CD, VHS and DVD

[Howyoudoin]

It seems incredible to me that in my lifetime, three different audio video formats as above are basically defunct.

I would add that vinyl should have been in that list but seems that it's making a bit of a come back?

http://www.chrismadden.co.uk/images/car ... psters.jpg

I'm an old git and still learning but seems that I can find almost any song/video/movie on my iphone 5 and stream it to my 10 year old 32" Toshiba.

Things have moved on somewhat from the 80s.

HYD

[moorfield]

It seems incredible to me that in my lifetime, three different audio video formats as above are basically defunct.

Cassette Tapes and Mini Discs (on which I once spent a fortune ) are worth inclusion too, no ?

Edit: +DV Tapes, on which we have film of Moorfield Infants, but no longer the facility to replay.

There are probably more too come to think of it.

[CommissarJones]

There are probably more too come to think of it.

8-track.

[swill453]

8-track, laserdisc, Betamax, V2000, DCC (that was short lived), HDCD, SACD...

Scott.

[Howyoudoin]

8-track, laserdisc, Betamax, V2000, DCC (that was short lived), HDCD, SACD...

Scott.

Should have said in my OP that I was talking about formats that were in most households in the UK/US in my lifetime.

That basically excludes the list above, even though I had a betamax machine.


HYD

[gryffron]

There were loads of standards of tapes for camcorders which are now obsolete. VHS-C, Hi8, DVCPro, MiniDV, MicroDV...
I still possess a Hi8 camcorder. Though it is pretty hard to find anything to connect it to

Gryff

[UncleEbenezer]

Perhaps you should add a whole bunch of standards for computer discs and tapes.

Media formats, drives, connector standards.

[stevensfo]

There were loads of standards of tapes for camcorders which are now obsolete. VHS-C, Hi8, DVCPro, MiniDV, MicroDV...
I still possess a Hi8 camcorder. Though it is pretty hard to find anything to connect it to

Gryff

Me too. At least 30 Hi8 tapes. About 7 years ago I wondered how long the camcorder and tapes would last, so copied them all to DVD.

Very easily done, but a real pain. Connect, start DVD player, start camcorder, go away for 90 minutes. Repeat ad nauseam...yawn!

Steve

[AleisterCrowley]

I still buy 99% of my music on CD and I'm not planning changing. I like to have a physical 'thing' on the shelf.

[AleisterCrowley]

I could never accept listening to music as MP3, other than on a small portable device where quality (or lack of) is less important. Bit like the jolly old Walkmans
I dont think I've ever bought a whole album as a download. Assume you get a high quality version which you can convert to MP3?

[StepOne]

I could never accept listening to music as MP3, other than on a small portable device where quality (or lack of) is less important.

Or in the car, where I drown everything out with a tuneless warble anyway.

Or at a party. Same reason

StepOne

[Slarti]

It seems incredible to me that in my lifetime, three different audio video formats as above are basically defunct.

I would add that vinyl should have been in that list but seems that it's making a bit of a come back?

http://www.chrismadden.co.uk/images/car ... psters.jpg

I'm an old git and still learning but seems that I can find almost any song/video/movie on my iphone 5 and stream it to my 10 year old 32" Toshiba.

Things have moved on somewhat from the 80s.

HYD

Still got our collections of vinyl, VHS, CDs and DVDs and the CD and DVD collections keep on growing.

Mind you' with the CDs they do get immediately ripped to MPS for playing in the car.

If a film is good enough to watch more than once then I want it as a physical entity,where I have control of it, not just a rental where it can disappear in the blink of an eye. Oh, and I want to be able to choose which "region" release I have.

I have never done a download of music or a film.

Slarti

[tjh290633]

Should I be hanging on to my 78 rpm records, then?

I have one which was an advert for Vernons Pools of Liverpool, with the advertising message delivered by Jerry Desmond, who concludes with "Vernons' Recording Orchestra will now continue with Sing as we Go. Come on Boys, let's go!". A different tune on the other side, but the same message. Produced some time in the 1930s.

TJH

[jfgw]

Don't forget the wire recorder and wax cylinder.

There were a few different audio cassette and cartridge formats. The RCA Victor tape, at 7 1/8" x 5" x 1/2", was a not-so-compact cassette.

The Tefifon used a record stylus that ran in a grooved tape, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefifon .

Julian F. G. W.

[melonfool]

I like to buy CDs, to have a 'thing', the artwork is also nice and James can't sign an MP3 track. However, best of all I like to buy the CD on Amazon and get the associated download so I can play it from my phone, laptop, TV, cast to the Google mini thing, via the phone in the car on BTA (WTF is BTA anyway? I have only just discovered that this plays the stuff on my phone in the car and explains why the satnav always stopped working whent he phone was connected, now they both work!)....and so on.

I mourn the demise of the cassette though, there is nothing quite like being given a 'mix tape' some lad has decided to make for you of all the songs he wants you to hear, and, often, drawn his own cover for it too!

Mel

[AleisterCrowley]

I like to buy CDs, to have a 'thing',

It's nice to scan across a row of CDs randomly and think - "hmm, haven't heard that one for a while, let's stick it on"
Scrolling down an album list on a MP3 player or something isn't the same

I remember mix tapes too, and allegedly some people used to copy full albums to share with their friends. Not me of course as 'Home Taping is Killing Music"

[Lanark]

It seems incredible to me that in my lifetime, three different audio video formats as above are basically defunct.

I would add that vinyl should have been in that list but seems that it's making a bit of a come back?

Vinyl is the only format that has appreciated in value (so far anyway).
I remember back in the 1980s friends saying that they were going down the record shop to "invest in some vinyl".

Little did I know quite how right they would be - a few of my records have appreciated more than my stock holdings, I should have bought a bunch of extra copies to sell on!

[bungeejumper]

I mourn the demise of the cassette though, there is nothing quite like being given a 'mix tape' some lad has decided to make for you of all the songs he wants you to hear, and, often, drawn his own cover for it too!

Aaah, there's nothing quite like the merry hours of fun you can have when you're removing 100 yards of tangled tape from the inside of your car's dashboard. And does anybody else hanker for the days when every hedgerow was gaily decorated with shiny black streamers?

Naaah, thought not. OTOH, I do have some annoyingly good tapes from the 1980s. A bit mushy - all right, a lot mushy - but still laden with nostalgia from my bedsit bachelor period when the ownership of an XR3i made you the sharpest lad in town, and the one most worth going home with .

These days, my beloved Sony cassette recorder is in much demand from my granddaughter and her friends, who spend hours making recordings punctuated with hoots of laughter. Somehow the clunky push-down buttons and the unreliable rewind function add a certain physical something to the experience, that you just can't get from the seamlessly sleek finger-touch buttons on your mobile phone.

Anybody know what I'm talking about?

BJ

[Howyoudoin]

These days, my beloved Sony cassette recorder is in much demand from my granddaughter and her friends, who spend hours making recordings punctuated with hoots of laughter. Somehow the clunky push-down buttons and the unreliable rewind function add a certain physical something to the experience, that you just can't get from the seamlessly sleek finger-touch buttons on your mobile phone.

Anybody know what I'm talking about?

BJ

A pre-Walkman one from the 70s, like this?

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4062/4381 ... 8335_b.jpg


HYD

[bungeejumper]

A pre-Walkman one from the 70s, like this?

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4062/4381 ... 8335_b.jpg

The very same! But cosmetically updated a little bit. The really snazzy ones had a third socket between record and earphones that would enable you to control the playback and record functions through your home computer. Those were the days, when your Spectrum or Dragon (or my own Camputers Lynx) would save or download programs from a tape cassette. And when your monitor was your TV screen.

BJ