Question about Hide and Seek

[InspiredNightmare]

I was just rewatching "Hide and Seek" and have just gotten past the part where Sheppard is showing Tayla what football is. I'm sure that the Ancients didn't have dvd or vcr's... yet there it is playing on the screen.

My question is... how was it being played?

[Mio]

We can interface to their displays, apparently.

We can apparently interface to some of the controls in the control room by means of laptops, but I'm not sure how.

[InspiredNightmare]

I know. But I'm assuming that this football footage is dvd... Kind of unlikely to be on dvd... isn't it?

[Mio]

I know. But I'm assuming that this football footage is dvd... Kind of unlikely to be on dvd... isn't it?

Why not? DVD Recorders are common now.



The probably have a laptop with an Ancient compatable output thingy. (and a dvd player)

[aschen]

DVDs are small potates compared to Ancient tech.

[Tok'Ra Hostess]

I was just rewatching "Hide and Seek" and have just gotten past the part where Sheppard is showing Tayla what football is. I'm sure that the Ancients didn't have dvd or vcr's... yet there it is playing on the screen.

My question is... how was it being played?

It's technology that MacKay brought back from the SGC. Ya see, when Carter was able to interface her windoze operating system and it's electric/computerchip architecture with the crystal/naquadah architecture of the Goa'uld vocume(Rules of Engagement, season 3 or 4), Jack, realizing the potential, got Sam to work out how one might play VHS on the vocume, so that he could watch his tapes of the Simpsons on those long, boring, Daniel's-found-a-library-but-he-can't-take-any-of-the-books-home-because-they're-all-carved-onto-great-stone-pillars-but-the-info-is-vital-to-Earth's-survival planets.

Unfortunately, the interface wouldn't work with VHS - too linear, naquadah kept melting the tape. But DVDs worked just fine. It never got much actual field use because Jack didn't know how to program a DVD.

Or, as one fan on this forum would say: The guys in Atlantis used the HOS(Hollywood Operating System)

[aschen]

Best not let MS know that they interfaced Windows with Ancient stuff. They'll probably go on a whole new ad campaign about how advanced their lousey productS are.

[GateGipsy]

LOL that caught me out - I read that MS as Michael Shanks, rather than Microsoft!

[yaaayoubetcha]

Or, as one fan on this forum would say: The guys in Atlantis used the HOS(Hollywood Operating System) [/QUOTE]

Which is not limited to winblows....HOS is also responsable for that memorable moment where Jeff Goldblum interfaces the MAC OS with an alien civ's computers in the landmark epic, Independance Day.

Is there nothing the MAC can't do?

[Donks]

Forget the interface, the guy wrote a freaking virus for an architecture and OS that he doesn't even know.

[Cygnus]

Maybe they don't even have to worry about setting up an interface at all. Maybe the Ancients' technology, which is almost infinitely more advanced than ours, can automatically adjust itself and create its own interface to any other form of technology!