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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: S-VHS cassette recorders
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:38:09 GMT
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On a sunny day (Mon, 6 Jan 2025 17:27:21 -0500) it happened bitrex
<user@example.net> wrote in <677c5899$0$1787$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:

>On 1/6/2025 3:00 PM, Don Y wrote:
>
>> Last time I saw someone walking around with a portable record player
>> was.... never.
>> 
>>> The album art is bigger on LPs, and they have more distortion (warmth.)
>> 
>> Nostalgia.  Folks also play 80's video games.  Yet, you don't see
>> those industries ressurected so the demand is more of an oddity
>> than a financial reality.
>
>
>"80s-inspired" new-release video games is a genre, like how 
>synthwave/80s-inspired new-release music is a genre.
>
>There might be more 8-bit looking and playing video games (that were 
>built with modern software tools) on the market now via Steam and online 
>distribution than there were 8-bit games available for sale at any point 
>in the actual 1980s...
>
>In the latter case "that 80s sound" never really went away and popular 
>music goes through cycles of huge reverbs and gated snares...
>
>
>> Only for the "look at me!" factor.  I've probably a hundred vinyl boots
>> "just out of shrinkwrap" stored -- along with a Beogram 8000.  None
>> have seen the light of day since they were ripped (the sound quality
>> isn't going to get any BETTER with use so whatever I captured originally
>> has been faithfully preserved (and repeatedly reproduced) each time
>> I listen to them -- regardless of WHERE I choose to do that (including
>> on cross country flights:  "Miss, can I plug my turntable in, somewhere?")
>
>
>Yeah I don't mess with either, I move a lot and large collections of 
>physical media are a pain to lug about. I prefer to have books if I'm 
>going to keep one variety of it

A 4 TB USB harddisk can likely hold a thousand CDs, DVDs, Blurays.. and fits in your pocket.
My 1000 CD - DBD Blueray - MDISC box:
 https://panteltje.nl/pub/CD_box_binnenkant_IXIMG_0549.JPG

Need to copy it all one day to one of my 4 TB Toshiba USB harddisks...
Have 3 of those in use already...

As to VHS, I still have a player somewhare, analog (composite) out.
Most tapes have been copied to DVD or similar etc.

Best is to get books as pdf,
that said I have some music books that I can place in front of the keyboard when playing.
and A4 sheets with music notes I wrote,...
Big touch screen maybe be one day...

Tape recording is cool, cassettes, started with Qadruplex Ampex in the studios in the sixties:
 https://www.historyofrecording.com/ampexvrx1000aniv.html
  you like toobs???
Then I bought a Philips LDL1000:
 https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_video_recorder_ldl_1000_00.html

Did read an article about the VHS color system (not avialable then) and modified my LDL1000 for color
Sony came out with the UMATICs:
 https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_video_recorder_ldl_1000_00.html

Soon all will be stored in DNA I expect :_) all knowledge and stuff of the world in the size of a marble.

Maybe swallow it LOL :-)

Faster learning than from these teachers:
 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/new-new-jersey-teachers-no-longer-have-pass/