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11-07-2007, 01:17 PM
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Radio stations usually play something over and over when they change formats because they intentionally want to chase all of their old audience away. Playing "Hit The Road, Jack" is a rather direct way of telling them...
Regarding collecting old formats, I used to see a box of 78 RPM records in every thrift store I went to in the 1970's. Now I'd like to have a few for when I restore my two old combo consoles, but I bet they're hard to find too. I think my brother still has my mother's collection of them, though.
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03-27-2008, 07:03 PM
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03-27-2008, 09:44 PM
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I have found quite a few Laserdiscs over the years. This is the obsolete format that I collect. I started looking for them about 10 years ago. I though they would be more durable than tape. I guessed that since reel to reel audio tape degrades that vhs would go the same way.
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03-27-2008, 10:10 PM
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I still have some VHS tapes. Between my brother and I, we have five video formats in the house! VHS, Beta, Laserdisk, DVD and 8mm! We still have analog TV, no cable, use an antenna to pick up our TV stations. Don't really have a need for it. In Chicago we pick up two classic TV stations. During the weekday, I only watch Craig Ferguson on the Late Late Show along with the Dick Van Dyke Show and the Honeymooners on the classic TV station.
I'm kind of leery of going into the Blue-Ray format. The way computers are changing everything, the next format might be a chip.
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Main system: Pioneer SX 950 & Realistic STA 2100 Aiwa AD F770 and AD F660, Sony PS-T25 turntable, Pioneer CLD-5201 Laserdisk as a CD player, Denon DCM 360, Realistic 10- band EQ, Akai GX 4000D, Velodyne SA-101, Minimus 7, Baby Advents, Pioneer CS-88A speakers.
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03-27-2008, 10:57 PM
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I had a bunch of RCA CED videodiscs and players, but I sold it all to a collector back in 1996. I used to work for RCA Sarnoff Labs back in the early to mid 80's, when videodisc was a current format.
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03-30-2008, 01:50 AM
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I have a pretty good-sized collection of the newest obsolete format: HD DVD. I bought my first player three days before the official debut of the format, and now it is dead, less than two years later. The discs will still play and look stunning for many years, though. I am still buying HD DVDs, at closeout prices now.
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Chris Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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