Subj : When everything is digita To : AUGUST ABOLINS From : Rob Mccart Date : Tue Feb 28 2023 01:06:00 RM> ..and I have a fairly high end CD/DVD Player but have > never purchased a CD or DVD. AA>So.. WITHOUT any CDs and DVDs, it doesn't get used? ..unless >you play rentals or something loaned from the library? Sometimes visitors may have movie disks or music CD's. I have made my own music CD's and DVD's in the past but find I don't use them much. RM> To answer the obvious question, the DVD player is part of > a VCR and I have made Tapes with something like 350 movies > on them.. AA>You made tapes from the DVDs? I thought the normal process was >the reverse.. to make DVD copies of tapes! I made tapes of movies that were on TV.. B) AA>I have made DVD versions of some VHS tape movies (long before >they introduced the anti-copy scheme) and do not regret doing >it. My DVD recorder is equipped with a fairly large HDD and the >originals can reside there for a while too. I have a PVR with my satellite TV system that has a 1 TB hard drive, and more can be added. I collect shows and movies on that I don't have time to watch to save for later when they are not running new shows as much. AA>Ideally, I'd like to establish a networked laptop next to my >hi-fi setup and control the music that way. My Stereo is fairly old, so getting digital music into it is difficult unless I do it through the aforementioned CD/DVD player which is directly wired into it. My system was worth close to $2000 about 40 years ago, so you can probably triple that for today. It is still working well, mostly because I don't abuse it at high volume or use it a whole lot really. RM> ..even though my Phone, Tablet and Laptop have special > software for reading eBooks in a number of formats. AA>To appreciate an eBook properly, a dedicated eReader device >(with e-Ink display) is best. With it, you may still use >ambient light for reading. Reading from an eReader is not as >tiring on the eyes a using a smarphone or other computer >display. I do have an eReader as well actually, although it has the older silvery LCD type display. It's pretty good even in bright sunlight but the battery life is less than with e-ink models. It does however read lots of document types including ePub, Mobi and PDF and it has a built in MP3 player and can display photos in monochrome so it has it's good points. AA>Digital has its place. But never thought vinyl would become >popular so much like that news article (and others like from a >few years ago even) would. I have (?) 60 or so vinyl records but mostly I only used them once to make a copy to cassette tape. I know most would argue the sound quality is not as good but I'm not such a music nut and I prefer to wear out a tape rather than the record. You can always make more tapes or disks with the right hardware. AA>A cassette comeback I don't understand. The tapes are fragile >and wear out if the mechanics of the player is not up to par. I have a number of them that are decades old but I don't use them all that much and I always bought high end tapes which last better. My dual-tape cassette deck was also a fairly high end unit worth over $350 when I got it back in days of yore.. B) For me music was a lot like sports. I played a number of sports but I didn't watch sports on TV. I also play guitar and some piano and have written some music (was offered a record deal at one point) even if I don't have music playing all the time around me. Record deal - Was approached to do a record with my own music but the producer went bankrupt just before things got going. --- * SLMR Rob * Psychoceramics: The study of crackpots * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .