Jimbo 133 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Anyone still using obsolete technology on a regular basis ? Record player VHS/Betamax Audio tapes Floppy disks Pager Hand Wound Watches Any other electronic gadget which is no longer being manufactured? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13846 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Record players a niche, not obsolete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8989 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Record players a niche, not obsolete surely he means a record player, not "decks".. I know they're essentially the same thing. I'd maintain they're sufficiently dissimilar to warrant distinction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Yamaha tape deck here. Not really obsolete, more of a ni.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinofbeans 86 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 i use an out of date reel to reel machine on the musical project i'm currently doing. also zip drives for one of my samplers. are they niche or obsolete. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza 105 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 (edited) Zip disks. EDIT : Just noticed Canofbeans beat me to that one. fuck! Edited July 25, 2007 by Bizza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I swapped my Vectrex for a BMX without a seat. I was jipped. Use a casette to play the ipod through when I drive my mothers car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13846 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 i use an out of date reel to reel machine on the musical project i'm currently doing.also zip drives for one of my samplers. are they niche or obsolete. ? Awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14055 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Still got and use my video player, got tons of old Eurovision stuff on VHS and won't be transferring it to DVD until... well, until I can be bothered, basically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikko 20 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I've got an use a record player on a regular basis. You can't beat classic albums on vinyl for 50p a pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 On the new Transformers I'm surmising Blaster doesn't turn into a boombox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 1 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Pagers are still widely used in hospitals, I'd imagine they're still being manufactured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li3nZ 1 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Which stupid idiots bought a mini disk then?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted July 25, 2007 Author Share Posted July 25, 2007 Which stupid idiots bought a mini disk then?! Not me, but I did get close to buying one of those DAT tape thingies back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Which stupid idiots bought a mini disk then?! My favourite portable music player ever was my minidisc player, and anyone I speak to that had one agrees. It could record too. I have loads of live gigs I recorded onto minidisc. Can't beat that permanent record of a misspent youth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li3nZ 1 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Which stupid idiots bought a mini disk then?! Not me, but I did get close to buying one of those DAT tape thingies back in the day. We back up some servers with them at work, today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li3nZ 1 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Which stupid idiots bought a mini disk then?! My favourite portable music player ever was my minidisc player, and anyone I speak to that had one agrees. It could record too. I have loads of live gigs I recorded onto minidisc. Can't beat that permanent record of a misspent youth. Yea, my mate used to say exactly the same thing!! My response was along the lines of "yea, but it cost 300 quid!!" - Going by standard depreciation of a standard mini disk I would say yours, in todays market, is now worth 7.2 pence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Which stupid idiots bought a mini disk then?! My favourite portable music player ever was my minidisc player, and anyone I speak to that had one agrees. It could record too. I have loads of live gigs I recorded onto minidisc. Can't beat that permanent record of a misspent youth. Yea, my mate used to say exactly the same thing!! My response was along the lines of "yea, but it cost 300 quid!!" - Going by standard depreciation of a standard mini disk I would say yours, in todays market, is now worth 7.2 pence. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-MZ-NH700-Blue...961&sr=8-10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5908 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I still watch loads of videos, I have 100s of 80s comedies and action films. Any film from the 80s needs to be watched on VHS, like people from the 70s swear by vinyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Hog 336 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 (edited) I remember someone buying one of the first MP3 players that came out. Probably back in 2000. It cos about £180, iirc, and could only hold 10 songs. He had to take it back 3 or 4 times as it kept dying. Edited July 25, 2007 by The Mighty Hog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 1 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I had a Minidisc player, got a fair bit of use out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I still put an album on the record player from time to time. Some 'digitally remastered' cd's of old vinyl records just do not sound 100% exactly like their original masters and just don't sound as good imo (Aqualung by Jethro Tull is an example of this that springs immediately to mind). I still use a VHS recorder/player now and again. I have the VHS/DVD player in the front room and a DVD recorder/player in the back room. I have me old tranny that I carry around the house to listen to the radio AM/FM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I still use audio cassette, floppys and vhs from time to time and I'm just about to update my medium-wave clock-radio to a DAB model. I agree that anyone who used/uses minidisc swears by it. Sony seem to have a history of backing the wrong horse, format wise, with betamax and minidisc. I wonder how they'll do with Blu-Ray? I've also recently started wearing a watch again that I got in the eighties, a dual time analogue-digital one. I reckon enough time has passed now for it to have stopped being old and become retro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 0 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I remember someone buying one of the first MP3 players that came out. Probably back in 2000. It cos about £180, iirc, and could only hold 10 songs. He had to take it back 3 or 4 times as it kept dying. Wasn't a Creative DAP (aka Nomad) was it? Portable my arse. Lugging that around would give Geoff Capes a hernia. And the four AA batteries were shagged after a couple of hours. I have a Minidisc player and put it to good use as I used it for radio work. Still have about 10 brand new unused discs on a shelf somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26343 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I remember someone buying one of the first MP3 players that came out. Probably back in 2000. It cos about £180, iirc, and could only hold 10 songs. He had to take it back 3 or 4 times as it kept dying. I won one on the radio when they first came out. No one else seemed to have even heard of MP3s, I was the shit. Creative Rio I think it was called, 32mb baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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