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I never understood why the release of a new format of audio/visual presentation caused people to just junk their 'old' stuff.
I have 'upgraded' from vhs to laser to dvd; from lp to cassette to cd.
Yet, I have never felt compelled to discard a/v equipment & stuff. For me there is still a reason to own a cassette player and a video cassette player AND a turntable; I still have music and movies in that format, much of which can not easily be replaced!
Rant over
bruce
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I junk tech when it no longer actively works for me.
I still have a couple of working VHS recorders and a 24" CRT TV. But the DVR is a better recorder, and the CRT picture has been dodgy for 15+ years
I am about to junk 2 DVD players that simply will not play DVDs and more. I will probably move on to an inexpensive Blu-Ray player that will also play CDs, DVDs, and BRs. Or maybe just a thrift store DVD player.
We bought our first HD TV 4 years ago. Our second just last summer.
I tend to use stuff until it fails utterly. I don't just toss stuff when a new format comes along, but I also won't stay beholden to an old format when the alternative is cheaper, and easier, and better.
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Well, certain older formats were decent for their times but were never realy good, take an LP for example; it's big, bulky, got worn out from use, and held little quantity compared to a CD. then the CD and CD player comes along offering a smaller more compact format that with just one side offered more room, better sound quality, and had no needle required to play it and scratch it, promising to last you your whole life (that was, until bronzing and poor quality mediums showed us that wasn't necessarily true).
Eventually your typical store stopped carrying LP turn tables, replacement parts, related products and what was carried costed more and suddenly CD players went down in price, so it became unreasonable to keep the bulky equipment and LP's and just upgrade to CD.
Of course that's not for everybody, some people do have material on LP that was never released on CD or have LP's that contain tracks that never made it to CD. For me, I can't think of anything that I want that hasn't been on CD that was on LP, so I'm good. Have played an LP since probably the early 1990's.
not everything needs to be replaced just because something new comes along and people view it like dangling shiny objects infront of their eyes, but some things deserved to be obsolete. I for one, for example, prefer a society where we drive cars as opposed to horse and buggys with horse shit all over the road and people who have to clean it up.
I prefer being able to mail a letter than going to a telegram office everytime I need to say something to somebody out of town that happens to have a local telegram office to recieve the message.
And I prefer indoor plumbing and a toilet to an outhouse with a hole in the ground. Ditto toilet paper to leaves.
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Jun 21, 2016 - 3:22 PM
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Rameau
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I never understood why the release of a new format of audio/visual presentation caused people to just junk their 'old' stuff.
I have 'upgraded' from vhs to laser to dvd; from lp to cassette to cd.
Yet, I have never felt compelled to discard a/v equipment & stuff. For me there is still a reason to own a cassette player and a video cassette player AND a turntable; I still have music and movies in that format, much of which can not easily be replaced!
Rant over
bruce
I think the clue is in the title, obsolete formats. (& from you're list, haven't you moved on to Blu-ray yet?). I'm just sorting out stuff to take to a charity shop, a very good professional cassette player (I nicked that from work, but they were only going to throw it out), a CD player that takes 50 CD's, it's a monster, huge, I think time has caught up with that one, a huge old amp (I'm still thinking about that, but I haven't used it for 16 years). If I lived in a big old place, I suppose I could keep it all in a spare room, but to what purpose?
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I never understood why the release of a new format of audio/visual presentation caused people to just junk their 'old' stuff.
I have 'upgraded' from vhs to laser to dvd; from lp to cassette to cd.
Yet, I have never felt compelled to discard a/v equipment & stuff. For me there is still a reason to own a cassette player and a video cassette player AND a turntable; I still have music and movies in that format, much of which can not easily be replaced!
Rant over
bruce
I think the clue is in the title, obsolete formats. (& from you're list, haven't you moved on to Blu-ray yet?). ?
i just bought a br player.
Now, all i need is an hdtv!!!!
( i have a very high quality crt)
bruce
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one good thing about sticking with dvd _ they are really cheap used (same with cds)!!!!!
Blu-ray has also gotten cheaper
brm
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"Well, certain older formats were decent for their times but were never realy good, take an LP for example; it's big, bulky, got worn out from use, and held little quantity compared to a CD. then the CD and CD player comes along offering a smaller more compact format that with just one side offered more room, better sound quality, and had no needle required to play it and scratch it, promising to last you your whole life (that was, until bronzing and poor quality mediums showed us that wasn't necessarily true)."
you missed my point (intentionally?)
I am not comparing the relative merits of lp to cd (of course cds are superior)
Just the fact that most of us have had or do have video casettes and music cassettes and vinyl records.
SO, why not keep the equipment to play them?
brm
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Jun 22, 2016 - 5:39 AM
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Rameau
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I suppose if they're still being used, they're not yet obsolete. I still have my minidisc recorder, I like the editing on that. I use my Sony CD recorder every week, it's getting on a bit now, & when it goes wrong I suppose that's it, they don't seem to make them anymore. And Apple have stopped making the 160gb ipod classic (people use their phones now), luckily I do have a spare from when Amazon were selling them off cheaply, they go for a lot of money now.
...& I still buy CD's
...& I've been buying some old cameras from charity shops, some interesting old designs & some great SLR's, they're nice things to have dotted around the place.
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I never understood why the release of a new format of audio/visual presentation caused people to just junk their 'old' stuff.
I have 'upgraded' from vhs to laser to dvd; from lp to cassette to cd.
Yet, I have never felt compelled to discard a/v equipment & stuff. For me there is still a reason to own a cassette player and a video cassette player AND a turntable; I still have music and movies in that format, much of which can not easily be replaced!
Rant over
bruce
AGREED!
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One of the labels said in the last three years digital sales were low. Plus digital sounds tracks have a number of draw backs to CD's, including but not limited to:
Not available in every country.
Nothing to sign, for those who like to get booklets signed.
If the hard drive fails or is badly infected, you can loose must if not all of it, as opposed to one CD's going bad or being lost some other way.
Speed and bandwidth issues.
And who shady question of what kind of money the artists and performers make from downloads.
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