo Micro Pack 35.^[19] as well as the RCA tape cartridge^[20] and the Sony Elcaset^[21] with another compromise of playtime and sound quality, oddities and gimmicks on Compact Cassettes as "reinventing the reel",^[22][23] several ways of autoreverse,^[24] automatic multiple cassette players,^[25][26], endless loop cassettes,^[27] and cassette mass production technology^[28][29].

Documentary on formats of vinyl recording show the Tefifon^[30][31] endless cartridge, or the Seeburg 1000 background music system,^[32][33] vertical turntables,^[34] and other audio encodings CX and dbx for noise reduction on vinyl analog recording.^[35]

Further documentaries show the mechanical Curta calculator,^[36] devices with Nixie tube displays,^[37] wire recording^[38], and the WikiReader.^[39]

References

External links

• Techmoan YouTube Channel
• Techmoan Website
• Techmoan - Not the 10th Anniversary Show with an about introduction