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Technology that can now be officially labled "dead."
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PigSpeakers
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Only reason people are working with digital recording instead of analog is ease of use in my opinion. Ain't got nothing to do with one sounding better than the other or whatever. Crap like that is personal taste and mixing ability. CHAMPS understand that everything is just another tool in their arsenal to use.
A Black Falcon
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CRTs are awesome, no way are those dead. As for VHS, they stopped making new movies on VHS about five or six years ago, but you can still get blank VHS tapes all over the place, and VCRs and used tapes are easy to find, so I wouldn't call them dead.
3.5" floppy disks are indeed mostly dead, though. Not 100%, but mostly, yes.
I've sometimes wondered what programs are on the cards, but who knows... and given all of the cards we used over the years, I'm sure parts of some are missing anyway. There are still lots of cards left though.
3.5" floppy disks are indeed mostly dead, though. Not 100%, but mostly, yes.
I have two boxes of these in the basement that my parents used some of for shopping lists for many years... my dad took several boxes of punchcards with him from when he'd used punchcard computers decades ago. So for their original purpose they're dead, but not for all uses...Bomber Bob said:
No, no. Those are punch cards, for inputting computer programs into computers that accept punch cards, you know. Not something you fill out like a test. In order to input the program into the machine, slide each card in the stack for that program into the machine one after another... a bit like e-Reader programs I guess.Mordeccai said:
I've sometimes wondered what programs are on the cards, but who knows... and given all of the cards we used over the years, I'm sure parts of some are missing anyway. There are still lots of cards left though.
I think a few new SDTVs are still made, and of course used ones are very easy to find for cheap all over the place. But yeah, it is fading fast as far as new sales, that's true.Valnen said:
... I said they were. Hard Drives and Magnetic Strip Cards are the only two examples of magnetic storage still often used by consumers. I have no doubt magnetic hard drives will be gone by decades end, but magnetic strip cards will likely stick around for a while, due to them being cheaper to produce then chip based cards.Dead Man said:
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
relaxor said:Yeah I had (also maybe still have) this as well and it's nothing but trouble.
Forced retirement.
They will probably still be around for a while in film for G&E world but really we only use these bulbs in small instances but we still need them.
A Black Falcon
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They didn't actually ban incandescent bulbs, they mandated better energy efficiency in lightbulbs. If they can make a better incandescent they'll survive.relaxor said:Yeah I had (also maybe still have) this as well and it's nothing but trouble.
Not dead but on death row.
However though, analog television really is dead.
John Rabbit
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if you can find me somewhere that legitimately uses jaz drives, i'll eat my hat.
NekoFever
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Analogue video in general could be a technology that'll be dead soon. The only common application I can still think of is movies being shot on film and analogue projection, but now we're finally getting to the point where digital cameras are good enough to take over, and that battle's only going one way. Plus films that are shot on film are only analogue until they make digital intermediaries for effects and editing, and that'll be used as the master for home media and archiving.A Black Falcon said:
I mean now TV broadcasts are entirely digital in many places, you can only buy recorded material in digital form, you won't find non-digital camcorders any more...
sankt-Antonio
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or you just sell them as heat-bulbsA Black Falcon said:
Jedeye Sniv
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Ducky_McGee said:
Nope, a lot of bands record on tape for the sound of it (in fact one of my old band's eps was recorded on tape, as was the new Foo Fighters record). And the other day I was in Brixton and saw a gy carring a new-ish boombox playing a cassette on it. And certain bands like Civil Civic and other indie bands only release on cassette and MP3.
Modern DSP's able to replicate tubes? Some people don't know what in the flying fuck they're talking about.
Give it 10 years of computer development and I'll probably agree though.
Tape dead for good? Please if you're retarded when it comes to knowledge of technical audio shit, please just don't type anything. I'm gonna have an aneurysm.
Give it 10 years of computer development and I'll probably agree though.
Tape dead for good? Please if you're retarded when it comes to knowledge of technical audio shit, please just don't type anything. I'm gonna have an aneurysm.
sankt-Antonio
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lolJedeye Sniv said:
on topic: tubes: I was recording a record last month and the guys over there swear by guitar sounds out of real amps. We had to fire up the amps and let them heat up for 3h and connect them with a 30cm short, isolated powercable (i could not believe it). It was nuts... the mastering guy told me that he can hear the difference not only between tube and dsp sounds, but also between isolated or not isolated powercables - he has 15K speakers at his place, so what do i know.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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It's the future, guys!
...until CD-Rs, flash drives, and External HDDs all arrived on the scene.
TheVampire
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Mordeccai said:
Double this.
adamsappel
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I miss Minidisc. I'm going to finally transfer all my MDs to digital, if I can find just where the hell I put my rack unit.ballerusk said:How about them minidiscs?
LestradeTGQ
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Weren't minidiscs used in movies like Strange Days? Their inclusion in Hollywood films always made everything seem so generically futuristic -- at least here in North America, where they were less prominent.
I miss media like tapes, VHS and minidisc, because I miss having a box of personal, hand-labelled data. CDs never did feel the same. Now how am I going to watch my false memory tapes?
I miss media like tapes, VHS and minidisc, because I miss having a box of personal, hand-labelled data. CDs never did feel the same. Now how am I going to watch my false memory tapes?
Angry Fork
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technically still technology since it's a channel
oh shit lol that's an awesome image. Fuck I can't believe kids today won't know what a VHS is or what it's like to live without the internet.ThoseDeafMutes said:
Actually, floppies are still hanging around. I'm in the Air Force and we can't plug anything into the USB ports of government computers that isn't authorized. The only thing they're authorizing is USB floppy drives.
Yep, stuck using 1.44MB pieces of shit to carry important documents around.
It was a royal pain in the ass trying to find enough of these turds (that worked) laying around.
Yep, stuck using 1.44MB pieces of shit to carry important documents around.
It was a royal pain in the ass trying to find enough of these turds (that worked) laying around.
areal said:
i still use a crt monitor. high end crts destroy any alternative out there, it will be a sad day when mine goes. i kinda wish someone would produce high end widescreen crt monitors for us picky about quality.
i was kinda hoping for OLED to be a viable replacement but that technology has gill rot and will likely be beaten by something else.
StalkerUKCG
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samus i am
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OP failed at his own thread. Dead means dead, like a telegraph machine.
nothing to duke out, people who think tube noise is what make their sound different do not know what they are talking about. all amps are designed to run in the linear region anyway, tubes and solid state. if you think transistors do not make noise, you definitely don't have an EE degree and don't know what you're talking about.Dega said:
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