The forgotten pleasures of analog media • Hacker News Board

Re: The forgotten pleasures of analog media

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Post by h9n » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 2:07 AM UTC

smm11 wrote: post #26

I love starting my car with the hand crank that extends from beneath the front bumper.

I’m sure this comment is facetious, but as many motorcyclists will attest, something absolutely was lost in the 80s with the transition to electric starter motors.

Kickstarting a motorcycle is a truly pleasurable experience (at least for smaller displacements). And the loss is not just aesthetic, but practical too; you needn’t worry about your battery going flat — on some bikes you don’t even need the battery installed at all to start it!

Re: The forgotten pleasures of analog media

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Post by clktmr » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 4:41 AM UTC

hulitu wrote: post #36

clktmr wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the cost of a much higher bandwidth. I don't disagree, just wan't to clarify it's not a issue of digital encoding.

The lower bandwidth of DAB results in lower quality. My car radio stays on FM because DAB is horrible.

> The lower bandwidth of DAB results in lower quality.

That's unlikely to be the reason. A 64 kbps AAC stream definitely has more potential than FM. If the DAB station sounds worse than FM station, it's probably because they use the same sound processing for both which is still optimized for FM.

Re: The forgotten pleasures of analog media

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Post by hellisothers » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 4:13 PM UTC

Man this hits hard, over the last several years I’ve been experiencing a growing ennui about not having “a people” or “a place”, no anchors that define me and I can lean on for support. I have a loving family, a handful of close friends, and a nice house in a nice neighborhood but that’s not the same; I would uproot my family and move (and have considered it), I have no roots here. This article evokes similar feelings, wishing I had a bookshelf instead of 100’s of kindle books, CDs/records, and video discs on shelves instead of Spotify and Netflix so my son could see what I prefer more easily, so I could group, remember, and recommend.

Sigh