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| SiliconWizard:
I have no interest in vinyl records myself these days, but I know there's still a largish market for them, and again what's the problem? If that pleases some people? That's exactly what music is all about, pleasing people. And I can understand that the medium can play a role in the whole experience. If you take "pleasure" out of the equation, then you can eradicate music as well, it's not "useful", right? And maybe we can go further and say that all this *has* to go anyway, because it's consuming resources while not being strictly useful. Yeah, we'll save the planet. Just a thought. Not everything we do in life has a strict utility factor. Life would be pretty dull otherwise, and the idea of *enforcing* utility everywhere is a totalitarian idea. |
| AndyBeez:
On the subject of stylus playback media, older members may have forgotten this existed and younger members may have never ever heard of it, but for a very brief time in the early 1980's, it was possible to buy video on vinyl with the Capacitance Electronic Disc format, or CED. No lasers involved, instead a high density micro groove etched into a conductive PVC disc was read by a capacitive stylus. This meant it was possible to compress a movie onto a LP sized disc. Never heard of it? Sadly the RCA branded SelectaVision system was already obsolete by the time it hit the shelves, superseded by LaserDisc, Betamax and the fledgling Video Home System(VHS). The format ended up burning RCA, Toshiba, Hitachi and Sony a lot of money. Still an interesting format though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc Some technical Information for hardware hacks: http://www.cedmagic.com/home/technical-information-page.html Techmoan from the video vault: |
| labjr:
There's absolutely no reason to buy vinyl made with digital masters, as almost all of it is now. |
| MikeK:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 26, 2022, 07:27:33 pm ---I have no interest in vinyl records myself these days, but I know there's still a largish market for them, and again what's the problem? If that pleases some people? That's exactly what music is all about, pleasing people. And I can understand that the medium can play a role in the whole experience. If you take "pleasure" out of the equation, then you can eradicate music as well, it's not "useful", right? And maybe we can go further and say that all this *has* to go anyway, because it's consuming resources while not being strictly useful. Yeah, we'll save the planet. Just a thought. Not everything we do in life has a strict utility factor. Life would be pretty dull otherwise, and the idea of *enforcing* utility everywhere is a totalitarian idea. --- End quote --- I agree. I'm not against vinyl either. Owning a digital version doesn't really feel like owning anything. But owning an LP...You often get great cover art and the lyrics, and it's kinda big...so you feel like you actually own something special. I have no problem with that. It is niche, though. The audio really comes down to the vibrations in the air. That's why more people are going to choose digital...it's more practical. Handmade furniture has more meaning than store bought stuff, but not many people are going to make or hire someone to make their furniture. I'm old enough but don't own any vinyl. My older sisters have plenty of vinyl, and I've asked them...They never take the LP's out to play, because they find digital stuff easier. |
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